October 16, 2019
DITA SAXOVÁ
DescriptionDescription In a postwar dormitory for Jewish orphans/Krystyna Mikolajewska dreamily fends off girlish jealousies, an assortment of suitors (director Jirf Menzel is the one with the glasses), and the occasional importunate older man, while converting her dentist father's gold foil legacy into a flashy bracelet and lavish presents-but what is missing? A tour-de-force of black...
October 16, 2019
THE DRESDEN
DescriptionDescription An unforgettable journey through the last great Hollywood lounge, unchanged for 40 years.
October 16, 2019
LA STRADA
DescriptionDescription AFI Fest is pleased to present Charlotte Chandler, who will discuss her new Random House book, "I Fellini", about the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini. "I have orr1y one life, and that I have told to you. This is my last testament, I have no more to say," Fellini told his friend of fourteen...
October 16, 2019
STREETLIFE
DescriptionDescription A tough story shot through with humor and compassion centers on a group of women in a grim, South Wales housing project for whom a steady job means doing someone else's ironing or engaging in a little amateur prostitution. They get by with black humor, blue jokes and a healthy cynicism about their less...
October 16, 2019
SWEETIES (CARAMELLE)
DescriptionDescription Anna's physical decline is irreversible, but she is a voluptuous woman in the prime of life. And she will do anything to rekindle her husband's waning desire. When diets and aerobics fail to do the trick, she turns to a fortune teller for help. One love potion is tried, and then another-each with results...
October 16, 2019
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA
DescriptionDescription SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known for his vital cinematic portrayals of roots music and musicians ( The Blues Accordin'...
October 16, 2019
DESTINATION MOON
DescriptionDescription Call it "1948: A Space Odyssey." Rarely seen on the big screen, the first American space movie is a fascinating could-have-been alternative to the Apollo program. One of the most unabashedly libertarian films ever made in Hollywood, Robert Heinlein's story involves a group of concerned American industrialists who finance a privately run trip to...
October 16, 2019
DEVILISH EDUCATION (DIABELSKA EDUKACJA)
DescriptionDescription It is the turn of the century, and the milkmaid Gosia is caring for her cows in an idyllic rural countryside. The afternoon is hot, so she bathes naked in the river. The next day a stranger in black appears on the scene and shows her a painting he has done of her in...
October 16, 2019
SHOTGUN FREEWAY: DRIVES THRU LOST L.A.
DescriptionDescription Like a surreal educational film frorn'ihe 1950s, this tour of Los Angeles' anguished coming of age-from pueblo to condo, explores the lives of 14 Angelenos whose oral histories attempt to illuminate this undefinable, noir city. Ranging from artist to activist to freethinker, these residents take us to the far corners of L.A. to relive...
October 16, 2019
STORIES FROM THE KRONEN (HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN)
DescriptionDescription Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll-that's just the early part of the evening for night-lifer Carlos. The largest grossing film so far this year in Spain centers around a bar in downtown Madrid where Spanish Generation Xers burn both sides of the candle. In U S movie terms, it's Less Than Zero and Bright Lights, Big City...
