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Harvest 3000 Years (Mirt Sost Shi Amit) (Country: Ethiopia; Director: Haile Gerima; Writer: Haile Gerima; Cast: Kasu Asfaw, Worke Kasa, Melaku Makonen, Adane Melaku, Hareg-Weyn Tafere)
A masterpiece of African cinema, chosen as one of the initial projects by Martin Scorsese for his new World Cinema Foundation project. Scorsese has written that the film "has a particular kind of urgency which few pictures possess. This is the story of an entire people, and its collective longing for justice and good faith."
Night Tide (Country: US; Director: Curtis Harrigton; Writer: Curtis Harrigton; Cast: Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir, Luana Anders)
The feature debut of the versatile Curtis Harrington (1926-2007) stars a young Dennis Hopper, and until now has not been seen on 35mm since the '60s. Set in an amusement park, Harrington's film blends a romantic mystery story with elements of film noir and the horror genre, the film's atmosphere enhanced by David Raksin's (Laura) melodic score.
Toby Dammit (Country: Italy; Director: Federico Fellini; Writer: Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi; Cast: Terence Stamp)
A gorgeous new restoration—supervised by its cinematographer, Giuseppe Rotunno—of Fellini's adaptation of a Poe short story has Terence Stamp as a British celeb struggling through a haze of booze and drugs to make sense of the paparazzi and produttore who welcome him to Rome.
Two Timid Souls (Country: France; Director: René Clair; Writer: René Clair; Cast: Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gerald, Vera Flory, Maurice de Feraudy, Yvette Andreyor)
The revelation of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival last fall was this charming, near-forgotten comic gem, which displays all the elegance, wit, and visual inventiveness that are hallmarks of its director, best known for An Italian Straw Hat, and A nous la liberté.
