Interest: Comedy

Bad Education

The moral implications of embezzling from a school district are immense, but that doesn’t stop Superintendent Frank Tassone (Hugh Jackman) or lead accountant Pam Gluckin…
How to Build a Girl

Being bright and bookish is rarely a recipe for high school popularity, and Joanna Morrigan (Beanie Feldstein, Booksmart, Festival 2019) spends as much time with…
The Nowhere Inn

Notions of public image and private persona collide in this funny subversion of the concert documentary. Wanting to capture footage from her Fear the Future…
Tribute to Steve Coogan: The Trip to Greece

A writer as well as an actor and brilliant comic, Steve Coogan has been making audiences on both sides of the Atlantic laugh for three…
Some Kind of Heaven

Florida’s The Villages is one of the highest-ranked senior-living communities in the country. For those who are fortunate enough to reside in this “Disneyland for…
Save Yourselves!

A surprising intrusion shocks Brooklyn hipsters vacationing at an isolated cabin in the woods in this breezy comedy about “getting away from it all.” Jack…
Dick Johnson Is Dead

Made with great love and imagination, Kirsten Johnson’s tribute to her father gives a capacious sense of his life while focusing on his present struggles…
On a Magical Night

When Maria (Chiara Mastroianni) breaks up with Richard (Benjamin Biolay), her husband of 20 years, and checks into a hotel across the street, she crosses…
Lucky Chan-sil

At a drunken wrap party, film producer Lee Chan-sil finds herself out of a job when the director she’s long collaborated with drops dead of…
Selah and the Spades

Catty, territorial high school cliques are at the center of this fresh film by Tayarisha Poe. Selah Summers (standout newcomer Lovie Simone) is a senior…
Beautiful Dreamer

A Bay Area couple’s decision to hire a surrogate creates ripples in their marriage and in the relationships around them. Erin Daniels (The L Word)…
The Personal History of David Copperfield

Armando Iannucci (In the Loop, Festival 2009) reimagines Charles Dickens’ epic, autobiographical masterpiece as a curiously contemporary tragicomic adventure. An exuberant Dev Patel (The Man…