October 16, 2019
SLING BLADE
DescriptionDescription This dark southern tale follows the life of Karl, a man who has just been released from an asylum after having hacked up his mother and her lover with a sling blade over 25 years before. Deemed "cured", Karl secures a job fixing engines in his small Southern hometown. He bonds with a young,...
October 16, 2019
THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
DescriptionDescription A powerful and deeply moving drama about the clash of a headstrong father and his three grown children, The Substance of Fire marks the motion picture directorial debut of three-time Tony Award nominee Daniel Sullivan. Holocaust survivor Isaac Geldhart is a venomously witty publisher who would rather sink his efforts into a sixvolume history...
October 16, 2019
SUPERIOR PEOPLE
DescriptionDescription In the summer of 1995, I brought a film crew back to my hometown, Superior, Iowa. Most people fly over America's heartland and think that nothing is there. I wanted to present an accurate picture of family farming and life in a small American town. Here was an opportunity to give a face to...
October 16, 2019
THE GROUP
DescriptionDescription The highminded women of Vassar's Class of '33 soon find that the rest of their lives will be centered around catching and holding a mate. Sharp insights of Mary McCarthy's novel are polished into glossy camp as this bluestocking crew encounters contraception, adultery, lesbianism, and Freud. Great performances and great fun. Directed by Sidney...
October 16, 2019
LA SECONDA VOLTA
DescriptionDescription University professor Alberto Sajevo lives life with a bullet lodged in his skull. One day, he has a chance encounter with the the woman who shot him twelve years earlier in a terrorist attack. Taking advantage of the woman's lack of recognition, Alberto establishes a manipulative friendship with her in his obsessive quest for...
October 16, 2019
SIGNAL LEFT, TURN RIGHT (DA ZUO DENG, XIANG XOU ZHUAN)
DescriptionDescription The third in Huang's "Urban Attitude" trilogy, Signal Left, Turn Right is a sharp social satire on the contradictions of modern Chinese life in the face of open door economic policy. Using the automobile as a symbol of prestige and mobility in a changing society, the film is set in a policerun driving school...
October 16, 2019
SIGNS OF FIRE (SINAIS DE FOGO)
DescriptionDescription 1936: Engineering student Diogo Infante arrives at his aunt and uncle's seaside town for· his summer vacation, reuniting with old flame Ruth Gabriel and assorted schoolmates, even as all the Spanish tourists leave amid the looming Civil War. It is not long before the police of Salazar's Portuguese dictatorship start rounding up the Spaniards...
October 16, 2019
GREETINGS
DescriptionDescription A tawdry great time, this early Brian De Palma picture gives us skin, the draft and the counterculture all rolled into one. Truly memorable performances from Robert De Niro, Jonathan Warden, Gerrit Graham and Allen Garfield. Also with Megan McCormick. Screenplay by Brian De Palma and Charles Hirsch. 1968. 88 min.
October 16, 2019
THE SANDMAN (DER SANDMANN)
DescriptionDescription The young TV journalist, Ina Littmann, is responsible for the background research for a personality talk show. The show's next guest is to be the infamous author, Henry Kupfer, whose latest work deals with the story of a serial murderer. Having himself spent ten years behind bars for murdering a prostitute, Henry is definitely...
October 16, 2019
A SATURDAY ON EARTH (UN SAMEDI SUR LA TERRE)
DescriptionDescription This murder mystery, with its puzzle-like construction, is comprised of slowly unfolding personal histories and the taped testimonies of "witnesses" involved in the case. The story is set in Normandy, where the meandering fates of a brother and sister will finally and inexorably meet. Both in their late twenties, these two natives of the...
