• Various – Skæve dage i Thy AKA High Times in Thy (1971)

    Various1971-1980DenmarkDocumentary
    Skæve dage i Thy (1971)
    Skæve dage i Thy (1971)

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    During the summer of 1970 the association ‘The New Society’ created a summer camp on a barren field somewhere in Denmark. More than 7000 people visited the camp in the course of 3 months. The goal was to explore alternative lifestyles and new ways of coexisting and ultimately an attempt at creating a better model for the society. In the wake of Thy Summer Camp a multitude of lifestyle experiments followed: Christiania, Project House and various small communities all around the country. Denmark was forever changed.Read More »

  • Mikael Håfström – Vendetta (1995) (HD)

    1991-2000ActionMikael HåfströmSwedenThriller
    Vendetta (1995)
    Vendetta (1995)

    Two Swedish business men are kidnapped in Rome by the Mob, and moved to Sicily. Carl Hamilton is sent to Sicily on direct order from the Swedish Government. He is sent to negotiate for their release. Hamiltons partner and best friend, Lundwall, is murdered by the Mob. Hamilton is dragged into a bitter and brutal vendetta between himself and the Mob-leader Don Tommaso.Read More »

  • Michael Powell – Contraband (1940)

    Michael Powell1931-1940RomanceThrillerUnited Kingdom
    Contraband (1940)
    Contraband (1940)

    In his autobiography Michael Powell described Contraband as “all pure corn, but corn served up by professionals, and it worked” . This is perhaps how audiences have most often approached Contraband, as a slight piece of British World War II propaganda with entertaining asides of comedy and romance; charming and well-made but little more. Beyond this a rating as a minor imitation of Powell’s great rival Hitchcock might be bestowed, even if for little reason other than its concern with spies. But unlike Hitchcock, the cool observer, Powell was always a hot-headed rebel, and as such his views on war, whether between nations or the sexes, are more unconventional.Read More »

  • Derek Jarman – In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)

    Derek Jarman1981-1990ExperimentalQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom
    In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)
    In the Shadow of the Sun (1981)

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    A collection of Super 8 films shot by Derek Jarman between 1972 and 1975, edited to the music of Throbbing Gristle.

    Derek Jarman used some of his 70s home movie footage to produce this wonderful piece of exploitational avantgarde cinema. Actually the original material has been slowed down to a speed of 3-6 frames, then Jarman added colour effects and the pulsating, menacing score by Industrial supergroup Throbbing Gristle

    The result is a piece of art not to dissimilar to Jarman´s painting work in using found footage as elements of memory and mind that resemble ideas reflected in the Cabala and in C.G. Jung`s writings about an archetypical past that is hidden in everyone of us.Read More »

  • Tokuzô Tanaka – Zoku heitai yakuza AKA Hoodlum Soldier and the C.O. (1965)

    Tokuzô Tanaka1961-1970AsianJapanWar
    Zoku heitai yakuza (1965)
    Zoku heitai yakuza (1965)

    Having escaped, Omiya and Arita are sent flying backwards by landmines set by the guerillas. Once again, they must confront their superiors.Read More »

  • Robert Dornhelm – Echo Park (1985)

    Robert Dornhelm1981-1990ComedyDramaUSA
    Echo Park (1985)
    Echo Park (1985)

    In the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, everyone is more than they initially seem. May waits tables, raises a son, Henry, and is an aspiring actress. She needs a roommate and takes in a pizza deliverer named Jonathan, an aspiring songwriter. In the adjoining flat is August, an Austrian body sculptor who appears in a deodorant commercial and dreams big dreams. May takes a job delivering singing telegrams as a stripper, Jonathan invites Henry to tag along with him on deliveries, August gets into trouble with the police who call his father in Austria, and the friendships, frustrations, and love affairs of everyday life come to a head.Read More »

  • Natalia Almada – Todo lo demás AKA Everything Else (2016)

    Drama2011-2020MexicoNatalia Almada
    Todo lo demás (2016)
    Todo lo demás (2016)

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    For 35 years Doña Flor has worked as a clerk in a government office. Each day she attends dozens of people who sit across from her and hand her their documents. For 35 years she has been invisible to these people, a mere cog in the machine. She has grown so accustomed to this invisibility that she seems to have become invisible even to herself except for the brief pause at the pool each day where she watches the children swim and remembers her daughter. One morning Doña Flor awakens to find her cat has died in the night. Unable to accept the loss of her sole companion, Doña Flor tries to continue her routine as always, but the loss opens up the much deeper wound left by the downing of her daughter. She decides to swim seeking solace in the water, but finds herself paralyzed by fear. As Doña Flor faces her fear of the water, she faces her of life. One day in the shower room another woman unexpectedly washes her back in a simple gesture of compassion that resuscitates her. “Everything Else” is a poetic and lyrical story about a woman’s second coming of age as she reawakens to her self at sixty-three.Read More »

  • René Féret – Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart aka Mozart’s Sister (2010)

    René Féret2001-2010DramaFrance
    Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (2010)
    Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (2010)

    Written, directed and produced by René Féret, MOZART’S SISTER is a re-imagined account of the early life of Maria Anna “Nannerl” Mozart (played by Marie Féret, the director’s daughter), five years older than Wolfgang and a musical prodigy in her own right. Originally the featured performer, Nannerl has given way to Wolfgang as the main attraction, as their strict but loving father Leopold tours his talented offspring in front of the royal courts of pre-French revolution Europe. Approaching marriageable age and now forbidden to play the violin or compose, Nannerl chafes at the limitations imposed on her gender. But a friendship with the son and daughter of Louis XV offers her ways to challenge the established sexual and social order.Read More »

  • Romain Gavras – Notre jour viendra aka Our Day Will Come (2010)

    Romain Gavras2001-2010DramaFrance
    Notre jour viendra (2010)
    Notre jour viendra (2010)

    OUR DAY WILL COME Review

    by Todd Brown, September 12, 2010 1:53 PM
    Though it remains to be seen whether he will be loved our hated by audiences at large – and both seem equally likely – there is no doubt at all that Our Day Will Come announces the arrival of Romain Gavras as a significant new talent in world cinema. Though working with a very different style, Gavras embraces the same sort of fuck you abrasiveness that has made Lars Von Trier such a polarizing presence on the world scene and we should expect nothing less from Gavras.Read More »

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