October 16, 2019
THE SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR
DescriptionDescription "Makavejev has gone further than Godard," claimed one critic of The Switchboard Operator, which was also called by Tony Rayns "Makavejev's most interesting and concentrated treatment of his recurrent themes. A tragicomic love affair between a switchboard operator and a corporation rat-catcher starts out idyllic but turns sour under external pressures; Makavejev breaks up...
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
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
DescriptionDescription Ray Bradbury's enduring fascination with carnivals began at the age of 12 when a travelling show rolled through his boyhood home of Waukegan, Illinois. In this way the foundation for Something Wicked This Way Comes, a short story he wrote in 1962, was laid quite early in his life. Its 1982 film adaptation is...
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
THE SHADOW LINE (SMUGA CIENIA)
DescriptionDescription The Shadow Line marks Wajda's attempt to tackle one fo the great novels of Joseph Conrad (of Polish descent, real name Korzeniowski). Co-produced with Thames Television, it is Conrad's semi-autobiographical story of a merchant ship's young captain. Wajda's idea was to show the life and adventures of the young Conrad in a wider and...
