A WOMAN’S TOUCH demonstrates the evolution of Sonbert's work from an in-camera editing style to the perfection of a montage strategy. The film is also inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s MARNIE (1964), which features a number of motifs; most notably, the color red. In A WOMAN’S TOUCH, the color red is seen throughout much of the film.
Read More“Jonas and Adolfas Mekas arrived in America in 1949 as displaced persons, former prisoners of German labor camps, exiled from their native Lithuanian farming village. Wanted by the Soviet police, they had been forced to leave home years earlier, not to return for 27 years. REMINISCENCES OF A JOURNEY TO LITHUANIA is the compelling document of a divided family and their long-delayed reunion.” —Re:Voir Video
Read MoreIn LOST LOST LOST, Jonas Mekas compiles fourteen years of filming, starting from his arrival in America as a political refugee through the New York counterculture of the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Read MoreBased on the 1920 play of the same name by John Galsworthy, Alfred Hitchcock’s THE SKIN GAME is a fraught drama about two feuding families and the disastrous consequences of their rivalry.
Read MoreAlfred Hitchcock’s final silent film chronicles a dramatic love triangle on the Isle of Man, and is based on the popular 1894 novel THE MANXMAN by Hall Caine.
Read MoreAnother rare comedy in the Hitchcock canon, 1928’s CHAMPAGNE stars “Britain’s Queen of Happiness” Betty Balfour as a young woman forced to find employment after losing out on her father’s fortune.
Read MoreLike THE RING (1927) before it, 1928’s THE FARMER’S WIFE — a romantic comedy about a lonesome man searching for “Mrs. Right” — is a fascinating outlier for the director who would come to be known around the world as the “Master of Suspense.”
Read MoreThe fourth film from “the Master of Suspense” Alfred Hitchcock, THE RING is an engrossing, if unconventional, entry in his oeuvre: a fraught romantic drama set in the world of English boxing.
Read More“Sonbert began making films in 1966, as a student at New York University's film school in New York. In his first films, he uniquely captured the spirit of his generation, and was inspired both by his university milieu and by the denizens of the Warhol art scene. In both provocative and playful fashion, AMPHETAMINE depicts young men shooting amphetamines and making love in the era of sex, drugs and rock and roll.” - Jon Gartenberg
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