October 16, 2019
LAURA SOBERS
DescriptionDescription In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in Hollywood is taken in by celebrity-hounds, falls for Luke Perry, and hangs out with...
October 16, 2019
LOVE AFTER LOVE (APRES L’AMOR)
DescriptionDescription Beloved actress Isabelle Huppert and acclaimed French director Diane Kurys follow their triumphant pairing in Entre Nou,s with Love After Love. Huppert gives a superbly calibrated performance in the role of Lola, a popular fiction writer living in Paris. Having adopted a love and let love philosophy about affairs of the heart, she finds...
October 16, 2019
LOVE HURTS (HARTVERSCHEUREND)
DescriptionDescription Charting the volatile trajectory of an irreconcilable relationship against the backdrop of countercultural Amsterdam, Love Hurts channels electric lead performances into a visitation of passion's outer limits. K/iijke de Jong creates a persuasive examination of a young couple agonizing between undeniable love and insurmountable conflict. Fringe-dweller Loe and her more conformist lover, Bob, live...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 3
DescriptionDescription Christmas with the family is interrupted by a man's former lover. Janusz (Daniel Olbrychski) and his family attend Christmas Eve services at their church. He recognizes a lonely woman's face in the crowd and hides from her. Home again, his enjoyment of the holiday celebrations is interrupted by someone at the doorthe woman from...
October 16, 2019
KALAMAZOO
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 KINGDOM OF ZYDECO
DescriptionDescription Robert Mugge, one of America's finest makers of music documentaries, examines the black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana and its attempts to name a new leader. After the death of the genre's latest king, a struggle ensues over the crown. The core of the film is a joint concert appearance by Boozoo Chavis...
October 16, 2019
KISSING TIME
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
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK (KATERINA IZMAILOVA)
DescriptionDescription Adopted from Shostakovich's opera with his full participation, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (called Katerina lzmailova after its initial banning) is a psychologically complex drama of love, violence, and betrayal. Emotionally stifled by her marriage, Katerina seduces Sergei, a mercenary farmhand. -Believing she has found love, the passionate woman rebels, but her affair soon culminates...
October 16, 2019
THE LAST KLEZMER
DescriptionDescription Leopold Kozlowski served as a music consultant and as an actor in Schindler's List, bu1 his greatest role is that of the last performing klezmer musician from the Polish musical tradition. Kozlowski is currently'the sole preserver of the dying art form. Poland once boasted of thousands of klezmorim, but the holocaust and the emigration...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 2
DescriptionDescription A woman's decision to have an abortion hinges on her husband's life-or-death condition. She (Krystyna Janda) tries to enlist a Catholic doctor (Aleksander Bardini) in her decision whether to abort the baby she's having by another man. The old doctor is faced with an insoluble ethical problem-torn between his beliefs and his knowledge of...
