October 16, 2019
BORIS GODUNOV
DescriptionDescription A compelling drama based on Pushkin's play about the guilt-ridden 16th-century Czar Boris Godunov, this version of Russia's most famous opera features the great Alexander Pirogov as Boris and the Bolshoi Orchestra and Chorus. Director Vera Stroyeva staged passages of Mussorgsky's classic opera in the Kremlin and throughout Moscow to powerful effect. Stroyeva makes...
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
DEATH IN VENICE, CA
DescriptionDescription Underwater is the story of an introverted twelve-year-old girl, Patty Rose, who has developed a terrible fear of water since the death of her father. The collision of Patty's fantasies and a real-life crisis force her to confront her fears. Waving Not Drowning is the darkly comedic portrayal of a young man searching for...
October 16, 2019
DEFICIENCY (CARENCES)
DescriptionDescription Based on events that occurred in France in 1984, Deficiency is a horrific and all-too-realistic tale of murder and betrayal. It tells the story of Roland Resse, a loner and wanderer, who takes a room with a kindly older Jewish woman, Mrs. Martin. By day his fascist coworker fills him with anti-Semitic ideas and...
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...
October 16, 2019
BLACK HARVEST (SORT HOST)
DescriptionDescription A haunting epic drama about the tragedies, passions, and losses of a wealthy Danish family. Set in Denmark's countryside at the turn of the century, this is a dark tale about a tyrannical patriarch whose black-hearted desires sweep him, his wife, and his four daughters towards a bitter and tragic end. While his submissive...
October 16, 2019
BLOOD FOR DRACULA
DescriptionDescription In this delightful mixture of gore, myth, and sex set in Italy, Udo Kier plays a youngish Dracula who lives on virgin blood. When he preys on a family with four pretty daughters, Dracula gets his comeuppance. "A respectful, yet mocking handling of the vampire legend with some graceful love scenes and some harrowing...
October 16, 2019
DANCING (DANSEN)
DescriptionDescription Jan Troell's poetic study of dancing combines a breathtaking array of images-the spontaneous expression of young people dancing at the subway, flamenco dancers, and excerpts from Isadora Duncan's work. Dancing is Troell's vision of dance as an artistic language between men and women and different cultures, social classes, and generations. Shown with II Capitano.
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
THE BEGINNING AND THE END (PRINCIPIO Y FIN)
DescriptionDescription Based on the novel by 1988 Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, Arturo Ripstein's monumental work is at once breathtakingly dramatic and heartbreakingly mundane. After the death of its patriarch, the Botero family is left forsaken. Widow Ignacia sends her three eldest children off to work and puts all of her hopes in Gabriel, her...
