1981-1990

Made for TV and the French Bicentennial celebrations, this is an extreme case of Peter Greenaway’s obsession with cataloguing and classification. Comprising 23 case histories of corpses fished out of the Seine between 1795 and 1801, it forms a kind of micro-reprise of his monumental The Falls, piling up its narratives, Holmesian speculations and slow, clinical tracking shots over corpses, in a rigidly uniform structure. But within this forbidding system, Greenaway breaks up the frame, much as in Prospero’s Books, using Paintbox graphics to play on the comparative textures of television and paper. Death in the Seine is a pedantic film, because it’s about pedantry and the systematic collecting of facts which might or might not constitute evidence. It wasn’t taken up by British TV, which considering the film’s sign-off comments about the transience of memory and recorded knowledge, is a rather sour irony.Read More »

Google translated description from the Harun Farocki’s site:
Harun Farocki’s film Something Becomes Visible does not want to explain why a war in such a distant country could for a moment spill over to the whole western world. It’s about distances, relationships between. Nor does he explain, he just reminds us that never before has a war been so massively covered. But it would be too much to say that the pictures helped determine its course. It shows the aftermath, the effects of the war. He combines a historical motif with a romantic one. Vietnam and a couple in love.Read More »

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he’s caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdownsRead More »

Bio-drama tracing the life and career of Polish cardinal Karol Wojtyla from his days as a young activist in Poland, to his rise and installation in 1978 as Pope of the Catholic Church.Read More »

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The act is going on in the year of 1939. The 18 year old Thomas has other things to worry about than what is going on around the world. He’s from a bourgeois home, but when he meets the Thamms; the neighboring-family, his world is turned upside down. That is an excentric family who doesn’t take things so serious and he is introduced in all forms of sex.Read More »

Hasan is a truck driver who has been in jail for years. After his release, he finds out that his childhood friend Yavuz and his ex-lover Sabahat is now married. Yavuz is chased by some outlaws because of his unpaid loan. Hasan takes Sabahat and her daughter away, with the outlaws chasing them.Read More »

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The late Chuck Vincent’s ultimate cross-over hit swept the AFAA (Adult Film Association of America, founded by Dave Friedman) Awards the year it came out, while simultaneously alienating a lot of porn fans and critics alike, perhaps already planting the seeds for what were to become such organizations as the XRCO (X-Rated Critics Organization) and FOXE (Fans of X-Rated Entertainment). The reason for this very controversy is blatantly obvious. While ROOMMATES delivers in spades in all aspects of good film-making (i.e. script, acting, production values), it virtually overlooks the one aspect that separates adult from mainstream movies. Read More »

With the dangerous smoothness of a tiger stalking his prey, Peter (Stéphane Ferrara) has circled the au pair Michèle (Beate Jensen). She quickly succumbs to his fascinating charisma and experiences for the first time a hitherto unknown, tender security. “I’ll kill you,” says Peter, as gently as cold-bloodedly. A macabre joke or a serious warning?Read More »

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father’s Yakuza clan.Read More »