1999 Film Series

Bugsy A Barry Levison film about the rise and fall of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel and the creation of Las Vegas. The Official Story The story of a woman who lives the good life, sheltered from the political turmoil that sorrounds her in Argentina...until she begins to suspect that her adopted daughter may have been the offspring of a political prisoner. Biko: Breaking the Silence The story of South African Steve Biko's heroic life and untimely death. Gerrie and Louise The South African story of one of the world's most unlikely couples -- a veteran of South Africa's covert wars and one of the country's top investigative journalists -- set against the backdrop of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Brat (The Brother) "Russian noir comes of age with Brother, a tough, taut, expertly made gangster movie about a baby-faced former soldier boy from the countryside who takes today's St. Petersburg by storm, creating a trail of dead Chechen thugs and blown-away local mafia before hitchhiking by truck to Moscow." The Boston Phoenix The French Connection The true-to-life film about the largest narcotics seizure of all time in 1962; a fast-paced realistic police/crime film featuring an unsympathetic protagonist -- Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle -- as the main undercover New York City narcotics cop.