CLINIC E

DescriptionDescription This black comedy about the power of denial follows the misadventures of Jack Everhart. Upon being called in for an HIV test per the submitted list of an ex-lover who has tested positive, Jack embarks upon an obsessive search to discover who it was that reported his name.

CLOCKS

DescriptionDescription Clocks offers an impression of the work of composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chemin. Accompanied by her own music, we see Elena at work: composing, at the piano, in dialogue with Richard Toop, Daryl Pratt and Elizabeth Burton. -Production notes

CHARMS ZWISCHENFALLE

DescriptionDescription Welcome to Charm's Incidents, an intense but humorOtJS reverie on the life of forgotten Soviet dadaist Daniil Charms. Charms wrote one book before dying in a Nazi prison camp during the war. Vienna-based director-writer Michael Kreihsl has adapted the various poems and sentences into an almost-story about a poor Russian poet who lives in...

THE BRYLCREEM BOYS

DescriptionDescription The story of The Brylcreem Boys takes place against the backdrop of the Republic of Ireland in 1941, when-as part of an effort to remain strictly neutralthe Dublin Government made a deal with both Berlin and London whereby any soldier captured on Irish soil, whether of German or Allied forces, would be interned for...

BUTTERFIELD 8

DescriptionDescription It's been called garish, trashy, cliched. Elizabeth Taylor won an Oscar for her portrayal of a high-class prostitute wanting to go straight, convinced she's found Mr. Right. Dina Merrill is the noble wife to end all noble wives. With Laurence Harvey and Eddie Fisher. Adapted for the screen from John O'Hara's novel. Directed by...

CELLULOIDE

DescriptionDescription A group of struggling young artists in wartime Italy manages to make a film under the noses of the Nazis. This picture chronicles the making of Roberto Rossellini's classic Open City and presents portrayals of luminaries Rossellini, Anna Magnani and Federico Fellini.

CHALK

DescriptionDescription [Chalk] is principally set in Pop Watson's large, funky East Bay pool hall, the Crabtree. Any glory days are long past; ailing Pop has a cantankerous relationship with his resentful biological son, and a slightly warmer one with T.C., who's been hustling suckers at pool since he walked in the door as a 12-year-old...

BONA

DescriptionDescription Bona is an 1 8-year-old woman of a lower middle class family in the Philippines. Young and romantic in the midst of the poverty and hardship around her, she one day spies Gordo, a young actor, performing a bit role in a film. She follows him home, only to witness him being beaten up...

BREAKING THE WAVES

DescriptionDescription A robust Scandinavian oil-rigger and a pretty but naive Scottish village girl marry; they are blissfully happy; he becomes paralyzed after a work accident; their lives fall apart. This is the framework of Danish director Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves, but the outline doesn't really suggest the movie's titanic emotions and mysterious power....

THE BRUCE

DescriptionDescription This extravagant production tells the story of Scotland's warrior-king, Robert The Bruce, following his epic adventures and exploring his complex relationship with England's King Edward I, known as the Hammer of the Scots. In tribute to The Bruce's tireless efforts against the powers that be, the film culminates in a re-enactment of the Battle...

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