Summer 2000
6/26 - The Opportunists
Directed by:
Myles Connell
Hosted By Thelma Adams, US WEEKLY, NY POST
All Victor Kelly (Christopher Walken) really wants is to be a responsible man, earn an honest living, and in so doing, redeem himself for the lifetime of trouble he has caused his small, fractured family. But Vic's skills as an auto mechanic are not nearly as marketable as his safecracking abilities
USA
1999, 89 min., Color
Director:
Myles Connell
Producer:
John Lyons, Tim Perell
Principal Cast:
Christopher Walken,
Peter McDonald,
Cyndi Lauper,
Donal Logue,
Vera Farmiga,
Jose Zuniga
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Opening Night Summer Indie Fest - Bellevue Theater, Upper
Montclair
USA
2000, 90 min., Color
Director:
Zachary Stratis
Producer:
Mary Chiochios, Vilma Gregoropoulos, CL Monrose, Christopher O'Donnell, Zack Stratis
Executive Producer:
"Your Name Here"
Screenwriter:
Vilma Gregoropoulos, Zack Stratis
Cinematographer:
Vilma Gregoropoulos
Editor:
Lynne Schwahn, Parrella, Jonathan Sahula, Tom Ohanian
Music:
Beth Heinberg
Principal Cast:
The Stratis Family
Butterfly
In
the tradition of "Cinema Paradiso," BUTTERFLY explores the
extraordinary relationship between a shy young boy, Moncho, and his incredibly
compassionate teacher, Don Gregorio, who teaches Moncho to find his way in a
world that is increasingly frightening. When the Spanish Civil war breaks out
on July 18, 1936, everything for the boy and his hero will unexpectedly
change.
BUTTERFLY stars the Spanish legend FERNANDO FERNAN GOMEZ who has a career that
spans five decades as an actor, novelist, poet, and director. In 1998, he won
the Goya (Spanish Oscar) for Best Lead Actor for his latest film "The
Grandfather. " The film also stars MANUEL LOZANO, UXIA BLANCO, GONZALO
MARTIN URIARTE, ALEXIS de los SANTOS and GUILLERMO TOLEDO.
Directed by JOSÉ LUIS CUERDA and written by RAFAEL AZCONA, BUTTERFLY is based
upon the MANUEL RIVAS’ novel Que Me Quieres, Amor?.
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DIRECTOR |
Jose Luis Cuerda |
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PRODUCER |
Las Producciones Del |
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SCREENPLAY |
Rafael Azcona |
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PRINCIPAL CAST |
Fernando Fernan Gomez |
AN AFFAIR OF LOVE (IN
FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
Fine Line
Features
AN AFFAIR OF LOVE
(August 11th)
Directed by: Frederic Fonteyne
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Sergi Lopez
Directed by
Frederic Fonteyne and starring the luminous Nathalie Baye, An Affair of Love
is an extraordinarily powerful movie about a relationship that starts as a
sexual liaison and escalates into much more. Responding to an ad taken out in
a newspaper, a woman and man decide to begin an anonymous, highly sexual
relationship that they describe as "pornographic." The audience is
privy to the intimate details of this unconventional relationship through
interview footage shot in mock-documentary fashion. As the couple moves
through the stages of their relationship they come to discover that the
pursuit of sexual desire may not be as simple as they had anticipated.
SHOWER
Release Date:
July 7th, 2000
92 minutes
SHOWER
- (IN CHINESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES) One of China's all time biggest
hits! Sony Classics
SHOWER is the story of a father and his two sons. Abandoned by his eldest son, who left in search of fortune, the father remains in Beijing raising his retarded son and clinging to his chosen profession as the master of a bath-house. Mistakenly believing that his father has passed away, the eldest son returns to Beijing to discover the magic of the bath-house and its importance to the surrounding community
CAST:
Zhu Xu
Pu Cun Xin
Jiang Wu
Director:
Zhang Yang
Producer:
Peter Loehr
Original Screenplay:
Liu Fen Dou
Zhang Yang
Huo Xin
Diao Yi Nan
Cai Shang Jun
SAVING GRACE - Starring Brenda Blethyn - Fine LIne
Features
SAVING GRACE
(August 4th in select cities)
Directed by: Nigel Cole
Written by: Craig Ferguson, Mark Crowdy
Starring: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson
A heart-warming comedy, Saving Grace stars award-winning actress Brenda
Blethyn as a newly widowed woman who is faced with the prospect of financial
ruin. Under the tutelage of her fun loving gardener (Ferguson), she turns her
green thumb to enterprise - exchanging prize-winning orchids for marijuana
plants and risking the safety of her idyllic Cornwall lifestyle for London's
seedy underworld. Grace's adventure quickly turns to mayhem and she must rely
on an eccentric group of locals (as well as a few new friends) to stay one
step ahead of the law. Saving Grace premiered at the 2000 Sundance Film
Festival where it won the Audience Prize in the World Cinema section.
This past Spring 2000 season is right here