October 16, 2019
MIDNIGHT
DescriptionDescription American Claudette Colbert arrives in Paris without money or luggage. Wandering into a party, she gets entangled in John Barrymore's plot to keep a gigolo away from his wife. "An effervescent farce that suggests the films of Lubitsch in its high polish and brittle style," writes Ted Sennett.
October 16, 2019
THE MOON’S OUR HOME
DescriptionDescription Margaret Sullavan plays a movie star and Henry Fonda a writer who assume pseudonyms for their professions. They meet using their real names, without realizing who each other is. Their marriage gets off to a rocky start and continues to get worse in this wonderfully witty comedy.
October 16, 2019
MOSES AND AARON
DescriptionDescription Moses and Aaron, written in 1932, has long been acknowledged as one of Schoenberg's most important works. The film's subject matter had important political significance-that Schoenberg, a Jewish artist, composed a work that explores his cultural roots at a time in Germany when that culture was under attack is remarkable. The opera's libretto tells...
October 16, 2019
MY SOUL BROTHER (MI HERMANO DEL ALMA)
DescriptionDescription A moral rollercoaster ride in the tradition of Double Indemnity and Jagged Edge Carlos can't help being suspicious when his black-sheep brother Tony returns after an acrimonious breakup ten years earlier. But soon Carlos, a rising young insurance agent, is showing his brother the ropes-until on a business trip to Catalonia Tony springs the...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 7
DescriptionDescription Three generations of scandals and lies are the backdrop for this story. Ania is the little girl who believes Ewa is her mother and Majka (Maja Barelkowska) an older sister. These are the relationships-or are they? Actually, Majka is Ania's mother. When her pregnancy was discovered at school, Ewa avoided scandal by removing Majka...
October 16, 2019
THE MAKING OF…AND GOD SPOKE
DescriptionDescription Arthur Borman's debut feature is a satirical and deliriously funny journey into the bowels of Hollywood. And God Spoke would have been Hollywood's first biblical epic since the sixties. But the production by B-filmmakers Clive Walton and Marvin Handleman goes terribly awry. A documentary camera, meant to capture their triumph on film, instead puts...
October 16, 2019
MAN FACING SOUTHEAST (HOMBRE MIRANDO AL SUDESTE)
DescriptionDescription Eliseo Subiela's Man Facing Southeast stars Hugo Soto as an enigmatic mental patient and Lorenzo Ouinteras as the jaded psychiatrist who comes to believe that the inmate is very special indeed. "Writer-director Subiela incorporates a wide variety of influences to create a fascinating, multifaceted work of art. The reworking of the Gospels is evident...
October 16, 2019
THE MAN ON THE BALCONY (MANNEN PA BALKONGEN)
DescriptionDescription Swedish detective Martin Beck finds himself embroiled in intrigue once again in The Man on the Balcony, the fourth in a series of dark crime mysteries from Sweden's popular writing team, Maj Sjowall and PerWahloo. Stockholm turns into a city of fear when several young girls are found brutally murdered and raped. It's up...
October 16, 2019
THE MERRY WIDOW
DescriptionDescription Lubitsch again fools the Production Code folks as he interjects verboten sexual material into this glossy operetta. Chevalier is sent to Paris to propose to the wealthiest woman of his country (MacDonald) and bring her back so the country doesn't go broke.
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 6
DescriptionDescription A full-length version of this film was released to great acclaim as A Short Film About Love. The most romantic episode of the series, it deals with Tomek, a 19-year-man (Olaf Lubaszenko) who falls madly in love with his older next door neighbor Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska). For some time, Tomek has spied on her,...
