October 16, 2019
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
DescriptionDescription It makes sense that, with its exceptionally strong sense of place, Brian Friel's popular, award-winning stage play would translate beautifully to the screen. Pat O'Connor's adaptation of "Dancing at Lughnasa" brings the play's pre-war Ireland to life, creating a lovely musical and almost mythical region on the verge of cataclysmic change. The film is...
October 16, 2019
THE CRITIC
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....
October 16, 2019
CUSP
DescriptionDescription After surviving a stalker's attack, Marie, a neophyte artist, finds herself and her art transformed, but at what price .. .???
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
CAUGHT IN THE SPRAY
DescriptionDescription A young, homeless documentarian finds himself losing his sanity in the middle of a film deal with a neurotic producer and a gunwielding rap artist.
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
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
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
THE BOOK OF GREAT WISHES
DescriptionDescription The authorities of a sanitarium for elderly and bedridden patients decide to offer shelter to some small girls who have lost their home when their orphanage catches fire. Seven year old Marysia tries to befriend Adam, a man at the end of his life. Although the children have changed the atmosphere of the home,...
