October 16, 2019
THE JOKE (ZERT)
DescriptionDescription Ironies abound-upbeat songs of the revolution overlap labor camp scenes, transistorized rod drowns out a folk band-as Josef Somr ( Closely Watched Trains) returns to his home town 15 years after being sent to the slammer for a "Long Live Trotsky!" postcard to his girlfriend. His mission-revenge on the squealer via seduction of his...
October 16, 2019
A KISS TO THIS LAND (UN BESO A ESTA TIERRA)
DescriptionDescription This wonderful film, the only documentary in this section, follows the lives of seven Jews who emigrated to Mexico from Europe and the Middle East in the first two decades of this century. Narrated by these individuals from the perspective of their old age, the film follows their trials and tribulations as each tries...
October 16, 2019
BIG JIM MCLAIN
DescriptionDescription The Duke smashes a Communist spy ring infiltrating labor unions on the Honolulu waterfront. One of the few movies that, even during the McCarthy period, favorably portrayed the House Un-American Activities Committee.
October 16, 2019
FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG
DescriptionDescription The strange and sensational life of actress Jean Seberg-discovered at 17 by Otto Preminger to star in Saint Joan, immortalized by Godard in Breathless, smeared by the FBI for her support of the Black Panthers, a suicide at age 40-is the subject of this playfully brilliant "fictional autobiography." Using Mary Beth Hurt to play...
October 16, 2019
THE HAMMER OF WITCHES (KLADIVO NA CARODEJNICE)
DescriptionDescription 1680, Moravia simple peasant superstition is snowballed by all-powerful inquisitor Boblig into a seemingly endless, horrific procession to the stake-but even honest men can blame themselves for their cowardice (just as, of course, in later trials). Co-scripted by "New Wave" art director Krumbachova from a novel based on actual court records from Ullersdorf and...
October 16, 2019
HEAD
DescriptionDescription Written by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson (prior to their Five Easy Pieces hit), this psychedelic trip finds the mad mod TV rock group the Monkees (hey, hey) dissing themselves and the· industry a la A Hard Day's Night. Reviewed in Daily Variety as "A mind blowing collage of mixed media, a free-for-all freakout...
October 16, 2019
HEDD WYN
DescriptionDescription Beautifully crafted and epic in scale, this moving film depicts the life of World War I Welsh poet Hedd Wyn, whose passionate ambition to win his country's prime literary honor was the driving force in his life. The handsome, romantic son of a farmer is posted to war torn France, where he finally finishes...
October 16, 2019
BEYOND THE CLOUDS (PAR DELÀ LES NUAGES)
DescriptionDescription Antonioni looks at love in four short stories based on his writings, diaries and short story collection entitled "Bowling Alley on the Tiber." In the first, a young man is so in love with a girl that he cannot decide to sacrifice his desire to pleasure. In the second, the director is fascinated by...
October 16, 2019
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER)
DescriptionDescription An epic fairy tale for adults set in the 16th Century from award winning director Jos Stelling ( The Pointsman), this is a dreamlike visual retelling of the poetic fable of the sailor doomed to roam the seven seas on an eerie, flying ship. The illegitimate son of the legendary Dutchman learns the story...
October 16, 2019
FRESH BAIT (L’ APPAT)
DescriptionDescription Bertrand Tavernier (L627, Round Midnight) has based this horrific crime drama on the true case of two seemingly ordinary young men and a girl who committed cold-blooded murder to steal enough money to open a chain of boutiques in America. In the girl's statement to the police, she calmly explains that all she did...
