October 16, 2019
BACKGROUND NOISE (R.D.F.: RUMORE DI FONDO)
DescriptionDescription Three working-class kids from the fringes of Rome murder a loan shark and then take a woman hostage. Corrupt cop Tiresia turns up on the scene, hoping for a swift and reputable conclusion, but all sides suffer together in this urban battle.
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
ACROPOLE (AKROPOL)
DescriptionDescription This film re-creates the life and atmosphere of Athens' celebrated Acropole theater, which featured lavish, Hollywood-style musicals in the '50's and '60's. Performed by self-taught actors, the Acropole's bawdy political satire was an attraction not only for the well-to-do, but for the working citizens of the city. The film begins when Prince, the producer...
October 16, 2019
ADAM AND EVE (ADÃO E EVA)
DescriptionDescription Up-and-coming newscaster Maria de Medeiros decides the clock is ticking and picks her latest interviewee, unsuspecting Karro Elejalde, as the daddy-neglecting to tip off lover Ana Bustorff. But the predictable fireworks are just the beginning, as Elejalde refuses to take part in an anonymous one-night stand; Bustorff's bemused ex-husband Joaquim de Almeida starts suffering...
October 16, 2019
ALIX’S WHITE LIGHT
DescriptionDescription In an effort to prevent tragedy, Kimmy tells her younger sister Alix morality tales using samurai and geisha imagery. Will Alix understand before it's too late ... ?
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
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
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
BLACK DJU
DescriptionDescription From the sea and sun of the Cape Verde Islands, it's one very big step to rainy, gloomy, land-locked Luxembourg, but that's the journ?y 20-year-old Dju Dele Dibonga must take to track down his dad, whose yearly visits and monthly guest worker checks have stopped. But it's not just the weather that's not welcoming,...
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...
