October 16, 2019
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ALLEN GINSBERG
DescriptionDescription This unique and thought-provoking documentary explores the essence of the visionary poet, pacifist, teacher, writer and activist Allen Ginsberg. Director Aronson fashions his biography in clear chronological order, each decade serving as a chapter in Ginsberg's life. His dynamic era in the forties and fifties is best known to "Beat" history buffs; when he...
October 16, 2019
LAUREL AVENUE
DescriptionDescription AFI Graduate Carl Franklin has been acknowledged as one of the hottest filmmakers in America since the international acclaim he received last year for his superb thriller One False Move, which appeared on many top-ten-of-the-year lists. His latest project, the hotly anticipated contemporary drama Laurel Avenue, was filmed in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, and...
October 16, 2019
KANAL
DescriptionDescription Kanal is the central film in Wajda's Resistance trilogy, receiving the 1957 Cannes Special Jury Prize. Wajda's stark depiction of a tragic moment in Polish history, the film is set inlate September, 1944, just after the Warsaw Uprising mounted in August by Polish part sans against Nazi occupation forces. "Wajda's film depicts the uprising...
October 16, 2019
IT’S BETTER TO BE WEALTHY AND HEALTHY THAN POOR AND ILL (LEPSIE BYT BOHATY A ZDRAVY AKO CHUDOBNY A CHORY)
October 16, 2019
JAMES ELLROY
DescriptionDescription Crime writer James Ellroy has become one of the major literary voices of Los Angeles in recent years. Austrian filmmaker Reinhard Jud follows the author of "the best crime thrillers in the world" through his native LA, exploring the cityscape which inspires his novels. More than conventional portraiture, this engrossing documentary is the result...
October 16, 2019
INTO THE WEST
DescriptionDescription The appeal of legends which invent worlds existing beyond our own mundane realm is universal. Directed by Mike Newell of Enchanted April, and written by Jim Sheridan, who put Ireland on the cinema map with his Oscar-winning My Left Foot, Into the West is a modern fable which begins with the legend on just...
