Fifteenth Wellington Film Festival
Embassy Theatre, July 11-26 1986
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- DirectorÉric RohmerStarsPascale OgierTchéky KaryoFabrice LuchiniLouise is a suburban young interior decorator divided between a boyfriend, a lover (who is married) and the wish of having some fulfillment and some balance in her life. A change to reach some independence comes when she rents a small apartment.
- DirectorNicole Van GoethemThree scantily-clad female figures struggle to hold up the crumbling remains of an ancient Greek temple.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsSaeed JaffreyRoshan SethDaniel Day-LewisAn ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.
- DirectorAlex CoxStarsHarry Dean StantonEmilio EstevezTracey WalterA young punk, recruited by a car repo agency, finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu with a huge, $20,000 bounty--and something otherworldly stashed in its trunk.
- 1964–19721h 35m7.3 (31)TV EpisodeDirectorJacques RivetteStarsPierre BraunbergerMarcel DalioDido FreireAlone in a cinema, Renoir analyzes scenes from two of his films and discusses editing and other techniques of storytelling.Renoir, le Patron (60m)
- DirectorEdgardo CozarinskyStarsJean Cocteau
- DirectorDennis O'RourkeA documentary on American nuclear testing in the Pacific atolls.
- DirectorDeborah ShafferStarsCharlie ClementsRichard NixonDocumentary of Charlie Clements, a Vietnam War pilot who was convinced by his experiences in the war that he should become a doctor working behind enemy lines.
- DirectorJohn SaylesStarsJoe MortonDaryl EdwardsRosanna CarterA mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.
- DirectorGreta SchillerRobert RosenbergStarsRita Mae BrownBruce NugentHenry OtisThe history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.
- DirectorLucy WinerContrary to the public stereotype of a youthful homosexual community, gay men and women do grow old. Silent Pioneers presents an upbeat focus on the lives of these people today, showing them living full and diverse lives and sharing concerns on aging, health and housing, with other senior citizens. It also considers how support networks within the gay and lesbian community have enriched and strengthened their individual lives.
- DirectorFernando E. SolanasStarsMarie LaforêtPhilippe LéotardMiguel Ángel SoláSome Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
- DirectorFaith HubleyStarsGeorgia HubleyEmily HubleyRay Hubley
- DirectorLuc BessonStarsChristopher LambertIsabelle AdjaniRichard BohringerOn improvising a burglary at a shady tycoon's home, Fred takes refuge in the hip and surreal universe of the Paris Metro and encounters its assorted denizens, the tycoon's henchmen and his disenchanted young wife.
- DirectorBob StenhouseStarsGrant TillyA frog gets trapped in a liquor bottle.
- DirectorJean-Luc GodardStarsMyriem RousselThierry RodePhilippe LacosteA college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.
- DirectorAnne-Marie MiévilleStarsBruno CremerAurore ClémentRebecca Hampton11 year old Marie is terribly upset by her parents' separation. Her reaction is to cut herself off from the world and take refuge in books, music and dance. This short film is a complement to Jean-Luc Godard's film Je vous salue Marie.
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsMichael EmilKaren BlackMichael MargottaZee is walking up and down Manhattan streets, talking to herself and to the husband who has just left her. At a sidewalk café she runs into Eli. A very unlikely, funny and touching relationship develops between two lost souls in the big city, which is the third major character in this film.
- DirectorMarleen GorrisStarsLineke RijxmanHenriëtte TolEdda BarendsReleased in Holland as Gebroken Spiegels, Broken Mirrors is set for the most part in an Amsterdam brothel. Lineke Ripman and Henriette Tol play two whores who begin to rebel against their lot in life. Their story is counterpointed by a subplot involving housewife Edda Barends, who is kidnapped by one of the brothel's customers; as Barends starves to death, her captor takes photographs of her last days on earth. Somehow her demise is meant to be as much a "liberation" as Ripman and Tol's refusal to continue plying their trade. Throughout Broken Mirrors, the male characters are depicted as murderers, both literal and spiritual.
- DirectorAlison SnowdenA lonely woman sends off for a special mail-order package.
- DirectorAlan RudolphStarsGeneviève BujoldKeith CarradineLesley Ann WarrenLove doctor radio host Nancy, bar owner Eve, Pearl, drifter Mickey et al meet in LA.
- DirectorHelma Sanders-BrahmsStarsBrigitte FosseyHildegard KnefIvan DesnyEmily, an actress' child, stays with her bourgeois grandparents during frequent periods when her mother makes films. Isabelle wraps a picture, flies to her childhood home to pick up Emily, and plans to leave for her place in France. Old wounds between Isabelle and her parents open over Isabelle's lifestyle. It's also apparent that Isabelle's mother Paula is unhappy--with her husband and with her youthful hopes dashed when she became pregnant with Isabelle. Unbeknownst to Isabelle, the co-star of the film she's just made has followed her, checked into a nearby hotel, and wants to begin an affair, although he's married. Can Isabelle sort it out? What's best for Emily?
- DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
- DirectorAgnès VardaStarsSandrine BonnaireMacha MérilStéphane FreissA young woman's body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.
- DirectorSue BrooksStarsJeff ArnoldJeff AshbyElaine Gay
- DirectorJane AaronLights and shadows travel across the outside and inside of a house.
- DirectorReinhard HauffStarsUlrich TukurHans KremerTherese AffolterStammheim Prison in Stuttgart, West Germany, as the five defendants--Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof Gudrun Ensslin, Jan-Carl Raspe, and Holger Meins--are brought before the judge and accused of the murder of four US servicemen in a terrorist bombing attack. After a hunger strike at the trial's start, Meins dies. The next to die is Meinhof, an apparent suicide. As the trial stretches on, Baader, Ensslin, and Raspe continuously disrupt the proceedings with accusations that they are being purposely undernourished and spied upon.
- DirectorPhil AustinDerek W. HayesStarsShaun CurryRobert LlewellynDavid TateAn army conscript fights his way through a series of hallucinatory scenarios in which he is confronted by a series of bizarre attackers - who, one by one, turn out to be his army friends.
- DirectorKrzysztof ZanussiStarsMaja KomorowskaScott WilsonHanna SkarzankaIn the aftermath of World War II, an American soldier falls in love with a Polish woman, and offers his help of leaving the country. But the circumstances turns out otherwise.
- DirectorIngmar BergmanStarsIngmar BergmanKarin BergmanA film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.
- DirectorPatrice ChéreauStarsJean-Hugues AngladeVittorio MezzogiornoRoland BertinA young man discovers his homosexuality and begins a relationship with a manipulative hustler / petty criminal that he meets at a train station.
- DirectorStuart GordonStarsJeffrey CombsBruce AbbottBarbara CramptonAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue.
- DirectorCsaba VargaAugusta tries everything in order to make herself look beautiful.
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.
- DirectorDésiré EcaréStarsSidiki BakabaKouadou BrouAlbertine N'GuessanAt a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.
- DirectorSusan YoungRevelers mingle, drink, and dance at a street carnival.
- DirectorPat FiskeStarsNita McCraeJack MundeyJoe OwensAustralian documentary about the New South Wales Builders' Labourers' Federation, 1940-1975.
- DirectorJane CampionStarsKris BidenkoEmma ColesKris McQuadeThe evolving relationship of two teenage girls in Sydney backwards through time, from estrangement to the height of their friendship a year earlier.
- DirectorAlbert BrooksStarsAlbert BrooksJulie HagertySylvia FarrelA husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago.
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsJeroen KrabbéRenée SoutendijkThom HoffmanA man who has been having visions of an impending danger begins an affair with a woman who may lead him to his doom.
- DirectorCarlo RolaStarsIris BerbenA nun leaves the monastery to do some shopping. Due to a satanic misunderstanding, she becomes a triple murderer.
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsHuey LongRussell LongDavid McCulloughKen Burns' portrait of Louisiana governor/U.S. senator Huey Long.
- DirectorLance BirdTom JohnsonStarsJason RobardsAdora AndrewsKing George VIDocumentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair.
- DirectorElem KlimovStarsAleksey KravchenkoOlga MironovaLiubomiras LauceviciusAfter finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
- DirectorHark TsuiStarsKenny BeeSylvia ChangSally YehIn 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don't each other's name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
- DirectorBruno BozzettoTwo lovers are stranded on nearby tropical islands separated by shark-infested waters. How can they get together?
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGriffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna BloomAn ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho he met that evening at a coffee shop.
- DirectorNaoto YamakawaStarsKassei KumamotoShigeru MuroiKazunao SakaguchiA guy passes by on the street a girl who is "a pure 100% all him".
- DirectorMehdi CharefStarsKader BoukhanefRémi MartinLaure DuthilleulIn a depressing concrete Parisian suburb in the seventies two friends are keeping boredom at bay with loitering and petty crime.
- DirectorMats Olof OlssonStarsAnders Åberg
- DirectorMitsuo YanagimachiStarsKin'ya KitaôjiKiwako TaichiNorihei MikiThe villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions are threatened by a planned marine park. Tatsuo is a macho lumberjack who hunts boars and monkeys with the young Ryota. Tatsuo is married with two children, has four elder sisters, and is under pressure to sell the family land to the developers. When the fish pens are deliberately contaminated by oil, the fishermen suspect Tatsuo. Kimiko, an old girlfriend of Tatsuo, returns to the village to find money to pay off her debts. During the annual fire festival, Tatsuo becomes angry when the old traditions are not preserved.
- DirectorNaoto YamakawaTwo pals suffer from an insatiable hunger and decide to rob a local communist bakery run, occupied by a Wagner loving shop keep and a lone indecisive woman contemplating her next meal.
- DirectorMario CamusStarsAlfredo LandaTerele PávezBelén BallesterosSpain, 1960s. The family of poor farmers work hard in the countryside for the rich landowners who exploit them.
- DirectorMarjorie HuntPaul WagnerStarsVincent PalumboRoger MorigiA look at some of the last stone carvers working in the United States, those completing the sculptures adorning the Washington National Cathedral. They discuss their craft and the cultural forces which helped define it, as well as the fading use of stone ornamentation in architecture and the history of stone carving, and they tour the cathedral to point out the history behind some of the work.
- DirectorClaude ZidiStarsPhilippe NoiretThierry LhermitteRégineA moderately corrupt veteran policeman teaches the art of bribes to his young partner. The rookie turns out to be an extremely capable student, and soon overtakes the teacher.Les Ripoux
- DirectorPercy AdlonStarsMarianne SägebrechtEisi GulpToni BergerAn asocial, obese German woman lives in a large city. Unfortunately, despite her kind and intelligent personality, she has had a lot of trouble making a connection with people, until she gets a crush on a handsome subway conductor.
- DirectorZoltán LehotayA mouse receives thunderous applause at the end of his classical-music concert, but when he goes back to his dressing room, he is not as he seems.
- DirectorKurt GloorStarsMichael KönigLisi MangoldHannelore Elsner
- DirectorGakuryû IshiiStarsKatsuya KobayashiMitsuko BaishôYoshiki ArizonoAfter moving into a new house, a family starts acting crazier and crazier.
- DirectorMaggie JaillerStarsCerith Wyn EvansMartin Jones
- DirectorDavid HareStarsVanessa RedgraveIan HolmJudi DenchThe mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
- DirectorJûzô ItamiStarsTsutomu YamazakiNobuko MiyamotoKin SugaiWhen Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsArmin Mueller-StahlElisabeth TrissenaarWojciech PszoniakIn the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.
- DirectorFerenc RofuszAn apple struggles to free itself from the tree and fall free, as its fellow apples look on.
- DirectorLaurie AndersonStarsLaurie AndersonJoy AskewAdrian BelewConcert film of Laurie Anderson performing songs from her first three albums, selections from her four-night epic "United States Live," and several new songs, which incorporate a unique blend of film, animation, dance, and electronics.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsGillian GilbertPeter HookStephen MorrisMore than just a video clip, this is an experience to be seen and felt. This epic music video directed by the great Jonathan Demme consists of massive close-ups of New Order band members each performing with their musical instrument or sometimes changing them from time to time while providing the spectacular song "The Perfect Kiss" , single from their second album.
- DirectorBertrand BlierStarsGérard DepardieuMichel BlancMiou-MiouA bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.
- DirectorJohn MinnisStarsJohn MinnisA talented, but doomed, gentleman tries to participate in a properly British game of charades.
- DirectorDonna DeitchStarsHelen ShaverPatricia CharbonneauAudra LindleyWhile waiting for her divorce papers, a repressed professor of literature is unexpectedly seduced by a carefree, spirited young lesbian.
- DirectorSharon McGowanStarsIngrid BischoffNorma FosterMolly HandFive women are black belts in karate, which to them is more than self-defense, it's a philosophy for life.
- DirectorMaximilian SchellStarsMarlene DietrichMaximilian SchellAnnie AlbersRetrospective on the career of enigmatic screen diva Marlene Dietrich.
- DirectorStig BergqvistMartti EkstrandJonas OdellStarsMika PollakLars WesterBerit LundgrenA little guy wakes up before everyone else and heads out into the suburbs on his own. But out there, nothing is clear: workers are busy pumping up the sun, painting flowers on the bushes and assembling the playmates.
- DirectorRaúl RuizStarsJean-Bernard GuillardPhilippe DeplancheNadège ClairA drunken sailor recounts the surrealistic odyssey of his life story to a murderous student.
- DirectorSidney Peterson
- DirectorHenry JaglomStarsPatrice TownsendHenry JaglomJoanna FrankA middle-aged couple, on the verge of proceeding with a divorce, find themselves questioning their decision to separate when fellow friends and neighbors, oblivious to their marital troubles, assemble at their house for a 4th of July Weekend party.