Yerba Buena Center for the Arts writes:
Art Carney won the Best Actor Academy Award for his touching performance in this rarely-screened drama with a mellow 70s vibe. Carney plays Harry, a feisty Manhattan widower who gets evicted from his tiny apartment. Accompanied by beloved cat Tonto, Harry sets out on a long odyssey to Los Angeles, looking for a new beginning and a place to belong.Read More »
In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.Read More »
Korea 1953, the year of the greatest fighting and migration in the history of the land of the Morning Peace, the Thai independent army division, commanded by Colonel Prasit Reungyam was assigned to a special operation as an advance 9th infantry division. (under the United Nation’s security council treaty.) Major Pongpan’s injury was treated by a village girl names O- bunri, both fell in love, the major promised to love only her. That same year the war was over and Major Pongpan has to go back to Thailand, unable to take any time off to visit O-bunri for three years because of his duty in the army and his mother to take care of. When he finally decided to go to see her at her house on top of the mountain, there is an avalanche, everyone escaped except O- bunri who died in the mountain.Read More »
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Injured in a car crash, Edna Mae McCauley has an out-of-body experience where she sees faces from her past trying to guide her into the hereafter. But instead she returns to life. Soon after she discovers that she now has the power to heal. Back in the Mid-Western town of her childhood, she begins a faith-healing mission and tries to use her powers for good. But she must also deal with the condemnation of fundamentalists and a boyfriend who becomes religiously crazed and tries to kill her.Read More »
Famous actresses talk about their role in the movie industry, and the demand to “be beautiful and shut up”.Read More »
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The husband and wife team of director Jules Dassin and actress Melina Mercouri, who first enjoyed international success with the comedy Never on Sunday, collaborated for the last time on this powerful drama. Maya (Melina Mercouri) is a famous actress who is returning to the stage for a production of the classic Greek tragedy Medea, in which she will play the title character, a mother who murders her children. Kostas (Andreas Voutsinas), Maya’s former lover, will be directing Maya in the production, and when he discovers that Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), an American woman, is housed in a nearby Greek prison for killing her offspring, he suggests that Maya should meet Brenda as a means of better understanding her character. Read More »
The film describes the process of literary creation. Part of the story unfolds in the imagination of Clive Langham, a famous writer who has learnt that he has only a few months of life left and, on the eve of his seventieth birthday, is working on his last novel: a story in which he speaks of himself, his memories and his family. The links and divergences between art and life are underlined. Believing he is describing others, he describes himself, revealing hidden aspects of his personality.Read More »
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In 1960s Paris, an expatriate American novelist (Rip Torn) still struggling to find his voice lives life to the fullest without much regard for his wife (Ellen Burstyn) as he embarks on a succession of sexual encounters with beautiful women. Adapted from Henry Miller’s controversial 1934 novel — which was banned in the United States for nearly 30 years — this passionate drama also stars James Callahan.Read More »