October 16, 2019
TAMPOPO
DescriptionDescription Juzo ltami, with Tom Garvin's help, has become the most popular Japanese director in America since Kurosawa. ltami's first two films, The Funeral and Tampopo, had their Los Angeles premieres at the first AFI Fest in 1987. Tampopo is probably the funniest comedy ever made about food, complete with instructions on how to make...
October 16, 2019
STREET WARS
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed director Jamaa Fanaka puts a new, fanciful twist in the gangster genre with Street Wars. Seventeen-year-old Sugarpop graduates from an exclusive military academy as "top gun" of a class trained in ultra-light aircraft. Celebrating his acceptance to West Point with his older brother Frank -a successful street gangster who put him through high...
October 16, 2019
JULIE: OLD TIME TALES OF THE BLUE RIDGE
DescriptionDescription Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian mountain woman's life stories, singing and harmonica playing. Marc and Ann is a portrait...
