October 16, 2019
THE EMPTY MIRROR
DescriptionDescription The Empty Mirror provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. A virtual one-man performance piece by British actor Norman Rodway, pie imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating his memoirs to a blond officer ... Declaring his legacy "of destruction and grandeur"...
October 16, 2019
THE NUN (LA MONJA)
DescriptionDescription A young girl dealing with the death of her mother must choose between her two worlds of fantasy and reality which are presided over by her visions of a nun.
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
PARTY
DescriptionDescription To celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, Leonor and Rogerio hold a garden party at their beautiful palace in the Azores. Amongst their guests are Irene, a famous Greek actress, and Michel, her lover. Michel feels it his duty to court Leonor, who seems to accept his attentions. Though Rogerio and Irene notice the chemistry,...
October 16, 2019
PIANESE NUNZIO 14 ANNI A MAGGIO
DescriptionDescription Members of the organized crime scene in Naples attempt to destroy the credibility of an influential priest of the people by misrepresenting his relationship with a young street urchin named Nunzio.
October 16, 2019
THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW
DescriptionDescription The movie opens in 210 B.C. with Ying Zheng, the first emperor of a united China, making a sacrifice by the churning waters of the Yellow River. Weary from a life of war-mongering and bloodletting, he can hardly stand without assistance, still haunted by the memory of a certain Gao Jianli. Through a flashback,...
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
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET (DER ELEFANT VERGISST NIE)
DescriptionDescription Young and lonely Countess Lilly von Teltow has the good fortune of being rescued from the sight of a car accident by two members of a traveling circus: the circus' elephant and its trainer, the dwarf Ramon. He visits the Countess at her castle, which she shares with her philandering husband. Though Lilly initially...
