October 16, 2019
THE WHITE PLAGUE (BÍLÁ NEMOC)
DescriptionDescription The only thing stopping Marshal Zdenek Stepanek, dictator of a mythical country, from starting his long-dreamed-of expansionist war is the deadly disease devastating the populace-but then slum doctor Hugo Haas discovers the cure. One hitch: his price is peacel But there's still a final, ironic twist. The last Czech feature made before the German...
October 16, 2019
WARRIOR LANLING
DescriptionDescription A breathtaking, poetic myth with classic elements of Shakespeare and Indian folklore which takes place in ancient China. Young, handsome Prince Lanling is deeply humiliated by the leader of an opposing tribe who refuses to fight him because of his delicate, girlish features. When his tribe is desecrated by the enemy, Lanling vows revenge,...
October 16, 2019
WAR STORIES
DescriptionDescription With astonishing candor and often refreshing humor, seven elderly women face the camera and reminisce about their lives during World War II. Using newsreel clips, popular songs of the era and vivid contributions from the storytellers' photo albums, what is discovered in these stories is the emotion that has long been repressed in pain,...
October 16, 2019
VELVA JEAN LEARNS TO DRIVE
DescriptionDescription The year is 1946 and Velva Jean, a small town spiritual young woman blessed with a talent for singing, lives with her tent preacher husband and his father in rural North Carolina. When she is forced to teach herself to drive, she finds there may be a different world where she can find herself...
October 16, 2019
VUKOVAR POSTE RESTANTE
DescriptionDescription Shot on location in the bombed out border town of Vukovar in the former Yugoslavia, this deeply moving, riveting story is more than the average Romeo and Juliet tale of star crossed lovers Croatian Anna and Serbian Toma marry in spite of the growing political antagonism between the two sides. When Toma is drafted,...
October 16, 2019
UNTAMED WOMEN (MUJERES INSUMISAS)
DescriptionDescription A sincere, honest and powerful portrayal of the condition of women in contemporary Mexican society, this film portrays a group of lower middle class women who decide to flee to the United States to get away from their unsatisfied lives and their abusive husbands. Along the way they have a complex array of experiences,...
October 16, 2019
THE UNKNOWN DESERTER (DER UNBEKANNTE DESERTEUR)
DescriptionDescription A thoughtful and visually stunning inquiry into the moral nature of obedience and military violence. Two soldiers, imprisoned at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in the basement of a villa exchange stories of their capture. One finds out that the other is the deserter he has been sent to kill. On the...
October 16, 2019
ULYSSES’ GAZE
DescriptionDescription Greece's greatest filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos, dramatizes a central crisis for any artistparticularly someone like Angelopoulos, who has often faced difficult subjects in dangerous times (Days of 36): how can a filmmaker keep his/her passion for cinema in a world exploding in chaos, injustice and bloodshed? Here, in a mesmerizing work of realism and artifice,...
October 16, 2019
TWO NUDES BATHING
DescriptionDescription A lavish fantasy on the origins of the anonymous painting which hangs in the Louvre. In late 16th Century France a young D?tch portrait painter is commissioned by a count who is determined to have a prim and proper likeness of his two teenage girls before they are exposed to the lustful ways of...
October 16, 2019
TROUBLESOME LOVE (L’ AMORE MOLESTO)
DescriptionDescription A disturbing psychological study of a middle aged woman who attempts to piece together the reasons for the death of her mother, who washed ashore after a mysterious midnight swim with an unknown man. "A mature and unusually powerful picture ... finds director Martone in full form, mastering his material with a sure hand,...
