October 16, 2019
RULES OF THE ROAD
DescriptionDescription "The Travellers have no place left to go. And they never knew a place where they could stay," concludes documentary filmmaker Oliver Herbrich about the subjects of his film. For centuries the Travellers have wandered the Irish countryside in a gypsylike fashion. Tinsmiths, migrant workers, fortune tellers, and peddlers, they would do just about...
October 16, 2019
SCREAM OF STONE (SCHREI AUS STEIN)
DescriptionDescription Spectacular scenes of a dizzying ascent and breathtaking mountain landscapes provide the backdrop to a parable of fatal passions in renowned director Werner Herzog's latest film. Roccia is the most experienced mountaineer in the world; Martin, representative of a younger generation, is the best rock climber. A supreme egotist, Roccia accepts a challenge to...
October 16, 2019
SHOE BIZ
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
DON’T PAVE MAIN STREET: CARMEL’S HERITAGE
DescriptionDescription Clint Eastwood narrates this powerful and revealing look at a little-known sector of Americana-the small group of Bohemians whose ecological passidns, unorthodox ,, lifestyles, and remarkable literary and artistic achievements were largely responsible for making Carmel, California, everything it is today. Veteran documentarian Julian Ludwig and co-director William T. Cartwright Jr. offer a fascinating...
October 16, 2019
THE RAGE OF PARIS
DescriptionDescription Danielle Darrieux plays a French girl who goes to New York City to become a model. An audition requires her to model nude, and she mistakenly proposes to strip for Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who assumes she is a blackmailer.
October 16, 2019
RAVE REVIEW
DescriptionDescription Director Jeff Seymour brings wit and a playful sense of self-parody to his debut feature, Rave Review. While his colleagues make millions in Hollywood, director Steve Maletti is constantly hustling money just to keep his theatre company out of bankruptcy. It ,· looks as if his luck has changed when he obtains the rights...
October 16, 2019
REFLECTIONS OF A CHILDSTAR
DescriptionDescription Mike Schlitt's parodic documentary about Aqua Boy, a former TV child star.
October 16, 2019
RHINOSKIN: THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR
DescriptionDescription A hilarious look at one young actor's journey through the minefield of Hollywood. Humiliation comes in large doses for Tod De Pree, whose goal is to get a one-line part in a sitcom before Rhinoskin's production runs out of money Acting roles and dates with beauty queens are in short supply, while meetings with...
October 16, 2019
PRINCE IGOR
DescriptionDescription Director Roman Tikhomirov pursues the logic of cinema, not the op1ua house, in his dazzling re-imagining of Borodin's Prince Igor, which tells the story of a war between the Russians and Tartars. The mournful, elegiac opening shots, as the camera tracks across a battlefield strewn with human debris, have the visionary quality of the...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 9
DescriptionDescription Kieslowski makes full use of melodrama here to demonstrate why one should not covet thy neighbor's wife. Roman (Piotr Machalica) and Hanka (Ewa Blaszczyk) are welleducated and sophisticated professionals, but Roman has been devastated by the realization that he is impotent. He begins spying on his wife and becomes convinced that she is having...
