Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she’s having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.Read More »
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Alberto is a promising young man who plans to succeed with a new television programme, “We see it clearly”. In an accident, he loses his sight, but he relies on the help of his good friend Gianluca to carry on with the programme.Read More »
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A somber, visually distilled, and deeply affecting portrait of the human toll and uncalculated tragedy of nuclear holocaust. In contrast to Shohei Imamura’s characteristically unrefined, primitivistic, and subversively bawdy cinema, the film is shot in high contrast black and white, creating a spare and tonally muted chronicle of dignity, survival, community, and human resilience. Through recurring literal and figurative images of regression, Imamura conveys a dual meaning, not only in the community’s noble attempt to rebuild Hiroshima and return to a semblance of normal life after the annihilating bombing but also in their collective gradual and systematic erasure from Japanese society through long-term effects of radiation sickness, infertility, cultural (and geographic) isolation, and social stigmatization.Read More »
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel. As reality begins to blur with imagination, the film unfolds as a series of fragmented encounters that challenge conventional narrative structure. Rather than focusing on plot, it creates an oneiric atmosphere where desire, control, and voyeurism intertwine. While its pacing may feel disorienting, the film stands out as a curious example of early 1980s European erotic cinema, leaning more toward mood and visual suggestion than explicit storytelling.Read More »
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Terry O’Quinn plays The Stepfather in this intelligent, unsettling chiller. We’d tell you O’Quinn’s character name, but he has so many. You see, O’Quinn has been a stepfather many times over, romancing and marrying widowed women in several different states. After each wedding, everything is blissful — at least, until O’Quinn’s new wife and kids fail to measure up to his notions of perfection. Then he kills them en masse, and moves on to his next victims. Shelley Hack and Jill Schoelen co-star as O’Quinn’s latest wife and stepdaughter, who prove to be yet another disappointment to him. An adroit witches’ blend of Ozzie & Harriet and Psycho, The Stepfather was scripted by suspense veteran Donald E. Westlake. A lesser sequel, Stepfather 2, followed in 1989.Read More »
Anthropologists take a trip to the jungles of Colombia to study native cannibals. Instead, they find a band of drug dealers, using the natives to harvest coca leaves. After awhile, the natives are tired of being tortured slaves, and turn on their masters, as well as the anthropologists, thus filling the screen with gruesome splatter!Read More »
In the blocs of low-cost housing in Colombes, the tenants’ association takes part in the renovation of the buildings.Read More »
Suite of the essay on Louis Skorecki’s cinema through the relations of some young cinema enthusiasts.Read More »
Claire, a French tourist, is arrested by a puritanical and brutal policeman, who sends her to a women’s prison.Read More »