October 16, 2019
JLG BY JLG: DECEMBER SELF-PORTRAIT
DescriptionDescription In one of his most accessible films, Jean-Luc Godard makes philosophical and reflective observations on the worlds of cinema, language and art. At his lakeside home in Switzerland, Godard is a delightful mixture of King Lear and his detective character from Alphaville. Unafraid of lapsing into comedy and a sort of Marx Brothers-inspired lunacy,...
October 16, 2019
THE JOKE (ZERT)
DescriptionDescription Ironies abound-upbeat songs of the revolution overlap labor camp scenes, transistorized rod drowns out a folk band-as Josef Somr ( Closely Watched Trains) returns to his home town 15 years after being sent to the slammer for a "Long Live Trotsky!" postcard to his girlfriend. His mission-revenge on the squealer via seduction of his...
October 16, 2019
HOTEL PARADISE
DescriptionDescription An attractive woman in her best years emerges from a dreadful hangover in the bridal suite of a luxury hotel. To her surprise, she finds herself handcuffed to a naked man in bed next to her. Worse-this is her wedding day, and the morning is slipping away fast. Worst of all-the man next to...
October 16, 2019
I MARRIED A COMMUNIST
DescriptionDescription Also released as Women On Pier 13. A Communist agent blackmails a shipping executive trying to hide a radical thirties past. Moody, noir-ish, and paranoid-not a bad thriller in its own· "right."
October 16, 2019
HEAD
DescriptionDescription Written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (prior to their Five Easy Pieces hit), this psychedelic trip finds the mad mod TV rock group the Monkees (hey, hey) dissing themselves and the· industry a la A Hard Day's Night. Reviewed in Daily Variety as "A mind blowing collage of mixed media, a free-for-all freakout...
October 16, 2019
HEDD WYN
DescriptionDescription Beautifully crafted and epic in scale, this moving film depicts the life of World War I Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, whose passionate ambition to win his country's prime literary honor was the driving force in his life. The handsome, romantic son of a farmer is posted to war torn France, where he finally finishes...
October 16, 2019
FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
DescriptionDescription The strange and sensational life of actress Jean Seberg-discovered at 17 by Otto Preminger to star in Saint Joan, immortalized by Godard in Breathless, smeared by the FBI for her support of the Black Panthers, a suicide at age 40-is the subject of this playfully brilliant "fictional autobiography." Using Mary Beth Hurt to play...
October 16, 2019
THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (KLADIVO NA CARODEJNICE)
DescriptionDescription 1680, Moravia simple peasant superstition is snowballed by all-powerful inquisitor Boblig into a seemingly endless, horrific procession to the stake-but even honest men can blame themselves for their cowardice (just as, of course, in later trials). Co-scripted by "New Wave" art director Krumbachova from a novel based on actual court records from Ullersdorf and...
October 16, 2019
FITZPATRICK TRAVELTALKS
DescriptionDescription In the 1930's, millions of depression era theatergoers were transported to distant, exotic locations by means of these 35mm shorts, among the earliest examples of three strip Technicolor. Included with features, newsreels and cartoons, these ten minute films were a relaxing escape to far off lands of intriguing beauty and remarkable cultures: Rio de...
October 16, 2019
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER)
DescriptionDescription An epic fairy tale for adults set in the 16th Century from award winning director Jos Stelling ( The Pointsman), this is a dreamlike visual retelling of the poetic fable of the sailor doomed to roam the seven seas on an eerie, flying ship. The illegitimate son of the legendary Dutchman learns the story...
