October 16, 2019
PALOOKAVILLE
DescriptionDescription Alan Taylor's debut feature is a refreshing change from the neo-noir violence that currently enshrouds American independent filmmaking. Palookaville, starring William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo and Adam Trese as three Jerseyites driven by unemployment to stick up an armed car, reinvents the blend of neorealism and soulful clowning that made Big Deal on Madonna Street...
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
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
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
LA MIA GENERAZIONE
DescriptionDescription 1983: A warm-hearted police captain is assigned to take a convicted Red Brigade terrorist from a Sicilian prison to his waiting girlfriend in Milan, only to find that it is a sinister trap to elicit the names of the terrorist's accomplices.
October 16, 2019
MOTHER NIGHT
DescriptionDescription In 1961, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an obscure American playwright, is delivered to an Israeli prison. Awaiting trial as a Nazi war criminal, Campbell finds himself in the cell directly below that of the notorious Adolph Eichmann, who is also about to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Asked by the Israelis to...
