October 16, 2019
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
DescriptionDescription One of Europe's leading directors tells a story as fragile and transparent as the light of Hong Kong made of silences, expectations and sorrow. An old freighter belonging to a company that has gone out of business drops anchor off Hong Kong. The crew aboard has to wait a week or month to get...
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
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
ANONYMOUS LOVE LETTER (SIN REMITENTE)
DescriptionDescription A young woman, disillusioned with love, plays a cruel joke on her elderly neighbor whose cat is his only companion and who strongly disapproves of her promiscuous lifestyle. The joke consists of a series of anonymous love letters, which she leaves under his door day after day, pretending to be a secret admirer who...
October 16, 2019
AUGUSTIN
DescriptionDescription Augustin was not the sensation of last year's Cannes Film Festival, it was something better: most charming, most surprising, wackiest movie of the entire 12-day event. A low-key, totally deadpan comedy, this feature follows its Keatonesque protagonist, beautifully played by Jean-Chretien Silbvertin-Blanc, through a life that alternates between mind-numbing work for an insurance company...
October 16, 2019
AWAKENING (ÉBREDÉS)
DescriptionDescription A thirteen year old girl in 1952 Budapest can't cope with the death of her mother. Is it possible comprehend death? This little girl with big eyes and a pony tail finds the perfect solution: she revives her mother. Together they discuss the eternal questions of life and death.
October 16, 2019
BETWEEN SUMMERS (SOMMAREN)
DescriptionDescription Without using any of the conventional images of grief, the director has created a sobering but beautiful interpretation of the worst tragedy that can befall a family. One hot summer afternoon while Torun is napping, her sister Ellen takes Torun's two children to the beach. Ellen dozes off for a few minutes and one...
October 16, 2019
THE AFRICAN CHILD (L’ ENFANT NOIR)
DescriptionDescription Freely adapted from Laye Camara's 1953 autobiographical account, this is an unsentimental and engaging look at a young man's rite of passage, set in motion when he is torn away from the roots of his traditional home village in Guinea and sent to school in the fast-paced big city Remarkably, Camara's own family relived...
October 16, 2019
WOYZECK
DescriptionDescription Bleak but beautiful, Woyzeck is a moving, intelligent transportation of Georg Buechner's theatrical masterpiece. The setting is a Hungarian railroad yard, where unshaven, sweatstained lug Woyzeck serves as a point man, sitting all day in a tiny wooden box by the tracks and suffering daily humiliations from his disciplinarian boss. Woyzeck's personal life is...
October 16, 2019
WYATT EARP
DescriptionDescription The 1994 AFI International Film Festival is honored to open this year with Warner Bros.' epic Western, Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, and Gene Hackman. This sweeping tale of the transformation of the American West traces the life of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, played by Kevin Costner,...
