1981-1990

A bigoted white lady gets her metaphorical comeuppance when she misses her train and must spend some time in Grand Central Station.Read More »

The matriarch of a highly respected family orders one of her daughter-in-laws to kill herself unless she can produce a child within a year.Read More »

Some stories need to be told after they are over. We need to know that all the events are past and gone, in order to feel the same nostalgia as the storyteller. When a story is happening “now,” there is always the possibility of surprise and happiness. But when a story happened “then,” and it is a love story, then even the happy moments feel bittersweet, and of course that is the whole point of the story.Read More »

Franz Mooshuber, mayor of a little Bavarian town, receives a letter invitation from the mayor of Cannes, asking him to participate in the annual boat joust tournament. When he and his two buddies return, they don’t just bring back the trophy but also a bus full of sexy girls and ambitious plans to turn their village into a wild tourist resort.Read More »

A young British woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Argentine family. Through her position, she slowly sees how the upper class of society is slowly crumbling, and how a popular movement is preparing to install itself in power.Read More »

A documentary about the life and work of Martin Heidegger, born and raised a Roman Catholic in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg.Read More »

An eccentric and possibly brilliant young man, troubled by the death of his parents, claims to be readying a world-changing invention.Read More »

Désiré Ecaré’s ”Faces of Women” is a technically rough, cheerfully rude, folkloric comedy about the status of women in the Ivory Coast, where Mr. Ecaré was born and raised. It is, in fact, two separate fables with a common frame, that of a street festival where the singing and dancing is nonstop.

In the first story, a bored wife is accused by her tyrannical farmer-husband of having an affair with his younger brother, a nattily dressed layabout. The wife isn’t, but would like to. At her wit’s end, she takes karate lessons in order to best her husband physically.Read More »

Oversexed female interrogator with a penchant for sadomasochism and torture plots a scheme with her deviant troupe to extort the considerable fortune of a city embezzler.Read More »