October 16, 2019
KIDS RETURN
DescriptionDescription The humorous opening stretch introduces high school buddies Shinji and Masaru as they cut classes and disrupt lessons. They extort cash from their classmates to finance long afternoons ,hanging out at a neighborhood coffee shop and a diner frequented by a local yakuza quartet, whose chief takes a fatherly liking to Masaru. When one...
October 16, 2019
THE KING OF MASKS
DescriptionDescription An aging traveling performer named Wang is a master of the Sichuan opera technique of changing masks so quickly that the act appears miraculous. Aging and longing for a male heir to whom he can teach his skills, he buys a small boy nicknamed "Doggie" from an impoverished family. He is happy and his...
October 16, 2019
KISS ME, STUPID
DescriptionDescription A leeringly silly Billy Wilder sex farce that aspired to be Moliere or Feydeau, but ended up as one of the first films condemned by the once-powerful Legion of Decency. Dean Martin plays a lecherous night club crooner named Dino (a real stretch). Kim Novak excels as Polly the Pistol. Screenplay by Wilder and...
October 16, 2019
A DRIFTING LIFE (LUMENG HUACHUN)
DescriptionDescription Kun-cheng lives with his family on their poor but stable farm. When his wife dies suddenly in childbirth, he is left permanently embittered and fatalistic. He leaves the care of the farm and his children to his parents, and embarks upon an affair with a young widow. Several years pass in quiet discontent until...
October 16, 2019
A DROP IN THE OCEAN (STAGONA STON OKEANO)
DescriptionDescription The difficulties of love in the modern world: some things are universal. Stage actress Amalia Moutoussi, in a powerful performance, finds romance impinging on her own art as she falls for craggy-faced Giorgos Sfyrides, a billiard-playing wouldbe emigre, who, in love himself, makes for a demanding partner. First film for Eleni Alexandrakis: "Faith has...
October 16, 2019
IN FULL GALLOP (CWAL)
DescriptionDescription In Full Gallop is an autobiographical adaptation of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's boyhood in the l 950's. As a result of constant surveillance by the Secret Police and the subsequent threat to young Hubert's education, his mother ships Hubert off to Warsaw to live with his eccentric Aunt Idalia, who has a penchant for...
October 16, 2019
ISOTTA
DescriptionDescription An overweight thirty-year-old woman works in a factory, spends her days fantasizing, falls for a Greek businessman, loses him to her best friend and still manages to love life.
October 16, 2019
IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE SEA…
DescriptionDescription Puwal is a boatman in Nemuguri village, on the bank of the river Dihing in Assam. For three generations, his forefathers have been ferrying people to and fro. Life goes on smoothly until Puwal begins to hear persistent reports about a bridge to be built across the river. The government has decided to bring...
October 16, 2019
JUICEHEAD
DescriptionDescription Addicted to electricity, Buzzy lurches through life sucking on sockets, unable to touch anyone without shocking them. When he falls for an ace electrician, his cycle of addiction and isolation becomes unbearable, as his desire to touch her forces him to confront his condition and the man responsible for it.
October 16, 2019
DRIFTING CLOUDS (KAUAS PILVET KARKAAVAT)
DescriptionDescription There's something at once familiar and unconventional about Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds. For those who've savored the flying Finn's oeuvre-embracing such films as Ariel, Match Factory Girl and La Vie de Boheme-the new outing reiterates a dead pan fatalism that's oddly compelling yet essentially unthreatening. In this film, the good life is ephemeral. Ilona...
