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...

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...

DESERT SNOW

DescriptionDescription Downwind from America's nuclear testing fields, Price scavenges for bones on the desert floor. He eventually comes across Madge who spends her days tending to dogs who are hit along the road. Enamored with life, Madge's glow lures Price from the depths of his own cynicism. Desert Snow offers insight into how we sometimes...

SCREAMERS

DescriptionDescription Screamers is a fun, fast-paced futwristic thriller with enough jolts per frame to keep even the most impatient action fan happy. Canadian helmer Christian Duguay (Million Dollar Babies) keeps the focus on the often-violent thrills 'n' spills throughout. Based on a 1952 story by legendary science-fiction scribe Philip K. Dick, the screenplay is built...

THE SECOND ROOM

DescriptionDescription About an isolated architect who discovers the "second room" and finds his own completion.

SEVEN DAYS IN MAY

DescriptionDescription After a night of paranoid adventure, we invite the Marathon audience to "stride into the bright sunlight of freedom." This political thriller, considered to be highly credible in its day, concerns a lone colonel's desperate attempt to stop a military takeover of the USA. An intelligent defense of early 'sixties liberalism, its hammy speeches...

DESERT SEAS (DESIERTOS MARES)

DescriptionDescription A film director suffers from a deep existential crisis when his wife leaves him for another man. This crisis, which leads him to near suicide, takes him through an obsessive reminiscence of a childhood trip from the desert to the sea, which was the last time he saw his father alive. Meanwhile, he writes...

THE PASSENGER

DescriptionDescription A dissatisfied TV reporter changes identities with a dead man while on assignment in Africa, and finds he is now a gunrunner. He encounters a beautiful woman who is drawn to him, as he follows a mysterious path toward death. Named one of the 10 best films of 1975 by the National Board of...

RADIO STAR-THE AFN STORY

DescriptionDescription Filmed in Germany, America and Korea, Radio Star is a nostalgic trip to the past. For 50 years, the Armed Forces Network (AFN) was a radio station on special duty at the front, giving the troops a "radiophonic feeling of home" and perhaps more. Extraordinary and in part unpublished archive materials are to be...

CURSED LAWN (GAZON MAUDIT)

DescriptionDescription In this quirky, comic love triangle a ,couple finds their lives forever altered when a cigar smoking lesbian enters their home. The womanizing, macho husband is threatened by the burgeoning relationship between his wife and this unexpected interloper, but is seemingly powerless to stop this liaison. In a typical French comic manner, all eventually...

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