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
LA STRADA
DescriptionDescription AFI Fest is pleased to present Charlotte Chandler, who will discuss her new Random House book, "I Fellini", about the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini. "I have orr1y one life, and that I have told to you. This is my last testament, I have no more to say," Fellini told his friend of fourteen...
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
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
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
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
THE SECOND ROOM
DescriptionDescription About an isolated architect who discovers the "second room" and finds his own completion.
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
SCREAMERS
DescriptionDescription Screamers is a fun, fast-paced futwristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy. Canadian helmer Christian Duguay (Million Dollar Babies) keeps the focus on the often-violent thrills 'n' spills throughout. Based on a 1952 story by legendary science-fiction scribe Philip K. Dick, the screenplay is built...
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...
