October 16, 2019
LOOKING FOR RICHARD
DescriptionDescription Ranging from New York's streets to the reconstructed Globe Theater in London, talking with everyone from strangers encountered by chance to scholars and celebrated actors, Pacino is the voluble, mercurial center of a film that ingeniously interweaves commentary on Shakespeare with analysis of, rehearsals for and key segments from a Richard Ill on film....
October 16, 2019
THE LOVE LESSON
DescriptionDescription Seventeen years ago, two women made an agreement. Grace, a civil servant, would raise the son of Camille, a gallery owner-with the provisions that the three would live in close proximity and that the adoption be kept from the child forever. As the son, Christopher, grows older, however, some vague but true connection between...
October 16, 2019
THE LONE STAR LETTERS
DescriptionDescription Set in the tiny town of Sweetwater, Texas, The Lone Star Letters focuses on the life and times of the local post office staff whose personalities are anything but tiny. Chaos and local gossip ensues as undercover postal police man, Marty Stamp, falls in love with mail tampering temptress, Delia Pooch.
October 16, 2019
KISS ME, STUPID
DescriptionDescription A leeringly silly Billy Wilder sex farce that aspired to be Moliere or Feydeau, but ended up as one of the first films condemned by the once-powerful Legion of Decency. Dean Martin plays a lecherous night club crooner named Dino (a real stretch). Kim Novak excels as Polly the Pistol. Screenplay by Wilder and...
October 16, 2019
LES ENFANTS MODELES
DescriptionDescription Two child models, like dolls, are being made up to perfection for the preparation of a large fashion shoot. Today's shoot requires that the two children kiss, forcing them to publicly face their adolescent insecurities.
October 16, 2019
THE KING OF MASKS
DescriptionDescription An aging traveling performer named Wang is a master of the Sichuan opera technique of changing masks so quickly that the act appears miraculous. Aging and longing for a male heir to whom he can teach his skills, he buys a small boy nicknamed "Doggie" from an impoverished family. He is happy and his...
October 16, 2019
KIDS RETURN
DescriptionDescription The humorous opening stretch introduces high school buddies Shinji and Masaru as they cut classes and disrupt lessons. They extort cash from their classmates to finance long afternoons ,hanging out at a neighborhood coffee shop and a diner frequented by a local yakuza quartet, whose chief takes a fatherly liking to Masaru. When one...
October 16, 2019
KAMIKAZE TAXI
DescriptionDescription Kantake is a cab driver raised in Peru who still speaks Japanese pidgin style. He is to become the third side of a unique dramatic triangle, conjoining reps of three social groups that rarely crisscross: Japan's 150,000 foreign-raised citizens, its 90,000 yakuza and, according to an opening title, "a few politicians who distort historical...
October 16, 2019
JUICEHEAD
DescriptionDescription Addicted to electricity, Buzzy lurches through life sucking on sockets, unable to touch anyone without shocking them. When he falls for an ace electrician, his cycle of addiction and isolation becomes unbearable, as his desire to touch her forces him to confront his condition and the man responsible for it.
October 16, 2019
IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE SEA…
DescriptionDescription Puwal is a boatman in Nemuguri village, on the bank of the river Dihing in Assam. For three generations, his forefathers have been ferrying people to and fro. Life goes on smoothly until Puwal begins to hear persistent reports about a bridge to be built across the river. The government has decided to bring...
