October 16, 2019
SUNDAY’S CHILDREN (SONDAGSBARN)
DescriptionDescription Sunday's Children is another gorgeous, richly poignant memoir written by Ingmar Bergman ( Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander), but directed by his son Daniel as his first feature. Though the master keeps saying he has retired from film-making, you would hardly know it from the extraordinary films that continue to appear. Sunday's Children is...
October 16, 2019
SWEET MOVIE
DescriptionDescription Sweet Movie is literally sweet with lovemaking in a bed of sugar and a girl being bathed in chocolate for advertising purposes But it also has an underpinning of scatology and a zany look at sensuality. Neither hard nor softcore, the Yugoslav filmmaker's first film in the West, a French-Canadian coproduction, is provocative, and...
October 16, 2019
THE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
DescriptionDescription "Makavejev has gone further than Godard," claimed one critic of The Switchboard Operator, which was also called by Tony Rayns "Makavejev's most interesting and concentrated treatment of his recurrent themes. A tragicomic love affair between a switchboard operator and a corporation rat-catcher starts out idyllic but turns sour under external pressures; Makavejev breaks up...
October 16, 2019
CHANTILLY LACE
DescriptionDescription The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival is proud to close its 1993 event with Linda Yellen's extraordinary Showtime film, Chantilly Lace. the style of John Cassevetes, Yellen has created an ensemble drama around seven fine actresses improvised upon a forty-page outline. Starring JoBeth Williams, Helen Slater, Talia Shire, Ally Sheedy, Martha Plimpton Jill Eikenberry...
October 16, 2019
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
DescriptionDescription Ray Bradbury's enduring fascination with carnivals began at the age of 12 when a travelling show rolled through his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. In this way the foundation for Something Wicked This Way Comes, a short story he wrote in 1962, was laid quite early in his life. Its 1982 film adaptation is...
