Synopsis:
Seven segments related to one another only in that they all purport to be based on sections of the book by David Reuben. The segments range from “Do Aphrodisiacs Work?” in which a court jester gives an aphrodisiac to the Queen and is, in the end, beheaded to “What Happens During Ejaculation?” in which we watch “control central” during a successful seduction.Read More »
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Woody Allen – Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
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Chris Lavis & Maciek Szczerbowski – Madame Tutli-Putli (2007)
2001-2010AnimationCanadaChris LavisMaciek SzczerbowskiShort FilmStoryline:
~ Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down by all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past.She travels alone, facing both the kindness and menace of strangers. As day descends into dark, she finds herself caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure. Adrift between real and imagined worlds, Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense.Read More »
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Dimitris Panayiotatos – I nyhta me ti Silena AKA The Night with Silena (1986)
1981-1990Dimitris PanayiotatosFilm NoirGreeceRomanceChristos is secretly in love with a girl who lives in the opposite appartment. He follows her night and day even though they’ve never met. One night, he sees her at a party making love with a young man. The scene, the images, are carved in his memory. A few years later, Christos meets outside of a bar a mysterious woman, called Silena. Her resemblance to the girl of his youth is astonishing. Christos invites Silena to his house to spend one night with her. One night that will change his life forever.Read More »
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Ji-shun Duan & Jun’ya Satô – Mikan no taikyoku AKA The Go Masters (1982)
1981-1990DramaJapanJi-shun DuanJun'ya SatôQuote:
“The Go Masters” begins and ends with the same game of Go, but 32 years separate the opening and closing moves. In between, there is war and heartbreak, death and disease, doomed lovers, families separated by fate and united by chance. The movie is a melodrama on an epic scale, an Asian “Gone With the Wind,” filled with romance and action but built on a foundation of Eastern philosophy.Read More » -
Kihachi Okamoto – Dai-bosatsu tôge AKA The Sword of Doom (1966)
1961-1970ArthouseAsianJapanKihachi OkamotoQuote:
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.Read More » -
Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Le bunker de la dernière rafale AKA The Bunker of the Last Gunshots (1981)
1981-1990Jean-Pierre JeunetMarc CaroSci-FiShort FilmSynopsis
A military group of men is locked up in a bunker in an unknown future. All those soldiers are waiting for an eventual enemy. But the discovery of a certain project will cause several catastrophies and will make those men…Read More » -
Yavuz Sezer – Bekleyis AKA The Waiting (1978)
1971-1980DramaTurkeyYavuz SezerIMDB:
Fikret Hakan is imprisoned, he is visited by his wife and son, he is once taken outside to receive medial treatment from a young woman doctor.Read More » -
Aki Kaurismäki & Mika Kaurismäki – Saimaa-ilmiö AKA The Saimaa Gesture (1981)
1981-1990Aki KaurismäkiDocumentaryFinlandMika Kaurismäkifrom cinematik
Saimaa-ilmiö is probably the first properly made rock film made in Finland. Such basics as including the songs in their entirety, shooting with multiple cameras, reducing interviews to a minimum and using them to express the atmosphere, not as compulsory fillers-in, were unheard of in Finland at the time. Concentrating on the music, not everything around it, Saimaa-ilmiö captures much of the leisurely feel of the lake tour.Read More » -
JR, Agnès Varda – Visages, villages aka Faces Places (2017)
2011-2020Agnès VardaDocumentaryFranceJrQuote:
Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: a passion for and the exploration of images in general, and more precisely, for places and for ways of showing, sharing, and exhibiting them. Agnès chose cinema. JR chose to create open air photography galleries. When Agnès and JR met in 2015, they immediately wanted to work together, to shoot a film in France, far from cities, during a trip in JR’s photographic (and magical) truck. Through chance encounters and prepared projects, they reached out to others, listening to them, photographing them, and sometimes putting them on posters. This film also tells the story of Agnès and JR’s friendship, which grew stronger throughout the film shoot, between surprises and teasing, and while laughing about their differences.Read More »