October 16, 2019
THE ALCOHOL YEARS
DescriptionDescription In this stylish, revealing film that reshapes the boundaries of the documentary art form, British filmmaker Carol Morley recounts five self-destructive years of her life in Manchester in the early 1980s. THE ALCOHOL YEARS is a lyrical retrieval of that era, highlighted by music by the Buzzcocks and New Order, in which Morley's rediscovered...
October 16, 2019
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
DescriptionDescription The film BEFORE NIGHT FALLS is based on the life of Reinaldo Arenas, exiled Cuban novelist and poet, who was born in 1943 in Oriente Province, rural Cuba and died in New York City in 1990. It contrasts his early years, a childhood of absolute poverty yet absolute freedom, with the horrors and difficulties...
October 16, 2019
THE AGE OF CONSENT
DescriptionDescription The latest film preserved by the American Film Institute, THE AGE OF CONSENT was made in the pre-censorship pre-Code era and is quite a daring film for its time. Gregory LaCava, one of Hollywood's finest directors of the 1930s (MY MAN GODFREY, STAGE DOOR), handles with deft skill this story of collegiate sexual shenanigans....
October 16, 2019
ALCATRAZ AVENUE
DescriptionDescription Imagine a writer who gets all his ideas from real life situations-only he creates the situations himself, filling his work with suspense and the destruction of innocent people. In writer-director Tom Edgar's ALCATRAZ AVENUE, David-an aspiring writer with a very disturbed family history-wants to write a novel about the "normal" American Family. He poses...
October 16, 2019
6IXTYNIN9 (RUANG TALOK 69)
DescriptionDescription Likened to such cinematic luminaries as the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, director Pen-ek Ratanaruang has already entertained audiences at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival with his second feature. In the midst of a depression over losing her job, Tum discovers a box of money outside her door. As visitors...
October 16, 2019
A VOICE FROM HEAVEN
DescriptionDescription In an age when technology records and distributes an overwhelming array of voices in every language and every genre, it is no small honor to be recognized as one of the most beautiful voices of the century. Such was the praise for legendary Pakistani Oawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. A VOICE FROM HEAVEN...
October 16, 2019
WHO’S DANCIN’ NOW?
DescriptionDescription In 1983, the Oscar-winning documentary HE MAKES ME FEEL LIKE DANCIN' captured the exuberance and commitment of public school children enrolled in Jacques d'Amboise's innovative dance program, the National Dance Institute. Using footage from the original film to identify the participants, WHO'S DANCIN' NOW? revisits the alumni - now it their twenties - to...
October 16, 2019
THE YOUNG GIRL AND THE MONSOON
DescriptionDescription Growing up is hard to do - particularly for an adolescent girl in Manhattan with a photojournalist father still reeling from a messy divorce. Thirteen-year-old Constance is torn by life, stretched between parents and struggling through all the typical, daunting rites of passage. Her father doesn't have it much easier. Distant and caring, Hank...
October 16, 2019
VANAPRASTHAM, THE LAST DANCE
DescriptionDescription According to Indian scriptures, a man's life is divided into stages. After a student life and a family life, one takes up 'Vanaprastham,' learning the renunciation of material attachments. A tense and powerful story of passion and betrayal directed by one of India's greatest cinematographers, VANAPRASTHAM, THE LAST DANCE explores the nature of man...
October 16, 2019
VIOLET
DescriptionDescription A badly-scarred young woman iourneys to find the TV evangelist who has promised to heal her. Along the way, she meets two soldiers, one of whom falls in love with her. Leaving him behind to continue her quest, she ultimately learns to accept herself as she is.
