Everybody wants to lead a good life such as Karm, a young farmer who foolishly believes in communion with spirits. Karm has been used by Boonma to fool the people off their money. Karm falls in love and then realizes that everything he has done was wrong. In the end Karm destroys those believes that he had created.Read More »
A woman is walking alone through an abandoned city. She approaches the forbidden zone and tries to pass through. Everywhere the Morning Patrol and deceptive traps are watching. The city itself is alive but uncontrolled. Computer voices warn non-existing inhabitants to leave the city. The communication system works… cinemas show films… classic faces of a past era flash across TV screens. She is confronted by one of the few survivors guarding the city. They will come close to each other ; they will try to recall the past. Together they unravel their tangled memory – threads of this catastrophe and decide to penetrate the zone together ; They are linked by the bonds of violence and death since no other behaviour is possible in this kind of world. Is there an end? Is there hope and any future since no person that was allowed through ever returned to tell us whether the freedom of the sea exists. The fugitives encounter increasing dangers… A story of love in this unbearable world… what point can it have?Read More »
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Elliott Gould, Margot Kidder and Mike Farrell star in this clever and wry mystery-thriller reminiscent of such Hitchcock high-adventures as “Vertigo” and “North by Northwest.”
Set in a Rocky Mountain ski resort, honeymooning Harry Kenyon (Farrell) reports his wife Chris is missing to the idiosyncratic police chief, Lt. Rudameyer (Gould). Unexpectedly, Mrs. Kenyon turns up in the company of a priest named Father M acklin (Fred Gwynne), from whom she says she sought solace after an argument with her husband. But the startled Kenyon claims that this woman (Kidder) is not his wife. Maybe she’s not, but th efacts convince Rudameyer that she is an that Kenyon is off his rocker. Is she really his wife? If she’s not, what is she up to? The answers li in a series of plot twists in this brilliantly acted and cleverly written thriller.Read More »
Obscure Kumar Shahani short film produced by Film and Television Institute of India.
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A car with two passengers plunges into the sea. The man dies, his wife (Kaori Momoi) is barely scratched. So did she or didn’t she? Shima Iwashita stars as her lawyer.
1982 Mainichi Film Awards Best Screenplay. Fourth place on Kinema Junpo’s 1982 top ten.Read More »
In the last completed work of the Irish playwright, we see five supposedly different faces on a TV screen that are gradually blended together.
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Famed actress Susan Taslimi plays three roles here: Kian, who doubts her identity; Vida, the twin sister, a self-assured artist; and their mother, who gives up one child out of fear of poverty, then deprives the other of affection because she deeply regrets the child whom she has abandoned.Read More »
In scenario du film Passion, Godard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the story of His 1982 film Passion. “I did not want to write the script,” he states, “I wanted to see it.” Positioning himself in a video editing suite in front of a white film screen that evokes for him the “famous blank page of Mallarme” Godard uses video as a sketchbook with Which to reconceive the film. The result is a philosophical, often humorous rumination on the desire and labor that inform the conceptual and image making process of the cinema. directly quoting from and Further elaborating on the process and content of the earlier film – Which is itself about labor and creativity – Godard’s scenario is both rigorously theoretical and intensely personal.Read More »
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Albin and Renato, the owners of St-Tropez’s most notorious night club, are facing financial ruin. Albin Mougeotte (Michel Serreault) learns that he is to inherit a big sum of money but to have the right to it, the testament demands him to get married and have a child within the next 18 months. Being gay (drag), he gets perplex and doesn’t know what to do. He hides such details to his boyfriend Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) but he’ll finally find out about it and will try to find a way to the situation. Albin will try to date women, dress ‘normal’ almost throughout the film as he needs to hide his homosexuality (but the manners remains of course). Will Albin be capable to fool himself into a marriage and child and get the money or will he choose to stay himself and refuse it?Read More »