October 16, 2019
THE FIFTEENTH PHASE OF THE MOON
DescriptionDescription The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in Mark Krenzien's The Letters From Moab. In Martin Nicholson's Missing Parents, a punked-out teenager...
October 16, 2019
FIT: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY
DescriptionDescription Actress Linda Hunt narrates this outstanding and vivid chronicle of America's attitude towards physical fitness from the 1890s to the 1960s. The material is thought-provoking, the writing is sharp, and the wealth of archival footage used to illustrate the essay is impressive and very entertaining. Director Laurie Block keenly shows that attitudes toward the...
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...
