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January 26, 2022 / TV Movie

A screen premiere adapted from Harold Pinter’s only novel. The Dwarfs, written before Pinter discovered his voice as a playwright, was the starting point for this intense study of a fracturing friendship. Len, Pete and Mark are three friends who subject each other to abuse and advice as Len’s paranoia spirals into insanity. He imagines a party of dwarfs hovering on the edge of his existence, providing the play with its most disturbing and most humorous traits.

January 26, 2022 / Drama
January 26, 2022 / Drama
January 26, 2022 / Short

A dark comedy/western about the showdown of a love couple on hangers, on for adultery. Re-examining the Balkan and Hollywood myths and magic, the movie is set in 1897 and situated around gallows in the Wild West.

January 24, 2022 / Documentary

A documentary on film director William Wyler (1902-1981), this feature was conceived by his daughter, Catherine, as a loving tribute to him. Utilizing a wealth of film clips, many in black and white, the movie features interviews with Bette Davis, Lillian Hellman, Audrey Hepburn, Charleton Heston, John Huston, Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, Ralph Richardson, Barbra Streisand, Billy Wilder, Talli (the former Margaret Tallichet) Wyler, and the director himself. Some of the best of the Hollywood commentary comes from Wyler himself, interviewed only a few days before he died in 1981.

January 24, 2022 / Drama

Joni gets persuaded to enter a bikini contest by her friends and likes the attention. She talks to another contestant, Harlow, who suggests she try exotic dancing at Kandyland, where she works. Joni gets fed up with her job at the dry cleaner’s, and boyfriend Frank won’t commit, so she gets a job at Kandyland. She finds others doing drugs and getting abused, and tries to make her new job, her lingering attraction to Frank, and her strong friendship with Harlow coexist.

January 24, 2022 / Arthouse
January 24, 2022 / Arthouse

In this end-of-the-life scenario, which is designed as an expressive silent film with subtitles, a group of adolescents and scattered loners move through a destroyed landscape. One of the leaders is poisoned by his girlfriend, who now takes his place and demonstrates her power to a newcomer. However, he in turn passes the test of courage, puts himself in the place of the head of the group and leads the ever-growing community into an uncertain future.