Letterboxd Mondays - Test Pattern, Wolf House, I Care A Lot
/Streamed live, February 22nd
TEST PATTERN
Listen…Test Pattern follows an interracial couple whose relationship is put to the test after a Black woman is sexually assaulted and her white boyfriend drives her from hospital to hospital in search of a rape kit.
Director: Shatara Michelle Ford
Writer: Shatara Michelle Ford
Stars: Brittany S. Hall, Will Brill, Gail Bean
GOD OF THE PIANO
Listen…For Anat, music is everything. Having never been able to reach her father's musical standards, she rests her hopes on the child she's about to have. When the baby is born deaf, Anat succumbs to extreme measures to keep the dream alive.
Director: Itay Tal
Writer: Itay Tal
Stars: Naama Preis, Andy Levi, Ze'ev Shimshoni
ALL MY LIFE
Listen…A couple's wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.
Director: Marc Meyers
Writer: Todd Rosenberg
Stars: Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr., Marielle Scott
AMEND: THE FIGHT FOR AMERICA
Listen…Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.
Stars: Noveen Crumbie, Will Smith, Mahershala Ali
BEHIND HER EYES
Listen…It follows Louise, a single mom with a son and a part-time job in a psychiatrist's office. She begins an affair with her boss and strikes up an unlikely friendship with his wife.
Creator: Steve Lightfoot
Stars: Simona Brown, Eve Hewson, Tom Bateman
I CARE A LOT.
Listen…A crooked legal guardian who drains the savings of her elderly wards meets her match when a woman she tries to swindle turns out to be more than she first appears.
Director: J Blakeson
Writer: J Blakeson
Stars: Rosamund Pike, Peter Dinklage, Eiza González
THE RENTAL
Listen…Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend get-away.
Director: Dave Franco
Writer: Dave Franco Joe Swanberg
Stars: Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand
CRYPTOPIA
Listen…Five years after his first documentary, award-winning producer/director Torsten Hoffmann revisits Bitcoin and sets out to explore the evolution of the blockchain industry and its new promise. Can this technology, designed to operate independent of trust and within a decentralized network, really provide a robust alternative to the Internet as we know it?
Director: Torsten Hoffmann, Michael Watchulonis
Writer: Torsten Hoffmann
Stars: Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Vitalik Buterin, Torsten Hoffmann
NOMADLAND
Listen…After losing everything in the Great Recession, a woman embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Director: Chloé Zhao
Writer: Jessica Bruder Chloé Zhao
Stars: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
THE WOLF HOUSE
Listen…Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.
Director: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
Writer: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León
Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause
