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  • Gino Mangini – La jena di Londra (1964)

    1961-1970Gino ManginiHorrorItaly

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    A serial killer called “The Hyena” is finally caught and eventually hanged. However, his body disappears before it can be buried, and soon thereafter dead bodies start turning up in a small village.Read More »

  • Sally George – Brothers and Sisters in Love – (2008)

    2001-2010DocumentarySally GeorgeUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis
    Most societies consider incest to be the ultimate taboo. Yet, a strange phenomenon called ‘Genetic Sexual Attraction’ has been known to affect adults who meet long-lost blood relatives for the first time.

    This program features several brother/sister couples (along with one mother/son couple) who’ve developed sexual relationships and insist on maintaining them in spite of pressure from society and, sometimes, criminal prosecution.Read More »

  • Richard Brooks – The Brothers Karamazov (1958)

    1951-1960ClassicsDramaRichard BrooksUSA

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    Ryevsk, Russia, 1870. Tensions abound in the Karamazov family. Fyodor is a wealthy libertine who holds his purse strings tightly. His four grown sons include Dmitri, the eldest, an elegant officer, always broke and at odds with his father, betrothed to Katya, herself lovely and rich. The other brothers include a sterile aesthete, a factotum who is a bastard, and a monk. Family tensions erupt when Dmitri falls in love with one of his father’s mistresses, the coquette Grushenka. Two brothers see Dmitri’s jealousy of their father as an opportunity to inherit sooner. Acts of violence lead to the story’s conclusion: trials of honor, conscience, forgiveness, and redemption.Read More »

  • Alain Tanner – Les Années lumière AKA Light Years Away (1981)

    1981-1990Alain TannerArthouseDramaSwitzerland

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    In the year 2000, Jonas is 25 years old and lives in Ireland. Disillusioned with his life as a pub barman, he decides to give up everything and live with a mysterious old man, Yoshka, at a run down garage in the middle of no-where. At first, the old man taunts Jonas, giving him useless tasks to do, such as attending a derelict petrol pump. This drives the young man to distraction and he tries to kill himself. Impressed by his young disciple, Yoshka finally decides to share with him his fantastic secret…Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – A Conversation with Jean-Luc Godard (1968)

    1961-1970BooksFranceJean-Luc Godard

    Here`s a long Godard interview from 1968 where he not only gives interesting insides into his La Chinoise but also talks about Foucault, Roland Barthes, Bergman`s Persona,
    Pasolini and much more.

    Here are some quotes:

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    That’s precisely why we’re
    trying to make movies so that future Foucaults
    won’t be able to make such assertions with quite
    such assurance. Sartre can’t escape this reproach,
    either.Read More »

  • Jean-Luc Godard – King Lear (1987)

    1981-1990DramaJean-Luc GodardSci-FiThe Cannon GroupUSAWilliam Shakespeare

    A film about “no thing” and everything, as Shakespeare the Fifth (Peter Sellars) tries to reclaim humanity’s lost artworks after Chernobyl—but not before crossing paths with a gangster Don Learo (Burgess Meredith) and his Cordelia (Molly Ringwald). One of Godard’s most densely layered inquiries into the discord between sound and image. Featuring Woody Allen and Leos Carax.Read More »

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