October 16, 2019
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
DescriptionDescription This film epitomizes the term "Comedies of Elegance"-all polish, gloss and wit-and witnesses Lubitsch at the height of his film artistry, before the censors hit. Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play two elegant thieves who realize they are made for each other.
October 16, 2019
UNCOMMON GROUND
DescriptionDescription This impassioned documentary follows five multiethnic Los Angeles high school students as they travel to South Africa to live with South African students in a black township. The film focuses on the day-to-day activities of these diverse youth as they share their experiences with family, school, violence, racism, and oppression. The result is a...
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...
October 16, 2019
FALSE PREGNANCY (GROSSESSE NERVEUSE)
DescriptionDescription This irresistible black comedy was awarded Germany's prestigious Max Ophuls Prize. Mildly misanthropic Martin discovers that a former lover is expecting his child. However, Sally doesn't want his help in raising the baby. For Martin, this is the beginning of a series of tragic and comic events. He tries to convince Sally of his...
October 16, 2019
TOPAZE
DescriptionDescription Director Harry D'Arrast photographed common people and places with remarkable elegance. Here he presents an ultra-sophisticated comedy-drama based on a play by Pagnol. John Barrymore portrays a timid French schoolteacher who gets fired, is duped into endorsing a product under false pretenses, and metamorphoses into a tycoon.
October 16, 2019
TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
DescriptionDescription Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Total Balalaika Show is the most inspired crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy. This concert documentary has Finland's musically challenged roc·k band, the Leningrad Cowboys, trading hotlicks and bellowing dopey standards with the sometimes baffled, but always sonorous, ex-Red Army choir in a universally crowd-pleasing 1993 performance. From...
October 16, 2019
TOTALLY F***ED UP
DescriptionDescription Totally F***ed Up is acclaimed L.A. filmmaker Gregg Araki's ( The Living End) most mature film to date. Araki goes further out into the margins to explore gay and lesbian youth, and becomes one of the few to treat this invisible population with sensitivity, affection, and respect while tackling issues of alienation, sexuality, homophobia,...
October 16, 2019
TOUCH ME
DescriptionDescription Touch Me, from Australian director Paul Cox (Exile, A Woman's Tale) tells of two women who escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for an unusual awakening.
October 16, 2019
EXILE
DescriptionDescription Internationally acclaimed Australian director Paul Cox's (A Woman's Tale) challenging new film is a spiritual adventure in the tradition of Robinson Crusoe. Based on E.L. Grant Watson's novel Priest Island, the story is set in Australia during the last century. A young man, Peter, is caught stealing sheep he needs as a dowry to...
October 16, 2019
TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE
DescriptionDescription In Mika Kaurismaki's innovative new film, legendary director Sam Fuller leads a nostalgic and unconventional journey into the past. Forty years ago, Fuller went into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest to research locations for his adventure film, Tigrero. The project never came to fruition and was all but forgotten until Kaurismaki undertook this documentary. Tigrero portrays...
