October 16, 2019
ULYSSES’ GAZE
DescriptionDescription Greece's greatest filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos, dramatizes a central crisis for any artistparticularly someone like Angelopoulos, who has often faced difficult subjects in dangerous times (Days of 36): how can a filmmaker keep his/her passion for cinema in a world exploding in chaos, injustice and bloodshed? Here, in a mesmerizing work of realism and artifice,...
October 16, 2019
THE UNKNOWN DESERTER (DER UNBEKANNTE DESERTEUR)
DescriptionDescription A thoughtful and visually stunning inquiry into the moral nature of obedience and military violence. Two soldiers, imprisoned at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in the basement of a villa exchange stories of their capture. One finds out that the other is the deserter he has been sent to kill. On the...
October 16, 2019
UNTAMED WOMEN (MUJERES INSUMISAS)
DescriptionDescription A sincere, honest and powerful portrayal of the condition of women in contemporary Mexican society, this film portrays a group of lower middle class women who decide to flee to the United States to get away from their unsatisfied lives and their abusive husbands. Along the way they have a complex array of experiences,...
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...
October 16, 2019
END OF THE ICON
DescriptionDescription A shop repairman yearning for excitement and passion in an otherwise mundane life n·eads to Hollywood in search of his old drinking buddy. After a few days of drunken revelry, the two men realize that the meaning they are searching for lies in their friendship.
October 16, 2019
TRIAL
DescriptionDescription A dynamic and intelligent courtroom drama scripted by Don Man'kiewicz. A Southern California murder trial with overtones of (gaspl) interracial sex is ruthlessly exploited by left and right wing forces. Sound at all familiar? Watch for the famous "Sea of Green" mass rally.
October 16, 2019
TRINITY AND BEYOND
DescriptionDescription On August 6th and August 9th, 1995, the world observed the 50th anniversaries of the most destructive forces ever unleashed in human history: the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Filmmaker Peter Kuran has dedicated the past three years to the production of this chronicle of the...
October 16, 2019
THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME (1ST AND 2ND JOURNEYS)
DescriptionDescription Eminent French documentarian Marcel Ophuls ( The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie) has turned his eye to Bosnia from the perspective of the journalists who cover the war. From 1993 to 1994 Ophuls made four trips to war-torn Sarajevo. He examines the high-risk physical aspects of...
October 16, 2019
TROUBLESOME LOVE (L’ AMORE MOLESTO)
DescriptionDescription A disturbing psychological study of a middle aged woman who attempts to piece together the reasons for the death of her mother, who washed ashore after a mysterious midnight swim with an unknown man. "A mature and unusually powerful picture ... finds director Martone in full form, mastering his material with a sure hand,...
October 16, 2019
THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (LA ORILLA DE LA TIERRA)
DescriptionDescription An ironic style reminiscent of Sergio Leone and wonderful touches of Latin American magical realism, enliven this tale of two greedy men in search of a treasure, each of whom holds only half the map Meanwhile, in a sleepy, dusty village forgotten by time, all the men have deserted the village for a land...
