October 16, 2019
DREAM GIRLS
DescriptionDescription Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like Dust, directors Ahrin Mishan and Nick Rothenberg create a subtle portrait of an imprisoned...
October 16, 2019
THE CHILE CON CARNE CLUB
DescriptionDescription Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager for his friend Malik, prepping him for try-outs for the USC basketball team. Helicopter...
October 16, 2019
A CLASS TO REMEMBER (GAKKO)
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
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
DEKALOG 8
DescriptionDescription Zofia (Maria Koscialkowska) is a successful professor of ethics in her sixties who seems quite content with her life. Her only odd activity is placing flowers daily in an empty room in her apartment. One day, a young American woman of Polish descent named Elzbieta (Teresa Marczewska) applies for Sofia's class. Elzbieta's presence in...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 9
DescriptionDescription Kieslowski makes full use of melodrama here to demonstrate why one should not covet thy neighbor's wife. Roman (Piotr Machalica) and Hanka (Ewa Blaszczyk) are welleducated and sophisticated professionals, but Roman has been devastated by the realization that he is impotent. He begins spying on his wife and becomes convinced that she is having...
October 16, 2019
DESIRE
DescriptionDescription A post-Code film brimming with "the Lubitsch touch" (i.e. sexual innuendo) and Frank Borzage's romanticism. Marlene Dietrich, fresh out of the Von Sternberg camp, is brought charmingly down to earth. She plays a jewel thief who flees to Spain and snares good-guy Gary Cooper.
October 16, 2019
BUI DOI: LIFE LIKE DUST
DescriptionDescription Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like Dust, directors Ahrin Mishan and Nick Rothenberg create a subtle portrait of an imprisoned...
October 16, 2019
A CHILD FROM THE SOUTH
DescriptionDescription 1993 Academy Award nominee Pete Postlethwaite stars in this compelling feature from Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Rezende. One of the high points of the 1991 AFF, A Child from the South tells the story of Nadia, a young journalist who returns home to her native South Africa to cover a UN conference. A political exile...
October 16, 2019
BLOODS ON THE MOON
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...
