October 16, 2019
CELLULOIDE
DescriptionDescription A group of struggling young artists in wartime Italy manages to make a film under the noses of the Nazis. This picture chronicles the making of Roberto Rossellini's classic Open City and presents portrayals of luminaries Rossellini, Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini.
October 16, 2019
CHALK
DescriptionDescription [Chalk] is principally set in Pop Watson's large, funky East Bay pool hall, the Crabtree. Any glory days are long past; ailing Pop has a cantankerous relationship with his resentful biological son, and a slightly warmer one with T.C., who's been hustling suckers at pool since he walked in the door as a 12-year-old...
October 16, 2019
BONA
DescriptionDescription Bona is an 1 8-year-old woman of a lower middle class family in the Philippines. Young and romantic in the midst of the poverty and hardship around her, she one day spies Gordo, a young actor, performing a bit role in a film. She follows him home, only to witness him being beaten up...
October 16, 2019
BREAKING THE WAVES
DescriptionDescription A robust Scandinavian oil-rigger and a pretty but naive Scottish village girl marry; they are blissfully happy; he becomes paralyzed after a work accident; their lives fall apart. This is the framework of Danish director Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves, but the outline doesn't really suggest the movie's titanic emotions and mysterious power....
October 16, 2019
THE BRUCE
DescriptionDescription This extravagant production tells the story of Scotland's warrior-king, Robert The Bruce, following his epic adventures and exploring his complex relationship with England's King Edward I, known as the Hammer of the Scots. In tribute to The Bruce's tireless efforts against the powers that be, the film culminates in a re-enactment of the Battle...
October 16, 2019
CELLULOIDE
DescriptionDescription A group of struggling young artists in wartime Italy manages to make a film under the noses of the Nazis. This picture chronicles the making of Roberto Rossellini's classic Open City and presents portrayals of luminaries Rossellini, Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini.
October 16, 2019
BLUE MOUNTAIN
DescriptionDescription The Balmer villa is just as perfect and pleasant as can be. Manfred is a respected and well-to-do businessman, Renate a competent and happy housewife, and their pre-teen daughter, Sonia, a nice young lady. Within this idyllic household, however, a silent storm simmers. Emerging from adolescence, young Sonia longs for more. She finds the...
October 16, 2019
BOB & CAROL & TED & ALICE
DescriptionDescription Married doldrums are out, swinging is in. Sex-savvy couple Robert Culp and wife Natalie Wood show bored Dyan Cannon and bewildered lawyer-husband Elliott Gould how it's done. A comic, unabashedly commercial debut for director Paul Mazursky. 1969. 104 min.
October 16, 2019
BUTTERFIELD 8
DescriptionDescription It's been called garish, trashy, cliched. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her portrayal of a high-class prostitute wanting to go straight, convinced she's found Mr. Right. Dina Merrill is the noble wife to end all noble wives. With Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher. Adapted for the screen from John O'Hara's novel. Directed by...
October 16, 2019
THE BLIND COW (DIE BLINDE KUH)
DescriptionDescription Satellite television in 1994 is available for all Europeans to enjoy. What is puzzling scientists as well as the public is why the ominous flickering swastikas and images of Hitler have been appearing on a certain satellite frequency. Two highly opposing figures meet and embark upon an investigation: a Luxembourg engineer and science fiction...
