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.
October 16, 2019
THE FIRST 100 YEARS: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN MOVIES
DescriptionDescription Using his brilliant touch, compilation whiz Chuck Workman (Precious Images) has created a superb feature on the first century of the cinema. Produced for HBO in association with the AFI, this dazzling tribute is full to the brim with over 800 film clips which depict the history of American film and its effect on...
October 16, 2019
VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
DescriptionDescription The year is 1946 and Velva Jean, a small town spiritual young woman blessed with a talent for singing, lives with her tent preacher husband and his father in rural North Carolina. When she is forced to teach herself to drive, she finds there may be a different world where she can find herself...
October 16, 2019
VUKOVAR POSTE RESTANTE
DescriptionDescription Shot on location in the bombed out border town of Vukovar in the former Yugoslavia, this deeply moving, riveting story is more than the average Romeo and Juliet tale of star crossed lovers Croatian Anna and Serbian Toma marry in spite of the growing political antagonism between the two sides. When Toma is drafted,...
October 16, 2019
WAR STORIES
DescriptionDescription With astonishing candor and often refreshing humor, seven elderly women face the camera and reminisce about their lives during World War II. Using newsreel clips, popular songs of the era and vivid contributions from the storytellers' photo albums, what is discovered in these stories is the emotion that has long been repressed in pain,...
October 16, 2019
WARRIOR LANLING
DescriptionDescription A breathtaking, poetic myth with classic elements of Shakespeare and Indian folklore which takes place in ancient China. Young, handsome Prince Lanling is deeply humiliated by the leader of an opposing tribe who refuses to fight him because of his delicate, girlish features. When his tribe is desecrated by the enemy, Lanling vows revenge,...
October 16, 2019
EXTERIOR NIGHT
DescriptionDescription Mark Rappaport's (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) unique film using the actual background scenes and rear screen process plates from Warner Bros. films from the early 30's to the early 50's, in which a young man travels in time to try to find out about the grandfather he never knew, a Philip Marlowe...
October 16, 2019
FAMILY PORTRAIT
DescriptionDescription An intriguing, somewhat quirky and often painful look at the estranged relationship between an adult brother and sister. Returning to their childhood home to attend to their dying mother, Jane and Johnny Janacek discover some buried truths about their mother and one another. They come to terms with their dysfunctional upbringing in a disturbing...
October 16, 2019
END OF A PRIEST (FARARUV KONEC)
DescriptionDescription A droll comedy in the Czech tradition, this is a philosophical parable about the world. Passing as a priest, a lowly church employee lives off "delighted to have him" parishioners, and spends his time debating with a teacher, explaining to breathalyzing cops that he's partaken "blood" and not wine, and reenacting parables-until a chase...
