October 16, 2019
MY DINGALING
DescriptionDescription This offbeat film is a parody of instructional sex education films made during the 50's and 60's.
October 16, 2019
MY MOTHER’S COURAGE (MUTTERS COURAGE)
DescriptionDescription At a celebration Gf his eightieth birthday in Berlin, the renowned writer/director George Tabori tells the true story of what happened to his mother, Elsa, fifty years before in Budapest: ... On a hot summer's day in 1944 Elsa Tabori is stopped in the street by two elderly secret policemen, who handcuff her and...
October 16, 2019
MYRA BRECKINRIDGE
DescriptionDescription This picture based on Gore Vidal's comic novel about a sex-change operation is, according to Leonard Mallin, "as bad as any movie ever made." Full of zealous sexploitation of Mae West, Raquel Welch, Tom Selleck, Farrah Fawcett and many others. Directed by Michael Sarne .. 1970. 94 min.
October 16, 2019
NEROLIO
DescriptionDescription Nerolio could have been titled "A few days in the life of Pasolini." A fact-faithful documentary could not better convey the controversial texture of the late Italian director's work and persona. Grimaldi's protagonist is a world-renowned poet and director whose last film has been rejected by the critics. When asked about the depth of...
October 16, 2019
THE EIGHTH DAY (LE HUITEME JOUR)
DescriptionDescription Pascal Duquenne plays Georges, who has been in an institution for the mentally handicapped since the death of his mother a few years earlier. Work-obsessed Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is presented giving a seminar on sales technique. His is a colorless existence, made even bleaker by the sudden departure of his wife, Julie, and their...
October 16, 2019
MACADAM TRIBU (MACADAM TRIBE)
DescriptionDescription The Tarmac Tribe are confused. With Africa in the throes of economic modernization, its people find themselves severed from their tribal roots. The story of their search for work, love and an identity, Macadam Tribe is a vision of Africa that is a fragmented, postmodern world away from your standard shots of wildebeest and...
October 16, 2019
MENNO’S MIND
DescriptionDescription In the near future, Menno, a naive government computer technician, is drawn into a web of intrigue by a rebellious underground determined to stop a rogue politician from stealing an impending national election. The rebels force Menno to download the contents of their murdered leader's brain into his own. He is slowly transformed from...
October 16, 2019
LA MIA GENERAZIONE
DescriptionDescription 1983: A warm-hearted police captain is assigned to take a convicted Red Brigade terrorist from a Sicilian prison to his waiting girlfriend in Milan, only to find that it is a sinister trap to elicit the names of the terrorist's accomplices.
October 16, 2019
MOTHER NIGHT
DescriptionDescription In 1961, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an obscure American playwright, is delivered to an Israeli prison. Awaiting trial as a Nazi war criminal, Campbell finds himself in the cell directly below that of the notorious Adolph Eichmann, who is also about to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Asked by the Israelis to...
October 16, 2019
THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON (O FIO DO HORIZONTE)
DescriptionDescription "We have two lives: the real one which we dream about in childhood; and the false one which we share with others, and which finishes in a coffin."-Alvaro de Campos. Just another shooting on Lisbon's docks-but as nightshift pathologist Claude Brasseur examines the body he gets a very rude shock of recognition. A shock...
