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
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...
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
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
THE YOUNG LADIES OF WILKO (PANNY Z WILKA)
DescriptionDescription Noted director Andrzej Wajda is in fine form. After two political films that had problems at home but high popularity, his latest, The Young Ladies of Wilko, is a romantic period piece and a truly successful change-of-pace The film takes place in the late 20s with a Chekhovian atmosphere of longing, an attempt to...
October 16, 2019
WILD STRAWBERRIES (SMULTRONSTALLET)
DescriptionDescription The classic and poignant Wild Strawberries is one of the most admired, and most loved, of Ingmar Bergman's films its culminating effect of achieved serenity and fulfillment is unique. Wild Strawberries traces an aged professor's realization of the critical human choice between a life of selfishness or charity while on a day-trip with his...
