October 16, 2019
DEFICIENCY (CARENCES)
DescriptionDescription Based on events that occurred in France in 1984, Deficiency is a horrific and all-too-realistic tale of murder and betrayal. It tells the story of Roland Resse, a loner and wanderer, who takes a room with a kindly older Jewish woman, Mrs. Martin. By day his fascist coworker fills him with anti-Semitic ideas and...
October 16, 2019
THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
DescriptionDescription The wild, inspiring beauty of southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film. Awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival, it was heralded by many as the best Chilean film in two decades. When a teacher...
October 16, 2019
GATHER AT THE RIVER: A BLUEGRASS CELEBRATION
DescriptionDescription Award-winning director Robert Mugge (Kumu Hula) takes a comprehensive look at the past, present, and future of bluegrass music in the performance documentary, Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration. Not long ago, bluegrass was considered all but dead. But with the help of eloquent narration by Peter Rowan, one of the genre's great...
October 16, 2019
THE GOOD FAIRY
DescriptionDescription William Wyler's first comedy and Preston Sturges' screenplay sparkle with romance. Margaret Sullavan plays a woman just released from an asylum, whose innocence attracts the amorous advances of a millionaire. In haste, she claims she is married to Herbert Marshall (the first name she sees in a phone book).
October 16, 2019
HANDGUN
DescriptionDescription As a comic spin on the action/heist genre, first-time director Whitney Ransick's Handgun resembles a cross between Simple Men and Reservoir Dogs. Jack (Seymour Cassel) dies after being shot in a hold-up amfleaves behind a half-million dollar booty which his sons must work together to find. The intricate labyrinth of kidnaps, escapes, chases, and...
October 16, 2019
HEAT
DescriptionDescription Sylvia Miles is a fading, practically unknown star, given to game shows, TV movies, and studs. Joe Dallesandro is a one-time child actor living in a sunbaked motel, next door to Miles' freaked out daughter who lives with a baby and lesbian lover in a "suite." High comedy and low tragedy ... featuring a...
October 16, 2019
THE DEAD MOTHER (LA MADRE MUERTA)
DescriptionDescription A smart and stylish psychological thriller from acclaimed Spanish director Juanma Baja Ulloa (Butterfly Wings). lsmae.f (Karra Elejalde), a psychopath, breaks into a house and kills the owner as her daughter watches. Years later, he believes he sees the gaze of that young witness in the face of a beautiful, mentally disturbed teenager. He...
October 16, 2019
THE FOURTH MAN (DE WIERDE MAN)
DescriptionDescription This stylish film noir thriller tells the story of a brilliant novelist who is Catholic, alcoholic, gay, and tormented by horrifying premonitions. His obsession with a young man leads him to a sexually voracious woman who may be a murderess. "Elegant Gothic entertainment with layers of deliciously over-the-top detail and explicitly fleshly pursuits ......
October 16, 2019
FRESH KILL
DescriptionDescription Shu Lea Cheang makes her directorial debut with this satirical, hyper-paced, ecological nightmare of a film. The story focuses on an interracial lesbian couple, Claire and Shareen, and their daughter, Honey. Problems start when Honey is kidnapped by ,· Shareen's father. But the real trouble begins when patrons of Shareen's posh sushi restaurant turn...
October 16, 2019
FROM THE EAST (D’EST)
DescriptionDescription Chantal Akerman first came to prominence with her formalist avant-garde work, Jeanne Dielman. She once again rewrites cinematic conventions with her groundbreaking new documentary, D'Est. The film records her journey from East Germany to Moscow, lastinb from late summer to mid-winter. Akerman states that she wanted to make this journey through post-Cold War Eastern...
