October 16, 2019
VAMPIRA: ABOUT SEX, DEATH AND TAXES
DescriptionDescription Vampira, a.k.a. Mailo Nurmi, is a part of the almost lost history of popular culture. Presenter of the KABC TV station midnight horror films, Vampira exuded a combination of death and erotica that struck deep into the subconscious of the uptight '50's. Mailo Nurmi eventually lost the commercial rights of the character she created...
October 16, 2019
THE VISITOR
DescriptionDescription A voyeuristic stranger spends the evening with a woman in her home. She assumes that it is her husband making all the noise in the kitchen ....
October 16, 2019
THE WAITING ROOM (DE WACHTKAMER)
DescriptionDescription A man waits with others at a train station, taking advantage of his wife's trip to the coffee counter to make eyes at the passing women. A beauty in blue returns his challenging looks, and by the time his wife returns, he has experienced some unexpected lessons under the watchful eyes of his fellow...
October 16, 2019
WHO KILLED PIXOTE? (QUEM MATOU PIXOTE?)
DescriptionDescription This film is based on actual facts. It tells the story of Fe?nando Ramos da Silva, a boy from the slums who, at the age of 11, became famous as the star of Hector Babenco's film Pixote, an international public and critical success. His short-lived success as an actor led Fernando to confuse his...
October 16, 2019
HERE ON EARTH (AQUI NA TERRA)
DescriptionDescription 40-ish economist Luis Miguel Cintra loses his father then starts going to pieces, hearing sounds no one else does, quitting his job, even alienating his beautiful doctor wife Jessica Weiss. Meanwhile, far away in the country, poor lost kids Rita Dias and Pedro Hestnes get mixed up in a murder and have to pay...
October 16, 2019
HIGH HEELS
DescriptionDescription Aging pop star Becky Del Paramo returns to Madrid after 15 years to perform and, in passing, to resolve her relationship with the daughter she abandoned as a little girl in favor of her .career. When she meets Rebecca's new husband, it turns out to be Manuel, Becky's former lover who Rebecca married without...
October 16, 2019
UNDERGROUND
DescriptionDescription "This is supposed to be a very personal view of my country's history in recent times," says Emir Kusturica, "an attempt ... [to] offer a clearer notion of the situation in this chaotic part of the world, which has been twisted out of recognition by a media fed on malicious propaganda." Encompassing a span...
October 16, 2019
UNDERTAKER
DescriptionDescription A filmic interpretation of a poem written and performed by Patricia Smith, this film confronts the issue of violence amongst young men in America.
October 16, 2019
UNHOOK THE STARS
DescriptionDescription Rowlands plays Mildred, a financially secure widow whose husband has left her a comfortable suburban house that she now shares with her rebellious teenage daughter, Ann Mary Margaret. After yet another loud argument with her mother, Ann Mary takes off with her boyfriend, leaving Mildred alone in the oversize house. But unexpected company arrives...
October 16, 2019
THE USUAL CHILDREN
DescriptionDescription A couple's romantic evening is shattered by the squabbling of their two children. In an attempt at mediation, the father proceeds to tell a story, only to be sucked into the fantasy world which he and his children are now creating together. Scoop proclaims that his sister, Helo, is dead; she lives on as...
