October 16, 2019
THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO
DescriptionDescription Robert Mugge, one of America's finest makers of music documentaries, examines the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and its attempts to name a new leader. After the death of the genre's latest king, a struggle ensues over the crown. The core of the film is a joint concert appearance by Boozoo Chavis...
October 16, 2019
KISSING TIME
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
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAILOVA)
DescriptionDescription Adopted from Shostakovich's opera with his full participation, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (called Katerina lzmailova after its initial banning) is a psychologically complex drama of love, violence, and betrayal. Emotionally stifled by her marriage, Katerina seduces Sergei, a mercenary farmhand. -Believing she has found love, the passionate woman rebels, but her affair soon culminates...
October 16, 2019
THE LAST KLEZMER
DescriptionDescription Leopold Kozlowski served as a music consultant and as an actor in Schindler's List, bu1 his greatest role is that of the last performing klezmer musician from the Polish musical tradition. Kozlowski is currently'the sole preserver of the dying art form. Poland once boasted of thousands of klezmorim, but the holocaust and the emigration...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 2
DescriptionDescription A woman's decision to have an abortion hinges on her husband's life-or-death condition. She (Krystyna Janda) tries to enlist a Catholic doctor (Aleksander Bardini) in her decision whether to abort the baby she's having by another man. The old doctor is faced with an insoluble ethical problem-torn between his beliefs and his knowledge of...
October 16, 2019
IT’LL HAVE BLINKING EYES AND A MOVING MOUTH
DescriptionDescription "If it ain't fun, don't do it," says artist Hobart Brown. His credo couldn't be more evident in It'll Have Blinking Eyes and a Moving Mouth, a documentary about Brown and the kinetic sculpture race he founded twenty-four years ago. From its modest beginnings as a whimsical parade of "Dr. Seuss" contraptions, the race...
October 16, 2019
THE JANITOR
DescriptionDescription A delightful animated film about a cosmic janitor whose boss is none other than God.
October 16, 2019
JOHNNY 100 PESOS (JOHNNY CIEN PESOS)
DescriptionDescription Based on a 1990 event in downtown Santiago de Chile, Johnny One Hundred Pesos is an absorbing thriller about the botohed robbery of an illegal currency exchange parlor. The leader of the bandits is Johnny, a student who's bored of his academic routine and has decided a trip to Cuba is just what he...
October 16, 2019
JUST FRIENDS
DescriptionDescription A lively and lyrical homage to jazz and friendship. Set in Antwerp, 1959, Just Friends is the story of Jack, a dockworker who unloads banana crates and dreams of playing his saxophone with the superstars of New York's jazz scene. Too broke to realize his aspirations, he spends his time scheming to get to...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 10
DescriptionDescription In the final work in the Decalogue series, Kieslowski breaks into full comedy for an examination of the Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods." Arthur (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is a Polish punk rock star. His older brother Jerzy (Jerzy Stuhr) has nothing in common with him. Neither has much contact with their father,...
