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
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
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...
October 16, 2019
YOL
DescriptionDescription T he first film represented in the U.S. by Tom Garvin and one of the great films of our time, Yo/was the masterpiece of Turkish director Yilmaz Guney and Grand Prize winner at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. Guney was in prison while the film was made but he directed it through a surrogate,...
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...
