October 16, 2019
A FOREIGN FIELD
DescriptionDescription AFI Fest is honored to pay tribute to one of the greatest stars of British cinema, Sir Alec Guinness. His featured role in A Foreign Field, presented in this special gala, was written expressly for him by screen writer Roy Clarke. The seventy-nine year old actor's career on screen has panned six decades and...
October 16, 2019
FAR AWAY FROM ST. PETERSBURG
DescriptionDescription In Latvian director Alexander Hahn's man-with-no-country comedy, writer lwan Rabczynski, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, writes cheap novels with the Russian touch under the pen-name "J.F Romanoff." His recent. unpublished novel, a supposedly autobiographical tragedy, is liberally sprinkled with words like "Leningrad" and "samovar." Seeking inspiration, the author travels to Norway, where he meets...
October 16, 2019
FAHRENHEIT 451
DescriptionDescription Based on the Bradbury book of the same name, Fahrenheit 451 was memorably translated to screen by French auteur Francois Truffaut. "Fahrenheit 451 is less science fiction than a tale of 'once upon a time'. Truffaut presents a cozy world not so very different from our own, with television a universal father-figure pouring out...
