October 16, 2019
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...
October 16, 2019
REFLECTIONS OF A CHILDSTAR
DescriptionDescription Mike Schlitt's parodic documentary about Aqua Boy, a former TV child star.
October 16, 2019
RHINOSKIN: THE MAKING OF A MOVIE STAR
DescriptionDescription A hilarious look at one young actor's journey through the minefield of Hollywood. Humiliation comes in large doses for Tod De Pree, whose goal is to get a one-line part in a sitcom before Rhinoskin's production runs out of money Acting roles and dates with beauty queens are in short supply, while meetings with...
October 16, 2019
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...
October 16, 2019
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...
October 16, 2019
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....
October 16, 2019
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...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 9
DescriptionDescription Kieslowski makes full use of melodrama here to demonstrate why one should not covet thy neighbor's wife. Roman (Piotr Machalica) and Hanka (Ewa Blaszczyk) are welleducated and sophisticated professionals, but Roman has been devastated by the realization that he is impotent. He begins spying on his wife and becomes convinced that she is having...
October 16, 2019
DESIRE
DescriptionDescription A post-Code film brimming with "the Lubitsch touch" (i.e. sexual innuendo) and Frank Borzage's romanticism. Marlene Dietrich, fresh out of the Von Sternberg camp, is brought charmingly down to earth. She plays a jewel thief who flees to Spain and snares good-guy Gary Cooper.
October 16, 2019
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...
