• Kôhei Oguri – Umoregi AKA The Buried Forest (2005)

    2001-2010AsianDramaJapanKôhei Oguri

    “What secrets lie deep in the buried forest? Veteran filmmaker Oguri Kohei, the director of such films as The Sting of Death and Sleeping Man, helms The Buried Forest (a.k.a. Umoregi), one of a select group of Japanese films entered in competition at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. With a cinematic look seemingly pulled straight from yesteryear, the film kicks off by focusing on a high school girl named Machi (Karen). To break up the monotony of summer, Machi decides that she and her friends should have some fun and start telling each other stories.Read More »

  • Shahram Mokri – Mahi va gorbeh AKA Fish & Cat (2013)

    2011-2020DramaIranMysteryShahram Mokri

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    A group of students decides to camp on a desolate Caspian region which runs a competition of kite flying during the winter solstice. Not far from the camp, live Babak and Saeed, two grim cooks. Armed with sharp knives, they roam the forest in search of meat to serve the decrepit restaurant they run nearby…Read More »

  • Jee-woon Kim – Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom AKA The Good, the Bad, the Weird (2008) (HD)

    2001-2010ActionJee-woon KimSouth KoreaWestern

    The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits.Read More »

  • Fruit Chan – Hui nin yin fa dak bit doh AKA The Longest Summer (1998)

    1991-2000DramaFruit ChanHong Kong

    It is July 1st of 1997, and Hong Kong is bright in celebration. The United Kingdom handover of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China leaves Ga Yin, and his fellow soldiers without work. Which leads them to find employment and money any way they can get it. Without much success, Ga Yin decides to join his brother Ga Suen in the triad gang world.Read More »

  • Tetsuya Mariko – Disutorakushon beibîzu AKA Destruction Babies (2016)

    2011-2020DramaJapanTetsuya Mariko

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    At some point beating and ravaging others becomes a routine pastime when two kids go on a rampage. Taira picks his target of men and goes for broke, while Kitahara puts down his camera long enough to instead go after women. There is enough blood shed during the course of one night to paint a mural of red for the whole city to see.Read More »

  • Raymundo Gleyzer – Los traidores AKA The Traitors (1973)

    1971-1980ArgentinaDramaPoliticsRaymundo Gleyzer

    This film by the Marxist collective Cine de la Base urges Argentine workers to rise up and take control of the country, echoing the rubric: “Workers of the world, unite! You have only your chains to lose.” One premise of this complex political film is that the American CIA worked with Juan Peron to corrupt the Argentine trade-union movement. A unionist known only as Barrera, (who in reality was assassinated in 1969) is here shown accepting bribes from American-owned companies and otherwise undermining the legitimate activities of his union. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • Sharon Lockhart – Pine Flat (2006)

    USA2001-2010DocumentaryExperimentalSharon Lockhart

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    Lockhart began by constructing a portrait studio in a small rural community, and extending an open invitation to local children, and then by immersing herself in their environment and noting the complexity of their interactions. Her highly descriptive, almost painterly portraits, taken over the course of several years, abjure narration for the pleasure of the gaze and the notion of temporality. The studio remains a constant, its black backdrop, cement floor and natural lighting a theatrical setting that allows the children to develop a different kind of relationship to the camera. Those stills stand in stark contrast to the pictorialism of a series showing the community’s majestic natural surroundings, and to the portraits on 16mm film that accompany them, which are both literally and figuratively moving.Read More »

  • Nanouk Leopold – Boven is het stil AKA It’s All So Quiet (2013)

    2011-2020DramaNanouk LeopoldNetherlandsQueer Cinema(s)

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    Helmer is 55 and a bachelor. He tends a remote farm and looks after his ailing father. Theirs is a brittle, tight-lipped relationship. When his father moves ever closer towards the grave, Helmer shifts him upstairs. He then clears out all the junk from the ground floor, throws the house plants on the dung heap, orders a new bed, and begins to live a life of his own. From time to time, Ada from the neighbouring farm drops in with her sons, and the milk truck driver regularly seeks Helmer’s company – but Helmer withdraws into his own world.Read More »

  • James Benning – Ruhr (2009)

    2001-2010ArchitectureDocumentaryGermanyJames Benning

    Synopsis by Mark Peranson (cinema-scope):
    James Benning is not quite Stravinsky, and his first high-definition video (and first film shot outside the US) is not exactly the Rite of Spring, but a trip to the heart of the Ruhr Valley for the premiere of Ruhr at the Duisberg Film Week carried a certain nervous anticipation. After years of shooting on 16mm and finally abandoning it for HD because of an endless series of processing and projection errors, Benning was about to enter further unexplored territory: digital projection.Read More »

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