October 16, 2019
EL CID
DescriptionDescription The 1993 AFI International Film Festival is proud to open its seventh year with the U.S. premiere of the newly restored and lengthened El Cid, the 1961 epic drama masterpiece from director Anthony Mann, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. Released in restored form by Miramax Films, who learned with director Martin Scorsese (this...
October 16, 2019
THE WEDDING (WESELE)
DescriptionDescription The most interesting and typically Polish film of the year, and perhaps Wajda's best. Rleality combines with dreams, nightmares, unrealized ambitions. The Wedding's time frame is the beginning of this century, the period of the so-called Young Poland. Vibrant with new literary and artistic trends, it was a time of exuberant symbolism, of ideas...
