October 16, 2019
DICK CHENEY IN A COLD, DARK CELL
DescriptionDescription Experimental collage artist Jim Finn returns to AFI FEST with his new, wishful rumination on our former vice president.
October 16, 2019
LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET (LA DANSE: LE BALLET DE L’OPÉRA DE PARIS)
DescriptionDescription Frederick Wiseman has devoted the past four decades to studying institutions, making classics such as HIGH SCHOOL 11968), LAW AND ORDER 11969) and PUBLIC HOUSING 11997) He resists simple interpretations of his work. "If I could summarize it in 25 words," he says, "I shouldn't make the movie." His typical working method is to...
October 16, 2019
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH (NANJING! NANJING!)
DescriptionDescription Lu Chuan's essential epic, exquisitely photographed in black and white by Cau Yu, re-creates the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during its occupation of Nanking in December 1937 Lu begins with a ferocious bottle sequence, with the lost Chinese soldiers desperately attempting to hold back the invaders, then refocuses the story on a...
October 16, 2019
THE CITIZENS
DescriptionDescription Kevin Jerome Everson's unprecedented body of work about the African-American experience in America is beautifully encapsulated in this trio of films THE CITIZENS features a young Muhammad Ali - more a father than a boxer LEAD offers a beautiful expression of work, and THE SIMPLE ANTENNAE does the some for play.
October 16, 2019
CASTRO
DescriptionDescription From the unforgettable opening moments, featuring a goggle of characters dashing about the streets of Buenos Aires as if their lives depended on it, Alejo Moguillonsky's sneaky, frantic film pounces on the viewer with a giddy energy This cockeyed semi-comedy's unlikely basis is Samuel Beckett's 1938 novel Murphy, but it preserves only the book's...
October 16, 2019
BEST WORST MOVIE
DescriptionDescription "Bad books are bad, bad food is bad, but bad movies aren't always bad " So says one of the fans of TROLL 2 a film adored by devotees as the worst film ever mode . '1n BEST WORST MOVIE, director Michael Poul Stephenson investigotes the improbable rise of a critically panned horror flick...
October 16, 2019
BELLAMY
DescriptionDescription Inspired by novelist Georges Simenon's beloved Jules Maigret character, master French New Wave director Claude Chabrol has his first collaboration with Gerard Depardieu. Police investigator Bellamy (Depardieu, in one of his finest roles) is on holiday with his loving wife Francoise (Marie Bunel), who may or may not have stumbled onto a murder mystery...
October 16, 2019
BEETLE QUEEN CONQUERS TOKYO
DescriptionDescription For more fascinating filmmaking than any entomology lesson, American filmmaker Jessica Oreck's debut captures the essence of a centuries-old Japanese subculture that has on acute enthusiasm for insects. Her unconventional approach to science education is never dull, unearthing a surprising national love affair with bugs Oreck sets her documentary to the rhythm of traditional...
October 16, 2019
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
DescriptionDescription After RESCUE DAWN, Werner Herzog returns to American genre cinema, this time taking on the mythic, audience friendly framework of the gritty urban cop film. Working from William Finkelstein's tightly compelling script, Herzog sets the plot in New Orleans, which allows for a few surreal Herzogian touches-decaying buildings, men communing with alligators. But this...
October 16, 2019
THE ANCHORAGE
DescriptionDescription Immersing the viewer in magnificent Swedish landscapes, this sober and meditative film reveals the beauty of nature and the beings that co-exist in harmony there: a Rousseau-esque vision of a relationship between a human being and her environment Ullo, the central character, relates in voiceover how ii will be when it snows, but her...
