October 16, 2019
PARAJANOV
DescriptionDescription Persecuted by Soviet authorities throughout his life for his non-conformist lifestyle, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov ( The Color of Pomegranates) created films with a revolutionary visual style. In this fascinating documentary portrait of the legendary filmmaker, director Ron Holloway attempts to unravel some of the mysteries about the artist and his unique vision of...
October 16, 2019
ONLY THE BRAVE (ROMANCE DE VALENCIA)
DescriptionDescription Dutch documentary maker Sonia Herman Daiz looks at those who practice an art form still decried by much of Europe as a cruel and bloodthirsty spectacle-the bull fight. Shot on location in Spain, the film follows the 20-year-old bullfighter, Enrique Ponce, during the season that will be the turning point of his career, transforming...
October 16, 2019
ONE HOUR WITH YOU
DescriptionDescription A remake of Lubitsch's silent The Marriage Circle (1924). Set to music, this sparkling comedy highlights Maurice Chevalier's charm and Jeanette MacDonald's singing talents. Although Lubitsch is given credit as director of this sparkling comedy, Cukor did all the work from Lubitsch's well thought-out plan.
October 16, 2019
OH… ROSALINDA!
DescriptionDescription This riotously inventive musical fantasy was the third of British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's music-theatre extravaganzas, after The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann. An updating of Strauss' Die Fledermaus to postwar Vienna, it tells the story of a playboy who plays a practical joke on an officer and his flirtatious wife...
October 16, 2019
NO THANKS NOT SURE YES PLEASE
DescriptionDescription Andrew Peterson's satirical look at the search for Mr./Ms. Right in the 90s.
October 16, 2019
THE NEEDLE (IGLA)
DescriptionDescription Part action thriller, part social problem film, The Needle marks Nougmanov as one of the most stylish and gifted of the new wave of Eastern European filmmakers. The film centers on Moro who returns to his hometown after a long absence to find his old girlfriend addicted to heroin. He tries to break her...
October 16, 2019
MOSES AND AARON
DescriptionDescription Moses and Aaron, written in 1932, has long been acknowledged as one of Schoenberg's most important works. The film's subject matter had important political significance-that Schoenberg, a Jewish artist, composed a work that explores his cultural roots at a time in Germany when that culture was under attack is remarkable. The opera's libretto tells...
October 16, 2019
MY SOUL BROTHER (MI HERMANO DEL ALMA)
DescriptionDescription A moral rollercoaster ride in the tradition of Double Indemnity and Jagged Edge Carlos can't help being suspicious when his black-sheep brother Tony returns after an acrimonious breakup ten years earlier. But soon Carlos, a rising young insurance agent, is showing his brother the ropes-until on a business trip to Catalonia Tony springs the...
October 16, 2019
THE MOON’S OUR HOME
DescriptionDescription Margaret Sullavan plays a movie star and Henry Fonda a writer who assume pseudonyms for their professions. They meet using their real names, without realizing who each other is. Their marriage gets off to a rocky start and continues to get worse in this wonderfully witty comedy.
October 16, 2019
MIDNIGHT
DescriptionDescription American Claudette Colbert arrives in Paris without money or luggage. Wandering into a party, she gets entangled in John Barrymore's plot to keep a gigolo away from his wife. "An effervescent farce that suggests the films of Lubitsch in its high polish and brittle style," writes Ted Sennett.
