October 16, 2019
NOH MASK MURDERS
DescriptionDescription Renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa brings us an entertaining whodunit which cunningly mixes contemporary and traditional Japanese concerns. The film's complicated plot centers around two strange murders which occur hundreds of miles apart, but the connection between them leads us into the lives of a bickering family and a complex maze of blackmail, more...
October 16, 2019
NO REPLY
DescriptionDescription Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond when they confront painful memories during a family reunion. No Reply, by Malia Karrell...
October 16, 2019
NO OR THE VAIN GLORY OF COMMAND (NON, OU LA VAINE GLOIRE DE COMMANDER)
October 16, 2019
THE NEON CEILING
DescriptionDescription Lee Grant won an Emmy for her convincing performance as a runaway wife, fleeing middle-class boredom with her teenage daughter, who finds herself in a truck-stop diner in the California desert. Gig Young plays the gruff, reclusive proprietor of the joint, living in a fantasy world that is a creative work of art.
October 16, 2019
NATIVES
DescriptionDescription Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human tragedy by following middle class, mostly white Americans involved in the San Diego anti-immigration...
October 16, 2019
MY SONS (MUSUKO)
DescriptionDescription Director Yoji Yamada, best known for his wildly popular Tora-san series, has crafted an insightful portrait of the complex relations between a father and his children. A widower, Akio, is lonely and resentful that his children moved from their small-town home to Tokyo in search of independence. When his children return for a visit,...
October 16, 2019
MY GRANDPA IS A VAMPIRE
DescriptionDescription Moonrise tells the humorous and often suspenseful story of Lonny, a young boy who has an unusual summer vacation in New Zealand. Lonny stays with his grandfather (played by Al Lewis, best known for his role as Grandpa Munster on The Munsters), and he and his friend Kanziara begin to suspect that the eccentric...
October 16, 2019
MOTORAMA
DescriptionDescription Destined to be a cult classic, Motorama is unquestionably one of the weirdest road movies ever made. Ten-year-old Gus des- perately wants to win a gas station contest called Motorama (col- lect all the letters and win 500 million dollars) so he flees his abu- sive parents and sets off on a road trip...
