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Call Her Applebroog is director Beth B’s intimate and complex portrait of her mother, acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog.
Raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in the Bronx, Applebroog, now in her 80s, shares the provocative, sexual, and deeply personal body of work that has been expressed over decades in her drawings, paintings, and private journals. With mischievous reverence, Beth B gradually peels back the layers of her subject's extraordinary life and work. Call Her Applebroog offers a universal and touching story of filial bonds as well as a deeply rewarding portrait of two artists at the height of their craft. Soundtrack by Jim Coleman.
CALL HER APPLEBROOG will open in theaters on June 10.
For more information visit zeitgeistfilms.com/film/callherapplebroog
Call Her Applebroog is director Beth B’s intimate and complex portrait of her mother, acclaimed New York–based artist Ida Applebroog.
Raised in an Orthodox Jewish household in the Bronx, Applebroog, now in her 80s, shares the provocative, sexual, and deeply personal body of work that has been expressed over decades in her drawings, paintings, and private journals. With mischievous reverence, Beth B gradually peels back the layers of her subject's extraordinary life and work. Call Her Applebroog offers a universal and touching story of filial bonds as well as a deeply rewarding portrait of two artists at the height of their craft. Soundtrack by Jim Coleman.
CALL HER APPLEBROOG will open in theaters on June 10.
For more information visit zeitgeistfilms.com/film/callherapplebroog
![A TOWN CALLED PANIC [US trailer]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9l-Cp5EAg1E/mqdefault.jpg "A TOWN CALLED PANIC [US trailer]
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromits Aardman Studios), Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events.
Cowboy and Indians plan to gift Horse with a homemade barbeque backfires when they accidentally buy 50 million bricks. Whoops! This sets off a perilously wacky chain of events as the trio travel to the center of the earth, trek across frozen tundra and discover a parallel underwater universe of pointy-headed (and dishonest!) creatures. Each speedy character is voiced—and animated—as if they are filled with laughing gas. With panic a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour—flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar)—ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid, A Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y!
A TOWN CALLED PANIC will be released December 16, 2009 in New York before opening around the country. For more information visit http://www.atowncalledpanic.com")
