October 16, 2019
THE PEOPLE FROM THE UNIVERSAL (LA GENTE DE LA UNIVERSAL)
DescriptionDescription A raunchy black comedy that marks a lively debut by Colombian director Felipe Aljura . . . Central characters are the sexually insatiable trio who run a spitball Bogota P.I. agency: ex-cop Diogenes, his sexy wife Fabiola, and handsome nephew Clemente. Clemente and Fabiola go at it like bunnies whenever the boss isn't around....
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...
October 16, 2019
DESIRE
DescriptionDescription A post-Code film brimming with "the Lubitsch touch" (i.e. sexual innuendo) and Frank Borzage's romanticism. Marlene Dietrich, fresh out of the Von Sternberg camp, is brought charmingly down to earth. She plays a jewel thief who flees to Spain and snares good-guy Gary Cooper.
October 16, 2019
THE NEEDLE (IGLA)
DescriptionDescription Part action thriller, part social problem film, The Needle marks Nougmanov as one of the most stylish and gifted of the new wave of Eastern European filmmakers. The film centers on Moro who returns to his hometown after a long absence to find his old girlfriend addicted to heroin. He tries to break her...
October 16, 2019
NO THANKS NOT SURE YES PLEASE
DescriptionDescription Andrew Peterson's satirical look at the search for Mr./Ms. Right in the 90s.
October 16, 2019
OH… ROSALINDA!
DescriptionDescription This riotously inventive musical fantasy was the third of British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's music-theatre extravaganzas, after The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann. An updating of Strauss' Die Fledermaus to postwar Vienna, it tells the story of a playboy who plays a practical joke on an officer and his flirtatious wife...
October 16, 2019
ONE HOUR WITH YOU
DescriptionDescription A remake of Lubitsch's silent The Marriage Circle (1924). Set to music, this sparkling comedy highlights Maurice Chevalier's charm and Jeanette MacDonald's singing talents. Although Lubitsch is given credit as director of this sparkling comedy, Cukor did all the work from Lubitsch's well thought-out plan.
October 16, 2019
ONLY THE BRAVE (ROMANCE DE VALENCIA)
DescriptionDescription Dutch documentary maker Sonia Herman Daiz looks at those who practice an art form still decried by much of Europe as a cruel and bloodthirsty spectacle-the bull fight. Shot on location in Spain, the film follows the 20-year-old bullfighter, Enrique Ponce, during the season that will be the turning point of his career, transforming...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 8
DescriptionDescription Zofia (Maria Koscialkowska) is a successful professor of ethics in her sixties who seems quite content with her life. Her only odd activity is placing flowers daily in an empty room in her apartment. One day, a young American woman of Polish descent named Elzbieta (Teresa Marczewska) applies for Sofia's class. Elzbieta's presence in...
