2000s

  • Audrius Stonys – Skrajojimai melynam lauke AKA Flying Over the Blue Field (2001)

    2001-2010ArthouseAudrius StonysDocumentaryLithuania

    “After “Antigravitation” I wanted to make another step up, where the last prop under your actions disappears. “Flying Over the Blue Field” is a movie about loneliness in an infinite sky. Man stays with himself and a home-made plane, balancing on the perimeter between death and life.”Read More »

  • Chusy Haney-Jardine – Anywhere, USA (2008)

    USA2001-2010CampChusy Haney-JardineComedy

    Quote:
    “Anywhere USA” reduces every audience that sees it into a delighted, giggling mob – Quentin Tarantino

    Synopsis

    If Tarantino’s cinematic opinions matter to you or, for that matter, you embrace and appreciate a certain quirky, experimental approach to cinema, then Chusy’s Anywhere USA may very well be the perfect film for you.Read More »

  • Hung Hung – Ren jian xi ju AKA Human Comedy (2001)

    2001-2010AsianComedyHung HungTaiwan

    The second movie as the director of Hung Hung, Human Comedy, is divided in four stories separated by interconnected chapters focusing on the contradictions of the human condition inside the modern Taipei. The first story narrates the misfortunes of a young shoe saleswoman who is in love with the actor Tony Leung who lives virtually isolated of all inside in a world of fantasy that she has been created around it. In the second chapter we get in the shoes of an actor who must fight with the director of the play he is working for (AIDS patient) and with his conservative mother who is coming to Taipei to visit him. The third story concerns on engaged couples that are forced to seek for a new house because their house is infected with cockroaches. Read More »

  • Eamon Harrington & John Watkin – It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001)

    2001-2010DocumentaryEamon HarringtonJohn WatkinUSA

    A 60-minute salute to American International Pictures. Entertainment lawyer Samuel Z. Arkoff founded AIP (then called American Releasing Corporation) on a $3000 loan in 1954 with his partner, James H. Nicholson, a former West Coast exhibitor and distributor. The company made its mark by targeting teenagers with quickly produced films that exploited subjects mainstream films were reluctant to tackle. From monsters to beach parties to cycle gangs to the psychedelic youth, many film clips are shown, highlighting the company’s successful twenty-five year run in Hollywood. Interviewees include Arkoff, Nicholson (archive footage), Peter Bogdanovich, Bob Burns, Herman Cohen, Roger Corman, Dick Dale, Joe Dante, David Del Valle, Bruce Dern, Roger Ebert, Beverly Garland, Pam Grier, Susan Hart, James L. Honore, Al Kallis, Aron Kincaid, Mark Thomas McGee, Dick Miller, and Burt Topper.Read More »

  • Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Innocence (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseBelgiumDramaLucile Hadzihalilovic

    At an unusual private school for girls, new students, including young Iris (Zoé Auclair), show up in coffins. The establishment’s teachers, Mademoiselle Eva (Marion Cotillard) and Mademoiselle Edith (Hélène de Fougerolles), introduce Iris and her fellow pupils to the school’s curriculum, which includes fairy-like dances through a nearby forest. When night falls, the older girls, who are on the threshold of womanhood, are then given mysterious, life-changing lessons.

    8 wins, 2 nominationsRead More »

  • Toshiaki Toyoda – Kûchû teien AKA Hanging Garden (2005)

    2001-2010DramaJapanToshiaki Toyoda

    A family struggling to live together even with the outrageous behaviors from each family members.Read More »

  • Quan’an Wang – Fang zhi gu niang AKA Weaving Girl (2009)

    2001-2010AsianChinaDramaQuan'an Wang

    Diagnosed with cancer and unable to afford treatment, a woman decides to leave her unhappy marriage search for her first love in Beijing.Read More »

  • Aurélia Georges – L’Homme qui marche aka The Walking Man (2007)

    2001-2010ArthouseAurélia GeorgesDramaFrance

    Inspired by Russian writer Vladimir Slepian, “The Walking Man” chronicles the life of Viktor Atemian, a political refugee who comes to Paris and briefly becomes a celebrated writer in intellectual circles, a darling of the Paris literary scene.
    A poetic meditation and Situationnist dérive, the film follows an uncompromising Atemian as he withdraws from the literary world and its idiosyncrasies. As time passes and success doesn’t return, he finds himself penniless, staying in cheap hotels to finally end up homeless.Read More »

  • Banmei Takahashi – Hibi (2005)

    2001-2010Banmei TakahashiDramaJapan

    Quote:
    Hibi tells about mother who does pottery and lives rather simple life, growing her children up. She does remarkable job in pottery, finding a new way to make natural pottery in her own tunnel kiln. Then, her son gets leukemia. And entire family has to fight hard to find a donor who has matching bone marrow. The movie is unique and beautiful story about life, but at the same time, very hard and realistic movie about leukemia. Little a bit eccentric character of Kiyoko, acted by Yuko Tanaka is fantastic as such characters haven’t yet seen in Japanese screen since eighties. Read More »

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