LAST STATION

DescriptionDescription Armenia's tumultuous struggle for political independence is the backdrop for this compelling tale of lost love and broken dreams. Gerald, an Armenian actor, reminisces about his life with his wife Nora (played by Los Angeles actress Nora Armani) and their year,S together in a traveling theater company Traversing the world, the couple performs a...

LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAILOVA)

DescriptionDescription Adopted from Shostakovich's opera with his full participation, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (called Katerina lzmailova after its initial banning) is a psychologically complex drama of love, violence, and betrayal. Emotionally stifled by her marriage, Katerina seduces Sergei, a mercenary farmhand. -Believing she has found love, the passionate woman rebels, but her affair soon culminates...

THE LAST KLEZMER

DescriptionDescription Leopold Kozlowski served as a music consultant and as an actor in Schindler's List, bu1 his greatest role is that of the last performing klezmer musician from the Polish musical tradition. Kozlowski is currently'the sole preserver of the dying art form. Poland once boasted of thousands of klezmorim, but the holocaust and the emigration...

KISSING TIME

DescriptionDescription Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or his love for his son. Elizabeth's fiance has left her for another in Shoe...

THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO

DescriptionDescription Robert Mugge, one of America's finest makers of music documentaries, examines the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and its attempts to name a new leader. After the death of the genre's latest king, a struggle ensues over the crown. The core of the film is a joint concert appearance by Boozoo Chavis...

KALAMAZOO

DescriptionDescription Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or his love for his son. Elizabeth's fiance has left her for another in Shoe...

JUST FRIENDS

DescriptionDescription A lively and lyrical homage to jazz and friendship. Set in Antwerp, 1959, Just Friends is the story of Jack, a dockworker who unloads banana crates and dreams of playing his saxophone with the superstars of New York's jazz scene. Too broke to realize his aspirations, he spends his time scheming to get to...

JOHNNY 100 PESOS (JOHNNY CIEN PESOS)

DescriptionDescription Based on a 1990 event in downtown Santiago de Chile, Johnny One Hundred Pesos is an absorbing thriller about the botohed robbery of an illegal currency exchange parlor. The leader of the bandits is Johnny, a student who's bored of his academic routine and has decided a trip to Cuba is just what he...

THE JANITOR

DescriptionDescription A delightful animated film about a cosmic janitor whose boss is none other than God.

THE INSATIABLE MRS. KIRSCH

DescriptionDescription From British director Ken Russell ( Tommy, Altered States) comes The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch, a tale which depicts the hilariously misguided passion of a writer who becomes obsessed with the mysterious, passionate, intriguingly insatiable Mrs. Kirsch. Director

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