Most of the best films/movies ever made are pre-1990; many, pre-1960; some pre-1940. We show the best. Great directors from any decade and country (Renoir, Ophüls, Hawks, Almodóvar, Reed, Bergman, Ray, Wilder, Ozu, Truffaut, Hitchcock, Buñuel, Visconti, Tarkovsky, Powell & Pressburger, ...). Full-size silver screen at the Wells Film Centre, Monday and Tuesday, every 4 weeks throughout the year.
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Next film: Mon 28 - Tue 29 May
Site updated: 2 May 2012
What’s it about?
Take a run-down truckstop in one of the most boring parts of the USA, add a dash of clash between opposing characters, stir vigorously, and you have tingling comedy worth more than one toast to the Bavarian director, Peter Adlon, of whom many may never have heard (not you of course, but I have a confession to make). Strongly requested.
What some have said:
TOFG: "A radiant, oddball comedy-drama about the relationship that develops between a fat Bavarian tourist ..., an irritable black truckstop owner ..., and a weirdo artist ..., set in the dusty Arizona desert land of lonesome motels .... Adlon ... raise[s] the film effortlessly into realms of fantasy, shafted with magic and moments of epiphany."
VFG: "An adorable oddity. ... visually exhilarating and consciously modern ... It's hard not to fall in love with this comic fable about the magic that develops at the meeting of two cultures.", 3.5*.
RT: 4*.
Some on-line reviews: IMDB, Wikipedia.
(TOFG, VFG, 1001, EFG, H1000, RT, BN100, DP, NYFCC, DT, ...? What do these acronyms mean?)
