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  • Peter Greenaway – The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)

    Arthouse2001-2010Peter GreenawayUnited Kingdom

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    This second film in the Tulse Luper Suitcases series, deals with the life and times of Luper and his friends, lovers, jailers and enemies, during the Second World War, in three bizarre prisons, in a chateau at Vaux in Northern France, in a cinema in Strasbourg, and in a collaborationist household on the French coast at Dinard.Read More »

  • Peter Greenaway – The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)

    2001-2010ArthousePeter GreenawayUnited Kingdom

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    This first film in the Tulse Luper Suitcases Series deals with the adventures of Tulse Luper and his great friend Martino Knockavelli, in three locations, in Newport South Wales, in Moab Utah and in Antwerp Belgium in the two decades before the Second World War.Read More »

  • Pietro Marcello – Bella e perduta AKA Lost and Beautiful (2015)

    2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryItalyPietro Marcello

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    The foolish servant Pulcinella is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to honor the last wishes of the poor shepherd Tommaso: his mission is to save a young buffalo called Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the animal at the former royal palace of Carditello, where Tommaso had looked after the ruined Bourbon estate in the heart of the Land of Fires. He takes the buffalo off to the north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy, but their long journey’s end does not bring what they were hoping for.Read More »

  • Antoine d’Agata – Atlas (2013)

    2011-2020Antoine d'AgataArthouseExperimentalFrance

    A man with no emotional ties, a survivor of a long journey, collects giddy images, scattered fragments of a splintered identity like the regions he crosses through. He wears himself out with the strangeness of signs, places, and unfathomable languages. There is no god or indulgence in his nights, but the acceptance that there is only flesh.
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  • Carlos Reygadas – Adulte (1998)

    1991-2000ArthouseCarlos ReygadasMexicoShort Film

    A man, a coffin, a cliff. Bunuelian and surrealist in tone, yet not without humour.
    A short film, shot in black & white 8mm.Read More »

  • Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Umiliati (2003)

    2001-2010ArthouseDanièle Huillet and Jean-Marie StraubFrancePolitics

    In Italy, immediately subsequent to the war, a group of people who lost all they possessed during the conflict, settle in a village in ruins. They intend to restore the city from the rubble and re-start life, in imitation of the women of Messina who rebuilt their city, destroyed as it was by an earthquake. Oscillating between respect and suspicion, co-existence between group members is tense. Things become complicated when an envoy from the government arrives to say that nothing there belongs to them. The film is a free adaptation of fragments of the novella ‘The Women of Messina’, by Sicilian writer Elio Vittorini.Read More »

  • Jacques Richard – Rebelote (1984)

    1981-1990ArthouseComedyFranceJacques Richard

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    Rémi Chauveau, 10 years old, lives in a divided family. He first experiences life in a severe boarding school before living with a strict and domineering nanny. As a teenager, he assists a butcher in Paris while getting into mischiefs on saturdays which sometimes lead to the prison. One day, he meets the love of his life …Read More »

  • Carlos Reygadas – Japón (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseCarlos ReygadasDramaMexico

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    In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires. Recruiting a cast of nonactors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican country­side with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable. A work of soaring ambition and startling visual poetry, Japón is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director.Read More »

  • Andy Warhol – Beauty#2 (1965)

    1961-1970Andy WarholArthouseExperimentalUSA

    reviews from imdb:
    Warhol’s Visions of Beauty, 11 October 2006
    8/10
    Author: Gerald Santana from Oakland, Ca

    Beauty No.2 reminds me of being in love. If I remembered the last time that I was in love and then decided to talk about it, depending on my mood, I could pretty much describe it in two ways; amazing and f**cked up. Warhol and Wein (among others) both saw something in Sedgewick that provoked feelings like love, amazement, and violence. Beauty No.2 is a collaboration between these people that show all three antagonists in brilliant form.Read More »

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