October 16, 2019
ISOTTA
DescriptionDescription An overweight thirty-year-old woman works in a factory, spends her days fantasizing, falls for a Greek businessman, loses him to her best friend and still manages to love life.
October 16, 2019
I’M SO-SO
DescriptionDescription Shot in May of 1995, I'm So-So uses a combination of interviews and brief film clips to explore the life and art of the renowned Polish director who had just announced his decision to retire from making films. Among the specialists who analyze and help make up this portrait of Kieslowski are a priest,...
October 16, 2019
IN FULL GALLOP (CWAL)
DescriptionDescription In Full Gallop is an autobiographical adaptation of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's boyhood in the l 950's. As a result of constant surveillance by the Secret Police and the subsequent threat to young Hubert's education, his mother ships Hubert off to Warsaw to live with his eccentric Aunt Idalia, who has a penchant for...
October 16, 2019
WIVES III
DescriptionDescription If Wives was a youthful debate and Wives: Ten Years Later quiet rebellion, Wives Ill is wise and joyful affirmation. This ode to three spirited friends of over twenty years opens on a surprise birthday party for Kaja on board a streetcar in Oslo. In philosophical celebration of a new life era, Kaja, an...
October 16, 2019
THE HOLY WEEK (WIELKI TYDZIEN)
DescriptionDescription The horror of the Nazi years have been done to death and often inadvertently turned into soap opera by filmmakers. For Andrzej Wajda, though, those years are no abstract symbol-they're a flesh and blood memory, and he makes them come alive here with the authority of firsthand observation. What's more-restricting his story to the...
October 16, 2019
VAMPIRA: ABOUT SEX, DEATH AND TAXES
DescriptionDescription Vampira, a.k.a. Mailo Nurmi, is a part of the almost lost history of popular culture. Presenter of the KABC TV station midnight horror films, Vampira exuded a combination of death and erotica that struck deep into the subconscious of the uptight '50's. Mailo Nurmi eventually lost the commercial rights of the character she created...
October 16, 2019
THE VISITOR
DescriptionDescription A voyeuristic stranger spends the evening with a woman in her home. She assumes that it is her husband making all the noise in the kitchen ....
October 16, 2019
THE WAITING ROOM (DE WACHTKAMER)
DescriptionDescription A man waits with others at a train station, taking advantage of his wife's trip to the coffee counter to make eyes at the passing women. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, and by the time his wife returns, he has experienced some unexpected lessons under the watchful eyes of his fellow...
October 16, 2019
WHO KILLED PIXOTE? (QUEM MATOU PIXOTE?)
DescriptionDescription This film is based on actual facts. It tells the story of Fe?nando Ramos da Silva, a boy from the slums who, at the age of 11, became famous as the star of Hector Babenco's film Pixote, an international public and critical success. His short-lived success as an actor led Fernando to confuse his...
October 16, 2019
HERE ON EARTH (AQUI NA TERRA)
DescriptionDescription 40-ish economist Luis Miguel Cintra loses his father then starts going to pieces, hearing sounds no one else does, quitting his job, even alienating his beautiful doctor wife Jessica Weiss. Meanwhile, far away in the country, poor lost kids Rita Dias and Pedro Hestnes get mixed up in a murder and have to pay...
