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Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, who have flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking marijuana under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don’t speak the language well.Read More »
Simon Blount (Bernard Giraudeau) is a weary cop who takes solace in the bottle after his wife leaves him for another man. His spirit is lifted when he meets Violet (Fanny Bastien), the wispy, mysterious female he considers somewhat of an angel. Simon is unaware she has systematically murdered the police, attorneys, and officials who were linked to the death of her prostitute mother. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie GuideRead More »
KAFF is Hungary’s largest animation film festival. This is where the legendary Water Spider – Wonder Spider “Vízipók-Csodapók” was made, bought by 46 countries and which taught generations of children that both friendship and protection of nature are important.
Animated Hungarian series about a water spider and his friend an European garden spider.Read More »
SILENT SCREAM is a biopic about convicted murderer Larry Winters . However not content with making a standard prison film the director David Hayman throws a massive spanner in the works by making the movie an art house picture with fractured time lines. We know that Winters served in the army , that he murdered a bar man in cold blood and that he`s serving a life sentence but that`s all we really find out as the story keeps jumping around to different times and places . There`s a vague notion that if you treat dangerous criminals with dignity they can be rehabilitated but this point isn`t really hammered home , and unless you`re aware of Scottish culture like the sectarian divide in the West of Scotland you`ll find much of the film confusing . It`s also a rather bleak film not helped by its obvious lack of budget and I can only recommend it if you`re interested in seeing Brit film star Robert Carlyle and well known TV star Julie Graham in cameo roles.Read More »
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural “accidents”, she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.Read More »
A strict father imposes impossible guidelines on his disabled daughter which reflect his secret, tortured life.Read More »
Synopsis
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the subways. She describes herself saying, “I am a typist and a virgin, and I like Coca-Cola.” Then she meets Olimpico, a north-easterner like herself, who has dreams of becoming a Congressman.Read More »
Made for TV and the French Bicentennial celebrations, this is an extreme case of Peter Greenaway’s obsession with cataloguing and classification. Comprising 23 case histories of corpses fished out of the Seine between 1795 and 1801, it forms a kind of micro-reprise of his monumental The Falls, piling up its narratives, Holmesian speculations and slow, clinical tracking shots over corpses, in a rigidly uniform structure. But within this forbidding system, Greenaway breaks up the frame, much as in Prospero’s Books, using Paintbox graphics to play on the comparative textures of television and paper. Death in the Seine is a pedantic film, because it’s about pedantry and the systematic collecting of facts which might or might not constitute evidence. It wasn’t taken up by British TV, which considering the film’s sign-off comments about the transience of memory and recorded knowledge, is a rather sour irony.Read More »
Google translated description from the Harun Farocki’s site:
Harun Farocki’s film Something Becomes Visible does not want to explain why a war in such a distant country could for a moment spill over to the whole western world. It’s about distances, relationships between. Nor does he explain, he just reminds us that never before has a war been so massively covered. But it would be too much to say that the pictures helped determine its course. It shows the aftermath, the effects of the war. He combines a historical motif with a romantic one. Vietnam and a couple in love.Read More »