October 16, 2019
PSYCHO
DescriptionDescription Probably Hitchcock's most famous film is the gothic thriller, PSYCHO. The film features Hitchcock at his most startling pitch and at the height of his manipulative technique. The famous shower scene in which he expeditiously disposes of the co-star, Janet Leigh, is a masterpiece of economic and powerful editing, pulling the audience irresistibly into...
October 16, 2019
POP SKULL
DescriptionDescription There's a moment early on in Director Adam Wingard's debut feature POP SKULL where you will begin to doubt yourself. Don't freak out - it happens to everyone . This isn't a film that is 'difficult to watch' in the traditional use of the phrase - denoting challenging subject material or intense, visceral performances...
October 16, 2019
THE PRINCESS OF NEBRASKA
DescriptionDescription Wayne Wang's career as a filmmaker has been marked by a restless desire to adopt drastically different styles from film to film. EAT A BOWL OF TEA and JOY LUCK CLUB a re beautiful jewel-like pieces that handle melodramatic family stories with quiet precision. SMOKE and CHINESE BOX unfold in harsher more frenetic urban...
October 16, 2019
PRINCE OF THE HIMALAYAS
DescriptionDescription Almost every country in the world at one time or another has displayed and defined its cultural identity by offering up its own interpretation of the plays of Shakespeare. Now that China has again become a global cultural force, especially in cinema, it's not surprising that we're starting to see Chinese Shakespeare on film....
October 16, 2019
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Sterling Audience Award at the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME is one of the most insightful and enjoyable documentaries of the year. At a school in Wuhan, China, it's class monitor election time. Three eight-yea r-old contenders are chosen to square off: the incumbent known for...
October 16, 2019
PIERRE RISSIENT: MAN OF CINEMA
DescriptionDescription For the past 50 years, in the world of film, Pierre Rissient has operated behind the scenes as powerfully as any mythic cardinal in a 19th-century novel-either launching the careers of countless great filmmakers, or giving their work a vital, expertly-timed when most needed. Clint Eastwood, John Boorman , Sydney Pollack, Werner Herzog, Jane...
October 16, 2019
PERSEPOLIS
DescriptionDescription Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical novels detail her upbringing in Tehran from the overthrow of the Shah through the years of Ayatollah Khomeni's Islamic fundamentalist regime and the Iran-Iraq war. Her gripping personal journey from childhood through adolescence, followed by her sexual awakening and an unhappy marriage, has been transformed by Satrapi and co-director Vincent Pasrranaud...
October 16, 2019
THE PASSENGER
DescriptionDescription Michelangelo Antonioni's last great movie appeared in 1975 when he was in his early 60s. It's officially a French-Spanish- Italian co-production, with an American star, Jack Nicholson. The film immediately escapes categories, beginning in stark desert terrain and following a man called Locke who assumes the identity of another man called Robertson. The director...
October 16, 2019
ORANGE REVOLUTION
DescriptionDescription Like something out of an old world spy novel, a popular politician is poisoned in an attempt to install a ruthless opponent. Welcome to the ORANGE REVOLUTION. Steve York's riveting documentary chronicles what led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine surrounding the 2004 election between Viktor Yushchenko, the people's choice, and Viktor Yanukovych, the...
October 16, 2019
OUSMANE
DescriptionDescription Dakar, Senegal Ousmane, a 7-year-old child begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.
