October 16, 2019
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
DescriptionDescription Just your typical southern Army base, wracked by repressed homosexuality (Marlon Brando), crazed love in a berry patch (Elizabeth Taylor), and a whip fetish (Brando and Taylor). Gothic, garish, and over the top performances are strangely balanced by innovative, delicate cinematography. Directed by John Huston, from the book by Carson McCullers. 1967. 108 mins.
October 16, 2019
RICHARD III
DescriptionDescription Afi Fest is proud to present the world premiere of the restored print of an epic l 91 2 version of Shakespeare's Richard Ill, a film previously believed to be lost. Being shown publicly for the first time in eighty years, Richard Ill was one of the earliest feature- length releases and the first...
October 16, 2019
RIDICULE
DescriptionDescription "Wit opens the door to the company of lords"-that was the humbling hoop through which French nobles had to jump to get the attention of their capricious king and, in movie parlance, "pitch" their projects. In this searing depiction of the largesse of the court of Louis XVI, Charles Berling stars as Gregoire Ponceludon,...
October 16, 2019
PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS
DescriptionDescription Shot during the bloody conflict in Chechenya not far from an actual location which a number of Chechen rebels called home, this film about love, brutality and humanity in a time of war achieves an unusual immediacy. Two wounded Russian soldiers are taken prisoner by AbdulMurat, a Chechen man who hopes to trade them...
October 16, 2019
THE QUIET ROOM
DescriptionDescription Rolf de Heer's audacious new film takes the viewer into the mind of a 7-year-old girl whose parents are separating. This is an interior picture in more ways than one. Most of the action takes place in two rooms, the brightly painted bedroom of an unnamed girl and the bedroom of her parents next...
October 16, 2019
THE PIANO
DescriptionDescription Ada, her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed...
October 16, 2019
PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPA GORE)
DescriptionDescription Based on a story written from eye-witness testimony, Pretty Village Pretty Flame follows one incident in the lives of one group of Serbian soldiers during the conflict in Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1992 a group of men found both refuge and imprisonment in a tunnel as they hid from Croatian soldiers outside. Blocking...
October 16, 2019
PARTY
DescriptionDescription To celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, Leonor and Rogerio hold a garden party at their beautiful palace in the Azores. Amongst their guests are Irene, a famous Greek actress, and Michel, her lover. Michel feels it his duty to court Leonor, who seems to accept his attentions. Though Rogerio and Irene notice the chemistry,...
October 16, 2019
PIANESE NUNZIO 14 ANNI A MAGGIO
DescriptionDescription Members of the organized crime scene in Naples attempt to destroy the credibility of an influential priest of the people by misrepresenting his relationship with a young street urchin named Nunzio.
October 16, 2019
THE NUN (LA MONJA)
DescriptionDescription A young girl dealing with the death of her mother must choose between her two worlds of fantasy and reality which are presided over by her visions of a nun.
