October 16, 2019
HANDGUN
DescriptionDescription As a comic spin on the action/heist genre, first-time director Whitney Ransick's Handgun resembles a cross between Simple Men and Reservoir Dogs. Jack (Seymour Cassel) dies after being shot in a hold-up amfleaves behind a half-million dollar booty which his sons must work together to find. The intricate labyrinth of kidnaps, escapes, chases, and...
October 16, 2019
GATHER AT THE RIVER: A BLUEGRASS CELEBRATION
DescriptionDescription Award-winning director Robert Mugge (Kumu Hula) takes a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of bluegrass music in the performance documentary, Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration. Not long ago, bluegrass was considered all but dead. But with the help of eloquent narration by Peter Rowan, one of the genre's great...
October 16, 2019
THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
DescriptionDescription The wild, inspiring beauty of southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film. Awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival, it was heralded by many as the best Chilean film in two decades. When a teacher...
October 16, 2019
FROM THE EAST (D’EST)
DescriptionDescription Chantal Akerman first came to prominence with her formalist avant-garde work, Jeanne Dielman. She once again rewrites cinematic conventions with her groundbreaking new documentary, D'Est. The film records her journey from East Germany to Moscow, lastinb from late summer to mid-winter. Akerman states that she wanted to make this journey through post-Cold War Eastern...
October 16, 2019
FRESH KILL
DescriptionDescription Shu Lea Cheang makes her directorial debut with this satirical, hyper-paced, ecological nightmare of a film. The story focuses on an interracial lesbian couple, Claire and Shareen, and their daughter, Honey. Problems start when Honey is kidnapped by ,· Shareen's father. But the real trouble begins when patrons of Shareen's posh sushi restaurant turn...
October 16, 2019
WOMEN IN REVOLT
DescriptionDescription Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, and Jackie Curtis star as three "women's libbers" trying desperately to get away from men. But liberation has its price-one finds movie stardom on the casting couch, another ends up a Bowery wino, and another bears a child to Mr. America. Inspired ad-libbed dialogue and fabulously campy performances make for...
October 16, 2019
WOYZECK
DescriptionDescription Bleak but beautiful, Woyzeck is a moving, intelligent transportation of Georg Buechner's theatrical masterpiece. The setting is a Hungarian railroad yard, where unshaven, sweatstained lug Woyzeck serves as a point man, sitting all day in a tiny wooden box by the tracks and suffering daily humiliations from his disciplinarian boss. Woyzeck's personal life is...
October 16, 2019
WYATT EARP
DescriptionDescription The 1994 AFI International Film Festival is honored to open this year with Warner Bros.' epic Western, Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, and Gene Hackman. This sweeping tale of the transformation of the American West traces the life of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, played by Kevin Costner,...
October 16, 2019
THE FOURTH MAN (DE WIERDE MAN)
DescriptionDescription This stylish film noir thriller tells the story of a brilliant novelist who is Catholic, alcoholic, gay, and tormented by horrifying premonitions. His obsession with a young man leads him to a sexually voracious woman who may be a murderess. "Elegant Gothic entertainment with layers of deliciously over-the-top detail and explicitly fleshly pursuits ......
October 16, 2019
WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (XIANG HUN NU)
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...
