Here’s a wonderful example of the high standards quality of the Canadian production of the Film Office, whatever the destination of the film is : in this case, a TV movie.
If you have seen Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital, here’s a complementary view on the restless activity, and consequently accidents, generated by big cities that end into the Emergency rooms of public hospitals.Read More »
Servien and Marbeuf are two crooks who try to get some hired girls to keep a rich prince busy whilst they want to steal his jewels. They engage a girl (skinny) but have not much confidence in her. She engages two servants to help her with her heavy duties. (One is Cathy Castel, the other one is blackhaired and a Veronique Cousteau lookalike; she might be XNK0354.) Together they amuse the prince and his assistant, mostly in the swimming pool inside the villa and in various beds. For some reason the two crooks put Castel in bondage, but she manages to escape. However the crooks have been fooled because the diamonds were fake. All ends well.
Typical Rollin approach to adult film making: lovemaking in a joyous environment. Cathy Castel has swollen tits. It looks as if she recently had a baby. Much underwater filming (following Félicia by Max Pécas?). It’s all very gigglish, and it looks as if a bunch of friends sit together by the fire and the water and have some sex.Read More »
This is the second-last film made by Shanghai Animation Film Studio before the death of Mao Zedong, made in the dying weeks of the Cultural Revolution. Unusually for the studio, it was neither a production using puppets, nor traditional cel animation, but using the much rarer technique of paper-cutting.Read More »
Twenty six years after the execution of her soldier husband on the dying days of World War II the widow is still searching for the truth by meeting with, questioning and interviewing the dead man’s comrades, companions and executioner. The stories retold are one part of the reason why war is as bad as has been said. The state and existence of the survivors is another witness to the dangers of war and warmongers.Read More »
Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services to help in capturing the political activist. A police informer, Darien, is forced to lure Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to make a television coverage about the Third World. Arriving in Paris, Sadiel is captured and delivered to his opponents. Disgusted by the way he has been manipulated, Darien tries to turn back the clock, unknowing who’s dealing with.Read More »
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Academy Award-winner William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) directs Al Pacino as an undercover cop pitched into New York’s seedy underbelly in Cruising – available for the first time on Blu-ray in a brand new director-approved transfer.
New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who is preying on the patrons of the city’s underground bars. Captain Edelson (Paul Sorvino) tasks young rookie Steve Burns (Pacino) with infiltrating the S&M subculture to try and lure the killer out of the shadows – but as he immerses himself deeper and deeper into the underworld, Steve risks losing his own identity in the process.Read More »
Jakob is an obsessive inventor who lives in a Swiss village. He receives unconditional support from his friend Otti, but that is about all; the other villagers do not tolerate Jakob’s eccentricities very well. He perserveres in spite of this obstacle and finally invents a viable carriage that does not run on wheels but on a tread.Read More »
Lisa is learning a script when Willy Braque (in pilot’s uniform) arrives home. They have sex and go off in his car. Maude Carolle and Charlie Schreiner arrive and get in the house by the back door. They are having sex when another couple arrive looking for the manuscript but ending up also having sex. When Maude and Charlie are discovered trying to sneak out, it turns into a foursome. Mika and her partner arrive with similar results, then along comes a redhead, in a white transparent body stocking and cat burglar mask, and begins to search for the manuscript as well. Charlie catches her and she too is drawn into the orgy. Then the first couple come back and catch them all at it. Strange how in porn films such moments always come after rather than before the cum shot! But it all ends amicably with them and Maude and Charlie having drinks on the terrace then Lisa and Maude, nude, tripping off across the lawn. Who knows what was meant to be going on?Read More »
BrandtSponseller on imdb wrote:
Családi tüzfészek (aka Family Nest) is an intimate portrayal of a family slowly disintegrating under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary. The plot of the film is deceptively simple, with the occasional momentous event–including one that’s relatively shocking, but plot in a conventional sense is not the focus here.
What makes Family Nest so masterful is director writer/director Béla Tarr’s skill at suggesting layers of emotion, commentary and meaning through cinematography and staging. For example, early in the film there is an extended scene of the family that is the film’s focus eating dinner in their crowded apartment with some friends. Tarr has the camera crammed in a small room with the cast, necessitating that almost the entire scene is shot in close-ups. Read More »