October 16, 2019
THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW
DescriptionDescription The movie opens in 210 B.C. with Ying Zheng, the first emperor of a united China, making a sacrifice by the churning waters of the Yellow River. Weary from a life of war-mongering and bloodletting, he can hardly stand without assistance, still haunted by the memory of a certain Gao Jianli. Through a flashback,...
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
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET (DER ELEFANT VERGISST NIE)
DescriptionDescription Young and lonely Countess Lilly von Teltow has the good fortune of being rescued from the sight of a car accident by two members of a traveling circus: the circus' elephant and its trainer, the dwarf Ramon. He visits the Countess at her castle, which she shares with her philandering husband. Though Lilly initially...
October 16, 2019
MY DINGALING
DescriptionDescription This offbeat film is a parody of instructional sex education films made during the 50's and 60's.
October 16, 2019
MY MOTHER’S COURAGE (MUTTERS COURAGE)
DescriptionDescription At a celebration Gf his eightieth birthday in Berlin, the renowned writer/director George Tabori tells the true story of what happened to his mother, Elsa, fifty years before in Budapest: ... On a hot summer's day in 1944 Elsa Tabori is stopped in the street by two elderly secret policemen, who handcuff her and...
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.
October 16, 2019
NEROLIO
DescriptionDescription Nerolio could have been titled "A few days in the life of Pasolini." A fact-faithful documentary could not better convey the controversial texture of the late Italian director's work and persona. Grimaldi's protagonist is a world-renowned poet and director whose last film has been rejected by the critics. When asked about the depth of...
October 16, 2019
THE EIGHTH DAY (LE HUITEME JOUR)
DescriptionDescription Pascal Duquenne plays Georges, who has been in an institution for the mentally handicapped since the death of his mother a few years earlier. Work-obsessed Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is presented giving a seminar on sales technique. His is a colorless existence, made even bleaker by the sudden departure of his wife, Julie, and their...
