1981-1990

It is the soundtrack to Koreyoshi Kurahara’s Michi (1986) by Michel Bernholc (the film is also known as Hopeless Love and Des gens sans importance). Francoise Hardy (tracks 1 & 10) and Michel Delpech (track 5) are featured vocalists.Read More »

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Autobiography series.
“I think about Fragments de l’ange and the sequence with Françoise and Ermina in the countryside, I ask myself how to “justify” it in the whole film and I say to myself that the text could say: “The angel leads me to… “that is, the angel is all words, it is synonymous with language. The angel is the word in the unconscious state or rather it is the voice of the conscience, voice that determines our conduct, our demand in life. The angel is the shadow, the negative of the image, the other self of the image, the deep voice of the flesh; it is a thousand arrows embedded in the frame of reality. Arrow: seam, collure”.

(Notebook 10 page 43, translated by Xochitl Camblor-Macherel)
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From the blu-ray cover:
Adopting the Viennese version of Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera, István Gaál, one of the most important filmmakers of Hungarian modernist cinema, returned to his safe haven in his final feature film—classical music and ancient Greek mythology European culture is rooted in. Framing the ancient story sung and depicted with images of nature and landscapes arranged in abstract geometric shapes highlights the universal human experience to be gained from the mythological theme—the desire to overcome mortality through love and art.Read More »

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Lily Strasberg, a boulevard actress who triumphed in The Easter Egg as Josephine, ends the season with her 457th performance. She decides to go down to the South of France to rest and comfort Charles, her ex-brother-in-law, director of a small company that performs outdated operettas that no longer attract many people.Read More »

Self-imprisoned in an apartment which is reminiscent of a theater stage, Otto Weininger recalls certain events of his life before shooting himself on October 4, 1903.Read More »

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Inasmuch as Manoel de Oliveira’s films convey what Randal Johnson describes as a cinematic hybridity that illustrates the amorphous nature of representation, No, or the Vain Glory of Command also reflects a temporal hybridity, where time is presented as a conflation of seemingly arbitrary, but integrally connected history. Opening to a long take of a large ancient tree shot from a moving camera platform in the African wilderness, the correlation between enduring image and its representation through a constantly shifting point of view also serves as a contemporary metaphor for Portuguese history itself, where its consequences continue to be re-evaluated through the shifting perspective of an increasingly marginalized legacy. Read More »

With Anton Rodgers, Lucy Gutteridge, Julian Holloway, Rosalind Ayres.

When Sophie, the manicurist, learns that her best friend Muriel is to be married to the notorious and middle-aged Lord Quex, she determines to prevent it by exposing him for the despicable roué he is. But her plans go badly wrong. Pinero’s bitter-sweet comedy, first performed in 1898, scandalised the playgoers of the day with its unblushing portrayal of marital and sexual mores.

Adapted from the play by the British writer Arthur Wing Pinero.Read More »

Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.Read More »

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Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. Unfortunately, both go to see the same young lady, Jeroo (Shabana Azmi), and Pestonjee ends up getting married to Jeroo. Phirojshah has been stricken by Jeroo’s beauty and decides not to marry, and takes a transfer away from the couple. During the years, he keeps in touch with the couple by mail. While on a visit to the couple, he finds out that Pestonjee has a mistress, and Jeroo does not know of this. How will this effect Phirojshah’s friendship with Pestonjee? Does Phirojshah stand a chance with Jeroo?Read More »