1971-1980

As the Bolsheviks attempt to establish their authority among the Muslim peoples of Central Asia., rebel bands, known as basmachis, carry out deadly raids on peaceful villages. When most of the locals—even members of his militia—join forces with Khairulla, the charasmatic basmachi leader, Maxumov, the area’s communist leader, decides to give himself up—hoping that once in custody he might be able to convince the people that Khairulla just seeks to exploit them. More nuanced and psychologically richer than your typical “eastern” action film, The Seventh Bullet avoids cultural clichés and stereotypes, giving each character the chance to offer their views and the reasons for them. The screenplay was co-written by Andrei Konchalovsky.Read More »

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 »

Two friends live happily until misunderstandings arise between them.Read More »

A Swiss-German horror film with Klaus Kinski as the notorious Jack the Ripper. A respected doctor by day, Kinski dismembers London prostitutes by night, until the local Inspector’s girlfriend (Josephine Chaplin) goes undercover to catch him.Read More »

In an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequences.Read More »

SYNOPSIS
An experimental film featuring a split screen. On the right, a number of people appear moving upwards – symbolizing the ruling class. On the left, we see a production line in a factory, where the products of human labor pass by. Towards the end, the products become human body parts.Read More »

Set during General Francisco Franco’s counterrevolutionary campaign, which concluded in 1939 with the conquest of Madrid and the end of the Spanish Civil War.
Two soldiers from an itlaian fascist battalion sent to support Franco’s troops befriend each other; one is a former communist revolutionary who enlisted in the hope of finding a way to escape to America, the other is a poor nobody who has found in the army the alternative to working in the sulfur mines.
The horrors of war will transform both men.Read More »

The camera shows views of the Victorian city of Liverpool while residents deliver comments off-camera what they feel about their relocation to large housing estates while the old inner city buildings are being pulled down. Even if the living conditions were not great the sense of community and feeling at home has been lost after moving to the new flats.

This is the first film by British documentarian Nick Broomfield.Read More »

Allmovie synopsis:
“Radical chic” was a phenomenon of the upper classes in the late ’60s and early ’70s: liberal, socially concerned and very wealthy people would emulate the attitudes, mannerisms and style of the radicalized and revolutionary poor. They would even go so far as to socialize with revolutionaries and provide them with funding for their activities. In this drama, a similar group of bored rich people gets more involved with the radical element than they had planned, and things get out of hand.Read More »