October 16, 2019
SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
DescriptionDescription The Grand Prize winner at Cannes in 1989, sex, lies and videotape proved to be one of the most successful American independent films to receive distribution. "Sex, lies and videotape, starring Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher and James Spader, is one of the best American independent films in quite a long while, a sexy, nuanced,...
October 16, 2019
SCANDAL
DescriptionDescription Closing the 1989 AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Scandal was a sexy, politically charged, early hit for Miramax. "In 1963 the sensational revelations that a good-time girl had been having affairs with a British cabinet minister and a Soviet naval attache helped bring down the U.K.'s conservative government. In Scandal, man-about-town Ward (John Hurt)...
October 16, 2019
SANKOFA
DescriptionDescription An epic production on black slavery, Sankofa was produced, written, directed and edited by Haile Gerima. The film links directly to the Ethiopian-American director's previous work as another statement on African history and its relevance to black society today. The theme is contained in the title: Sankofa, referring to an elderly, white-painted drummer on...
October 16, 2019
SAMSON (SAMPSON)
DescriptionDescription Wajda's Samson is a transposition of the Biblical story of the muted prisoner who, after suffering temptation, brings death gloriously upon himself and his captors. Samson (played with a spare, haunting authority by the French actor, Serge Moulin) is in the filmmaker's terms a shy young Jew who is taunted for the crime of...
