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  • Frédéric Rossif – Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d’être (1974)

    Frédéric Rossif1971-1980ArthouseDocumentaryFrance
    Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d'être (1974)
    Georges Mathieu ou La fureur d’être (1974)

    Summer 1971. In front of Frederic Rossif’s cameras, a young Vangelis Papathanassiou improvises live on screen using his self-made set-up of electronic instruments and percussions while George Mathieu is painting two giant canvases: The Election of Charles Quint and The Necessity of Hope. The great French dramaturge François Billetdoux writes a beautiful text specially for this opportunity.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – Notre musique AKA Our Music (2004)

    Jean-Luc Godard2001-2010ArthouseDramaFrance
    Notre musique (2004)
    Notre musique (2004)

    Quote:
    Notre Musique, is an indictment of modern times divided into three “kingdoms”: “Enfer” (“Hell”), “Purgatoire” (“Purgatory”) and “Paradis” (“Paradise”). A unqiue blend of almost abstract cinema, fiction, and documentary. It opens with a montage entitled “Hell”, which shows real and fictional footage of carnage: soldiers, atrocities, war. As brief as it is, the relentless and strangely beautiful barrage of violence is enough to make anybody despair of the human race.Read More »

  • Nicolas Winding Refn – Fear X (2003)

    Nicolas Winding Refn2001-2010ArthouseDenmarkThriller
    Fear X (2003)
    Fear X (2003)

    From The New york Times
    Grimly austere barely begins to describe the atmosphere of dread that seeps through “Fear X” like a toxic mist. The movie’s ominous mood is deepened by Brian Eno and J. Peter Schwalm’s ambient background score, which haunts the movie with faraway groans and rattles.

    If “Fear X,” the American filmmaking debut of the Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, promises far more drama than it finally delivers, its glumness never abates. Whether contemplating the shabby cottages in a snow-swept Wisconsin suburb or scanning the flatlands of Montana, the camera, which stealthily follows the protagonist’s suspicious eyes wherever he looks, imagines danger crouching in every shadow.Read More »

  • Krzysztof Zanussi – Paradigma AKA Power of Evil (1985)

    Krzysztof Zanussi1981-1990ArthouseDramaItaly
    Paradigma (1985)
    Paradigma (1985)

    An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle AKA 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)

    Jean-Luc Godard1961-1970ArthouseFrance
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
    2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle (1967)

    PLOT: In 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle), Jean-Luc Godard beckons us ever closer, whispering in our ears as narrator. About what? Money, sex, fashion, the city, love, language, war: in a word, everything. Among the legendary French filmmaker’s finest achievements, the film takes as its ostensible subject the daily life of Juliette Janson (Marina Vlady), a housewife from the Paris suburbs who prostitutes herself for extra money. Yet this is only a template for Godard to spin off into provocative philosophical tangents and gorgeous images. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is perhaps Godard’s most revelatory look at consumer culture, shot in ravishing widescreen color by Raoul Coutard.Read More »

  • Béla Tarr & Ágnes Hranitzky – Werckmeister harmóniák AKA Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) (HD)

    1991-2000Ágnes HranitzkyArthouseBéla TarrHungary
    Werckmeister harmóniák (2000) (HD)
    Werckmeister harmóniák (2000) (HD)

    Quote:
    An innocent young man witnesses violence breaks out after an isolated village is inflamed by the arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions, a giant whale and a mysterious man named “The Prince”.Read More »

  • Lav Diaz – Lahi, hayop AKA Genus Pan (2020) (HD)

    2011-2020ArthouseLav DiazPhilippines

    Quote:
    Taking leave from their jobs at a gold mine, three workers journey to their home village on foot through the spectacular yet unforgiving wilderness of the mythical island of Hugaw. As time passes and their conversations intensify, buried histories emerge and a sense of psychosis invades the scene. As ever, Lav Diaz’s exquisitely subdued black-and-white images and patient rhythm lend a Brechtian register to the drama; almost always filmed from the same fixed distance, each scene is an immaculate tableau vivant. Behind the film’s folkloric façade, Diaz once again taps into the collective memory of defiant struggles against the tyranny of both contemporary Filipino society and colonial brutality, centred on the timeless image of men walking – one of the key traits of Pan.Read More »

  • Hitoshi Matsumoto – Shinboru AKA Symbol (2009)

    2001-2010ArthouseFantasyHitoshi MatsumotoJapan
    Shinboru (2009)
    Shinboru (2009)

    PLOT: A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.Read More »

  • Masaru Konuma – Shikijô ryokô: Hong Kong bojô AKA Erotic Journey: Love Affair in Hong Kong (1973)

    Masaru Konuma1971-1980ArthouseEroticaJapan
    Shikijô ryokô Hong Kong bojô (1973)
    Shikijô ryokô Hong Kong bojô (1973)

    A wife escape from her husband in Hong Kong with is lover. The husband purchase her…Read More »

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