1981-1990

Adventure-drama based on the life of Naomi Uemura (Nishida), the first Japanese mountain climber to scale most of the world’s highest peaks and explore the arctic and Antarctic.Read More »

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Based on renowned novelist Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung’s novella, Jade Love is regarded as the best film adaptation of all of Pai’s work. Set in 1940s Southern China and told through the eyes of a 10 year old boy, Jung, the film relates the story of Jung’s beautiful nanny Jade and her mysteriously reclusive “younger brother” Ching Sheng. Jade is a middle-age woman who’s sweet and graceful appearance belies her unfulfilled inner life. The film represents complex desire within a tragic story and explores the situation of women in traditional Chinese society. It depicts female psychology in a classical, realist style within a nuanced and exquisite atmosphere.Read More »

An experimental compilation of live performances and video art by Ranko Shinohara and Hijokaidan.Read More »

Arturo and Paco arrives at a castle where Paco is going to marry Sulfurina, who turns out to be a witch.Read More »

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In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don’t quite live up to most people’s expectations.Read More »

When lawyer Marc Delmas learns that his wife Jeanne has invited her new lover Antoine to move in with her, his reaction is to hire a call girl, Samantha Page. To his surprise, Samantha is intelligent and sensitive, as well as beautiful, and he immediately falls in love with her. His relationship with Jeanne well and truly over, Marc starts an affair with Samantha, and the couple live an idyllic life alongside Jeanne and Antoine. Things suddenly go wrong for everyone when one of Samantha’s ex-boyfriends turns up unexpectedly… @filmsdefranceRead More »

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As the filmmaker metaphorically represents the “romanticism as love towards mineral,” they are gathered through the act of shooting (the physical movements on camera) and they are a collection of images being put in the film; these meanings are to be interpreted by the audience.Read More »

Prolific Surinamese/Dutch director of experimental films, Pim de la Parra, has crafted an improvisational satire on the process of making experimental films, and it is particularly aimed at the Dutch avant-garde. The story puts a crew of unpaid actors and actresses together while they attempt to shoot a film in very few days with practically no budget and no script. Oddly, that is exactly the situation they were actually in. While the director’s earlier uses of this formula met with some critical success, this one was received with considerably less enthusiasm.Read More »

A couple of ruffians enters a tobacconist in the neighborhood of Vallecas to steal. Having failed in its intention they finish entrench themselves in the place, being surrounded by police.Read More »