2000s

  • Nikos Panayotopoulos – Delivery (2004)

    Nikos Panayotopoulos2001-2010DramaGreece
    Delivery (2004)
    Delivery (2004)

    Young man arrives in Athens to seek his fortune. Vainly.Read More »

  • Hal Hartley – The Sisters of Mercy (2004)

    Hal Hartley2001-2010DramaShort FilmUSA
    The Sisters of Mercy (2004)
    The Sisters of Mercy (2004)

    Hal Hartley reveals the tireless experimentation, curiousity and playfulness that lies behind his many feature films in his this short film, The Sisters of Mercy, starring Parker Posey and Sabrina Lloyd.Read More »

  • Asli Özge – Köprüdekiler AKA Men on the Bridge (2009)

    Asli Özge2001-2010ArthouseDramaTurkey
    Köprüdekiler (2009)
    Köprüdekiler (2009)

    MEN ON THE BRIDGE – KÖPRÜDEKİLER by Berlin director Asli Özge won Best Film at the Istanbul, London and Adana film festivals. The film premiered internationally in Locarno and Toronto. Caught between tradition and modernity, Europe and Asia, the lives of the three main figures stagnate in the permanent traffic jam of the Bosporus bridge.Read More »

  • Ulli Lommel – B.T.K. Killer (2005)

    Ulli Lommel2001-2010CrimeDramaUSA

    The B.T.K. killer harasses a news reporter with threatening letters as he ponders about the murders he committed 30 years ago.Read More »

  • Isabelle Broué – Tout le plaisir est pour moi AKA The Pleasure Is All Mine (2004)

    Isabelle Broué2001-2010ComedyDramaFrance
    Tout le plaisir est pour moi (2004)
    Tout le plaisir est pour moi (2004)

    After lecturing her sister on the evils of fake orgasms, Louise, a self-obsessed twenty-something, gets her come-uppance the next morning when she discovers that she has “lost her clitoris”, a misfortune she doesn’t hesitate to communicate, loudly and explicitly, to anyone who’ll listen.

    It’s a shame that so many of the characters and situations in this movie, from the gay best-friend to the sex guru with his herbs to the celibate neighbour to the old ladies discussing orgasms, feel like a parade of comedy stereotypes. The falseness and banality of these sketch-like scenes conflict awkwardly with the pseudo-documentary discussions of female sexuality that the director inserts with great earnestness throughout the film.Read More »

  • Mark Cairns – Das Leben geht weiter AKA Life Goes On (2002)

    2001-2010DocumentaryGermanyMark CairnsWar
    Das Leben geht weiter (2002)
    Das Leben geht weiter (2002)

    The absurd and often surrealistic story of the last propaganda film of the Third Reich.Read More »

  • Masaki Iwana – Vermilion Souls (2007)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaJapanMasaki Iwana
    Vermilion Souls (2007)
    Vermilion Souls (2007)

    Set in Tokyo seven years after the end of WWII, this surreal story revolves around the dreams and realities of a young boy who strays into a strange mansion while out chasing fliers dropped by a small aeroplane. Confined inside are four adults suffering from an incurable disease (‘porphyria’, which the author avoids specifying by name in the screenplay) which prevents them from having exposure to the sun.Read More »

  • Sun-Woo Jang – Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim AKA Resurrection of the Little Match Girl (2002)

    Sun-Woo Jang2001-2010ActionSci-FiSouth Korea
    Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim (2002)
    Sungnyangpali sonyeoui jaerim (2002)

    Synopsis:
    A matchstick girl who was frozen after death 200 years ago (for failing to sell any matchsticks), becomes reborn in this movie which pays homage to computer games. Working at a Chinese restaurant, Ju (played by Kim Hyeonseong) is a game maniac who suffers from unrequited love with Hui-mi (Im Eungyeong), who works part-time at a game room next door. One day, he meets a little matchstick girl of the same countenance as Hui-mi, and buys from her a gas lighter where he finds a phone number. When he calls the number, he comes upon the question: “Will you please log in the game ‘Resurrection of the Little Match Girl?'” From that time on, Ju enters into the world of virtual reality with a view to save the girl and win her love, which is by no means an easy job.Read More »

  • Wenguang Wu – Fuck Cinema (2005)

    Wenguang Wu2001-2010ChinaDocumentary
    Fuck Cinema (2005)
    Fuck Cinema (2005)

    Quote:
    This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams or become famous through the film industry. One of the main characters of this documentary is named Wang, a young man from the countryside, aged 28. He comes to Beijing out of a love for the cinema; however, all he can do every day is line up outside the gate of a film studio in the hope of landing a job as an extra, getting 30 yuan for one day! During his stay in Beijing he writes a film script based on his own experience in the city as an extra. He thinks his play presents the darkness and desperation of survival in China. Then he wants to find an investor or a director who can produce his play as an “underground film”, because in his opinion many Chinese directors are successful on the international stage this way.Read More »

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