Synopsis:
A small hotel’s night desk clerk navigates ethereal fantasies unfold during routine tasks over night shift. Time stretches as transitive space blurs reality and imagination in interconnected narratives unveiling throughout clerk’s shift.Read More »
After her parents are killed in a plane crash over the Grand Canyon, Melanie, a teenager girl and her younger brother and sister are sent to London to live with their uncle, Philip. There, she meets his mute wife Margaret, who is mistreated by and terrified of her husband and only converses through notes. She also meets Margaret’s younger brothers Francie, a fiddler, and the rakish Finn. Her uncle is a toy maker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.Read More »
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Beyrouth el lika is a film with a very tiny budget, the kind of films where the director cannot take as many takes as he wants (sometimes even one take only) and where there is not much time for filming. The result is a film that have some actors forgetting their lines and acting badly. But if we forget these flaws, we can appreciate a very original film about a relationship between a muslim man and a christian girl, the title ironicly prepare us for a meeting that’ll never happen. The mid section of the film is composed of 2 long monologues were the main characters record their thoughts on a tape to give them to one another, this section is the most interresting part of the film and is very well directed but it is so so overlong and talky that it weaken the film’s impact. Overall it’s an interresting and original vision of the way people used to live and survive in war time that manage to not fail at any moment in the cliche.Read More »
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Valtos is a story told from thirty years hence, in the last moments of its narrator, who awoke one day in 1987 ‘with the knowledge that I had been duplicated during the night, and that I was an inferior replica of myself’. There follows a relentless, epic, pursuit of an absconding phantom – his ‘original’ – which ends in catastrophe at Valtos, a place at once ethereal and terrifying.
‘…a sort of molecular exchange between kinds of chaos, in the human mind and the world at large.’ – Caroline Collier, British Art Show 1990 catalogueRead More »
When a corrupt prince arranges for the theft of a highly valuable jade antique the emperor dispatches his best men to retrieve it. The only problem is that the prince has hidden the antique in the infamous ‘house of traps’ from which no man has ever made it out alive. Royal investigator Sun Chien and his men mount a daring raid on the prince’s birthday which results in the usual mayhem expected from a Venoms film.Read More »
Plot:Abdul Tawab, a well-known trader travels to Alexandria to agree on a drug deal in which he pays his fortune.
Upon his return he’s killed. The eldest son Kamal admits the truth behind the family’s wealth and everyone is faced with a difficult choice either completing the deal and getting the money, or rejecting it and losing the inheritance.Read More »
A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They meet several more times and, each time, she is younger.Read More »
Eiji, also known as Choji, quits the shipyard to start Izakaya Choji (snack bar) with his wife Shigeko on the outskirts of Hakodate.Read More »
