October 16, 2019
GORILLA BATHES AT NOON
DescriptionDescription For his first film in five years, Dusan Makavejev returns to the themes that made him famous in the 60's and early 70's. Gorilla Bathes at Noon is immensely likable and could well restore Makavejev to prominence. Set in Berlin, the film centers on a Russian army officer left behind when the whole of...
October 16, 2019
A FOREIGN FIELD
DescriptionDescription AFI Fest is honored to pay tribute to one of the greatest stars of British cinema, Sir Alec Guinness. His featured role in A Foreign Field, presented in this special gala, was written expressly for him by screen writer Roy Clarke. The seventy-nine year old actor's career on screen has panned six decades and...
October 16, 2019
FAR AWAY FROM ST. PETERSBURG
DescriptionDescription In Latvian director Alexander Hahn's man-with-no-country comedy, writer lwan Rabczynski, born in St. Petersburg, Florida, writes cheap novels with the Russian touch under the pen-name "J.F Romanoff." His recent. unpublished novel, a supposedly autobiographical tragedy, is liberally sprinkled with words like "Leningrad" and "samovar." Seeking inspiration, the author travels to Norway, where he meets...
