October 16, 2019
LOVE’S A BITCH (AMORES PERROS)
DescriptionDescription Winner of the International Critics' Week Grand Prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival, LOVE'S A BITCH is the innovative and moving first feature from director Aleiandro Gonzalez lnarritu. Octavio, Daniel, and El Chivo are three disparate men who represent a cross-section of Latin class and culture, and whose lives literally collide in a...
October 16, 2019
LOYALTIES
DescriptionDescription What if the past unexpectedly collided with the present? What if history began unfolding itself in an unpredictable manner? Two women face these questions and discover that their relationship extends further back in the past than they had previously imagined. Carmelita Robertson is an African Nova Scotian who meets Dr. Ruth Holmes Whitehead, a...
October 16, 2019
LAPUTA: THE CASTLE IN THE SKY
DescriptionDescription Hayao Miyazaki (PRINCESS MONONOKE) borrowed the name of the floating island in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels for this film about a "flying Treasure Island." The story takes place at the end of the 19th century in an alternate universe, where flying technology is more advanced a la Jules Verne. A girl named Sheela holds...
October 16, 2019
LITTLE CHEUNG (XILU XIANG)
DescriptionDescription Director Fruit Chan is perhaps Hong Kong's best hope for a new cinema to overcome the doldrums of the past few years. A true independent with insider experience, his third film is an amazing and intensely entertaining gem. Hong Kong is a crazy, bustling city, with an image of ultra-consumerist modernity. At its heart...
October 16, 2019
JAZZ EPISODE 4: THE TRUE WELCOME
DescriptionDescription Master documentarian Ken Burns brings us a sneak peek at his third and final epic documentary, rounding out an American trilogy which includes the award-winning films BASEBALL and CIVIL WAR. The fourth episode of this much-anticipated 19-part series explores the American landscape divided by war, segregated by race and united through jazz. With many...
October 16, 2019
KRAMPACK
DescriptionDescription Cesc Gay's second feature is a daring, fresh and candid exploration of sexuality and youth. With their parents away for the summer and their only warning not to over-water the marijuana plants, 16-year-old friends Dani and Nico ore left alone to their sexploits. "Krampack" is slang for masturbation, and the boys waste no time...
October 16, 2019
IN THE WINGS
DescriptionDescription In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII. After watching his father drown a litter of puppies in BURLAP, a young boy...
October 16, 2019
INNOCENCE
DescriptionDescription The surprising sleeper hit on this year's festival circuit, INNOCENCE has been both critically and popularly acclaimed: Paul Cox's film won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Montreal WorldFest, received the Prix FIPRESCI at Taormina and was named one of the best films at Cannes by Roger Ebert. Claire and Andreas are reunited...
October 16, 2019
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
DescriptionDescription A variation on the Don Siegel/Jack Finney classic, this full-scale sci-fi horror fable transplants pods from small town America to San Francisco. Kaufman and writer W.D. Richter find a witty, more fantastic analogy to the McCarthy era paranoia in the blissful, selfabsorbed certitudes of the human potential movement. "For undiluted pleasure and excitement, it...
October 16, 2019
THE HUNDRED STEPS (I CENTO PASSI)
DescriptionDescription Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Marco Tullio Giordano's THE HUNDRED STEPS is not a film about the Mafia so much as it is, in the director's words, "about imagination and the happiness of a group of kids who dared to look to the sky and challenge the world." Set...
