"In... Springtime In Greenland (1981), Nick lives at home with his parents, his sister, and the family dog, Barky. At a family barbecue Nick becomes the unwitting rival of the overbearing and aptly named Corny Blower. Blower, like 'Connie' in…
"In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and…
"Simple, delicate, and jazzy, the first of the “Moral Tales” shows the stirrings of what would become the Eric Rohmer style: unfussy naturalistic shooting, ironic first-person voice-over, and the image of the “unknowable” woman. A law student (played…
"Bertrand bides his time in a casually hostile and envious friendship with college chum Guillaume. But when ladies’ man Guillaume seems to be making a play for the spirited, independent Suzanne, Bertrand watches bitterly with disapproval and…
"A pious Catholic engineer in his early thirties, (Jean-Louis) lives by a strict moral code in order to rationalize his world, drowning himself in mathematics and the philosophy of Pascal. After spotting the delicate, blonde Françoise at Mass, he…
"A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.…
"“Why would I tie myself to one woman if I were interested in others?” says Jerôme, even as he plans on marrying a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. Before then, Jerôme spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse nursing crushes on the…
"Though happily married to his adoring wife Hélène, with whom he is expecting a second child, the thoroughly bourgeois business executive Frédéric cannot banish from his mind the multitude of attractive Parisian women who pass him by every day. His…
"To launch the Lecture Series Where Have all the Radicals Gone? co-presented by Eyelevel Gallery and SUNSCAD, Scott Rogers will present on the Arbour Lake Sghool. He will discuss the Sghool's relationship to the economy, politics and social life of…
"Halber Mensch" (aka "1/2 Mensch") is a 1986 film by Japanese director Sohgo Ishii with German band Einstürzende Neubauten. The film's title comes from the album of the same name. The one-hour film documents Einstürzende Neubauten's visit to Japan…
