RAVE REVIEW

DescriptionDescription Director Jeff Seymour brings wit and a playful sense of self-parody to his debut feature, Rave Review. While his colleagues make millions in Hollywood, director Steve Maletti is constantly hustling money just to keep his theatre company out of bankruptcy. It ,· looks as if his luck has changed when he obtains the rights...

THE RAGE OF PARIS

DescriptionDescription Danielle Darrieux plays a French girl who goes to New York City to become a model. An audition requires her to model nude, and she mistakenly proposes to strip for Douglas Fairbanks Jr., who assumes she is a blackmailer.

PRINCE IGOR

DescriptionDescription Director Roman Tikhomirov pursues the logic of cinema, not the op1ua house, in his dazzling re-imagining of Borodin's Prince Igor, which tells the story of a war between the Russians and Tartars. The mournful, elegiac opening shots, as the camera tracks across a battlefield strewn with human debris, have the visionary quality of the...

THE PEOPLE FROM THE UNIVERSAL (LA GENTE DE LA UNIVERSAL)

DescriptionDescription A raunchy black comedy that marks a lively debut by Colombian director Felipe Aljura . . . Central characters are the sexually insatiable trio who run a spitball Bogota P.I. agency: ex-cop Diogenes, his sexy wife Fabiola, and handsome nephew Clemente. Clemente and Fabiola go at it like bunnies whenever the boss isn't around....

OUT OF SIGHT

DescriptionDescription Acclaimed filmmaker David Sutherland (Feast of the Gods) continues to redefine the stylistic limits of the documentary in Out of Sight, his film about a blind Northern California woman. "I don't know if America is ready for a blind girl who isn't a goody two shoes," says the film's 34-year-old star Diane Starin. Sutherland...

PARAJANOV

DescriptionDescription Persecuted by Soviet authorities throughout his life for his non-conformist lifestyle, Armenian filmmaker Sergei Parajanov ( The Color of Pomegranates) created films with a revolutionary visual style. In this fascinating documentary portrait of the legendary filmmaker, director Ron Holloway attempts to unravel some of the mysteries about the artist and his unique vision of...

ONLY THE BRAVE (ROMANCE DE VALENCIA)

DescriptionDescription Dutch documentary maker Sonia Herman Daiz looks at those who practice an art form still decried by much of Europe as a cruel and bloodthirsty spectacle-the bull fight. Shot on location in Spain, the film follows the 20-year-old bullfighter, Enrique Ponce, during the season that will be the turning point of his career, transforming...

ONE HOUR WITH YOU

DescriptionDescription A remake of Lubitsch's silent The Marriage Circle (1924). Set to music, this sparkling comedy highlights Maurice Chevalier's charm and Jeanette MacDonald's singing talents. Although Lubitsch is given credit as director of this sparkling comedy, Cukor did all the work from Lubitsch's well thought-out plan.

OH… ROSALINDA!

DescriptionDescription This riotously inventive musical fantasy was the third of British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's music-theatre extravaganzas, after The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann. An updating of Strauss' Die Fledermaus to postwar Vienna, it tells the story of a playboy who plays a practical joke on an officer and his flirtatious wife...

NO THANKS NOT SURE YES PLEASE

DescriptionDescription Andrew Peterson's satirical look at the search for Mr./Ms. Right in the 90s.

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