October 16, 2019
90 MILES (90 MILLAS)
DescriptionDescription 90 miles is the length of water between the US and Cuba, but Juan Carlos Zaldivar's personal documentary portrays a more complex and compelling distance. In 1980, Juan was a 13-year-old communist demonstrating against the thousands of people who were deserting Cuba in the Mariel boatlift. Within a week, Juan and his entire family...
October 16, 2019
WORLD RECORD GUY
DescriptionDescription The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little too far. BLACK XXX-MAS, a dark and violent look at human nature, reminds us...
October 16, 2019
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME
DescriptionDescription With Martin Scorsese as executive producer, veteran playwright Kenneth Lonergan as director, and leads including Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, and Matthew Broderick, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME is a powerhouse drama that was selected as co-winner of this year's Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Orphaned as children, a brother and sister ore reunited when the...
October 16, 2019
THE WIDOW OF SAINT PIERRE (LA VEUVE DE SAINT-PIERRE)
DescriptionDescription An epic drama directed by one of France's leading auteurs and starring two of its greatest actors, THE WIDOW OF ST. PIERRE is set in 1 850 on the isle of Saint-Pierre, a small French territory off the coast of Canada. A condemned murderer (noted director Emir Kusturica) awaits execution, while the French government...
October 16, 2019
WITH A FRIEND LIKE HARRY (HARRY, UN AMI QUI VOUS VEUT DU BIEN)
DescriptionDescription Alternately chilling and humorous, HARRY, HE'S HERE TO HELP is an eerie psychological tale that gripped audiences in the Official Competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. While on another mundane family vacation with his wife and three young daughters, Michel runs into his old high school chum, Harry. At first, the charming Harry...
October 16, 2019
THE WANDERERS
DescriptionDescription Adapted From Richard Price's novel, THE WANDERERS is a coming-of-age story about five members of an ItalianAmerican street gang in the Bronx in 1963. A soundtrack of classic doo-wop establishes the time and place, but it's a time that is about to change, and a place that is about to disappear. Set on the...
October 16, 2019
THE WHITE DAWN
DescriptionDescription In the waning days of the 19th century, three shipwrecked whalers (Timothy Bottoms, Warren Oates and Louis Gossett Jr.) are rescued by a band of Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic. James Houston's novel was filmed entirely on location with a supporting cast of local Eskimos. THE WHITE DAWN is both an epic adventure story...
October 16, 2019
VERY MEAN MEN
DescriptionDescription In this quirky dork comedy from the director of KISS ME GUIDO, a bartender (Matthew Modine) tries to frighten a tip out of a cheap drunk (Academy-Award-winner Mortin Landau) by spinning a crazy tale about two notorious families who go to war over a waitress being stiffed her tip. In pitting the Italian volley...
October 16, 2019
WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH (ESPERANDO AL MESIAS)
DescriptionDescription Soon after his Bar-Mitzvah, Daniel Burman "realized that being proud of my roots didn't mean being convinced about my destiny. And so I began looking for my Messiah." The result is this provocative meditation on parallel universes coexisting in the modern city. WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH contrasts the identity crises of two men in...
October 16, 2019
WALKING ON THE WILD SIDE
DescriptionDescription Leave it to the Europeans to help us understand matters of the heart. This captivating program of shorts range from romantic to poignant, passionate to funny, and from sweet to just plain offbeat. In the charming ENCHANTED, a boy, a girl, a doll and the mischievous mind of a child set a young man...
