TRANSFORMER

DescriptionDescription One of the most playfully profound filmmakers working today, Lars Von Trier has always delighted in wallowing in the profane while tricking his viewers into a transcendence of vision. Stig Bjorkman, longtime Danish film critic and author, here spends an hour examining the career of Denmark's most notorious director. Using scenes from all of...

TRIPLE EXPOSURE

DescriptionDescription Sexual obsession and blind passion drive three characters to their ultimate destiny in this moody F ilmN oir.

WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD

DescriptionDescription With his new film, writer/director Adam rifkin documents the meteoric rise of actor Nick Decker from complete unknown to Hollywood superstar. From his first role on BAYWATCH, a film shoot in Las Vegas, the Academy Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, and finally to an heroic attempt at a death defying stunt at the Cannes...

WITHIN OUR GATES

DescriptionDescription Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison color film. The OUR GANG/UTILE RASCALS movie titled OUR GANG ( 1922, 8 min)...

WOUNDINGS

DescriptionDescription Set in a futuristic world reminiscent of Kubrick's CLOCKWORK ORANGE and Orwell's 1984, WOUNDINGS unfolds in a remote post-apocalyptic island under rigid militaristic rule and occupied by lonely shell-shocked soldiers whose job is to keep the peace and hopefully colonize the island. To that end, the government has enlisted fresh new recruits from the...

THE WOUNDS

DescriptionDescription True story of two under-age criminals (is) harrowing, shocking, the reflection of a society that has been devastated by political and moral upheaval. Dragojevic hasn't pulled any punches with this film-the wounds alluded to by the title are more than skin-deep; Dragojevic addresses the terrible impact of war on a generation that, in his...

THE SWINDLE

DescriptionDescription Betty and Victor, a rather ill-matched couple, tour unobtrusively around France in their motor-home, earning their living as petty con artists, until one day they find themselves involved in an international money scam which takes them far from France to the West Indies and finally to Switzerland. Working as a team, Betty seduces businessmen,...

THE TERRORIST

DescriptionDescription Second only to Hollywood in terms of production volume and box office, India's film industry almost never taps into American markets, resulting in a veritable gold mine of movies that generally remain undiscovered in the United States. Among the few breakouts this year is THE TERRORIST, writer/director Santosh Siva n's sleek, uncompromising story of...

‘TIS THE SEASON

DescriptionDescription On Christmas morning, a teenager attempts to videotape a suicide message as circumstances conspire against him.

SUSAN’S PLAN

DescriptionDescription One of this year's most anticipated screenings is the World Premiere of John Landis' first independent feature film in over 20 years. SUSAN'S PLAN is about a woman who conspires with her lover to murder her ex-husband for his substantial life insurance policy, but gets tangled in a disastrous and comical web of deceit....

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