Berlin Cantata
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Theme Song for an Old Show
Louie is a second-generation TV guy. Ascending rapidly, he becomes a producer of one of the most beloved programmes in the history of television, the cop show Northie. But Northie has fallen on hard times. Will it be cannibalised for one last big tune-in, or will it be allowed to conclude its run in dignity? Jeffrey Lewis drives the story towards a conclusion that is an astute and passionate indictment of our mass culture’s coarsening. Yet with the force of tragedy and the laughs of high farce reduced to an absurdly tiny pixilated screen, this is also the story of a man’s last chance to find his father.
Adam the King
The wedding of billionaire Adam Bloch and Maisie Maclaren is the event of the year in Clement’s Cove, Maine – a town in which the mansion-like ‘cottages’ of the summering elite sit side-by-side with the modest homes of working-class locals. When a misunderstanding between the couple and their new neighbors arises, a chain of events is set in motion that pits the new rich against those just scraping by, outsider against old-timer, in an escalating struggle that can only end in catastrophe. Taut, swift, and startling, Adam the King depicts the inexorability of fate against the backdrop of the money-mad ’90s.