1991-2000

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The Ashes of Pasolini is nothing more than a… selfportrait of Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is a documentary film, a collection of material that has been chosen and organized with philological acumen and historicalcritical rigor. It is strongly marked by a subjective, poetic flow and structure. It is a documentary film of poetry where the documents are not suppressed under the authoritarian voice over of the ‘Expert’ who guides and reduces everything into a reassuring hierarchical pyramid of explanations. The Ashes of Pasolini is thus Pasolini’s autobiographical narration of his own human and artistic adventure, the contradictory and irreducible complex lived out by the greatest Italian postwar poet under the impulse of the extreme Mayakovskian shout: ‘Professor, if you would take off your bicycleeyeglasses, I myself will tell you about the weather, and about myself’.Read More »

A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman’s god-daughter.Read More »

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After second world war the people from Ruthenia’s Carpathian villages were promised a better life in Bohemia. Once settled down they felt like strangers at the new places, so memories and tales became very important reminding them of their old homes. One of these tales is about Jakub, a man who knew the bible by heart. This film follows his trace portraying the almost forgotten loss of those people who nowadays still feel without a home.Read More »

Based on true incidents, a south Indian Hindu man falls in love with a Muslim woman–taboo in the small village from which they hail. They marry against family wishes and move to Mumbai, where he works as a reporter for a large daily newspaper. Eventually, the couple has twin boys. The rest of the film is set during the December 1992-January 1993 period when the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid controversy raised religious tension in Mumbai and other parts of India, which sparked rioting and violence. The couple is separated from their children, and the fathers of both parents are killed when their home is burned by rioters. A reporter is shown interviewing politicians from both factions as well as the police. An underlying moral of thinking of oneself as an Indian rather than a Hindu or a Muslim is prevalent throughout the latter part of the film. The family is finally reunited after much searching through hospitals, morgues, and shelters. But the violence has left indelible impressions in the minds of the children.Read More »

An F.B.I. Agent persuades a social worker, who is adept with a new experimental technology, to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to learn where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.Read More »

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“Slacker” is a movie with an appeal almost impossible to describe, although the method of the director, Richard Linklater, is as clear as day. He wants to show us a certain strata of campus life at the present time — a group of people he calls “slackers,” although anyone who has ever lived in a campus town will also recognize them under such older names as beatniks, hippies, bohemians, longhairs, peaceniks, weirdos or the Union Regulars (for surely every campus with a student union also has a seemingly permanent body of current and former students who hang around all day drinking free coffee refills and wondering whether life as they know it exists outside the union).Read More »

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Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,” he turned his camera on explicit lovemaking, childbirth, even autopsy. Many of his most famous works pursue the nature of vision itself and transcend the act of filming. Some, including the legendary Mothlight, were created without using a camera at all, as he pioneered the art of making images directly on film, by drawing, painting, and scratching. With these two volumes, we present the definitive Brakhage collection – fifty-six of his works, from across his career, in high-definition digital transfers.Read More »

Anzai is a town planner; his former classmate Shibata is a developer not averse to bending the rules and paying the odd sweetener. Both men have their lives turned upside down by a chance encounter with Kiriko, a young woman whose obsession with UFOs reflects her inability to stay in one place for long. She seems interested in both of them, and unable to decide between them…Read More »

blurb sez: In Sept./Oct. 1992 a mini festival took place in the Temple Bar Area of Dublin. Called ‘The Here To Go Show’, it celebrated William Burroughs and Brion Gysin and was located at The Gallery of Photography, The Project Arts Centre, and a number of Private locations. Organised by English writer Terry Wilson, Irish rock singer Frank Rynne, and writer Joe Ambrose. The show was documented in guerilla fashion by the organisers the results of which have been distilled into ‘Destroy all Rational Thought’.Read More »