Berlin's festival of American independent film, Unknown Pleasures, runs from January 1 through 15 at the Babylon, and co-programmers Hannes Brühwiler and Andrew Grant have put together a lineup for this fourth edition that's a little more adventurous that the first three:
- Dustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever
- Sean Durkin's Martha Marcy May Marlene
- Todd Haynes's Mildred Pierce
- Monty Hellman's Road to Nowhere
- Azazel Jacobs's Terri
- Aaron Katz's Cold Weather
- Laurel Nakadate's The Wolf Knife
- Mike Ott's Littlerock
- Tristan Patterson's Dragonslayer
- Matt Porterfield's Putty Hill
- Peter Bo Rappmund's Psychohydrography
- Lee Anne Schmitt's The Last Buffalo Hunt
- Joe Swanberg's Silver Bullets
- Sophia Takel's Green
- Frederick Wiseman's Boxing Gym
- Zach Weintraub's Bummer Summer
There are also two special programs, one highlighting Martin Scorsese's recent documentaries (George Harrison: Living in the Material World, A Letter to Elia and Public Speaking). And for the other, Susan Ray will be on hand to introduce Nicholas Ray's We Can't Go Home Again (1973) and her doc on the film, Don't Expect Too Much.
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