October 16, 2019
LOSER
DescriptionDescription This New York comedy turns the yuppie nightmare genre on its head by taking a lunkheaded no-hoper and dropping him into Manhattan glitzery. Hank is at the bottom of the heap - out of work, money and love. Then he wins the lottery and everyone wants to know him. Crammed with larger-than-life stereotypes -...
October 16, 2019
LOVE IS LIKE THAT
DescriptionDescription First-time director Jill Goldman tells this classic love story with warmth and subtlety, in a refreshingly unpretentious style. Lenny and Eloise have many reasons to be cynical about love: she leads a life of overwork and meaningless affairs; he has a violent temper, can't hold a job and doesn't trust people. When the pair...
October 16, 2019
THE LIVING END
DescriptionDescription Black humor doesn't get much darker than The Living End, a road movie about two HIV-positive young men, Jon and Luke, who manage to turn potential tragedy into a desperate, uproarious celebration of their new-found nihilistic freedom. Like Thelma and Louise, this film uses crime as a way of extricating its characters from everyday...
October 16, 2019
THE LONG WINTER (EL LARGO INVIERNO)
DescriptionDescription A moving tribute to Catalans opposing the fascists just before the 1939 fall of Barcelona. Director/co-writer Camino recreates with sweeping touches the intrigues, violence, and misery of that winter, threading into the historical upheaval a love story between an idealistic surgeon and a U.S. freedom fighter. The fleeing refugees, the arrival of Franco's troops...
