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
THE YOUNG POISONER’S HANDBOOK
DescriptionDescription This macabre, darkly comic and .e;inister tale of genius gone wrong is based on the true story of a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of typical suburban English life. A 14 year old boy's experiments with toxic chemicals on family and friends lead to chronic illness, disfigurement, and agonizing death....
October 16, 2019
ZABRISKIE POINT
DescriptionDescription Zabriskie Point is screened as a tribute to this year's AFI Fest guest of honor, master director Michelangelo Antonioni. This most emblematic L.A. movie is a bemused European intellectual's hallucinatory vision of America in the sixties: billboards, freeways, riots, .guns and endless Western landscapes. It begins with Kathleen Cleaver leading a campus meeting and...
October 16, 2019
THE WONDROUS VOYAGE OF KORNEL ESTI (ESTI KORNÉL CSODÁLATOS UTAZÁSA)
DescriptionDescription Two trains depart from two distant points in time. On one of the trains, the renowned but ailing European writer Kornet Esti is traveling to Germany for his last lecture tour on a wintry day in 1933. The other train departs from the same station, though 30 years earlier, carrying the young Kornel Esti,...
October 16, 2019
WHO IS HENRY JAGLOM?
DescriptionDescription Who is Henry Jaglom? With an entire spectrum of opinions, including interviews with Candice Bergen, Andrea Marcovicci, John Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, and Milos Forman, with footage from the making of Jaglom's movies, and with new material from Jaglom mentor Orson Welles, the filmmakers have woven a fascinating and off-beat portrait on Jaglom that explores...
October 16, 2019
THE WHITE PLAGUE (BÍLÁ NEMOC)
DescriptionDescription The only thing stopping Marshal Zdenek Stepanek, dictator of a mythical country, from starting his long-dreamed-of expansionist war is the deadly disease devastating the populace-but then slum doctor Hugo Haas discovers the cure. One hitch: his price is peacel But there's still a final, ironic twist. The last Czech feature made before the German...
October 16, 2019
WARRIOR LANLING
DescriptionDescription A breathtaking, poetic myth with classic elements of Shakespeare and Indian folklore which takes place in ancient China. Young, handsome Prince Lanling is deeply humiliated by the leader of an opposing tribe who refuses to fight him because of his delicate, girlish features. When his tribe is desecrated by the enemy, Lanling vows revenge,...
October 16, 2019
WAR STORIES
DescriptionDescription With astonishing candor and often refreshing humor, seven elderly women face the camera and reminisce about their lives during World War II. Using newsreel clips, popular songs of the era and vivid contributions from the storytellers' photo albums, what is discovered in these stories is the emotion that has long been repressed in pain,...
October 16, 2019
VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
DescriptionDescription The year is 1946 and Velva Jean, a small town spiritual young woman blessed with a talent for singing, lives with her tent preacher husband and his father in rural North Carolina. When she is forced to teach herself to drive, she finds there may be a different world where she can find herself...
October 16, 2019
VUKOVAR POSTE RESTANTE
DescriptionDescription Shot on location in the bombed out border town of Vukovar in the former Yugoslavia, this deeply moving, riveting story is more than the average Romeo and Juliet tale of star crossed lovers Croatian Anna and Serbian Toma marry in spite of the growing political antagonism between the two sides. When Toma is drafted,...
