October 16, 2019
A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (GULING JIE SHAONIAN SHA REN SHIJIAN)
DescriptionDescription Edward Yang's long-awaited fourth feature is a picture of Taiwan in 1960-61, caught between the pull of mainland China and the lure of the U.S., the Utopian land where Elvis Presley sings of a "brighter summer day" It's also a Taiwan of Communist-spy scares, where kids from Mainland families have formed street gangs to...
October 16, 2019
FAMILY PORTRAIT (RETRATO DE FAMILIA)
DescriptionDescription Director/writer Luis Galvao Teles skillfully tells this disturbing tale of dark obsession between a father and daughter. A photographer kidnaps his own daughter, Ophelia, in a desperate attempt to win back her mother, who deserted him after a wild love affair. Ophelia (the stunning Maria de Madeiros of Henry and June) grows up believing...
October 16, 2019
BIRCH STREET GYM
DescriptionDescription The "best" of 1991's I ive-action shorts, the Oscar nominees for short films. Last Breeze of Summer by AFl's own Arik Caspi and David Massey, is a moving and authentic story of school desegregation in 1957 Texas told from the perspective of a 14- year-old girl. In Seth Winston's Oscar-winning Session Man, musician McQueen...
