October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 9
DescriptionDescription Kieslowski makes full use of melodrama here to demonstrate why one should not covet thy neighbor's wife. Roman (Piotr Machalica) and Hanka (Ewa Blaszczyk) are welleducated and sophisticated professionals, but Roman has been devastated by the realization that he is impotent. He begins spying on his wife and becomes convinced that she is having...
October 16, 2019
DESIRE
DescriptionDescription A post-Code film brimming with "the Lubitsch touch" (i.e. sexual innuendo) and Frank Borzage's romanticism. Marlene Dietrich, fresh out of the Von Sternberg camp, is brought charmingly down to earth. She plays a jewel thief who flees to Spain and snares good-guy Gary Cooper.
October 16, 2019
BUI DOI: LIFE LIKE DUST
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
A CHILD FROM THE SOUTH
DescriptionDescription 1993 Academy Award nominee Pete Postlethwaite stars in this compelling feature from Brazilian filmmaker Sergio Rezende. One of the high points of the 1991 AFF, A Child from the South tells the story of Nadia, a young journalist who returns home to her native South Africa to cover a UN conference. A political exile...
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
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...
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
DEKALOG 4
DescriptionDescription In the fourth film of the series, Kieslowski examines the sexual taboos underlying the Fourth Commandment, "Honor thy Mother and Father." While her father is away on business, a young woman named Anka (Adrianna Biedrzynska) discovers an unopened letter from her mother who died in childbirth. What Anka reads threatens to unlock the long...
October 16, 2019
DEKALOG 6
DescriptionDescription A full-length version of this film was released to great acclaim as A Short Film About Love. The most romantic episode of the series, it deals with Tomek, a 19-year-man (Olaf Lubaszenko) who falls madly in love with his older next door neighbor Magda (Grazyna Szapolowska). For some time, Tomek has spied on her,...
October 16, 2019
BLOODS ON THE MOON
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...
