This year's festival line-up was spiced with a number of absolute gems including the powerful "El Norte", Shohei Imamara's masterpiece "The Ballad of Narayama", the Coen Brothers' acclaimed "Blood Simple", Jim Jarmusch's engaging look at the American dream, "Stranger Than Paradise" and the hilarious "This is Spinal Tap".
Aka "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans". This exquisite silent film is just as powerful today as when it was made, telling the simple story of a farmer wh... Read more
The definitive version of this classic opera, shot entirely on location in Spain, featuring Placido Domingo and Julia Migenes-Johnson. Soundtrack by t... Read more
Offbeat and engaging look at the American dream through "foreign" eyes from Jim Jarmusch. The stagnant lives of two New York misfits are changed when... Read more
Set in 19th century New England, the story concerns a love triangle in which Vanessa Redgrave, an early feminist heroine, and Christopher Reeve, a rea... Read more
This hilarious, pseudo-rockumentary follows the U.S. comeback tour of Spinal Tap, a raucous British heavy metal band that has seen better days. The fi... Read more
A.k.a. 'Prenom: Carmen'. Jean-Luc Godard's irreverent satire of 'Carmen' stars Maruschka Detmers as a femme fatale who plans to rob a bank while prete... Read more
Bertrand Tavernier's exquisite drama that pays lush and poignant homage to French family life.The venerable Louis Ducreaux plays Monsieur Ladmiral, an... Read more
Sitting at the Carnegie Deli are some of the Catskills' greatest comics swapping stories about the infamous, lovable agent, Broadway Danny Rose (playe... Read more
'The North'. An independent American film that became a hit, the powerful story of a brother and sister who must leave their oppressed country of Guat... Read more
A critically acclaimed thriller set in rural Texas combines chilling suspense with offbeat black humour. Double and triple crosses build to a blood-cu... Read more