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 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
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
DYING TO GO HOME (MARTINHO POR CHEGAR A CASA)
DescriptionDescription Manuel, a Portuguese immigrant living in Amsterdam, wakes up in a cemetery and discovers he's a ghost. There's another ghost there: a Chinese man who tells him he will only find peace if he can get his bones back to his native land. This wouldn't be a problem if Manuel weren't invisible, inaudible and...
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
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
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
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
A DRIFTING LIFE (LUMENG HUACHUN)
DescriptionDescription Kun-cheng lives with his family on their poor but stable farm. When his wife dies suddenly in childbirth, he is left permanently embittered and fatalistic. He leaves the care of the farm and his children to his parents, and embarks upon an affair with a young widow. Several years pass in quiet discontent until...
October 16, 2019
A DROP IN THE OCEAN (STAGONA STON OKEANO)
DescriptionDescription The difficulties of love in the modern world: some things are universal. Stage actress Amalia Moutoussi, in a powerful performance, finds romance impinging on her own art as she falls for craggy-faced Giorgos Sfyrides, a billiard-playing wouldbe emigre, who, in love himself, makes for a demanding partner. First film for Eleni Alexandrakis: "Faith has...
