October 16, 2019
SUNDAY’S CHILDREN (SONDAGSBARN)
DescriptionDescription Sunday's Children is another gorgeous, richly poignant memoir written by Ingmar Bergman ( Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander), but directed by his son Daniel as his first feature. Though the master keeps saying he has retired from film-making, you would hardly know it from the extraordinary films that continue to appear. Sunday's Children is...
October 16, 2019
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
DescriptionDescription Ray Bradbury's enduring fascination with carnivals began at the age of 12 when a travelling show rolled through his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. In this way the foundation for Something Wicked This Way Comes, a short story he wrote in 1962, was laid quite early in his life. Its 1982 film adaptation is...
October 16, 2019
THE SHADOW LINE (SMUGA CIENIA)
DescriptionDescription The Shadow Line marks Wajda's attempt to tackle one fo the great novels of Joseph Conrad (of Polish descent, real name Korzeniowski). Co-produced with Thames Television, it is Conrad's semi-autobiographical story of a merchant ship's young captain. Wajda's idea was to show the life and adventures of the young Conrad in a wider and...
October 16, 2019
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
DescriptionDescription The Grand Prize winner at Cannes in 1989, sex, lies and videotape proved to be one of the most successful American independent films to receive distribution. "Sex, lies and videotape, starring Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and James Spader, is one of the best American independent films in quite a long while, a sexy, nuanced,...
October 16, 2019
SCANDAL
DescriptionDescription Closing the 1989 AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Scandal was a sexy, politically charged, early hit for Miramax. "In 1963 the sensational revelations that a good-time girl had been having affairs with a British cabinet minister and a Soviet naval attache helped bring down the U.K.'s conservative government. In Scandal, man-about-town Ward (John Hurt)...
