Mind-games abound when a hotheaded drifter teams up with the leader of a burgeoning religious cult (that looks an awful lot like Scientology). Astounding performances and the THERE WILL BE BLOOD auteur’s cinematic precision shape this enigmatic ode to American ambition into a simultaneously enchanting and unsettling experience.

For decades Albania’s extra-thick Iron Curtain withheld from the world their rich filmmaking tradition – typified by this realist chronicle of the country’s 1912 struggle for independence from Ottoman rule. A panel of speakers will discuss the Albanian Cinema Project, which spearheaded this stunning restoration.

Working with the support of the Albanian Ministry of Culture, the US Embassy in Tirana, the Library of Congress Audiovisual Archives, and others, the Albanian Cinema Project is dedicated to preserving, restoring and promoting Albanian film heritage. (website: http://www.thealbaniancinemaproject.org/)

THE SECOND NOVEMBER has been digitally restored by Colorlab Corp. on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Albanian independence. This is the first ever English-subtitled version of the film, making its New England premiere.

The following speakers will give a first-hand account of the restoration challenges and ACP's mission to relocate the Albanian Film Archive collections:

-Fatmir Koçi (Albanian filmmaker)

-Thomas Logoreci (Albanian American film producer and screenwriter)

-Regina Longo (Albanian Cinema Project Director)

-Dean Plionis (Film Preservationist, Colorlab Corp.)

A lost baby brontosaurus joins a mismatched group of fellow dino strays; together they face down T-Rexes and other dangers while learning the value of inter-species friendship. Yet this prehistoric BAMBI offers more than cheap nostalgia – it has a delicate visual beauty and a dark poignancy all its own, which you’re finally old enough to appreciate.

When your narrator is introduced face-down in a Hollywood swimming pool, you can rightfully expect equal parts fatalism and pitch-black satire. A broke screenwriter on the run hides out with a forgotten silent-movie queen, while she slips into dangerous delusion. Wilder’s eerie tinsel-town tale proves that before MULHOLLAND DRIVE, there was SUNSET BOULEVARD.