October 16, 2019
FRESH BAIT (L’ APPAT)
DescriptionDescription Bertrand Tavernier (L627, Round Midnight) has based this horrific crime drama on the true case of two seemingly ordinary young men and a girl who committed cold-blooded murder to steal enough money to open a chain of boutiques in America. In the girl's statement to the police, she calmly explains that all she did...
October 16, 2019
THE WHITE PLAGUE (BÍLÁ NEMOC)
DescriptionDescription The only thing stopping Marshal Zdenek Stepanek, dictator of a mythical country, from starting his long-dreamed-of expansionist war is the deadly disease devastating the populace-but then slum doctor Hugo Haas discovers the cure. One hitch: his price is peacel But there's still a final, ironic twist. The last Czech feature made before the German...
October 16, 2019
WHO IS HENRY JAGLOM?
DescriptionDescription Who is Henry Jaglom? With an entire spectrum of opinions, including interviews with Candice Bergen, Andrea Marcovicci, John Landis, Peter Bogdanovich, and Milos Forman, with footage from the making of Jaglom's movies, and with new material from Jaglom mentor Orson Welles, the filmmakers have woven a fascinating and off-beat portrait on Jaglom that explores...
October 16, 2019
THE WONDROUS VOYAGE OF KORNEL ESTI (ESTI KORNÉL CSODÁLATOS UTAZÁSA)
DescriptionDescription Two trains depart from two distant points in time. On one of the trains, the renowned but ailing European writer Kornet Esti is traveling to Germany for his last lecture tour on a wintry day in 1933. The other train departs from the same station, though 30 years earlier, carrying the young Kornel Esti,...
October 16, 2019
THE YOUNG POISONER’S HANDBOOK
DescriptionDescription This macabre, darkly comic and .e;inister tale of genius gone wrong is based on the true story of a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of typical suburban English life. A 14 year old boy's experiments with toxic chemicals on family and friends lead to chronic illness, disfigurement, and agonizing death....
October 16, 2019
ZABRISKIE POINT
DescriptionDescription Zabriskie Point is screened as a tribute to this year's AFI Fest guest of honor, master director Michelangelo Antonioni. This most emblematic L.A. movie is a bemused European intellectual's hallucinatory vision of America in the sixties: billboards, freeways, riots, .guns and endless Western landscapes. It begins with Kathleen Cleaver leading a campus meeting and...
October 16, 2019
FAREWELL USSR, FILM I, PERSONAL
DescriptionDescription A beautiful and haunting experimental documentary directed by Alexander Rodnyansky, using old and new film footage on unusual stock to present poetic fragments of Babyj Jar and Jewish life in present Russia. Ukraine, 1992, 60 min. Preceded by Sarajevo Film Festival Film, by Johan van der Keuken, Holland, 1993, 14 min.
October 16, 2019
THE FIRST 100 YEARS: A CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN MOVIES
DescriptionDescription Using his brilliant touch, compilation whiz Chuck Workman (Precious Images) has created a superb feature on the first century of the cinema. Produced for HBO in association with the AFI, this dazzling tribute is full to the brim with over 800 film clips which depict the history of American film and its effect on...
October 16, 2019
WARRIOR LANLING
DescriptionDescription A breathtaking, poetic myth with classic elements of Shakespeare and Indian folklore which takes place in ancient China. Young, handsome Prince Lanling is deeply humiliated by the leader of an opposing tribe who refuses to fight him because of his delicate, girlish features. When his tribe is desecrated by the enemy, Lanling vows revenge,...
October 16, 2019
EXTERIOR NIGHT
DescriptionDescription Mark Rappaport's (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) unique film using the actual background scenes and rear screen process plates from Warner Bros. films from the early 30's to the early 50's, in which a young man travels in time to try to find out about the grandfather he never knew, a Philip Marlowe...
