October 16, 2019
WAVING NOT DROWNING
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
THE WEDDING GIFT
DescriptionDescription Julie Walters (Educating Rita) and Jim Broadbent (Life Is Swee? star in this touching love story about a middle-aged couple's struggle against a mysterious illness. Doctors are baffled as Diana Longden's (Walters) debilitating flu grows progressively worse. When the medical experts conclude that the illness may be a product of her own hysteria, Diana...
October 16, 2019
VROOOM!
DescriptionDescription Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song) is recognized by such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Robert Townsend as the father of black cinema. Van Peebles' film Vroomttells a tale set in the bayous, where an old witch grants a young loser two wishes. He asks for a new motorcycle and a girlfriend and...
October 16, 2019
WAR AND PEACE
DescriptionDescription Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (Viona I Mir), in its original, complete, non-dubbed 403 minute widescreen version, may be, at least among serious American critics, one of the most curiously misunderstood and underrated of all the great epic films. (And a great epic it is-as much as Intolerance, Andrei Roublev, or The Seven Samurai.)...
October 16, 2019
UNCOMMON GROUND
DescriptionDescription This impassioned documentary follows five multiethnic Los Angeles high school students as they travel to South Africa to live with South African students in a black township. The film focuses on the day-to-day activities of these diverse youth as they share their experiences with family, school, violence, racism, and oppression. The result is a...
October 16, 2019
UNDERWATER
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
TOUCH ME
DescriptionDescription Touch Me, from Australian director Paul Cox (Exile, A Woman's Tale) tells of two women who escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for an unusual awakening.
October 16, 2019
TRASH
DescriptionDescription The story of Joe and his lover-protector, Holly, who fancies herself as Marlene Dietrich but sounds more like Phil Silvers. They try to make a go of things in their Lower East Side basement, as Holly cruises the Fillmore East and scavenges garbage, and Joe journeys in search of real junk .. Trash is...
October 16, 2019
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
DescriptionDescription This film epitomizes the term "Comedies of Elegance"-all polish, gloss and wit-and witnesses Lubitsch at the height of his film artistry, before the censors hit. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play two elegant thieves who realize they are made for each other.
October 16, 2019
TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
DescriptionDescription Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Total Balalaika Show is the most inspired crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy. This concert documentary has Finland's musically challenged roc·k band, the Leningrad Cowboys, trading hotlicks and bellowing dopey standards with the sometimes baffled, but always sonorous, ex-Red Army choir in a universally crowd-pleasing 1993 performance. From...
