October 16, 2019
WET
DescriptionDescription Hollywood maverick Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, Mountains of the Moon) sets his erotic tale in Los Angeles at a luxury bathroom fixture store. When a beautiful customer demands the store manager let her test one of the bathtubs, he is forced to comply ... and to face the consequences.
October 16, 2019
WHERE GODS ARE DEAD (DER GUDENE ER DODE)
DescriptionDescription The fighting in the former Yugoslavia has heretofore come to Americans in the form of television sound bites and bloody, but faceless images. From Vibeke Lokkeberg comes a film that observes this brutal conflict from a decidedly human and personal viewpoint. A Norwegian woman travels to the war zone to retrieve her son, a...
October 16, 2019
THE WILD EAST (DIKI VOSTOK)
DescriptionDescription Rach id Nougmanov's ( The Needle) The Wild East is The Seventh Samurai shot in a radical eclectic style that mixes John Ford Westerns and Mad Max-like post-industrial and postmodern influences. This campy fable is about a group of midgets, the Solar Children, who have fled the chaos of the crumbling Soviet structures to...
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...
October 16, 2019
THE FOURTH GREEN FIELD
DescriptionDescription The Fourth Green Field is a compelling examination of the dramatic and far-reaching impact of the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the citizens of Northern Ireland. With stories more evocative of South Africa than a Western European democracy, the film traces the struggle for human rights in Ireland from the civil rights movement of...
October 16, 2019
VROOOM!
DescriptionDescription Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song) is recognized by such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Robert Townsend as the father of black cinema. Van Peebles' film Vroomttells a tale set in the bayous, where an old witch grants a young loser two wishes. He asks for a new motorcycle and a girlfriend and...
October 16, 2019
WAR AND PEACE
DescriptionDescription Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (Viona I Mir), in its original, complete, non-dubbed 403 minute widescreen version, may be, at least among serious American critics, one of the most curiously misunderstood and underrated of all the great epic films. (And a great epic it is-as much as Intolerance, Andrei Roublev, or The Seven Samurai.)...
October 16, 2019
WAVING NOT DROWNING
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
FLESH
DescriptionDescription Joe Dallesandro plays a hustler whose wife asks him to get $200 for her lover's abortion. This leads to a series of encounters with a bizarre mix of urban oddballs. He returns home to find his wife more interested in the pregnant girlfriend than in him. "Morrissey's debut feature is often outrageous, sometimes funny,...
October 16, 2019
UNDERWATER
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
