October 16, 2019
ISN’T IT ROMANTIC
DescriptionDescription After celebrating a buddy's birthday at a strip bar, Alan, thinking he's helping a stranded motorist, picks up the wrong girl at the wrong time on the wrong stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and ends up busted by the cops a la Hugh Grant. Now, a week later, Alan's wife Laura has kicked him out...
October 16, 2019
JEROME
DescriptionDescription In this nine-to-five, work-oriented world - who hasn't thought of escaping their everyday responsibilities? JEROME is a day-inthe- life story of one such dreamer, Wade Hampton, who has been trapped for the last 15 years in an unfulfilling existence at an assembly-line factory in Bakersfield, CA. One day, Wade walks away from his job,...
October 16, 2019
BROTHER TIED
DescriptionDescription Cal and Aaron are two brothers whose relationship is clearly very troubled. Cal forms a friendship with a young man, Cassius, from a very different background. When Aaron goads Cassius into a fight at a Christmas party and Cal stands by his newfound friend, a series of events begins that exacerbates the tensions between...
October 16, 2019
BURNT BY FROST
DescriptionDescription A magnificent film about love in the borderland between realism and surrealism, created by Norwegian film's most prominent lyric poet. Raw and brutal, tender and magical, this film dares to explore the limits of the medium. Simon and Lillian are lovers, sprung from the wild northern Norwegian landscape. But due to his association with...
October 16, 2019
THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
DescriptionDescription Robert Wiene's seminal horror movie, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, remains one of the most inspired and chilling exercises in express paranoia ever made. The plot, about a hypnotist who uses a sleepwalker to carry out his murders, resonates the gloom and uncertainty which characterized post World War I Germany. The film manages its...
October 16, 2019
CARESSES
DescriptionDescription One of the most prolific and adventurous filmmakers in contemporary Spanish cinema, Ventura Pons offers up a kaleidoscopic x-ray of peculiar urban behaviors. A circuit of abrupt meetings between displaced city dwellers links the encounters of characters infected with a strange virus of badtempered loneliness which they appear to pass from one to the...
October 16, 2019
IN THE NAVEL OF THE SEA
DescriptionDescription In a remote fishing island in the 1950s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of the comm'unity. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for...
October 16, 2019
THE INHERITORS
DescriptionDescription This slyly political feature is as much about Austria's rural class system in the 1930s as it is a wry commentary on the nature of utopia. The title refers to seven servants and the windfall they receive when their landowner boss dies under suspicious circumstances. In his will, their mocking master leaves his estate...
October 16, 2019
BRIDE OF WAR
DescriptionDescription Based on a true story of love and bravery in war-ravaged Europe, this heart-wrenching film was shot entirely in Poland. It skillfully combines the intensity of combat with the joy and heartache of young romance. A headstrong soldier is captured and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland. Young and fearless, he escapes again...
October 16, 2019
HYDE
DescriptionDescription Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during the Halloween season plus the rarely seen otherworldly animations of Ian Emes and more....
