• 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)

    Quote:
    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 »

  • Michael Powell – The Spy in Black (1939)

    Michael Powell1931-1940DramaThrillerUnited Kingdom
    The Spy in Black (1939)
    The Spy in Black (1939)

    Synopsis:
    ‘When a German U-Boat captain is sent on a spying mission to the North of Scotland during World War One, he finds more than he bargained for in his contact, the local schoolmistress.’
    – Ian HarriesRead More »

  • Charles Atlas – Hail the New Puritan (1987)

    1981-1990Charles AtlasQueer Cinema(s)United KingdomVideo Art
    Hail the New Puritan (1987)
    Hail the New Puritan (1987)

    Quote:
    Employing a documentary treatment with a fictional script, Atlas presents a time capsule of London in the spring of 1985. Michael Clark, hailed as the rock star of British contemporary dance, is cast as a successful young choreographer. The film charts a half-typical, half-imaginary day in Clark’s life, beginning with a dream sequence.

    Clark’s vigorous day includes an interview with a dance critic in a surreal skit featuring members of The Fall; a cemetery filming for an underground featurette; an erotic encounter in a mirrored bedroom; a nightclub scene; and dancing to exhaustion at home alone. The heart of the film centers on 12 principal dance sequences set in rehearsal, photo session, performance, and nightclub scenes.Read More »

  • Dmitrii Davydov – Kostior na vetru AKA The Bonfire (2016)

    2011-2020Dmitrii DavydovDramaRussia
    Kostior na vetru (2016)
    Kostior na vetru (2016)

    This is a film from Yakutia (AKA Sakha republic, part of Russian Federation). There exist separate film industry producing movies on a regular basis. Most of them, including this one, are on the native yakut language. These movies have local screenings in cinemas of the region, sometimes they also have some presentation on russian and international film festivals. This film in particular was shown at Busan International Film Festival 2016 and imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival 2016 in Canada where it wan «Best Feature Drama» award. It was also nominated for APSA- Asia Pacific Screen Award.

    When a young man kills his cousin in an accident he is overcome with guilt and, in his grief, commits suicide. His father Ignat, a responsible and devout widower, is left reeling and seeks redemption for his son’s actions. He meets a neglected boy and finds comfort looking after him. But the father of the boy who was killed becomes intoxicated with revenge.Read More »

  • Christoph Schlingensief – United Trash AKA The Slit (1996)

    Christoph Schlingensief1991-2000ComedyCultGermany
    United Trash (1996)
    United Trash (1996)

    Africa, … Land of the infinite sun, of curly hair and the smell of diesel oil. German soldiers on a mission from the United Nations. For General Werner Brenner (Udo Kier), a dream comes true: the new crematorium, the multicultural children’s playground and, above all, the old V2-Rocket from the Führer! Here, where people are still “crude and simple”, every German can display his abilities! But after a couple of days, Brenner’s unbreakable optimism starts to crumble…Read More »

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