October 16, 2019
THE WILD EAST (DIKI VOSTOK)
DescriptionDescription Rach id Nougmanov's ( The Needle) The Wild East is The Seventh Samurai shot in a radical eclectic style that mixes John Ford Westerns and Mad Max-like post-industrial and postmodern influences. This campy fable is about a group of midgets, the Solar Children, who have fled the chaos of the crumbling Soviet structures to...
October 16, 2019
WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (XIANG HUN NU)
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
WOMEN IN REVOLT
DescriptionDescription Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, and Jackie Curtis star as three "women's libbers" trying desperately to get away from men. But liberation has its price-one finds movie stardom on the casting couch, another ends up a Bowery wino, and another bears a child to Mr. America. Inspired ad-libbed dialogue and fabulously campy performances make for...
October 16, 2019
WET
DescriptionDescription Hollywood maverick Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, Mountains of the Moon) sets his erotic tale in Los Angeles at a luxury bathroom fixture store. When a beautiful customer demands the store manager let her test one of the bathtubs, he is forced to comply ... and to face the consequences.
October 16, 2019
WHERE GODS ARE DEAD (DER GUDENE ER DODE)
DescriptionDescription The fighting in the former Yugoslavia has heretofore come to Americans in the form of television sound bites and bloody, but faceless images. From Vibeke Lokkeberg comes a film that observes this brutal conflict from a decidedly human and personal viewpoint. A Norwegian woman travels to the war zone to retrieve her son, a...
October 16, 2019
WAVING NOT DROWNING
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
THE WEDDING GIFT
DescriptionDescription Julie Walters (Educating Rita) and Jim Broadbent (Life Is Swee? star in this touching love story about a middle-aged couple's struggle against a mysterious illness. Doctors are baffled as Diana Longden's (Walters) debilitating flu grows progressively worse. When the medical experts conclude that the illness may be a product of her own hysteria, Diana...
October 16, 2019
VROOOM!
DescriptionDescription Melvin van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song) is recognized by such filmmakers as Spike Lee and Robert Townsend as the father of black cinema. Van Peebles' film Vroomttells a tale set in the bayous, where an old witch grants a young loser two wishes. He asks for a new motorcycle and a girlfriend and...
October 16, 2019
WAR AND PEACE
DescriptionDescription Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace (Viona I Mir), in its original, complete, non-dubbed 403 minute widescreen version, may be, at least among serious American critics, one of the most curiously misunderstood and underrated of all the great epic films. (And a great epic it is-as much as Intolerance, Andrei Roublev, or The Seven Samurai.)...
October 16, 2019
UNCOMMON GROUND
DescriptionDescription This impassioned documentary follows five multiethnic Los Angeles high school students as they travel to South Africa to live with South African students in a black township. The film focuses on the day-to-day activities of these diverse youth as they share their experiences with family, school, violence, racism, and oppression. The result is a...
