THE GROUP

DescriptionDescription The highminded women of Vassar's Class of '33 soon find that the rest of their lives will be centered around catching and holding a mate. Sharp insights of Mary McCarthy's novel are polished into glossy camp as this bluestocking crew encounters contraception, adultery, lesbianism, and Freud. Great performances and great fun. Directed by Sidney...

HAIFA

DescriptionDescription Haifa is a sensitive story of the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Arafat and Rabin in Washington and the mixed emotions that followed the historic event. "Everyday people go about their business in a poor, dusty little town somewhere in the Gaza Strip. There is the optimistic Abu Said, who...

A CORNER IN GOLD

DescriptionDescription In his pursuit to become a legend in the chaos of the gold pit, a young man named Dare journeys on a train which travels repeatedly to the gold market and back. Dare works diligently towards his goal until finally the train reaches the "end of the line," where he must confront the origins...

ERMO

DescriptionDescription Ermo is a hard-working woman who sells her home-made noodles by the roadside in a rural town. l.1er husband is ill and a stranger to her mind, and her small son spends much of his time at the neighbor's house, watching their coveted television. When the neighbor's husband offers to drive her into town,...

FIRST DATE

DescriptionDescription What happens when a man asks out a woman he's only iust met? He realizes he's got more than he bargained for, and begins the process of understanding what it means to be dating in the nineties.

FORGOTTEN SILVER

DescriptionDescription This wickedly clever hoax "documentary" is a highly amusing satire on the recent spate of historical documentaries made to celebrate the centenary of cinema. The film deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of international cinema, Colin McKenzie, who was allegedly born in rural New Zealand in 1888. McKenzie had been completely...

FRONTIERLAND (FRONTERILANDIA)

DescriptionDescription The title refers not to a location, but rather to those spaces where cultures intertwine. This film is an experimental, poetic documentary of the Lafino experience in border towns-an exploration, say the directors, "of the mythical perceptions which both sides of the border have about each other." The spontaneous imagery mirrors the development of...

CON RABBIA E CON AMORE

DescriptionDescription Claudio, superficial middle-class university student, one day meets young and wise Francesca at a bus stop, where they strike up a friendly relationship. As Francesca is walking away, however, she is caught in a crossfire and shot. During the next 14 days, the lives of Claudio and his family are forever changed, as he...

COOLBREEZE AND BUZZ

DescriptionDescription A girl and her father, separated by time and by his love for the unfettered life, meet again and become re-acquainted in the Florida panhandle.

THE EMPTY MIRROR

DescriptionDescription The Empty Mirror provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. A virtual one-man performance piece by British actor Norman Rodway, pie imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating his memoirs to a blond officer ... Declaring his legacy "of destruction and grandeur"...

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