1981-1990

This tense story is set during World War II Italy. A mother and her daughter flee what once was the safety of Rome to seek refuge in the mountains. Their journey turns out to be one they could never have imagined.Read More »

Noted Iranian actress Susan Taslimi plays an impoverished single mother who agees to marry off her 13-year-old daughter to a middle-aged man in return for a mare, which will help her earn an income and provide for her younger children. Director Ali Zhekan paints a stark picture of poverty and patriarchy in rural Iran (the mother stores her rice in a container hidden in a tree; her brother, who brokered the wedding, mercilessly beats the recalcitrant child), but this 1986 film is distinguished mostly by Taslimi’s increasingly fiery performance as the mother decides to defend her daughter’s freedom.Read More »

From DVD booklet:
The works recorded here are made by Jun Kurosawa mainly in his years
at university.
The remarks on Jun Kurosawa’s works have been focusing on his
impulse of destruction, which are expressed in degenerative keywords
such as “death” and “thanatos”: whereas aesthetical images are
also often mentioned. Is it because his distinct features help them to
establish such images? The features can be described as “film scratch”
and “harsh noise,” all of which can be found in his masterpieces such
as “NEKO-MIMI (1994)” and “JESUS WITH ONE LEG (1991-1994).”Read More »

Black and white short film with Claudia Skoda and Gerhard Plez as actors.
It is part of Infermental 1, a film that gathers short films of many German directors and lasts 4 hours.Read More »

Reviews:
1. A little forgotten masterpiece. This surreal comedy is one of those rare examples where the tragic and the hilarious are inseparable. Three homeless chaps from Rome spend their time scavenging rubbish or cheating local restaurants in order to secure their daily food. They accidentally end up in the Italian countryside where they get involved in a series of paradoxical situations, suffer delusions from extreme lack of nutrition while encountering bizarre people from every social stratum along the way. Despite the hilarious moments, there is understated pessimism and subtle misanthropy through out, the poor are barbaric and illiterate scum eager to kill you for a plate of soup, the rich are exploitative cruel bastards, the ‘saviour’ of the people is a deranged messiah-like figure in serum who leads them into a futile excursion up a mountain top. Great performance as usual by R.Benigni and nice score from N.Piovani. (orso-antinome from tumblr)Read More »

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A poem on the female body, the man who eats a rose, intense flicker, and other fetish images. Jun Kurosawa was inspired by a political anecdote and created this film. In the early 1970s, the Asama-Sans? incident caused by the United Red Army. The group?s chairman led the horrific group killings of another 12 members who were said to be undergoing a process of ?soukatsu? ? general review, or self-criticism.Read More »

Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure.Read More »

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope!!! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island: Favignana.Read More »

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Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. (the title translates as ‘the so-called Caryatides’). As one might expect from Varda, the film is strongly feminist, as she draws out wider symbolic and social implications from these images of women holding up huge weights, both then and now, but it is playfully so. The film becomes much sadder when she talks about Baudelaire, whose Paris these ladies grace; his poetry, success, notoriety; his subsequent physical decline, loss of voice and death. These statues are now so familiar that they are barely noticed, but in mapping the mental geography of a city, foreign viewers will be ravished by this Rameau-soundtracked exploration of a forgotten Paris.Read More »