October 16, 2019
TRIBUTE
DescriptionDescription Pop music is a world of subcultures. The strangest of these subcultures might very well be tribute bands. TRIBUTE documents the great lengths to which these cover bands and their dedicated fans go in their attempt to recreate the experience of Kiss, Queen, Journey and others. From Modesto, California, to Albany, New York, TRIBUTE...
October 16, 2019
SWEET LIFE
DescriptionDescription This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform heroic feats to emotionally deal with the fact that their two kids have to...
October 16, 2019
TEN CENTS A DANCE
DescriptionDescription Barbara Stanwyck's rarely-seen and provocative TEN CENTS A DANCE, the latest feature film preserved by AFI, was made in the pre-censorship, pre-Code era and is realistic and daring in the pre-Code manner. Directed with great skill by Lionel Barrymore, it is based on a famous Rodgers and Hart song that ran into censorship problems...
October 16, 2019
SKIES, SATELLITES (NEBO, SATELITI)
DescriptionDescription From the ashes of the war in Croatia floats SKIES, SATELLITES, a transcendent tale about one man's journey through a ravaged land where identity, sanity and hope seem lost. Early in the war, during a periodic exchange of prisoners, one man is given the name Jakov and is told that this name will save...
October 16, 2019
A SONG FOR MARTIN (EN SANG FOR MARTIN)
DescriptionDescription Academy Award® and two time Palm d'Or-winning director Bille August's new film is a beautiful and heart wrenching· W portrait of a woman's love for her husband in the face of a terrible and incurable disease. The performances by the two leads won them the Best Actor and Best Actress Awards at the Karlovy...
October 16, 2019
SWEET
DescriptionDescription This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform heroic feats to emotionally deal with the fact that their two kids have to...
October 16, 2019
THE SEARCH FOR JOHN GISSING
DescriptionDescription Mike Binder wrote, directed and stars in this corporate comedy of willfully and ruthlessly induced errors. Binder is greatly assisted by droll co-stars Janeane Garofalo as his put-upon wife and Alan Rickman as the title's elusive John Gissing. When innocents abroad Matt and Linda Barnes arrive in London, where Matt has been relocated to...
October 16, 2019
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
DescriptionDescription SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a beautiful evocation of the 19th century English gentry and its ruins. The film tells the story of a newly impoverished widow and her two daughters and the tangled complications caused by the daughters' love affairs. Based on the Jane Austen novel, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY was nominated for seven Academy...
October 16, 2019
A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND
DescriptionDescription A poetic rapture of energy and release, A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND is the chronicle of writer John Fante. Often described as a writer's writer, Fante influenced and spoke to several generations of authors, including screenwriter Robert Towne (CHINATOWN), who is interviewed in the documentary and Charles Bukowksi, who wrote the forward to...
October 16, 2019
SALAD DAYS (DESALINADA)
DescriptionDescription Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by the book The Baron of the Trees, by ltalo Calvino. ROGELIO: A dead man...
