October 16, 2019
HEAT
DescriptionDescription Sylvia Miles is a fading, practically unknown star, given to game shows, TV movies, and studs. Joe Dallesandro is a one-time child actor living in a sunbaked motel, next door to Miles' freaked out daughter who lives with a baby and lesbian lover in a "suite." High comedy and low tragedy ... featuring a...
October 16, 2019
THE DEAD MOTHER (LA MADRE MUERTA)
DescriptionDescription A smart and stylish psychological thriller from acclaimed Spanish director Juanma Baja Ulloa (Butterfly Wings). lsmae.f (Karra Elejalde), a psychopath, breaks into a house and kills the owner as her daughter watches. Years later, he believes he sees the gaze of that young witness in the face of a beautiful, mentally disturbed teenager. He...
October 16, 2019
THE FOURTH GREEN FIELD
DescriptionDescription The Fourth Green Field is a compelling examination of the dramatic and far-reaching impact of the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the citizens of Northern Ireland. With stories more evocative of South Africa than a Western European democracy, the film traces the struggle for human rights in Ireland from the civil rights movement of...
October 16, 2019
THE FOURTH MAN (DE WIERDE MAN)
DescriptionDescription This stylish film noir thriller tells the story of a brilliant novelist who is Catholic, alcoholic, gay, and tormented by horrifying premonitions. His obsession with a young man leads him to a sexually voracious woman who may be a murderess. "Elegant Gothic entertainment with layers of deliciously over-the-top detail and explicitly fleshly pursuits ......
October 16, 2019
FRESH KILL
DescriptionDescription Shu Lea Cheang makes her directorial debut with this satirical, hyper-paced, ecological nightmare of a film. The story focuses on an interracial lesbian couple, Claire and Shareen, and their daughter, Honey. Problems start when Honey is kidnapped by ,· Shareen's father. But the real trouble begins when patrons of Shareen's posh sushi restaurant turn...
October 16, 2019
FROM THE EAST (D’EST)
DescriptionDescription Chantal Akerman first came to prominence with her formalist avant-garde work, Jeanne Dielman. She once again rewrites cinematic conventions with her groundbreaking new documentary, D'Est. The film records her journey from East Germany to Moscow, lastinb from late summer to mid-winter. Akerman states that she wanted to make this journey through post-Cold War Eastern...
October 16, 2019
THE DARK SIDE OF THE HEART (EL LADO OSCURO DEL CORAZON)
DescriptionDescription From the director of Man Facing Southeast comes a magnificent parable about one man's battle against the forces of conformity. Oliverio is a handsome, defiant young poet whose search for the perfect woman leads him to Ana, a no-nonsense prostitute who admits that "a guy who likes poetry can't be all bad" but charges...
October 16, 2019
FALSE PREGNANCY (GROSSESSE NERVEUSE)
DescriptionDescription This irresistible black comedy was awarded Germany's prestigious Max Ophuls Prize. Mildly misanthropic Martin discovers that a former lover is expecting his child. However, Sally doesn't want his help in raising the baby. For Martin, this is the beginning of a series of tragic and comic events. He tries to convince Sally of his...
October 16, 2019
FLESH
DescriptionDescription Joe Dallesandro plays a hustler whose wife asks him to get $200 for her lover's abortion. This leads to a series of encounters with a bizarre mix of urban oddballs. He returns home to find his wife more interested in the pregnant girlfriend than in him. "Morrissey's debut feature is often outrageous, sometimes funny,...
October 16, 2019
THE CLOUD DOOR
DescriptionDescription Indian director Mani Kaul's (The Fool, Siddheshwan) The Cloud Door tells of a young man's love for a beautiful princess and his attempts to consummate his feelings with the help of a talking parrot-the princess' pet.
