Visions and Marvels of the Christian Religion
All the characters are in hell, but they act as though the are in a sitcom, with canned laughter. It’s based on Arcana Celestia by Swedenborg, a Swedish esoteric theologian…
Europa
Postwar Germany, 1945. Leopold Kessler, an American of German descent, works as a sleeping car conductor for the Zentropa railway line. When he meets Katharina Hartmann, the railroad owner’s daughter,…
The Antiquities of Rome
Rousseau’s first full-length feature, and one of the best documentaries/experimental films of the past few decades, sprung equally from Robert Bresson, Michael Snow, and Jean-Marie Straub (who has called Rousseau…
Daddy Nostalgia
Captive of the Desert
Adrenaline
“AdrĂ©naline” proposes a string of short surrealist films presenting at various levels an interesting mix of mild gore, cynical humor and absurd surrealism.
Tom and Lola
Their immune systems tragically damaged at birth, Tom and Lola are two beautiful children forever isolated in plastic bubbles. But neither cold urethane nor chillier hospital technicians can keep down…
Bunker Palace Hotel
In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this…
Romuald et Juliette
Angano… Angano… Tales from Madagascar
Venerable storytellers recount for the camera and their listeners the founding myths of Malagasy culture.
Turning Table
On a winter night, the author of “The King and the Mockingbird” is visited by the cartoon characters he created in his studio. Along with a little clown, he screens…
Jane B. by Agnès V.
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of…
The Murdered House
The Innocents
Gandahar
RenĂ© Laloux, created Gandahar, his final animated feature film. Based on Jean-Pierre Andrevon’s novel Les Hommes-machines contre Gandahar (The Machine-Men versus Gandahar) This fascinating adult animation combines Laloux’s famous imagination…
Weapons of the Spirit
A documentary about 5000 men, women, teen-agers, and children in a small mountain town in France who saved 5000 Jews from the Nazis during WWII.
Keep in Touch
Rousseau is shown sitting in a room, waiting. Voices leave messages on his answering machine (sound); a table lamp (light) and an empty writing pad (memory) adopt the meaning due…