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After being run down by a car, a man asks a passer-by for a last kiss before dying. The other man, full of pity for him, obliges his wish. Soon it becomes the talk of the town, and perverted society starts implying that the two men were lovers, affecting his life and his marriage.Read More »
Michael, Rachel and Sara never really got over the fact that The Revolution sold to them as undergraduates by Patti Smith and the Sex Pistols turned out to be just another pile of media-hype. Stranded as they are in the 80s, they’re more than a little alienated, cynical and just plain bored. They’ve lost touch with one another, with themselves, and are having a hard time connecting with their love partners as well. Needless to say, when this emotionally unstable group spends a weekend together, they most certainly are not going to sit around listening to old Motown Records.Read More »
Elegant and educated bachelor, Charles Swann, moves in the most powerful and fashionable circles of Paris in the 1890’s. When he falls in love with Odette de Crecy, a courtesan, his friends warn him against marriage. Proving himself a silly and socially-foul goose, Swann ducks his social responsibilities, Odette ensnares him, and he is gently but firmly cast out of society amidst everyone’s great politeness.Read More »
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Once again, director Shunichi Kajima and star Takanori Jinnai are teaming up to create a new type of yakuza film that stylishly depicts the short but vibrant life of legendary urban yakuza Takashi Hanagata.Read More »
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Yakuza in Yokohama. Shinkokai executive Kenji Shimada met Asako seven years ago when the group was just starting out. Kenji was a thug in the Kohoku group, but the group suddenly disbanded. Ninomiya, an executive, moved to the Kanto Rengo, and fellow executive Kusuhara took Kenji and Hideo with him to the Shinkokai. One day, Kenji forcefully raped Asako, a hostess at a pink salon, but fell in love with her angel-like kindness. Kenji and Hideo start playing catch bar “Kuroneko”, but Asako gets caught by the detective. Asako, who returned to “Kuroneko”, was defrauded of 200,000 yen by Yoko, her fellow pinsaro, and she was beaten by Kenji. Read More »
A three part archival film documentary that traces the evolution of African American dance. Pt. 1: First half of the 20th Century; Pt. 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem; Pt. 3: Postwar era.
“The Spirit Moves”: Rescuing the Essence of DanceRead More »
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White-collar crime from the perspective of the public prosecutor’s office. The unemployed civil engineer Kaiser (Martin Lüttge) becomes the managing director of the construction company “Zielbau GmbH”. Bankruptcy is foreseeable because the only client, Siegmann (Alexander Radszun), has negotiated a construction price that is far too low. After the bankruptcy, the subcontractors cannot be paid, apparently planned by Siegmann, and Siegmann owns the apartment block. Prosecutor König (Hark Bohm) wants to prove that Siegmann is guilty of fraud. But evidence must not be obtained by illegal means.Read More »
Hae-joon seems like an ordinary middle-class, middle-aged family man. But his dreams are telling him a different story about himself. He has visions of his mother, a shaman, and is haunted by sounds of drums and chanting. Meanwhile his daughter lies bed-ridden with some mysterious ailment, preyed over zealously, if to little purpose, by his wife and her Christian cronies. He takes himself on a journey South, following scattered traces of his fire-obsessed mother, eventually to the festive scene of public shaman ceremonies on Jindo Island.Read More »
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26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen by those who appreciate Greenaway’s darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side of his humanism washes through this quirky quasi-documentary of our most fundamental bodily needs and the spaces we create to fulfil them.Read More »