In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disapeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.Read More »
In Italy, a pianist suffering from the Progeria genetic disease becomes distraught and goes on a mad killing spree prompting a police inspector to investigate.Read More »
The tragedy of the death of Empedocles, philosopher in Ancient Greece. Hölderlin’s work adapted to cinema by Straub and Huillet.Read More »
Synopsis: A talented but irresponsible violinist ruins his marriage with his drinking and antisocial behaviour.Read More »
Based on reportage of the 1976 strike in Radom, which ended with the regional Party Committee headquarters set aflame, Kieslowski’s made-for-TV hybrid film merges archival materials with a dramatization of organized opposition during a single day of conflict. Shot during the Solidarity period and finished just before the imposition of martial law in 1981, A Short Working Day was not broadcast until 1996, three months after Kieslowski’s death from complications of heart surgery.Read More »
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While Stan Brakhage’s diverse output includes a wide variety of films in each period, there has always been a group that I’ve thought of as the “main line” of his work. Usually his strongest and most original films, they are also the ones that expand his limits, pushing his work into new territory. Even before the somnambulist-protagonist puts out his eyes in the early The Way to Shadow Garden, Brakhage’s long filmmaking career had begun to follow a particular trajectory, an arch that stretches further and further away from the given. The impulse has always been to obliterate social conventions of eyesight in favor of something more original, more unpredictable, more unruly.Read More »
Corkidi takes the figure of Christ, with his opposition to the established order, as his point of departure in constructing a parable of the contemporary human condition and its suffocating circumstances.
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Scenes of the Passion is a film that tells the story of how a group of actors decide to represent the Passion of Christ in a small town in Spain. Throughout the plot, you can see the conflicts and challenges that arise between the characters, both in their professional and personal life. The film stands out for its intense and dramatic atmosphere, as well as the emotion of interpretations.
Scenes of the Passion generated $8.4 million in cinemas, and was viewed by more than 7.2 million people worldwide.Read More »
Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.Read More »
Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman, a rich self-made man with a conscience – he founded a highly visible and active international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? Eventually, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his younger wife Lina, and that in a roundabout way concerns her as well. It is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier, when Elsa Wiener, a German singer exiled in Paris, without money or relations, a refugee among many others, faced two daunting problems: surviving in a foreign city, and saving her husband Michel from the clutches of the Nazis.Read More »