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...
October 16, 2019
DESERT SEAS (DESIERTOS MARES)
DescriptionDescription A film director suffers from a deep existential crisis when his wife leaves him for another man. This crisis, which leads him to near suicide, takes him through an obsessive reminiscence of a childhood trip from the desert to the sea, which was the last time he saw his father alive. Meanwhile, he writes...
October 16, 2019
ORSON WELLES: THE ONE-MAN BAND
DescriptionDescription Fans of Orson Welles will not be disappointed by this wonderful opportunity to see parts of rarely or never before seen films by the "Wunderkind". With excerpts from The Deep, The Dreamers, Merchant of Venice, Moby Dick, Churchill and The Magic Show, among others, this compilation of recently discovered material proves that Welles-contrary to...
October 16, 2019
THE OUTPOST (A RÉSZLEG)
DescriptionDescription Atmospheric and poetic, this is an allegory of a society which finds itself mystified and humiliated by the often arbitrary dictates of authority. An engineer is abruptly and inexplicably transferred to a new job as head of a section. Under escort, she travels by train and then hand-powered rail rider to the outpost, up...
October 16, 2019
THE PASSENGER
DescriptionDescription A dissatisfied TV reporter changes identities with a dead man while on assignment in Africa, and finds he is now a gunrunner. He encounters a beautiful woman who is drawn to him, as he follows a mysterious path toward death. Named one of the 10 best films of 1975 by the National Board of...
October 16, 2019
RADIO STAR-THE AFN STORY
DescriptionDescription Filmed in Germany, America and Korea, Radio Star is a nostalgic trip to the past. For 50 years, the Armed Forces Network (AFN) was a radio station on special duty at the front, giving the troops a "radiophonic feeling of home" and perhaps more. Extraordinary and in part unpublished archive materials are to be...
October 16, 2019
CURSED LAWN (GAZON MAUDIT)
DescriptionDescription In this quirky, comic love triangle a ,couple finds their lives forever altered when a cigar smoking lesbian enters their home. The womanizing, macho husband is threatened by the burgeoning relationship between his wife and this unexpected interloper, but is seemingly powerless to stop this liaison. In a typical French comic manner, all eventually...
October 16, 2019
CUTTING IT SHORT (POSTRIZINY)
DescriptionDescription Pure delight, as progress comes to a rural brewery in the '20s: manager Jiri Schmitzer's sidecarred motorcycle sometimes refuses to stop; his stentorian-voiced brother keeps extending that visit; and the brewery's board fusses over his accounts; but then it's time for a pork sausage feast cooked by his beautiful free spirited wile, Magda Vasaryova...
October 16, 2019
O QUATRILHO
DescriptionDescription "Quatrilho" is the name of a card game which requires its players to betray their partners in order to win. At the beginning of this century, in a small Italian immigrant community in the southernmost region of Brazil, two couples will incur the wrath of their church and community in their search for security....
October 16, 2019
ON OUR SELECTION
DescriptionDescription Based on turn of the century articles by Steele Rudd about his family, this lively Aussie efltry delivers an earthy look at the hardships involved in working a small parcel of land (or "selection"). In a sepia toned flashback, the family arrives at their 150 acre bush property, and then must fight drought, plagues...
