October 16, 2019
WAR STORIES
DescriptionDescription With astonishing candor and often refreshing humor, seven elderly women face the camera and reminisce about their lives during World War II. Using newsreel clips, popular songs of the era and vivid contributions from the storytellers' photo albums, what is discovered in these stories is the emotion that has long been repressed in pain,...
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...
October 16, 2019
FAMILY PORTRAIT
DescriptionDescription An intriguing, somewhat quirky and often painful look at the estranged relationship between an adult brother and sister. Returning to their childhood home to attend to their dying mother, Jane and Johnny Janacek discover some buried truths about their mother and one another. They come to terms with their dysfunctional upbringing in a disturbing...
October 16, 2019
TWO NUDES BATHING
DescriptionDescription A lavish fantasy on the origins of the anonymous painting which hangs in the Louvre. In late 16th Century France a young D?tch portrait painter is commissioned by a count who is determined to have a prim and proper likeness of his two teenage girls before they are exposed to the lustful ways of...
October 16, 2019
ULYSSES’ GAZE
DescriptionDescription Greece's greatest filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos, dramatizes a central crisis for any artistparticularly someone like Angelopoulos, who has often faced difficult subjects in dangerous times (Days of 36): how can a filmmaker keep his/her passion for cinema in a world exploding in chaos, injustice and bloodshed? Here, in a mesmerizing work of realism and artifice,...
October 16, 2019
THE UNKNOWN DESERTER (DER UNBEKANNTE DESERTEUR)
DescriptionDescription A thoughtful and visually stunning inquiry into the moral nature of obedience and military violence. Two soldiers, imprisoned at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in the basement of a villa exchange stories of their capture. One finds out that the other is the deserter he has been sent to kill. On the...
October 16, 2019
UNTAMED WOMEN (MUJERES INSUMISAS)
DescriptionDescription A sincere, honest and powerful portrayal of the condition of women in contemporary Mexican society, this film portrays a group of lower middle class women who decide to flee to the United States to get away from their unsatisfied lives and their abusive husbands. Along the way they have a complex array of experiences,...
October 16, 2019
END OF A PRIEST (FARARUV KONEC)
DescriptionDescription A droll comedy in the Czech tradition, this is a philosophical parable about the world. Passing as a priest, a lowly church employee lives off "delighted to have him" parishioners, and spends his time debating with a teacher, explaining to breathalyzing cops that he's partaken "blood" and not wine, and reenacting parables-until a chase...
October 16, 2019
END OF THE ICON
DescriptionDescription A shop repairman yearning for excitement and passion in an otherwise mundane life n·eads to Hollywood in search of his old drinking buddy. After a few days of drunken revelry, the two men realize that the meaning they are searching for lies in their friendship.
