October 16, 2019
HEDD WYN
DescriptionDescription Beautifully crafted and epic in scale, this moving film depicts the life of World War I Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, whose passionate ambition to win his country's prime literary honor was the driving force in his life. The handsome, romantic son of a farmer is posted to war torn France, where he finally finishes...
October 16, 2019
FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
DescriptionDescription The strange and sensational life of actress Jean Seberg-discovered at 17 by Otto Preminger to star in Saint Joan, immortalized by Godard in Breathless, smeared by the FBI for her support of the Black Panthers, a suicide at age 40-is the subject of this playfully brilliant "fictional autobiography." Using Mary Beth Hurt to play...
October 16, 2019
THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (KLADIVO NA CARODEJNICE)
DescriptionDescription 1680, Moravia simple peasant superstition is snowballed by all-powerful inquisitor Boblig into a seemingly endless, horrific procession to the stake-but even honest men can blame themselves for their cowardice (just as, of course, in later trials). Co-scripted by "New Wave" art director Krumbachova from a novel based on actual court records from Ullersdorf and...
October 16, 2019
FITZPATRICK TRAVELTALKS
DescriptionDescription In the 1930's, millions of depression era theatergoers were transported to distant, exotic locations by means of these 35mm shorts, among the earliest examples of three strip Technicolor. Included with features, newsreels and cartoons, these ten minute films were a relaxing escape to far off lands of intriguing beauty and remarkable cultures: Rio de...
October 16, 2019
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER)
DescriptionDescription An epic fairy tale for adults set in the 16th Century from award winning director Jos Stelling ( The Pointsman), this is a dreamlike visual retelling of the poetic fable of the sailor doomed to roam the seven seas on an eerie, flying ship. The illegitimate son of the legendary Dutchman learns the story...
October 16, 2019
FRESH BAIT (L’ APPAT)
DescriptionDescription Bertrand Tavernier (L627, Round Midnight) has based this horrific crime drama on the true case of two seemingly ordinary young men and a girl who committed cold-blooded murder to steal enough money to open a chain of boutiques in America. In the girl's statement to the police, she calmly explains that all she did...
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
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
FAREWELL USSR, FILM I, PERSONAL
DescriptionDescription A beautiful and haunting experimental documentary directed by Alexander Rodnyansky, using old and new film footage on unusual stock to present poetic fragments of Babyj Jar and Jewish life in present Russia. Ukraine, 1992, 60 min. Preceded by Sarajevo Film Festival Film, by Johan van der Keuken, Holland, 1993, 14 min.
