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...
October 16, 2019
MANIFESTO
DescriptionDescription Makavejev's long exile from his homeland ended in 1988 with the release of Manifesto, a Ruritanian political farce mostly shot in Yugoslavia. Although the film marks the most disciplined, traditional storytelling of Makavejev's career, it has seen only limited bookings in the US. An adaptation of a Zola short story, set in Central Europe...
October 16, 2019
THE MIRACLE (1991)
DescriptionDescription Neil Jordan's The Miracle is a beguiling yarn set in a seaside Irish resort. Told by Jimmy (Niall Byrne), a wet-behind-the-ears teen, The Miracle is a coming-of-age story spiked with a heavy dose of family history. Like Jordan's Mona Lisa, this is essentially a toadand- princess love story, but this time it's laced with...
October 16, 2019
A MAN IS NOT A BIRD (COVEK NIJE TICA)
DescriptionDescription In a bleak industrial town in Slovenia, a visiting engineer (Janez Vrhovec) has an affair with a young and carefree hairdresser (Milena Dravic), which does not prevent her making love to a truck driver (Boris Dvornik) she had known previously. With its guiltless eroticism, vertiginous images from hand-held cameras, and satiric attitude to authority,...
October 16, 2019
MAN OF IRON (CZLOWIEK Z ZELAZA)
DescriptionDescription Andrzej Wajda's Man of Iron is more than a film-it's an event, qualified to rank as the best 'Film of the Year" by virtue of its theme and the sheer documentation of a news story that made headlines the world over. Man of Iron features the passion and determination of Tomczyk (Jerzy Radziwilowicz), one...
October 16, 2019
BECK
DescriptionDescription Beck is the intriguing Dutch adaptation of "The Locked Room", a crime mystery by Sweden's acclaimed writing team Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo. featuring their series· detective Martin Beck (Jan Decleir). who was also featured in the American film The Laughing Policeman. Beck is a police officer who. upon recovering from a near-fatal injury,...
