October 16, 2019
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA
DescriptionDescription SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known for his vital cinematic portrayals of roots music and musicians ( The Blues Accordin'...
October 16, 2019
DESTINATION MOON
DescriptionDescription Call it "1948: A Space Odyssey." Rarely seen on the big screen, the first American space movie is a fascinating could-have-been alternative to the Apollo program. One of the most unabashedly libertarian films ever made in Hollywood, Robert Heinlein's story involves a group of concerned American industrialists who finance a privately run trip to...
October 16, 2019
DEVILISH EDUCATION (DIABELSKA EDUKACJA)
DescriptionDescription It is the turn of the century, and the milkmaid Gosia is caring for her cows in an idyllic rural countryside. The afternoon is hot, so she bathes naked in the river. The next day a stranger in black appears on the scene and shows her a painting he has done of her in...
October 16, 2019
SHARAKU
DescriptionDescription A stunning depiction of life in ancient Tokyo (then called Eda), this is the sumptuously told story of the real life wood-block artist who became the first ukiyoe (floating world) artist Sharaku, who dared to depict his subjects in a realistic manner, verging on caricature. Since little is known about Sharaku in his later...
October 16, 2019
THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (OBCHOD NA KORZE)
DescriptionDescription Wartime in the fascist Slovak state: although happy go lucky carpenter Jozef Kr6ner's detested brother-in-law gets him the supposedly cushy job of "Aryan controller" of Jewish widow Ida Kaminska's button shop, the oblivious old lady treats him as a simple assistant-but then the deportation order comes down. "The most moving film about anti-Semitism" seen...
October 16, 2019
SHOTGUN FREEWAY: DRIVES THRU LOST L.A.
DescriptionDescription Like a surreal educational film frorn'ihe 1950s, this tour of Los Angeles' anguished coming of age-from pueblo to condo, explores the lives of 14 Angelenos whose oral histories attempt to illuminate this undefinable, noir city. Ranging from artist to activist to freethinker, these residents take us to the far corners of L.A. to relive...
October 16, 2019
STORIES FROM THE KRONEN (HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN)
DescriptionDescription Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll-that's just the early part of the evening for night-lifer Carlos. The largest grossing film so far this year in Spain centers around a bar in downtown Madrid where Spanish Generation Xers burn both sides of the candle. In U S movie terms, it's Less Than Zero and Bright Lights, Big City...
October 16, 2019
DESERT SNOW
DescriptionDescription Downwind from America's nuclear testing fields, Price scavenges for bones on the desert floor. He eventually comes across Madge who spends her days tending to dogs who are hit along the road. Enamored with life, Madge's glow lures Price from the depths of his own cynicism. Desert Snow offers insight into how we sometimes...
October 16, 2019
THE SECOND ROOM
DescriptionDescription About an isolated architect who discovers the "second room" and finds his own completion.
October 16, 2019
SEVEN DAYS IN MAY
DescriptionDescription After a night of paranoid adventure, we invite the Marathon audience to "stride into the bright sunlight of freedom." This political thriller, considered to be highly credible in its day, concerns a lone colonel's desperate attempt to stop a military takeover of the USA. An intelligent defense of early 'sixties liberalism, its hammy speeches...
