SAN JUAN STORY – THE BELL

DescriptionDescription San Juan Story is a delightful tale of a rum taster who unexpectedly loses his greatest talent. In The Bell, a family falls victim to a curse cast by the slaves of their plantation. Shown with Distant Water, the story of a Mexican-American boy growing up in 1943 Los Angeles during an era of...

SAM PECHINPAH: MAN OF IRON

ROSEMARY

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...

ROE VS. WADE

DescriptionDescription This 1989 production is the superb telling of the true story of Norma Mccorvey (Jane Roe), an unwed mother whose landmark case before the U S. Supreme Court led to the legalization of abortion in 1973. A powerful and subtle examination of this controversial issue with excellent performances from Holly Hunter and Amy Madigan.

RETURN TO THE PROMISED LAND (VERATARTS AVEDYATS YERGIR)

RETURN TRIPS

DescriptionDescription Return Trips is an impassioned documentary which should appeal to anyone attempting to rediscover their cultural heritage. By tracing American Jewish emigration and assimilation through rarely-seen archival photographs and newsreel footage (placing emphasis on their own family histories), filmmakers Rosenbush and Siegel describe their return to the devout Judaism of their ancestors. Colorful interviews...

A RESPECTABLE LIFE (ETT ANSTANDIGT LIV)

REFUGEES

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...

THE REFRIGERATOR

DescriptionDescription Nicholas Jacob's feature debut is a wacky, highly enter- taining throwback to the Teenage Monster Movies of the 50s and 60s. An innocent young couple move into an apartment in New York which harbors an unruly household appliance: a 1963 Norge refrigerator. Soon it is dispatching house guests to the hereafter while taking over...

RAMPAGE

DescriptionDescription This terrifying thriller from Academy-Award winning director William Fried kin begins as a smiling, handsome young man calm- ly enters a suburban house, pulls down the shades, and proceeds to brutally murder an entire family with shocking efficiency. Based on true-life events. Rampage is the haunting story of the capture and trial of this...

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