1971-1980

Metastasis presents layered projections of a toilet but both the name and the equipment (Matsumoto used an Electro Color Processor a machine commonly used by doctors) convey the ever-present fear of cancer in Japan of that time.Read More »

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David is an accountant. He leaves town every Friday, pretending he is going to take care of his parents at their old people’s home. But actually his parents are dead, and he spends the week-ends converting a chalet. He intends to live there with Lise, a woman he knows and loves since childhood. But Lise has just married another and has a baby. David’s mad love does not see those facts as an obstacle…Read More »

“Bis daß der Tod euch scheidet” is the story of a couple whose mad love for each other smashes headlong into the husband’s patriarchal value system. Based on a true story.Read More »

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Naomi throws a party for her 23rd birthday at a luxurious salon. The host, Joji Kawai, Naomi’s 38-year-old husband, is a jewelry trader. Soon they move to London and open a jewelry store. Even though they are a close couple, there are many twists and turns before they arrive here. Joji and Naomi first became acquainted when Naomi was 16 years old and had just dropped out of high school. Joji was using the snack bar where Naomi worked and started inviting her to go to the movies and have dinner. Wanting to transform the young girl, whose birth and identity he did not know, into an ideal woman with his own hands, Joji proposed that Naomi live with him. Eventually, the two inevitably get married, and Naomi’s 18-year-old body begins to blossom as a mature woman, giving off a demonic charm and indulging in the pleasures of various men…Read More »

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Shy, lonely Eric Binford delivers film cassettes and film-related supplies in Los Angeles for a living. But he really exists only to watch movies and immense himself in fantasies about cinematic characters and stars. Frequently bullied and betrayed, Eric comforts himself by pretending to be one of the many tough heroes and villains who have captivated him from the silver screen. However, his sanity takes a turn for the worse and he launches grotesque murders all patterned after characters and incidents from his beloved movies. He becomes known as the Celluloid Killer, one of the most horrifying murderers the city has ever known.Read More »

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George Romero does for vampires what he has already done to zombies – an intense and realistic treatment that follows the exploits of Martin, who claims to be 84 years old, and who certainly drinks human blood. The boy arrives in Pittsburgh to stay with his cousin, who promises to save Martin’s soul and destroy him once he is finished, but Martin’s loneliness finds other means of release.Read More »

Peter Stein’s production of Gorki´s SOMMERGÄSTE at the Schaubühne in December 1974 became one of the greatest theatre successes in Germany and beyond. “That’s how theatre should always be. That’s how actors should always play,” wrote Le Monde, while in England the Daily Telegraph only had a simple title: “Director of genius”. In 1975 Stein filmed the play in a new adaptation by Botho Strauß.Read More »

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Authentically ‘New’ German Cinema, and, simultaneously, an archaeology of narrative film itself, Wyborny’s avant-garde landmark defines cinema as a ‘nation’ that has perversely acquired rulers, laws and hierarchies before it has even been physically mapped out. At first appearing to spin an elementary yarn of social organisation (the predictably fraught establishment of a rudimentary commune in the Moroccan desert of 1911) in the ‘authoritative’ film language of DW Griffith, Wyborny proceeds to break down that language to its constituent elements and produce fragmentary hints of alternatives. Structural film-making of a rare wit and accessibility results, with flashes of appropriate absurdity highlighting the redundancy of closed systems, whether social or cinematic.Read More »

A woman who works in a night club starts having obsessive thoughts, beginning to lose her hold on reality.Read More »