October 16, 2019
CHANTILLY LACE
DescriptionDescription The AFI Los Angeles Film Festival is proud to close its 1993 event with Linda Yellen's extraordinary Showtime film, Chantilly Lace. the style of John Cassevetes, Yellen has created an ensemble drama around seven fine actresses improvised upon a forty-page outline. Starring JoBeth Williams, Helen Slater, Talia Shire, Ally Sheedy, Martha Plimpton Jill Eikenberry...
October 16, 2019
THE BIRCH WOOD (BRZEZINA)
DescriptionDescription In The Birch wood Wajda frees his characters from the weight of historical and social determinism and confronts them with their own individual destinies. The story is misleadingly simple, but deals with basic human emotio.n s and anxieties; it is a story of everyman. After a few years spent in Switzerland s sanitoriums, the...
October 16, 2019
THE BLACK PIRATE
DescriptionDescription Ray Douglas Bradbury gained his middle name from his mother, who adored the silent star Douglas Fairbanks; The Black Pirate remains among his favorite films. "Alongside Keaton and Gene Kelly, Fairbanks was perhaps the most graceful athletic mover in the history of the movies, and The Black Pirate perfectly captures his relaxed, exhuberant optimism...
