October 16, 2019
KOREA
DescriptionDescription A stylistically photographed, moody story of a family in a rural Irish village in 1952. Young Eamon Doyle lives with his fisherman father, a grumbling man set in his ways. Other young men in the economically depleted area have emigrated to America to find a better life, only to find themselves conscripted into the...
October 16, 2019
KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
DescriptionDescription An epic love story based on Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset's beloved 1928 trilogy "The Bridal Wreath." Medieval Norway is gorgeously filmed by Sven Nykvist. Kristin, the innocent and virtuous daughter of a prominent landowner, has gone to spend a year in a convent after an attempted rape. Although she is promised in an...
October 16, 2019
LAND AND FREEDOM
DescriptionDescription Land and Freedom is a wonderful, dismayed epic, and the finest film that Englishman Ken Loach has made, a movie worthy of George Orwell and Homage to Cataloma. A young Communist from Liverpool goes off to Spain on his own to join the revolutionary militia. He sees battle- captured with brilliant, nervy exactness-as well...
October 16, 2019
A KISS TO THIS LAND (UN BESO A ESTA TIERRA)
DescriptionDescription This wonderful film, the only documentary in this section, follows the lives of seven Jews who emigrated to Mexico from Europe and the Middle East in the first two decades of this century. Narrated by these individuals from the perspective of their old age, the film follows their trials and tribulations as each tries...
October 16, 2019
KISSES AND SCRATCHES (CSÓKKAL ÉS KÖRÖMMEL)
DescriptionDescription Angi is a free-spirited social worker trying to survive on the fringe of Budapest's gay demimonde. A babysitting stint involves her with a fearful young wife's emerging lesbian identity. Shot in an experimental video style by male feminist and radical filmmaker Gybrgy Szomjas ( The Wall Driller), whose previous work posits prostitution as a...
October 16, 2019
JLG BY JLG: DECEMBER SELF-PORTRAIT
DescriptionDescription In one of his most accessible films, Jean-Luc Godard makes philosophical and reflective observations on the worlds of cinema, language and art. At his lakeside home in Switzerland, Godard is a delightful mixture of King Lear and his detective character from Alphaville. Unafraid of lapsing into comedy and a sort of Marx Brothers-inspired lunacy,...
October 16, 2019
THE JOKE (ZERT)
DescriptionDescription Ironies abound-upbeat songs of the revolution overlap labor camp scenes, transistorized rod drowns out a folk band-as Josef Somr ( Closely Watched Trains) returns to his home town 15 years after being sent to the slammer for a "Long Live Trotsky!" postcard to his girlfriend. His mission-revenge on the squealer via seduction of his...
October 16, 2019
HOTEL PARADISE
DescriptionDescription An attractive woman in her best years emerges from a dreadful hangover in the bridal suite of a luxury hotel. To her surprise, she finds herself handcuffed to a naked man in bed next to her. Worse-this is her wedding day, and the morning is slipping away fast. Worst of all-the man next to...
October 16, 2019
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
DescriptionDescription Also released as Women On Pier 13. A Communist agent blackmails a shipping executive trying to hide a radical thirties past. Moody, noir-ish, and paranoid-not a bad thriller in its own· "right."
October 16, 2019
HEAD
DescriptionDescription Written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (prior to their Five Easy Pieces hit), this psychedelic trip finds the mad mod TV rock group the Monkees (hey, hey) dissing themselves and the· industry a la A Hard Day's Night. Reviewed in Daily Variety as "A mind blowing collage of mixed media, a free-for-all freakout...
