92m; Ireland
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan and Cecil Parker
Synopsis (NYT): Briskly, this “Captain Boycott” tells us how tenant farmers in Parnell’s Irish Land League resisted an outrageously haughty landowner, Captain Boycott by name, with a technique of non-cooperation when he persisted in bleeding them for rents, and how this treatment, in the end, was more effective than an advocated plan of violence.
97m; U.S.
Director: Michael Schultz
Cast: Richard Pryor, Franklyn Ajaye and Darrow Igus
Synopsis: Car Wash is about a close-knit group of black employees who one day have all manner of strange visitors coming onto their forecourt, including Richard Pryor as a preaching ‘wonder-man’ who is loved by most but loathed by one, and a man who looks like a thief by the way he is holding his bottle, but it is really his urine sample as he is off to the hospital. T.C’s love life takes a turn for the better and the songs keep coming
80m
Director: Frank Beyer
Synopsis (First Run Features): A hilarious and rare classic of German cinema, CARBIDE AND SORREL is a road trip adventure set in the last days of World War II. In a brilliant performance, Erwin Geschonneck plays Kalle, a non-smoking cigarette factory worker who – dogged by every possible mishap – must travel hundreds of miles without a truck to get a load of carbide back to Dresden, where his chain-smoking co-workers can use them to weld their ruined factory back together.
90m; Costa Rica
Director: Esteban Ramírez
Synopsis: A married couple must cope with unemployment, sexual tensions, and the establishment of an American oil company in their Caribbean paradise.
Contact: http://www.caribelapelicula.com/
63m; Italy
Director: Francesca Comencini
Synopsis: A profile of anti-G8 activist murdered by police in Genoa.
Contact: Print Source Rosella Gori Adriana Chiesa Enterprises Via Barnaba Oriani 24/A – 00197 Rome, Phone: 39 068 070 400 Fax: 39 068 068 7855 Email: adrianachiesa.ent@libero.it
40m; U.K.
Director: Toby Reisz
Synopsis: Profile of filmmaker Ken Loach’s life and his work.
44m; U.S.
Director: Dolissa Medina
Synopsis: Focuses on the San Francisco earthquake and the role of the firefighters in saving people and defending the city from the flames.
60m; U.S.
Director: Ernesto Livon-Grosman
Synopsis: Economic crises forces Argentinian middle class into ranks of the Buenos Aires trash pickers.
Contact: Brittany Gravely, brittany@der.org 800.569.6621 http://www.cartonerosdoc.com/Cartoneros.html
76m
Director: Atanas Georgiev
Synopsis: Two young immigrants from the Balkan try to find a solution for their legal residence permit in Austria.
92m; U.S.
Director: Richard Brooks
Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine and Debbie Reynolds
Synopsis: At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because Janes parents are poor and Jane and Ralph can borrow a car for their honeymoon. However, at dinner that night all Ralph’s parents talk about are the big weddings they gave their daughters and everything escalates. All of a sudden, it is a big wedding breakfast with hundreds of guests. The problem is that for 12 years, Tom has been saving money to buy his own cab and license, but now that he can, all of his money is going towards a wedding neither he, or Jane or Ralph really want.
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