October 16, 2019
THE MAGIC BROTHERS
DescriptionDescription This wacky Zelig-esque parodic documentary offers the bizarre account of the muchpublicized 1954 birth and upbringing of quadruplets in Poland and their pursuit by a bored communist-controlled media. The boys have a penchant for the pop culture of the forbidden West, creating paranoia throughout the Polish intelligence community (the film posits that martial law...
October 16, 2019
THE LUNATIC
DescriptionDescription Filmed on Jamaica's northern coast and featuring the music of Toots and the Maytals, Aswad, Burning Flames, and Black Uhuru, The Lunatic is the ribald feature film debut of music video pioneer Loi Creme. It is the story of genial village madman Aloysius Hobson and his exhausting affair-"pum pum," it's called-with German tourist Inga...
October 16, 2019
LOVE HURTS (HARTVERSCHEUREND)
DescriptionDescription Charting the volatile trajectory of an irreconcilable relationship against the backdrop of countercultural Amsterdam, Love Hurts channels electric lead performances into a visitation of passion's outer limits. K/iijke de Jong creates a persuasive examination of a young couple agonizing between undeniable love and insurmountable conflict. Fringe-dweller Loe and her more conformist lover, Bob, live...
October 16, 2019
LOVE AFTER LOVE (APRES L’AMOR)
DescriptionDescription Beloved actress Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed French director Diane Kurys follow their triumphant pairing in Entre Nou,s with Love After Love. Huppert gives a superbly calibrated performance in the role of Lola, a popular fiction writer living in Paris. Having adopted a love and let love philosophy about affairs of the heart, she finds...
October 16, 2019
LAURA SOBERS
DescriptionDescription In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in Hollywood is taken in by celebrity-hounds, falls for Luke Perry, and hangs out with...
October 16, 2019
LAST STATION
DescriptionDescription Armenia's tumultuous struggle for political independence is the backdrop for this compelling tale of lost love and broken dreams. Gerald, an Armenian actor, reminisces about his life with his wife Nora (played by Los Angeles actress Nora Armani) and their year,S together in a traveling theater company Traversing the world, the couple performs a...
October 16, 2019
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAILOVA)
DescriptionDescription Adopted from Shostakovich's opera with his full participation, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (called Katerina lzmailova after its initial banning) is a psychologically complex drama of love, violence, and betrayal. Emotionally stifled by her marriage, Katerina seduces Sergei, a mercenary farmhand. -Believing she has found love, the passionate woman rebels, but her affair soon culminates...
October 16, 2019
THE LAST KLEZMER
DescriptionDescription Leopold Kozlowski served as a music consultant and as an actor in Schindler's List, bu1 his greatest role is that of the last performing klezmer musician from the Polish musical tradition. Kozlowski is currently'the sole preserver of the dying art form. Poland once boasted of thousands of klezmorim, but the holocaust and the emigration...
October 16, 2019
KISSING TIME
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
THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO
DescriptionDescription Robert Mugge, one of America's finest makers of music documentaries, examines the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and its attempts to name a new leader. After the death of the genre's latest king, a struggle ensues over the crown. The core of the film is a joint concert appearance by Boozoo Chavis...
