3 Needles 2005  N/R, 127 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thom Fitzgerald
Cast: Lucy Liu, Shawn Ashmore, Stockard Channing, Chloe Sevigny, Olympia Dukakis, Sandra Oh, Tanabadee Chokpikultong, Sook-Yin Lee, Isabelle Cyr, Gary Farmer, Thierry Fargeau, Jessie Gabe
Three stories offer different perspectives on the AIDS crisis. In the first, Lucy Liu takes on the role of black-marketer Jin Ping who jeopardizes a village when she pretends to be a representative of the Provincial Health Office and sanctions an unsanitary drawing of villagers' blood. In the second story, HIV-positive porn star Denys (Shawn Ashmore) uses his own father's blood for required blood tests by his production company. In the final entry, a young nun, Sister Clara (Chloe Sevigny), works with missionaries (Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh) and makes personal sacrifices for the good of her village.
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 Adaptation 2002  R, 110 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Spike Jonze
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tilda Swinton, Cara Seymour, Brian Cox, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ron Livingston, Jay Tavare, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Doug Jones, Jim Beaver
Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Nicholas Cage) takes on the project of adapting Susan Orlean's (Meryl Streep) non-fiction book, "The Orchid Thief," into a movie. Orlean's story involves John Laroche's (Chris Cooper) poaching of "ghost orchids" from a Florida Everglades natural preserve. Charlie faces a mid-life crisis when his brother Donald (also played by Cage), who is following in his brother's footsteps as a screenwriter, moves in with him. Donald breezes through the writing of his assigned screenplay. Meanwhile, paranoid Charlie encounters more than a few problems writing his and, in the process, ends up as the subject in his script that tells of his inability to adapt Orlean's book into a film. Cooper won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role; three other nominations were received, including Best Actor (Cage) and Actress in a Supporting Role (Streep).
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The Big Empty 2003  R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Steve Anderson
Cast: Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, Daryl Hannah, Jon Gries, Adam Beach, Gary Farmer, Rachael Leigh Cook, Brent Briscoe, Melora Walters, Kelsey Grammer, Sean Bean
When struggling actor John Person (Jon Favreau) is offered $27,000 to deliver a suitcase to Cowboy (Sean Bean) in the middle of a desert, he eagerly takes on the task. Unfortunately, John misses his connection with Cowboy, and problems multiply leaving John to deal with a number of strange characters and events.
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 Dead Man 1995 R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Cast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Mili Avital, Iggy Pop, John Hurt, Robert Mitchum, Gabriel Byrne
Set in the late 1800s, this is the story of William Blake (Johnny Depp) who journeys from Cleveland to the West where he has been promised a job at the Dickinson Steel Works. Once there, he is told the position is no longer available. Out of money, Blake has a brief affair resulting in the murder of the son of the mill owner. Escaping his pursuers, Blake teams up with an Indian (Gary Farmer), and they embark on a strange odyssey together.
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 Demon Knight 1995  R, 91 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
Director: Gilbert Adler, Ernest R. Dickerson
Cast: Billy Zane, William Sadler, John Kassir, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder, Dick Miller, Thomas Haden Church, John Schuck, Gary Farmer
Based on the HBO series, this is a poor try at bringing the series to movie status. Brayker (William Sadler), the long-lived warrior who fights evil, is on the run from the Collector (Billy Zane) who intends to send the universe into Chaos.
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Disappearances 2006 PG-13, 103 min.
Genre: Adventure / Drama
Director: Jay Craven
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Charlie McDermott, Genevieve Bujold, Gary Farmer, Lothaire Bluteau, Heather Rae, Luis Guzman, William Sanderson, Rusty De Wees, John Griesemer, Munson Hicks, Mark Jenks, Bill Raymond, Christy Scott Cashman
In Kingdom County, Vermont, during 1932 Quebec Bill Bonhomme (Kris Kristofferson) decides to carry on the family bootlegging business after his family's finances are endangered following a barn fire. Bill teams up with his son Wild Bill (Charlie McDermott), his brother-in-law Henry (Gary Farmer), and hired hand Rat (William Sanderson) to take a job running whiskey across the border from Canada. There is one flaw in the plan: the whiskey they are carrying was first stolen by hijacking criminal Carcajou (Lothaire Bluteau), and he follows in hot pursuit with his black beard and white hair flowing. The foursome puts on monks' apparel and even steals a motorboat and a train in their effort to escape from the smuggler Carcajou who wants to retrieve "his" whiskey.
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Heater 1999 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Terrence Odette
Cast: Gary Farmer, Stephen Ouimette, Tina Keeper, Mauralea Austin, Jan Skene, Blake Taylor, Joyce Krenz, Sharon Bajer, Jonathan Barrett, Wayne Nicklas
Two homeless men (Gary Farmer and Stephen Ouimette) struggle for survival in the harsh Winnipeg winter.
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Powwow Highway 1989  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jonathan Wacks
Cast: A Martinez, Gary Farmer, Joannelle Nadine Romero, Amanda Wyss, Sam Vlahos, Wayne Waterman, Margot Kane, Geoffrey Rivas, Wes Studi, Graham Greene, John Trudell, Tony Frank
Cheyenne Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) and Philbert (Gary Farmer) take off from their Montana reservation in Philbert's beat-up car on their way to Santa Fe to bail Buddy's sister out of jail. This is not only a road film but also a good treatise on the plight of today's Native Americans.
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The Republic of Love 2003 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Deepa Mehta
Cast: Emilia Fox, Bruce Greenwood, Edward Fox, Martha Henry, Jackie Burroughs, Alec Stockwell, Lloyd Owen, Gary Farmer, Rebecca Jenkins, Kate Lynch, Brooke D'Orsay, David Huband
Based on a novel by Pulitzer-Prize-winner Carol Shields, this is a love story set during a Canadian winter. Talk-show host Tom (Bruce Greenwood) is on his way to his fourth marriage while his fiancee, Fay (Emilia Fox), has high expectations regarding love and marriage. After her parents' 40-year marriage breaks down, Fay's values are shaken and doubts arise as to whether or not love is worth the heartbreaks.
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The Score 2001 R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama / Action / Thriller
Director: Frank Oz
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett, Gary Farmer, Paul Soles, Jamie Harrold, Serge Houde, Jean-Rene Ouellet, Martin Drainville, Claude Despins, Richard Waugh, Mark Camacho, Gavin Svensson, Marie-Josee Colburn
Just one last heist is what aging safecracker Nick (Robert De Niro) is thinking when Max (Marlon Brando) talks him into robbing the Montreal Customs House. But, everything rests on the shoulders of Jack (Edward Norton), and Nick is not sure that he is up to handling his part of the deal.
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Sioux City 1994 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
aka: Ultimate Revenge
Director: Lou Diamond Phillips
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips, Ralph Waite, Salli Richardson, Melinda Dillon, Lise Cutter, Bill Allen, Tantoo Cardinal, Gary Farmer, Apesanahkwat, John Dye, Michael Corbett, Adam Roarke
As an infant, Dr. Jesse Rainfeather Goldman (Lou Diamond Phillips) was given up for adoption. One of the few memories he has of his birth mother involve beatings by an unidentified man. When he goes back to Nebraska to find his mother, he learns that she had died in a fire just a few days before. After discussing the fire with police, his opinion that she was murdered is not popular, and he is beaten later by police officers. His next step is to study his tribe's customs, which leads to performing a ritual in which he contacts his mother's soul hoping for answers to the puzzle.
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Skins 2002 R, 84 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Chris Eyre
Cast: Eric Schweig, Graham Greene, Gary Farmer, Noah Watts, Lois Red Elk, Michelle Thrush, Nathaniel Arcand, Chaske Spencer, David Bald Eagle, Robert A. Bennett
Two Lakota Sioux brothers–Rudy (Eric Schweig) and Mogie (Graham Greene)–grew up on the poverty-stricken Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Now, Rudy is a respected police officer who sits on the tribal council while Mogie spends most of his time falling-down drunk. Tragedy strikes when Rudy takes on the role of a masked vigilante, sets fire to the liquor store, and is unaware that Mogie is trying to break into the store at the same time.
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Smoke Signals 1998  PG-13, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Chris Eyre
Cast: Adam Beach, Evan Adams, Irene Bedard, Gary Farmer, Tantoo Cardinal, Cody Lightning, Michelle St. John, Tom Skerritt, Simon Baker, Monique Mojica
Native Americans made this film about young, unpopular Thomas Builds-the-Fire (Evan Adams) who offers to drive Victor Joseph to Phoenix to pick up his father's remains. Although Thomas tells long boring stories to occupy the time, the two become friends by the end of the journey.
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Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder 1992  PG-13, 83 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Graeme Campbell
Cast: Jason Gedrick, Jessica Steen, Stephen Shellen, Gary Farmer, Sam Malkin, Lubomir Mykytiuk, Dave McKay, Johnie Chase, Ted Loviseek, Gene Mack
The "Artistic Killer," better known as "AK," commits murder and poses the victims in positions shown in famous paintings. Pianist Peter (Jason Gedrick) is framed for the murders by AK. Not much here.
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Swing Vote 2008 PG-13, 100 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Cast: Kevin Costner, Madeline Carroll, Paula Patton, Kelsey Grammer, Dennis Hopper, Nathan Lane, George Lopez, Judge Reinhold, Charles Esten, Willie Nelson, Mare Winningham, Mark Moses, Nana Visitor, Gary Farmer, Bill Maher
It is Election Day, and bright 12-year-old Molly Johnson (Madeline Carroll), who has been taking care of her worthless, beer drinking father Bud (Kevin Costner), sneaks into the Texico, New Mexico, polling station and votes on her father's behalf. A mechanical failure erases "Bud's" vote, and, as Bud waits to recast his vote, it becomes known that the close, national election rests on Bud's one vote that will decide for whom New Mexico casts its electoral votes. Now the media, including local journalist Kate Madison (Paula Patton), jumps on the story, and the candidates–Republican incumbent President Andrew Boone (Kelsey Grammer) and Democratic liberal Donald Greenleaf (Dennis Hopper) sweep into town, catering to Bud's every whim in hopes of gaining that one deciding vote.
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Twist 2003 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jacob Tierney
Cast: Nick Stahl, Joshua Close, Gary Farmer, Michele-Barbara Pelletier, Tygh Runyan, Stephen McHattie, Moti Yona, Brigid Tierney, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Andre Noble, James Gilpin, Josh Holliday
In this modernized version of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," the orphaned Oliver (Joshua Close) has been relocated out of the orphanage and onto Toronto's streets where the artful "Dodge" (Nick Stahl) and Fagin (Gary Farmer) recruit Oliver as part of their team of thugs.
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The Virginian 2000 TV, 95 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Bill Pullman
Cast: Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, John Savage, Dennis Weaver, James Drury, Harris Yulin, Colm Feore, Gary Farmer, Brent Stait, Mark Anderako
In this remake of the classic Owen Wister novel, Bill Pullman steps into the title role, played first by Gary Cooper in 1929. Pullman is well cast as the Wyoming ranch hand–striving for frontier justice while doing what is right for all.
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| 1. 3 Needles (2005)
2. Adaptation (2002)
3. The Big Empty (2003)
4. Dead Man (1995)
5. Demon Knight (1995)
aka: Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight
6. Disappearances (2006)
7. Ed and His Dead Mother (1993)
8. Heater (1999)
9. Lilies (1996)
10. Powwow Highway (1989)
11. The Republic of Love (2003)
12. The Score (2001)
13. Sioux City (1994)
aka: Ultimate Revenge
14. Skins (2002)
15. Smoke Signals (1998)
16. Still Life: The Fine Art of Murder (1992)
17. Swing Vote (2008)
18. Twist (2003)
19. The Virginian (2000)
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