1991-2000

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In Portuguese Metade Fumaca means ‘half smoked’ and in this movie that is a reference to the cigarette Eric Tsang’s character carries with him since one, for him, magical night 30 years ago.

Mountain Leopard (Eric Tsang from Gen-X Cops) is a triad who has spent the last 30 years of his life living in Brazil. He now returns to Hong Kong to kill his long time rival Nine Dragons (Michael Chan) who stole the woman Mountain Leopard was in love with. He enlists the help of small time hoodlum Smokey (Nicholas Tse from 2002) who more than willingly is ready to kill for money. Smokey also knows the present Hong Kong which Mountain Leopard is not really familiar with and the two slowly begin the search for Nine Dragons. During this time they develop an almost father-son like relationship but along the way the real truth about Mountain Leopard is revealed…. Read More »

Set in 1958. On an NBC game show, “Twenty-One”, a working-class Jewish student remains king of the show for weeks. The show’s producers decide to create a new champion by feeding a new contestant, middle-class Charles Van Doren, with the right answers. He becomes a symbol of intellect to students and the nation. Based on a real life incident.Read More »

Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.Read More »

Marion is a 10 year old schoolgirl, her family just moved into a Normandy village : the father is a mason, the mother takes care of their four children. She meets “the Parisians”, a wealthy childless couple having a cottage in the neighborhood. Audrey, the woman, becomes fond of Marion, who is more and more often invited to the cottage…Read More »

Once upon a time there was a spoilt, directionless woman called Georgina Oliphant (Claudia Karvan).

To relieve the boredom associated with being an heiress, Georgina has commissioned a sculpture using her father’s money. Foreseeing a healthy tax deduction and a chance to honour his dead wife with a new wing in the state gallery, her father George (Chris Haywood) indulges her. Georgina’s friend, Lily Carmichael (Victoria Eagger), is engaged to create the work.Read More »

A few stories are mixed, but all starts with Claire who one day brings back to Gregoire one of his books found at the university. Gregoire is the tenebrous romantic king, and Claire falls in love with him. But there is also Gregoire’s circle, his disturbing neighbour, his maybe crazy grandmother Diane, his former teacher Hugo. And this is mixed up with Sebastien’s attempts to seduce Claire then her mother Anne. And also Claire’s psychiatrist.Read More »

The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.

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Todd Solondz’s “Happiness” is a film that perplexes its viewers, even those who admire it, because it challenges the ways we attempt to respond to it. Is it a portrait of desperate human sadness? Then why are we laughing? Is it an ironic comedy? Then why its tenderness with these lonely people? Is it about depravity? Yes, but why does it make us suspect, uneasily, that the depraved are only seeking what we all seek, but with a lack of ordinary moral vision? In a film that looks into the abyss of human despair, there is the horrifying suggestion that these characters may not be grotesque exceptions, but may in fact be part of the mainstream of humanity.Read More »

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F. A. Brabec’s Král Ubu is a film for wide audiences made for the centennial of the first performance of French playwright Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi (1896). It is a cruel picture of the ways in which human beings acquire power and then cling to it. The story of Father Ubu, an idiot who climbs over the bodies of the dead to his royal post, is presented with a touch of the grotesque where naive comic elements meet black humor. Using a human touch, the film- makers were able to transform the original into a film aimed at a contemporary audience while remaining faithful to the vision of Father Ubu and Mother Ubu venturing everything in their efforts to seize power and mammon. Read More »

Undersecretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigns to form a volunteer militia unit called “The Rough Riders” to fight in the Spanish-American War.Read More »