October 16, 2019
THE WHITE RIBBON
DescriptionDescription On the eve of World War 1, disturbing events of an unknown origin upset the surface calm of a rural Northern German village. Michael Haneke won Cannes' Palme d'Or for this stark, uncompromising drama, shot in blistering black-and-white.
October 16, 2019
THE TWO HORSES OF GENGHIS KHAN
DescriptionDescription Chahor·Tugchi, Hicheengui Sambuu, Chimed Dolgor "Old things must be destroyed so that something new can evolve," mournfully observes Urna, the subject of Byambasuren Davao's latest documentary. Ostensibly, the old thing of which she speaks is a song, The Two Horses of Genghis Khan, inscribed on the head and the neck of her grandmother's violin,...
October 16, 2019
VINCERE
DescriptionDescription Once considered a filmmaker whose best works (FISTS IN THE POCKET, 1965; CHINA IS NEAR, 1967) were in t he post, Marco Bellocchio hos been on a roll during the past seven years. But even triumphs including MY MOTHER'S SMILE (2002), GOOD MORNING, NIGHT (2003) and THE WEDDING DIRECTOR (2007) hardly prepare viewers for...
October 16, 2019
A TOWN CALLED PANIC (PANIQUE AU VILLAGE)
DescriptionDescription This wacky, wonderful and thoroughly absurdist feature length film continues the misadventures of Cowboy, Indian and Horse, stars of Belgium's cult favorite TV show of t he same title. The three stop-motion heroes have their regular bouts of personal drama (done with hilarious effect by t he talented voices of the show and film's...
October 16, 2019
TRANSCENDENT MAN
DescriptionDescription Are we poised at the precipice for a new stage in human evolution? This is the theory proposed by inventor and futurist Roy Kurzweil, the central and deeply complex subject of Barry Ptolemy's debut feature In his non-fiction bestselling The Singularity Is Near, Kurzweil posits that human technological advancement is moving forward at such...
October 16, 2019
TRASH HUMPERS
DescriptionDescription In an unnamed city as deliberately banal as the action is outrageous, a loose circle-a cult, perhaps carries on with all sorts of crazed, indescribable games and antics. All but the youngest in this strange family wear rubber masks that both conceal their identity and transform them into theatrical creatures, frequently singing and chanting...
October 16, 2019
TO DIE LIKE A MAN (MORRER COMO UM HOMEM)
DescriptionDescription Plus-sized Tonia (Fernando live Santos), born Antonio, has d as a woman for decades. She's a battle-scarred veteran of the Lisbon drag clubs, with a cute if somewhat crazy lover young enough to be her son (she also has an actual son, an army deserter working through his own sexual issues) But as the...
October 16, 2019
SWEETGRASS
DescriptionDescription Stunning in its cinematic and observational power, SWEETGRASS is a new kind of pastorole, a visual poem of cultural and historical shifts. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, who teaches at Harvard's Visual Anthropology Deportment, and llisa Barbash, of Harvard's Peabody Museum, describe themselves as "recordists" rather than filmmakers as they capture a family and their animals in...
October 16, 2019
SOMETHING’S GONNA LIVE
DescriptionDescription AFI alumnus Daniel Raim (Oscar-nominated for his short documentary, THE MAN ON LINCOLN'S NOSE) explores the artistry and personalities of acclaimed production designers land pals) Robert "Bob" Boyle, Henry Bumstead, Harold Michelson and Albert Nozaki, along with master cinematographers Haskell Wexler and Conrod Hall. Reim joins these artists at the twilight of their years,...
October 16, 2019
SWEET RUSH (TATARAK)
DescriptionDescription Now 83, Polish master Andrzei Waida has created a sublime work about love and mortality Teaming up again with actress Krystyna Janda (MAN OF IRON, l 98 1 ), he adapts a poignant short story by Jarosaw lwoszkiewicz - the source of three previous Waida films - about a dying woman's last erotic encounter....
