October 16, 2019
TOTAL BALALAIKA SHOW
DescriptionDescription Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki's Total Balalaika Show is the most inspired crosscultural pairing since Nureyev danced with Miss Piggy. This concert documentary has Finland's musically challenged roc·k band, the Leningrad Cowboys, trading hotlicks and bellowing dopey standards with the sometimes baffled, but always sonorous, ex-Red Army choir in a universally crowd-pleasing 1993 performance. From...
October 16, 2019
TOTALLY F***ED UP
DescriptionDescription Totally F***ed Up is acclaimed L.A. filmmaker Gregg Araki's ( The Living End) most mature film to date. Araki goes further out into the margins to explore gay and lesbian youth, and becomes one of the few to treat this invisible population with sensitivity, affection, and respect while tackling issues of alienation, sexuality, homophobia,...
October 16, 2019
TOUCH ME
DescriptionDescription Touch Me, from Australian director Paul Cox (Exile, A Woman's Tale) tells of two women who escape the city and their frustrating relationships to spend a weekend alone in the country. The hills around Melbourne provide the setting for an unusual awakening.
October 16, 2019
EXILE
DescriptionDescription Internationally acclaimed Australian director Paul Cox's (A Woman's Tale) challenging new film is a spiritual adventure in the tradition of Robinson Crusoe. Based on E.L. Grant Watson's novel Priest Island, the story is set in Australia during the last century. A young man, Peter, is caught stealing sheep he needs as a dowry to...
October 16, 2019
TALES OF HOFFMANN
DescriptionDescription The New York Times called Tales of Hoffmann, "By far the most glowingly ambitious and swanky attempt ever made to recreate classical opera on the motion picture screen." The film portrays the German poet Hoffmann in three adventures as he searches for the perfect woman. All the stories deal with the transforming powers of...
October 16, 2019
THE THIRD BANK OF THE RIVER (A TERCEIRA MARGEM DO RIO)
DescriptionDescription In his newest film, beloved Brazilian filmmaker Nelson Pereira dos Santos distills the essence of five short stories to create a narrative that encompasses city and country, reality and fantasy, good and evil. Liojorge and Alva have always known their daughter Nhinhinha is different-but it is only when they visit her aunt that the...
October 16, 2019
THIS IS THE NIGHT
DescriptionDescription In this pre-code tale of gay infidelity, Thelma Todd is having an affai.r with Roland Young Young must engage Lily Damita as his wife when Todd's husband Cary Grant arrives in town unexpectedly. They al I jaunt off to Venice where moral standards win out.
October 16, 2019
TIGRERO: A FILM THAT WAS NEVER MADE
DescriptionDescription In Mika Kaurismaki's innovative new film, legendary director Sam Fuller leads a nostalgic and unconventional journey into the past. Forty years ago, Fuller went into Brazil's Amazonian rainforest to research locations for his adventure film, Tigrero. The project never came to fruition and was all but forgotten until Kaurismaki undertook this documentary. Tigrero portrays...
October 16, 2019
THE DUTCH MASTER
DescriptionDescription Susan Seidelman's (Desperately Seeking Susan, She-Devi0 The Dutch Master, which was nominated for a 1993 Academy Award, tells the story of Teresa, a Brooklyn dental hygienist who is nervous about her upcoming marriage to a traffic cop. She begins to act strangely and finds herself obsessed with a handsome man she sees in a...
October 16, 2019
DORA WAS DYSFUNCTIONAL
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...
