Programme edition 1987
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'night, Mother
Tom MooreA
Amorosa
Mai ZetterlingÂ
L'âne qui a bu la lune
Marie-Claude TreilhouB
The Beat Generation: An American Dream
Janet Forman
THE BEAT GENERATIONProducer-director Janet Forman has assembled an absorbing collage of narration, talking heads and vintage 1950s news and home movie footage. For those who know the era and for those just discovering it, the pic is an informative nod back.All the living ...
Big Trouble
John Cassavetes
Echoing the story line of their earlier collaboration, Falk plays the incorrigible conman, a comic to straight man Arkin's hapless, un willing accomplice. Pic also borrows from the classic Double Indemnity, with Arkin as the insurance salesman gone bad and Beverly d'Angelo as ...
Billy Galvin
John Gray
Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.
Brás Cubas
Júlio Bressane
Irreverent adaptation of great writer Machado de Assis's masterpiece "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" ("Brás Cubas's Posthumous Memories"). A dead man tells about his love life and adventures, specially his affair with Virgília, a dubious married woman.
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After the death of her husband Bernada Alba puts her daughters under a rigurous mourning which does not even allow them to leave the house for seven years. Adela, the youngest daughter, suffers the most. Pepe el Romano key to all women's despair.
Caspar David Friedrich - Grenzen der Zeit (Casper David Friedrich- Boundaries of Our Time)
Peter Schamoni
A study of German 19th Century Romantic art through the writings and paintings of Carl David Friedrich and his fellow artist, Carl Gustav Carus.
Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age
Marc Huestis
Profile of Chuck Solomon, one of the principles behind Theatre Rhinoceros. Actor, Director, gay man and now HIV + man Chuck brings a fresh, life affirming aspect to all that he does.
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Demoner (Demons)
Carsten Brandt
About the couple Catherine and Frank arguing. Their neighbors Thomas and Jenna are drawn into the fight.
Dilan
Erden Kiral
Two people are in love with Dilan: Mirkan, who is poor and cannot afford to pay the dowry and the rich Paso Bey, who might consider her just a plaything to be thrown away after usage. Dilan clearly prefers Mirkan, but now Paso Bey's pride is hurt, and he plots a way to get rid ...
Dust in the Wind
Hsiao-Hsien Hou
A young couple leave their mining town home for Taipei where they struggle to eke out a living in an industrial wasteland.
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El disputado voto del Sr. Cayo (Mr. Cayo's disputed vote)
Antonio Gimenez-Rico
Empire State
Ron Peck
In London's yuppie-dominated docklands of the 1980s Paul tries to make a deal with an American businessman However, he underestimates the clout of his old boss, a powerful Eastender.
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Five Corners
Tony Bill
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Francesca
Vérénice Rudolph
The film describes the path of Francesca's life, from a convent in Germany, criss-cross through Europe and our century, to a mountain village in the Italian Alps where she is worshipped as a saint. In between we see her triumphs as a star of the cinema screen, celebrated by a ...
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Ganga (Ganges/water)
Velu Viswanandhan
With a minimal crew of 5 (including the driver) Viswanadhan spent two months going upstream to the source of the river, meeting people but especially taking in the rhythms and the emotions evoked by the journey. Viswanadhan was, before this film, very interested in abstract ...
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Heaven
Diane Keaton
A series of interviews are conducted concerning people's beliefs towards the possibility of an afterlife. The interviews are filmed against a set of strange backdrops, and are intercut with clips from classic films and a variety of stock footage.
Hidden City
Stephen Poliakoff
Sharon Newton (Cassie Stuart) leads the uncooperative James Richards (Charles Dance) into a world of misplaced government secrets, capitalistic artists and bungling secret agents.
Hong yi shao nu (The Girl in Red)
Xiaoya Lu
Sixteen-year-old An-ran gets into repeated trouble because she refuses blind obedience to authority, openly challenging and correcting a teacher who makes a mistake in class. She is different.
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L'Innocenza (Innocence)
Villi Hermann, Villi HermannJ
Journey
Peter WatkinsK
Krysar (The Pied Piper)
Jiri Barta
The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with a twist.
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Lenz
Andras Szirtes
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Oci ciornie (Les yeux noirs)
Nikita Mikhalkov
Oktoberfest
Dragan Kresoja
Ormens väg på halleberget (The Serpent's Way)
Bo WiderbergP
Pandavapuram
G.S. Panicker
A beautiful school teacher, Devi, waits at the railway station every day, for a husband who abandoned her. One day, a stranger who walks into her life makes her reassess everything.
La película del rey (A King and His Movie)
Carlos Sorin
Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of the legend of the King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it. Despite of financial troubles, technical problems, misfortune and desertions, he undertakes the journey to Patagonia for the film with a second-rate ...