October 16, 2019
THE PIANO
DescriptionDescription Ada, her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed...
October 16, 2019
PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPA GORE)
DescriptionDescription Based on a story written from eye-witness testimony, Pretty Village Pretty Flame follows one incident in the lives of one group of Serbian soldiers during the conflict in Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1992 a group of men found both refuge and imprisonment in a tunnel as they hid from Croatian soldiers outside. Blocking...
October 16, 2019
PARTY
DescriptionDescription To celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, Leonor and Rogerio hold a garden party at their beautiful palace in the Azores. Amongst their guests are Irene, a famous Greek actress, and Michel, her lover. Michel feels it his duty to court Leonor, who seems to accept his attentions. Though Rogerio and Irene notice the chemistry,...
October 16, 2019
PIANESE NUNZIO 14 ANNI A MAGGIO
DescriptionDescription Members of the organized crime scene in Naples attempt to destroy the credibility of an influential priest of the people by misrepresenting his relationship with a young street urchin named Nunzio.
October 16, 2019
THE NUN (LA MONJA)
DescriptionDescription A young girl dealing with the death of her mother must choose between her two worlds of fantasy and reality which are presided over by her visions of a nun.
October 16, 2019
PALOOKAVILLE
DescriptionDescription Alan Taylor's debut feature is a refreshing change from the neo-noir violence that currently enshrouds American independent filmmaking. Palookaville, starring William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo and Adam Trese as three Jerseyites driven by unemployment to stick up an armed car, reinvents the blend of neorealism and soulful clowning that made Big Deal on Madonna Street...
October 16, 2019
THE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN OF PHILIP K. DICK
DescriptionDescription This is a darkly comic journey through the surreal landscape of America, as seen through the paranoid eyes of science fiction genius Philip K. Dick. Set in 1968 Berkeley against a backdrop of worn-out radical chic, shrill Nixonian totalitarianism and hippie psychedelia, Bee's film is a dizzy detective story about a man in search...
October 16, 2019
NO EASY WAY
DescriptionDescription Matthew Livingston has AIDS. Thirty-something and resigned to death, he plays the once-beloved piano only to eke out a living at a local hotel. He shuns all human contact until one day Diana Campbell, a struggling mother of two sons, makes her way insistently into his life. Though they are from vastly different backgrounds,...
October 16, 2019
NO MERCY (SIN COMPASION)
DescriptionDescription As in Dostoyevsky's classic novel, Sin Compasion tells the story of a poor, tormented young student, Ramon. He is desperately trying to find out who he is, first in an act of justice that he hopes will free him, then in his meeting with Sonia, a young woman driven to prostitution whose pure soul...
October 16, 2019
MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
DescriptionDescription This picture based on Gore Vidal's comic novel about a sex-change operation is, according to Leonard Mallin, "as bad as any movie ever made." Full of zealous sexploitation of Mae West, Raquel Welch, Tom Selleck, Farrah Fawcett and many others. Directed by Michael Sarne .. 1970. 94 min.
