October 16, 2019
THE MERRY WIDOW
DescriptionDescription Lubitsch again fools the Production Code folks as he interjects verboten sexual material into this glossy operetta. Chevalier is sent to Paris to propose to the wealthiest woman of his country (MacDonald) and bring her back so the country doesn't go broke.
October 16, 2019
THE MAN ON THE BALCONY (MANNEN PA BALKONGEN)
DescriptionDescription Swedish detective Martin Beck finds himself embroiled in intrigue once again in The Man on the Balcony, the fourth in a series of dark crime mysteries from Sweden's popular writing team, Maj Sjowall and PerWahloo. Stockholm turns into a city of fear when several young girls are found brutally murdered and raped. It's up...
October 16, 2019
MAN FACING SOUTHEAST (HOMBRE MIRANDO AL SUDESTE)
DescriptionDescription Eliseo Subiela's Man Facing Southeast stars Hugo Soto as an enigmatic mental patient and Lorenzo Ouinteras as the jaded psychiatrist who comes to believe that the inmate is very special indeed. "Writer-director Subiela incorporates a wide variety of influences to create a fascinating, multifaceted work of art. The reworking of the Gospels is evident...
October 16, 2019
THE MAKING OF…AND GOD SPOKE
DescriptionDescription Arthur Borman's debut feature is a satirical and deliriously funny journey into the bowels of Hollywood. And God Spoke would have been Hollywood's first biblical epic since the sixties. But the production by B-filmmakers Clive Walton and Marvin Handleman goes terribly awry. A documentary camera, meant to capture their triumph on film, instead puts...
October 16, 2019
MADAME WANG’S
DescriptionDescription A KGB agent comes to California to prepare for a Russian takeover of the U.S. After losing his papers, he connects with a band of homeless, overweight, and over-the-hill transvestites and becomes a punker in a Chinese restaurant owned by an elderly transsexual. "A convincingly realistic portrait of lost souls and the dreams they...
October 16, 2019
THE MAGIC BROTHERS
DescriptionDescription This wacky Zelig-esque parodic documentary offers the bizarre account of the muchpublicized 1954 birth and upbringing of quadruplets in Poland and their pursuit by a bored communist-controlled media. The boys have a penchant for the pop culture of the forbidden West, creating paranoia throughout the Polish intelligence community (the film posits that martial law...
October 16, 2019
THE LUNATIC
DescriptionDescription Filmed on Jamaica's northern coast and featuring the music of Toots and the Maytals, Aswad, Burning Flames, and Black Uhuru, The Lunatic is the ribald feature film debut of music video pioneer Loi Creme. It is the story of genial village madman Aloysius Hobson and his exhausting affair-"pum pum," it's called-with German tourist Inga...
October 16, 2019
LOVE HURTS (HARTVERSCHEUREND)
DescriptionDescription Charting the volatile trajectory of an irreconcilable relationship against the backdrop of countercultural Amsterdam, Love Hurts channels electric lead performances into a visitation of passion's outer limits. K/iijke de Jong creates a persuasive examination of a young couple agonizing between undeniable love and insurmountable conflict. Fringe-dweller Loe and her more conformist lover, Bob, live...
October 16, 2019
LOVE AFTER LOVE (APRES L’AMOR)
DescriptionDescription Beloved actress Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed French director Diane Kurys follow their triumphant pairing in Entre Nou,s with Love After Love. Huppert gives a superbly calibrated performance in the role of Lola, a popular fiction writer living in Paris. Having adopted a love and let love philosophy about affairs of the heart, she finds...
October 16, 2019
LAURA SOBERS
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...
