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• Lady sings the blues / Paramount Pictures and Berry Gordy present ; directed by Sidney J. Furie ; produced by Jay Weston and James S. White ; screenplay by Terence McCloy and Chris Clark and Suzanne de Passe
  Diana Ross stars in this musical drama charting the life of Billie Holiday, a life tormented by racism and drug abuse
• What's love got to do with it / Touchstone Pictures presents ; a Krost/Chapin production ; a Brian Gibson film ; screenplay by Kate Lanier ; produced by Doug Chapin and Barry Krost ; directed by Brian Gibson
  The turbulent relationship of Ike and Tina Turner eventually forces Tina to leave and find the courage to believe in herself
• Miss Evers' boys / HBO NYC presents ; an Anasazi production ; producer[s], Kip Konwiser, Derek Kavanagh ; teleplay by Walter Bernstein ; directed by Joseph Sargent
  "It is 1932 when loyal, devoted Nurse Eunice Evers is invited to work with Dr. Brodus and Dr. Douglas on a federally funded program to treat syphilis patients in Alabama. Free treatment is offered to those who test positive for the disease, including Caleb Humphries and Willie Johnson. But when the government withdraws its support, money is offered for what will become known as 'The Tuskegee Experiment'; a study of the effects of syphilis on patients who don't receive treatment. Now the men must be led to believe they are being cared for, when in fact they are being denied the medicine that could cure them. Miss Evers is faced with a terrible dilemma - to abandon the experiment and tell her patients or to remain silent and offer only comfort"--Container
• Becket / Paramount Pictures presents ; a Hal Wallis production ; a Paramount and Keep Films co-production ; screenplay by Edward Anhalt ; produced by Hal Wallis ; directed by Peter Glenville
  Despite differences in rank and background, King Henry II and Thomas Becket are lifelong friends. The King is in constant conflict with the Church, which refuses to contribute financing to his wars in France, and jealously guards the tax-free status granted it by previous monarchs. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, Henry has a brilliant idea: rather than another pious cleric loyal to Rome, he will appoint his old friend, Thomas Becket--technically a deacon--to the post. Unfortunately, Becket takes the job seriously, holding devotion to God and the Church above his loyalty to the throne, or the person of its inhabitant. In opposition to Henry, he proves abler than his predecessors do, and the clash of two powerful personalities leads to destruction
• Mandela : long walk to freedom / director, Justin Chadwick
  Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society
• The anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 years without images / a film by Eric Baudelaire
  "Mixing personal stories, political history, revolutionary propaganda and film theory, renowned artist Eric Baudelaire illuminates the idealism and radicalism of left-wing extremist movements in the 1970s by connecting the stories of two of its protagonists: May Shigenobu, daughter of the founder of the Japanese Red Army, and Masao Adachi, the legendary Japanese director who gave up cinema to take up arms with the Red Army and the Palestinian cause. Founded in 1971 by Fusako Shigenobu, the Red Army was a communist militant group whose aim was to incite world revolution. They were responsible for the infamous Lod Airport Massacre, a terrorist attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which members of the Red Army working with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations, attacked Tel Aviv's Lod Airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) and left 26 people dead and over 75 injured. May Shigenobu witnessed the work of the Red Army closely. She was born in secrecy in Lebanon (her father was the leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and led a clandestine life until the age of 27, when her mother was arrested and made to stand trial. A screenwriter and radical activist filmmaker, Masao Adachi was a well-known figure in the Japanese underground scene of the 1960s, having directed seminal early films such as Bowl (1961) and Closed Vagina (1963) and collaborated with Kōji Wakamatsu and Nagisa Oshima. In 1974, he abandoned filmmaking and join the Red Army in Lebanon, where he lived for 27 years. In this striking work, the voices and memories of May and Adachi (whom we never see), along with super 8mm footage and archival material, lead us on an anabasis -- a journey that is both a wandering towards the unknown and a return towards home -- into the political and personal fate of the Japanese Red Army, spanning 30 years, from Tokyo to Beirut."--Distributor's website
• Dao ma dan = Peking opera blues / bian ju Du Guowei ; dao yan, jian zhi Xu Ke
  Set against the elegant backdrop of Chinese opera in China's warlord period in 1913, the film focuses on three young women who become entangled with revolutionary guerillas
• The age of innocence / Columbia Pictures presents a Cappa/De Fina production ; a Martin Scorsese picture ; screenplay by Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese ; produced by Barbara De Fina ; directed by Martin Scorsese
  "No filmmaker captures the grandeur and energy of New York like Martin Scorsese. With this sumptuous romance, he meticulously adapted the work of another great New York artist, Edith Wharton, bringing to life her tragic novel set in the cloistered world of Gilded Age Manhattan. The Age of Innocence tells the story of Newland Archer(Daniel Day-Lewis), whoses engagement to an innocent socialite (Winona Ryder) binds him to the codes and rituals of his upbringing. But when her cousin (Michelle Pfeiffer) arrives in town on a wave of scandal after separating from her husband, she ignites passions in Newland he never knew existed. Swelling with exquisite period detail, this film is an alternately heartbreaking and satirical look at the brutality of old-world America
• Women in love / screenwriter, producer, Larry Kramer ; director, Ken Russell
  Set in an English mining community on the crest of modernity, this traces the shifting currents of desire that link the emancipated Brangwen sisters to a freethinking dreamer and a hard willed industrialist, as well as the men's own erotically charged friendship
• King of jazz / director, John Murray Anderson
  Long available only in incomplete form, this film appears here newly restored to its original glory, offering a fascinating snapshot of the way mainstream American popular culture viewed itself at the dawn of the 1930s
• Space is the place / North American Star System presents ; screenplay, Joshua Smith ; produced by James Newman ; directed by John Coney ; a North American Star System production
  Jazz musician Sun Ra returns to Earth, after being reported lost after his last European tour, and focuses his concern on the fate of humanity and the rights of African Americans
• Space is the place / North American Star System presents ; screenplay, Joshua Smith ; produced by James Newman ; directed by John Coney ; a North American Star System production
  Jazz musician Sun Ra returns to Earth, after being reported lost after his last European tour, and focuses his concern on the fate of humanity and the rights of African Americans
• Space is the place / North American Star System presents ; screenplay, Joshua Smith ; produced by James Newman ; directed by John Coney ; a North American Star System production
  Jazz musician Sun Ra returns to Earth, after being reported lost after his last European tour, and focuses his concern on the fate of humanity and the rights of African Americans
• Awaiting for men = en attendant les hommes / a film by Katy Lena Ndiaye
  The red-walled clay city of Oualata, on the far edge of the Mauritanian desert, provides the atmospheric setting of Katy Lena Ndiaye's stereotype-shattering portrait of femininity and sexuality in the Sahara. Three independent women speak directly to the camera about their experiences as brides, wives, and divorcees, and about the often tricky relationship between men and women in a society seemingly dominated by tradition and masculine rule. "When they stop loving me, it's time to go," declares one. The women's art--intricate designs etched onto the town's walls and doors--lends a further flavor to this film's fresh look at female empowerment and expression in one of Africa's most remote, beautiful regions