October 16, 2019
TEMPTATION (POKUSZENIE)
DescriptionDescription In her first major role, young actress Magdalena Cielecka shines as Anna, a Catholic nun imprisoned for "fomenting sedition" who's set free after agreeing to collaborate with the authorities. It's the winter of 1953, the darkest period of Stalinism, and her assignment is to get incriminating info on a well-known dissident priest being held...
October 16, 2019
TENDRILS
DescriptionDescription Two lifelong friends and business partners are torn apart by the seductive charm of easy money.
October 16, 2019
TO SPEAK THE UNSPEAKABLE: THE MESSAGE OF ELIE WIESEL (DIRE L’INDICIBLE: LA QUETE D’ELIE WIESEL)
DescriptionDescription "In his own lifetime, Elie Wiesel has become a symbol. His name cannot be dissociated from 20th Century Jewish Destiny and the memory of the victims of the Holocaust. He is their living conscience .... " Thus states Judit Elek of a most extraordinary teacher, writer and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This...
October 16, 2019
HAIFA
DescriptionDescription Haifa is a sensitive story of the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Arafat and Rabin in Washington and the mixed emotions that followed the historic event. "Everyday people go about their business in a poor, dusty little town somewhere in the Gaza Strip. There is the optimistic Abu Said, who...
October 16, 2019
A SINGLE GIRL (LA FILLE SEULE)
DescriptionDescription Valerie, played by Virginie Ledoyen, one morning reveals to her boyfriend, Remi, played by Benoit Magimel, that she is pregnant. Neither Valerie nor Remi knows what this dramatic change within her is to mean for them as a couple. Over the course of the day, which is Valerie's first day working in Room Service...
October 16, 2019
SLING BLADE
DescriptionDescription This dark southern tale follows the life of Karl, a man who has just been released from an asylum after having hacked up his mother and her lover with a sling blade over 25 years before. Deemed "cured", Karl secures a job fixing engines in his small Southern hometown. He bonds with a young,...
October 16, 2019
THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE
DescriptionDescription A powerful and deeply moving drama about the clash of a headstrong father and his three grown children, The Substance of Fire marks the motion picture directorial debut of three-time Tony Award nominee Daniel Sullivan. Holocaust survivor Isaac Geldhart is a venomously witty publisher who would rather sink his efforts into a sixvolume history...
October 16, 2019
SUPERIOR PEOPLE
DescriptionDescription In the summer of 1995, I brought a film crew back to my hometown, Superior, Iowa. Most people fly over America's heartland and think that nothing is there. I wanted to present an accurate picture of family farming and life in a small American town. Here was an opportunity to give a face to...
October 16, 2019
THE GROUP
DescriptionDescription The highminded women of Vassar's Class of '33 soon find that the rest of their lives will be centered around catching and holding a mate. Sharp insights of Mary McCarthy's novel are polished into glossy camp as this bluestocking crew encounters contraception, adultery, lesbianism, and Freud. Great performances and great fun. Directed by Sidney...
October 16, 2019
SIGNS OF FIRE (SINAIS DE FOGO)
DescriptionDescription 1936: Engineering student Diogo Infante arrives at his aunt and uncle's seaside town for· his summer vacation, reuniting with old flame Ruth Gabriel and assorted schoolmates, even as all the Spanish tourists leave amid the looming Civil War. It is not long before the police of Salazar's Portuguese dictatorship start rounding up the Spaniards...
