October 16, 2019
DOUBLE DARE
DescriptionDescription You won't find their names above the title. Spanning more than 25 years and three continents, Amanda Micheli's documentary uncovers the success and struggle of two talented stunt people who just happen to be women. Jeannie Epper grew up in a show business family, "the Flying Wallendas of film," as Steven Spielberg describes them....
October 16, 2019
DISTANT LIGHTS (LICHTER)
DescriptionDescription Nominated for multiple German film awards, DISTANT LIGHTS presents two days in the lives of a teeming mass of characters. They steal, cheat, love, help, hope and despair on the border between Germany and Poland. All they have in common is a desperate desire lo find their place in a dark world. To some...
October 16, 2019
DOLLS
DescriptionDescription A kaleidoscope of color and searing images, Takeshi Kitano's DOLLS offers us a multi-layered, transcendent take on modern love. On his wedding day, Matsumoto learns that Sawako, a long lost love, is nearly brain dead following a suicide attempt. He promptly leaves the wedding and his fiancee, vowing to care for Sawako until she...
October 16, 2019
DEEP SILENCE (SILENCE PROFUNDO)
DescriptionDescription Two children have mysteriously disappeared from La Havana; one of them comes back and decides to remain silent in DEEP SILENCE.
October 16, 2019
DESTINO
DescriptionDescription DESTINO is the final product of the Dali/Disney collaboration that began in 1940.
October 16, 2019
CONDOR: AXIS OF EVIL (CONDOR: LEX AXES DU MAL)
DescriptionDescription Condor was the codename for a special operations network developed by the military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile and Paraguay and allegedly supported by Interpol, the CIA and the US State Department during the 1970s and '80s, dedicated to silencing left-wing dissent. In the end, the film provocatively connects Pinochet to Saddam Hussein, implicating the...
October 16, 2019
CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE
DescriptionDescription "Why can't I," devout Irish Catholic seminary student Daniel earnestly asks the church's hierarchy, "be a priest and marry the girl I love?" So posits writer/director John Deery as he tackles the most fundamentally challenging of topics-how to reconcile human· sexuality and Catholic dogma-with commitment, passion and unflinching honesty. Reeling from the suicide of...
October 16, 2019
CRACKER INGENUITY
DescriptionDescription In CRACKER INGENUITY, meet Leonard Knight, who has spent 20 years and 80,000 gallons of paint creating a candy-colored mountain in praise of God.
October 16, 2019
THE COMPANY
DescriptionDescription In THE COMPANY, the esteemed Robert Altman (M*A*S*H, NASHVILLE, THE PLAYER, GOSFORD PARK) teams up with the Jeffrey Ballet of Chicago to provide a vivid and gritty insight into the working life of a busy dance company. The story revolves around one woman, played by Neve Campbell (herself an experienced dancer, having trained with...
October 16, 2019
CHINESE ODYSSEY 2002 (TIANXIE WUSHUANG)
DescriptionDescription Don't miss this delightful, gender-bending comedy of errors that blends romance, fantasy, martial arts and Hong Kong-style absurdist comedy to tell a story of love striving against immense odds. In Ming Dynasty China, young Emperor Zheng De and Princess Wushuang long to escape their prison-like existence at the Imperial Palace. When they finally escape-with...
