A young man meets his obsession – a ghostly ’60’s Playboy-bunny styled “Connie,” – and is never the same! This is the first of John Paizs’ films to feature his silent Nick character that would later be featured in his cult hits Springtime in Greenland and Crimewave.Read More »
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PORTUGUESE AFRICA, 1973. Slowly, we have plenty of time: the words of the Second Lieutenant to the small band of soldiers he commands. A land mine exploding on the forest track, the patrol lost in the forest. The death of a soldier, shots in the night. Involved in a war in which the enemy is never seen, the mud-splattered soldiers methodically carry out the final pilgrimage without bitterness or glory, the tame farewell of a generation to five centuries of Portuguese presence in Africa: a story of war.Read More »
A guerrilla group tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt several policemen and a guerrilla are killed. By chance the head of the guerrillas is recognised by a former comrade; to prevent betrayal they kidnap him. The plot explores the divergent political views of the characters in a mixture of action, intrigue and the reality of the era.Read More »
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Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from Mordecai, her uncle and patron, saves the king from assassination. Haman, the king’s favorite, is miffed when Mordecai won’t bow to him, so he orders death to all Jews in the kingdom, under the seal of the king. Esther pleads for her people, and Mordecai is in turn given license to make his own edict under the king’s seal. Mordecai loses sight of his original intention, and bloody murder ensues. Purim annually celebrates the story. At the end of the film, the actors comment.Read More »
Sarah (O’Neal) is fifteen going on sixteen, and lives at home. Dad’s an Egyptologist; Mom refuses to acknowledge any generation gap; boy-friend wants to get her into the sack, but she refuses. Dodging him one day she meets Ashley (Burton), a once-chic artist who’s currently light on inspiration. He might be sixty but he’s hunky in that experienced way, and he has a Bohemian haven in the country where he plays Vivaldi. The pair get literary and have intense chats in which Sarah learns the difference between the Sistine Chapel and Burger Kings. Sarah tries the physical, but Ashley sagely demurs. Mom and Dad are horrified by the liaison.Read More »
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The movie “Something completely different” from 1985 is Kirkvaag Trond, Knut Lystad Lars and Mjøen first and only full-length feature film. It’s about the boy Buffalo left on the stairs to the childless couple Bull. But Buffalo is not like other children. He can not withstand sunlight, garlic and crosses, and suffer from strong urge to bite, especially at full moon … Buffalo’s many disability leads to difficulties in most areas. But first and foremost, Buffalo problems with love. Svalbard is her name and it’s love at first sight. But fate and the defense makes them the ad, and a fateful meeting with a garlic pizza later, the hook on the door for Buffalo and Svalbard, to say nothing of the nail in the coffin … A typical Trond Kirkvaag – Knut Lystad – Lars Mjøen comedy spun around vampire movies and bloody social satire.Read More »
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A bored, aimless 14-year-old girl falls into the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s after attending ‘The Sound’, a modern new disco. In search of acceptance and freedom, she falls in with a teenage boy who is hooked on heroin and eventually develops an addiction of her own.Read More »
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Alvaro, a divorced journalist with a complicated love life, watches someone he doesn’t know killing himself after a fight with a woman who he gave a lift. Intrigued by that mysterious sensual woman, he decides not to tell the police about the lift he gave her and investigates her by himself. He gets involved with her, but she remains too mysterious about her personal life. He ends up tangled in a web of murder, mystery and sex because of that woman, who he barely gets to know.Read More »
