October 16, 2019
IT’LL HAVE BLINKING EYES AND A MOVING MOUTH
DescriptionDescription "If it ain't fun, don't do it," says artist Hobart Brown. His credo couldn't be more evident in It'll Have Blinking Eyes and a Moving Mouth, a documentary about Brown and the kinetic sculpture race he founded twenty-four years ago. From its modest beginnings as a whimsical parade of "Dr. Seuss" contraptions, the race...
October 16, 2019
THE JANITOR
DescriptionDescription A delightful animated film about a cosmic janitor whose boss is none other than God.
October 16, 2019
JOHNNY 100 PESOS (JOHNNY CIEN PESOS)
DescriptionDescription Based on a 1990 event in downtown Santiago de Chile, Johnny One Hundred Pesos is an absorbing thriller about the botohed robbery of an illegal currency exchange parlor. The leader of the bandits is Johnny, a student who's bored of his academic routine and has decided a trip to Cuba is just what he...
October 16, 2019
JUST FRIENDS
DescriptionDescription A lively and lyrical homage to jazz and friendship. Set in Antwerp, 1959, Just Friends is the story of Jack, a dockworker who unloads banana crates and dreams of playing his saxophone with the superstars of New York's jazz scene. Too broke to realize his aspirations, he spends his time scheming to get to...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 10
DescriptionDescription In the final work in the Decalogue series, Kieslowski breaks into full comedy for an examination of the Commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor's Goods." Arthur (Zbigniew Zamachowski) is a Polish punk rock star. His older brother Jerzy (Jerzy Stuhr) has nothing in common with him. Neither has much contact with their father,...
October 16, 2019
HUNTING TIGERS
DescriptionDescription Kim Longinotto's and Jano Williams' Dream Girls is a fascinating documentary about the Takarazuka Revue, a musical troupe in Japan dedicated to romantic Hollywood-style musical extravaganzas, staged with spectacular sets and choreographyand an all-female cast. In Bui Doi: Life Like Dust, directors Ahrin Mishan and Nick Rothenberg create a subtle portrait of an imprisoned...
October 16, 2019
I’M NOT COOKING TONIGHT
DescriptionDescription A wryly comical and inventive debut feature that captures the dynamics of love across cultures. Takaya Yamazaki, a Japanese native, based this story on his own relationship with his midwestern-born wife and the stormy waters that they sailed before finally settling into marriage. We find the couple engaged in a romantic "cold war" when...
October 16, 2019
IL CAPITANO
DescriptionDescription An austere but oddly powerful narrative of a young Finnish couple on a crime spree in Sweden that begins with minor burglaries and ends with a triple-murder. Based on a true story, the film has obvious echoes of the Manson killings, and Badlands. But Troell's film, with its subtle analysis of the master/slave relationship,...
October 16, 2019
THE INSATIABLE MRS. KIRSCH
DescriptionDescription From British director Ken Russell ( Tommy, Altered States) comes The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch, a tale which depicts the hilariously misguided passion of a writer who becomes obsessed with the mysterious, passionate, intriguingly insatiable Mrs. Kirsch. Director
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 1
DescriptionDescription Krzysztof (Henryk Baranowski), a middle-aged mathematician, uses his home computers to strengthen his relationship with his young son (Wojciech Klata). Krzysztof insists on raising his son according to principles of scientific rationalism, and realizes-tragically-that his computer calculations cannot render the world predictable or safe. Henry Sheehan (Hollywood Reporter) commented "Kieslowski sketches out a complete...
