October 16, 2019
THE USUAL
DescriptionDescription An impressive first feature from Eric Tretbar, this quietly observant, gentle film announces a promising new US independent filmmaker. Claire, a Minnesota farm girl who moves to the big city, has a fling with New Yorker Aldo, and waits tables in a grill, where she takes up with fry-cook-cum-guitarist Spike. Problems start when Aldo...
October 16, 2019
TWO MEN IN L.A.
DescriptionDescription Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John Helliker's offbeat Norha and the Microbabe, a self-centered avant-garde couple become parents of an...
October 16, 2019
UNBECOMING AGE
DescriptionDescription Tom Garvin represents this delightful new US independent film starring Diane Salinger, Wallace Shawn and Colleen Camp It tells the fairy tale-like story of a 40-year-old woman who suddenly finds that she no longer knows what age she is and - wow!- what a difference it makes. Her life, with her new lack of...
October 16, 2019
TROUBLED PARADISE
DescriptionDescription Troubled Paradise takes us to a Hawaii that few tourists will ever see. This beautifully filmed documentary sensitively examines the social and political problems lacing Hawaii's indigenous population through interviews with an incredibly diverse cross-section of the island's inhabitants. At the same time, we get to experience the richness of Hawaiian culture through some...
October 16, 2019
TO LIV(E)
DescriptionDescription Actress Liv Ullman's 1900 visit to Hong Kong, in which she condemned the deportation of 51 Vietnamese refugees from the colony, has inspired this first feature film by critic/author Evans Chan. The film is structured around a series of imaginary letters to Ms. Ullman, and examines the apprehensive mood of postTienanmen Square Massacre Hong...
October 16, 2019
THROUGH AN OPEN WINDOW
DescriptionDescription Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this tale of love and loneliness. Robert Manganelli brings a hearing audience into a deaf...
October 16, 2019
THEY HAVE WALKED ON THE MOON
DescriptionDescription Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby mysteriously appears at the door of a childless Hasidic couple in Moise, they can't...
