Bob Balaban – IDLIX

The Chair (2021)

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:48:53 +0000

At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:49:40 +0000

This is not a documentary about the making of Midnight Cowboy. It is about a humane and groundbreaking masterpiece and the flawed but gifted people who made it. It is about a troubled era of cultural ferment, social and political change, about broken dreams and strivers, then and now. It is about an era that made a movie and a movie that made an era.

Pie in the Sky

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:54:54 +0000

A young man obsessed with traffic patterns attempts to reunite with his first love.

Show Me a Hero

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:51:23 +0000

Mayor Nick Wasicsko took office in 1987 during Yonkers’ worst crisis when federal courts ordered public housing to be built in the white, middle class side of town, dividing the city in a bitter battle fueled by fear, racism, murder and politics.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:00:06 +0000

Isle of Dogs

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 15:10:29 +0000

In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 14:41:30 +0000

A young nurse takes care of an elderly author who lives in a haunted house.

Mascots

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:30:14 +0000

Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World’s Best Mascot.

Hitchcock/Truffaut

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:06:32 +0000

Filmmakers discuss the legacy of Alfred Hitchcock and the book “Hitchcock/Truffaut” (“Le cinéma selon Hitchcock”), written by François Truffaut and published in 1966.

Eva Hesse

Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:41:14 +0000

German American artist Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) created her innovative art in latex and fiberglass in the whirling aesthetic vortex of 1960s New York. Her flowing forms were in part a reaction to the rigid structures of then-popular minimalism, a male-dominated movement. Hesse’s complicated personal life encompassed not only a chaotic 1930s Germany, but also illness and the immigrant culture of New York in the 1940s. One of the twentieth century’s most intriguing artists, she finally receives her due in this film, an emotionally gripping journey with a gifted woman of great courage.