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...
October 16, 2019
WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM
DescriptionDescription One of the most talked-about films in the world when first released, WR can be called The Crying Game of its era. As Variety remarked, "Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev has brought,off a most unusual film built round the work of the late Wilhelm Reich, proponent of cosmic life, the energy of love, and the...
October 16, 2019
EL CID
DescriptionDescription The 1993 AFI International Film Festival is proud to open its seventh year with the U.S. premiere of the newly restored and lengthened El Cid, the 1961 epic drama masterpiece from director Anthony Mann, starring Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren. Released in restored form by Miramax Films, who learned with director Martin Scorsese (this...
October 16, 2019
THE WEDDING (WESELE)
DescriptionDescription The most interesting and typically Polish film of the year, and perhaps Wajda's best. Rleality combines with dreams, nightmares, unrealized ambitions. The Wedding's time frame is the beginning of this century, the period of the so-called Young Poland. Vibrant with new literary and artistic trends, it was a time of exuberant symbolism, of ideas...
