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
WOYZECK
DescriptionDescription Bleak but beautiful, Woyzeck is a moving, intelligent transportation of Georg Buechner's theatrical masterpiece. The setting is a Hungarian railroad yard, where unshaven, sweatstained lug Woyzeck serves as a point man, sitting all day in a tiny wooden box by the tracks and suffering daily humiliations from his disciplinarian boss. Woyzeck's personal life is...
October 16, 2019
WYATT EARP
DescriptionDescription The 1994 AFI International Film Festival is honored to open this year with Warner Bros.' epic Western, Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, and Gene Hackman. This sweeping tale of the transformation of the American West traces the life of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, played by Kevin Costner,...
October 16, 2019
THE FOURTH MAN (DE WIERDE MAN)
DescriptionDescription This stylish film noir thriller tells the story of a brilliant novelist who is Catholic, alcoholic, gay, and tormented by horrifying premonitions. His obsession with a young man leads him to a sexually voracious woman who may be a murderess. "Elegant Gothic entertainment with layers of deliciously over-the-top detail and explicitly fleshly pursuits ......
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
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
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
THE FOURTH GREEN FIELD
DescriptionDescription The Fourth Green Field is a compelling examination of the dramatic and far-reaching impact of the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the citizens of Northern Ireland. With stories more evocative of South Africa than a Western European democracy, the film traces the struggle for human rights in Ireland from the civil rights movement of...
