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...
October 16, 2019
BENDERS
DescriptionDescription In Benders, Franny, an alcoholic, falls desperately for Jack, a crisis hotline operator and recovering addict. This truly human tale touchingly portrays two lost people who struggle together to overcome alcoholism and loneliness. In Starbaby, a star-struck waif adrift in Hollywood is taken in by celebrity-hounds, falls for Luke Perry, and hangs out with...
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
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
THE CHILE CON CARNE CLUB
DescriptionDescription Dora Was Dysfunctional is a sweetly comic tale about a quirky young woman searching for love. When her boyfriend leaves her, she finds comfort in the Ukrainian love rituals recommended by her immigrant grandmother. Eugene, aka Helicopter, acts as manager for his friend Malik, prepping him for try-outs for the USC basketball team. Helicopter...
October 16, 2019
ANDY WARHOL’S FRANKENSTEIN (FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN)
DescriptionDescription A mad scientist, married to his sister, spends his time kidnapping, cutting up, and sewing together young people in order to create a perfect male and female specimen. A vision of a new generation of almost catatonic youth-sexually indiscriminate, interchangeable in their parts ... a highly original and perversely fascinating movie.-Paul Zimmerman, Newsweek.
October 16, 2019
BARREN LIVES (VIDAS SECAS)
DescriptionDescription AFI Film Fest is honored to host this special screening of the film that helped bring Brazil's Cinema Novo movement to international attention. Often compared to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this landmark film tells the inspirational story of one family's pilgrimage through the sertao (Brazil's rugged northeast) in search of a better life....
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...
