Silent Tuesdays A brilliant avant-garde exploration of the helplessness felt by a mentally ill person’s loved ones, this film tells of a man who works as a janitor in the insane asylum where his wife is a patient.
Latin Cinematic Heritage Luis Valdez adapts his own stage production (the first Latin-American play on Broadway) into this striking film version. Edward James Olmos reprises his role from the stage as “El Pachuco,” the narrator of the film and the conscience of Henry Reyna (Daniel Valdez, also reprising his role).
The Art of Music in the Movies Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’s 2018 novel of the same name earned the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Labor Film Series Iva works in a clothing factory in rural Bulgaria battling a persistent, yet mysterious illness.
ImageOut of the Archive Adapted from the celebrated French-Italian farce La cage aux folles (1978), The Birdcage tells the story of Miami drag club owner Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) and his star performer and partner Albert (Nathan Lane) as their beloved son Val not only announces his engagement, but requests they feign heterosexuality for his fiancée’s conservative political figure father (Gene Hackman).
Latin Cinematic Heritage Legendary Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia returns as Gomez, the patriarch of the Addams family. After being reunited with his brother Fester (Christopher Lloyd), Gomez and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) have a third child. They hire a nanny, Debbie (Joan Cusack), to care for the child and to keep his older siblings, Wednesday and Puggsly (Christina Ricci and Jimmy Workman, respectively) from trying to murder him.
Labor Film Series Julie (Laure Calamy) can’t catch a break. For a single mother raising two children in the suburbs of Paris but working in the city, the commuter train is a lifeline — and it’s suddenly been severed during the latest transit strike.
Silent Tuesdays | Schweigen! | Polish Film Festival Years before his iconic “touch” was established, Ernst Lubitsch directed this broad farce about the military-and-marriage complex starring Polish emigré Pola Negri. Rischka (Negri), the daughter of a gang of robbers high in the snowy mountains of Germany, is a real wildcat and runs her father’s gang with ruthlessness.
Latin Cinematic Heritage The cinema of Fellini is marked by a passion for life often revealed in the glowing face of the director’s wife, Giulietta Masina, who stars here in one of his finest films. Masina is Gelsomina, a pantomime artist in the spirit of Chaplin, who, being sold to strongman Zampanò (Anthony Quinn), serves as his dutiful assistant and eventually develops a genuine affection for the brute.
Lovecraftian A delightful descent into the macabre, this film that borrows the title of an Edgar Allan Poe poem, but is actually based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, is one of George Eastman Award recipient Roger Corman’s best-remembered films.
Labor Film Series From Brittany Shyne, a camera operator on Barbara Kopple’s American Factory, comes this examination of a group of people being continually pushed aside: Black farmers.
Filmi Fest 2000 Independent film darling Shabana Azmi stars in this crime drama that swept its six National Film Award nominations, including Best Hindi Feature and a fifth award for Azmi.
Lovecraftian H.P. Lovecraft’s novelette is adapted by first-time writer-director Stuart Gordon into a lovingly blood-soaked ode to the impermanence of death.
Silent Tuesdays | Schweigen! Following Nosferatu and The Last Laugh, master expressionist F.W. Murnau hit a crest with his rendering of Goethe’s classic Faust. Emil Jannings plays the diabolical Mephistopheles, who tempts an aging alchemist with the promise of eternal youth for a small price — his everlasting soul.
Distaff Noir From German director Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) American period, this noir melodrama, adapted from the Clifford Odets play, opens with Barbara Stanwyck as a fallen woman returning to a seaside hamlet to find unstable domesticity with a simpleminded fisherman (Paul Douglas).
Polish Film Festival Wajda’s first bona fide masterpiece and the conclusion of his informal “war trilogy,” Ashes and Diamonds bravely depicts the uneasy Polish political realities in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Labor Film Series With a warm smile and positive attitude, Floria (Leonie Beneach) arrives at the surgical ward of the Swiss hospital where she works as a nurse on the overnight shift. With one colleague out sick and no replacement on deck, just two nurses and a nervous trainee will have to cover more than two dozen patients.
Halloween Bela Lugosi is Dracula, determined to pick Lou Costello's brain - literally. The vampire wants to put Lou's brain in Frankenstein's monster (Glenn Strange), but werewolf Lon Chaney Jr. is busy trying to tip Abbott and Costello off about the plot.
Lovecraftian Not adapted directly from Lovecraft’s work, but heavily inspired by it, the final film in director John Carpenter’s loose “Apocalypse Trilogy” finds Sam Neill as John Trent, an insurance agent on the trail of missing author Sutter Cane.
Special Events John Barrymore delivers spectacular and chilling performances as both title characters in this superb adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel.
