Light and Quirky
The best comedy doesn't just make you laugh — it catches you off guard. These films find humor in human nature: the absurd, the awkward, the tender, and the wonderfully ridiculous. Sharp writing, perfect timing, and characters you won't forget.
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Pizza, A Love Story
In a six-block radius of New Haven's Wooster Square sit three legendary pizza restaurants — Pepe's, Sally's, and Modern — that have been the heart of the city's Italian-American community for nearly a century. From Frank Pepe's bread cart in 1925 to the lines that still wrap around the block toda...
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Slice Of America: Charred In The Florida Sun
Jimmy Fantin grew up on New Haven's legendary apizza — and couldn't imagine life without it. So when he landed in the small coastal town of Stuart, Florida, he did what any true believer would: he built an oven and opened Fantini's. With loyal Connecticut snowbirds lining up for a taste of home a...
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Heaven: A Film By Diane Keaton
Diane Keaton's directorial debut mixes clips of how Hollywood has depicted Heaven with interviews of celebrities, crazy people and normal people, all of whom have strange and fascinating ideas of what Heaven is really like, how you get there, and what you do when you are there. Recently remastere...
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What We Don't Say
Ben draws comics and dreams of finding someone real. Juliette is a free spirit who doesn't do serious. When they meet, something sparks, but the things they're most afraid to say are exactly what could bring them together or tear it all apart. What We Don't Say is a warm, sharp fusion of drama an...
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The Hippopotamus
Meet Ted Wallace: disgraced poet, world-class cynic, professional drinker. When his wealthy friend asks him to investigate a string of "miracle healings" at a lavish English estate, he's mostly just looking for free booze. What he finds is way stranger. Based on Stephen Fry's razor-sharp comic no...
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The Accountant
A struggling farmer brings in a hard-drinking, chain-smoking backwoods accountant with a serious talent for numbers, and together they stumble into something that goes way, way beyond the farm's balance sheet. Winner of the 2001 Academy Award for Best Short Film, The Accountant is 40 minutes of p...
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The Etruscan Smile
Rory MacNeil has spent his whole life being proud, stubborn, and emotionally unavailable. Then he has to move in with his estranged son in San Francisco for medical treatment, and everything he built his identity around starts to crack. In the best possible way. Brian Cox (Succession, Braveheart)...
