• Liliana Cavani – Milarepa (1974)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaItalyLiliana Cavani

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    Tibetan yogi Milarepa is one of the main teachers of Buddhism. His autobiography is filmed here parallel with a story of a youth of our days, both seeking answers to same questions. They have masters whose decisions they don’t fully catch, and there are women whose roles are ambiguous. Master and disciple depend in each other, in fierce search for truth; only belief and honor count. Cavani made an extraordinary movie which has not lost any of its charm within years. It is a meditation of man’s destiny and also a narrative of the parallel but non- tangential lives of man and woman. This film can be read as a visual philosophical tract and an homage to Milarepa. Aside of that, the film is very beautiful visually and the great actors fully contribute to the ideas of both Milarepa and Cavani.
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  • Robert Todd – Shrine (2017)

    2011-2020ExperimentalRobert ToddShort FilmUSA

    A shrine made by many in honor and memory of Lucas Wheeler.Read More »

  • Guy Maddin – Archangel (1990)

    1981-1990ArthouseCanadaGuy Maddin

    A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.

    “At once perplexing and joyous, Maddin has crafted a film that, for all the confusion inherent in the tale, unfolds on its own unique terms.” [Austin Chronicle]Read More »

  • Mitch Davis – Divided Into Zero (1999)

    1991-2000CanadaExperimentalMitch DavisShort Film

    PLOT OUTLINE :
    A non-linear surrealistic horror film documenting a man’s broken descent into isolation, body mutilation, paedophilia and murder.Read More »

  • Yilmaz Atadeniz – Kilink soy ve öldür aka Kilink: Strip And Kill (1967)

    1961-1970CampCultTurkeyYilmaz Atadeniz

    Kilink turns one gang against another rival gang in order to get a precious microfilm and a big foreign treasure. This Turkish super villain film is absolutely wonderful.Read More »

  • Antonio Mercero – Planta 4ª aka The 4th Floor (2003)

    2001-2010Antonio MerceroComedyDramaSpain

    With Slaughterhouse 5 Kurt Vonnegut revealed that humour can be exploited in two ways: to make people roll over the floor laughing and to underscore the graveness of earnest problems. While Antonio Mercero’s Spanish dramatic comedy Planta 4ª (The 4th Floor) doesn’t tackle WWII but “only” possibly terminally ill children, its use of humour is similar. While it would be harsh to nickname the film Slaughterhouse 4 (the young patients of the cancer ward on the titular fourth floor all have at least one amputated limb), it shares with Vonnegut its exploitation of laughter in the face of the incomprehensible, or indeed the only sane way to confront the inexplicable madness of disease and death.Read More »

  • Philippe Pollet-Villard – Le Mozart des pickpockets AKA The Mozart of Pickpockets (2006)

    2001-2010ComedyFrancePhilippe Pollet-VillardShort Film

    IMDB Plot summary :
    Richard and Philippe live hand to mouth, backing up a gang of Spanish pickpockets on the streets of Paris, posing as policemen who arrest a gang member while the others rifle the pockets and purses of gawkers. When all of the gang except Richard and Philippe are pinched, things look grim. Plus, Richard insists that they take in a wide-eyed immigrant lad, a deaf-mute left behind in the arrests. Philippe suggests a three-person pickpocket trick, using the boy, but when that goes spectacularly badly, they hit rock bottom. Then, at the cinema, the lad finds a solution. It’s time to celebrate.Read More »

  • Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton – The Navigator (1924)

    USA1921-1930Buster KeatonComedyDonald CrispSilent

    Wealthy Rollo Treadway (Buster Keaton) suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O’Brien (Kathryn McGuire), and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects his sudden offer however, he decides to go on the trip anyway, boarding without delay that night. Because the pier number is partially covered, he ends up on the wrong ship, the Navigator, which Betsy’s rich father (Frederick Vroom) has just sold to a small country at war.Read More »

  • Chris Wilson – I Killed John Lennon (2005)

    2001-2010Chris WilsonDocumentaryShort FilmUnited Kingdom

    Review from BBC news:
    Newly released audio tapes of interviews with John Lennon’s assassin reveal Mark Chapman’s self-confessed “compulsion” to kill the former Beatle.

    “It was like a train, a runaway train, there was no stopping it,” Chapman told interviewers in a New York prison more than a decade ago.

    The singer was shot by Chapman in New York on 8 December 1980. The tapes were recorded in the early 1990s by journalist Jack Jones, who wrote a book about Chapman and his crime. Chapman describes how he shot ex-Beatle Lennon five times in the back outside the Dakota apartment complex, adding “nothing could have stopped me”.”I was under total compulsion,” he says. “I’m thoroughly convinced in my conscience and in my heart that there was nothing I could do beyond that point to help myself, totally convinced of that.”Read More »

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