October 16, 2019
TOTALLY F***ED UP
DescriptionDescription Totally F***ed Up is acclaimed L.A. filmmaker Gregg Araki's ( The Living End) most mature film to date. Araki goes further out into the margins to explore gay and lesbian youth, and becomes one of the few to treat this invisible population with sensitivity, affection, and respect while tackling issues of alienation, sexuality, homophobia,...
October 16, 2019
TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE
DescriptionDescription In Mika Kaurismaki's innovative new film, legendary director Sam Fuller leads a nostalgic and unconventional journey into the past. Forty years ago, Fuller went into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest to research locations for his adventure film, Tigrero. The project never came to fruition and was all but forgotten until Kaurismaki undertook this documentary. Tigrero portrays...
October 16, 2019
TOPAZE
DescriptionDescription Director Harry D'Arrast photographed common people and places with remarkable elegance. Here he presents an ultra-sophisticated comedy-drama based on a play by Pagnol. John Barrymore portrays a timid French schoolteacher who gets fired, is duped into endorsing a product under false pretenses, and metamorphoses into a tycoon.
October 16, 2019
THIS IS THE NIGHT
DescriptionDescription In this pre-code tale of gay infidelity, Thelma Todd is having an affai.r with Roland Young Young must engage Lily Damita as his wife when Todd's husband Cary Grant arrives in town unexpectedly. They al I jaunt off to Venice where moral standards win out.
October 16, 2019
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER (A TERCEIRA MARGEM DO RIO)
DescriptionDescription In his newest film, beloved Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos distills the essence of five short stories to create a narrative that encompasses city and country, reality and fantasy, good and evil. Liojorge and Alva have always known their daughter Nhinhinha is different-but it is only when they visit her aunt that the...
October 16, 2019
TALES OF HOFFMANN
DescriptionDescription The New York Times called Tales of Hoffmann, "By far the most glowingly ambitious and swanky attempt ever made to recreate classical opera on the motion picture screen." The film portrays the German poet Hoffmann in three adventures as he searches for the perfect woman. All the stories deal with the transforming powers of...
October 16, 2019
STARBABY
DescriptionDescription In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in Hollywood is taken in by celebrity-hounds, falls for Luke Perry, and hangs out with...
October 16, 2019
SOLDIER OF ORANGE (SOLDAAT VAN ORANJE)
DescriptionDescription Nominated for a 1979 Academy Award, this suspenseful World War II story set in the Netherlands concerns the heroics of six young Dutch men involved in the Resistance. "Verhoeven is a filmmaker of immense vitality, passion, and humor, which gives his work a sweeping romantic quality."-Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
October 16, 2019
SNAKES AND LADDERS (SERPIENTES Y ESCALERAS)
DescriptionDescription The childhood game of the title serves as a metaphor for the coming-of-age of two young Mexican women in the male-dominated society of the 1950s. Along with Dana Rotberg (Danzon), director Busi Cortes (Rome/fa's Secret) is at the forefront of the new women directors movement in contemporary Mexican cinema. "Cortes gracefully captures a world...
October 16, 2019
SHOE BIZ
DescriptionDescription Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or his love for his son. Elizabeth's fiance has left her for another in Shoe...
