October 16, 2019
MICCONCEPTION
DescriptionDescription An ironic mother and daughter tale of lost dreams and sexual desires. Mary Roberts struggles with her mother and her conscience when confronted with life changing choices. Will the young cellist abandon her moral principles in pursuit of cherished dreams?
October 16, 2019
MIRACLE ALLEY (ELL CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS)
DescriptionDescription We are proud to open the TRIBUTE CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN CINEMA with the film most honored this year by the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Adapted from a book by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the film's three stories take place in downtown Mexico City's Miracle Alley. The first story is that...
October 16, 2019
MISSION TO MOSCOW
DescriptionDescription M ission To Moscow tries to explain Soviet Russia to American audiences. Real-life U.S. Ambassador Davies (Walter Huston) talks up the lovable side of misunderstood mass murderer Joseph Stalin, while Mrs. Davies discovers Moscow's marvelous day care facilities.
October 16, 2019
COUNTDOWN (VISSZASZAMLALAS)
DescriptionDescription A somber, finely crafted film about the pitfalls of the system of private enterprise now taking hold in Hungary, Countdown is a very pessimistic film but an emotionally involving one ... a truck driver who decides to go into business for himself puts all his savings into a truck he buys at an auction....
October 16, 2019
MAIRI MHOR: HER LIFE AND SONGS
DescriptionDescription Mary McPherson wrote the first of her great songs, "The Speakers of English" when she was fifty-one. From that moment until she died twenty-five years later, she poured out some of the most eloquent, lyrical and best-loved songs in the Gaelic language, and many indeed consider her to be'the greatest Gaelic poet of the...
October 16, 2019
MAKING A FILM FOR ME IS LIVING
DescriptionDescription During the filming of Beyond the Clouds, Michelangelo Antonioni's wife Enrica shot this fascinating "making of" documentary. The AFI Fest is honored to screen this unique close-up of a master artist at work. "For the first time in his career, Michelangelo Antonioni agreed to have a camera on his set shooting himself at work....
October 16, 2019
MAMMO
DescriptionDescription Director Shyam Benegal, whose roots are in documentary filmmaking, has created a sensitive portrait of Mammo, an Indian woman who must use all her resources to survive after the death of her Pakistani husband. When her in-laws oust her from her own house, she obtains a visitor's visa for Bombay to live with a...
October 16, 2019
COLD COMFORT FARM
DescriptionDescription John Schlesinger reveals again his masterly touch in Cold Comfort Farm, a deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners, based on Stella Gibbons'. popular 1932 novel ... its playful mood and wicked wit are likely to delight film audiences. In the 1930s set saga, Flora Paste, a sophisticated young woman, suddenly finds herself orphaned...
October 16, 2019
LISBON STORY
DescriptionDescription Originally commissioned to do a documentary portrait of the city of Lisbon, director Wim· Wenders found his creative expression unfettered when plans changed and he was able to use his distinctive style to create a charming comedy about a film director in Lisbon to shoot a documentary. The story centers on Phillip, a German...
October 16, 2019
THE MAESTRO: KING OF THE COWBOY ARTISTS
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'...
