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Dimwitted, somewhat misanthropic Oslo mail carrier Roy’s quiet life changes dramatically on the day he steals a set of keys and lets himself into the apartment of a deaf woman who seems to be in trouble with a psychotic criminal. Though he doesn’t know it at the time, his and her fate are about to intertwine and this is not going to be to his benefit.Read More »
Milan tells the story of his older brother Sascha, the pride of the Tomic family in Vienna. The war in their nearby homeland hits the family hard, destroying their dreams of a happy life. Sascha disappears in the chaos of the civil war and then returns to the family after a year, rootless and transformed by what he experienced as a soldier. Sascha quickly tries to forget by evoking memories of peace and tranquillity in Vienna. He has married Suza and intends to start a new life with her in Austria. However, the war catches up with the Tomic family, infecting them with hate. Sascha tries to fight it, while his embittered father adds fuel to the fire. The situation ends in a rupture between father and son. Milan, the family’s youngest, is helpless and lost between the two men, who were his childhood heroes. After Sascha’s tragic and unavoidable death, the insanity finally ends and Milan becomes an adult.Read More »
A grifter divides his time between being an unwelcome guest in the home of a former fellow student now a computer programmer and attempting to make lots of money by running fraudulent businesses.Read More »
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An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. But soon this New World collides with the Old World as Spanish conquistadors seek to enslave the Indians, and Cabeza de Vaca must confront his own people and his past.Read More »
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What do you do if a stranger comes to your home and politely asks to borrow some eggs?
So far, it doesn’t sound like a good film, but Funny Games isn’t a good film. There’s no way it can be middle-of-the-road, it’s either brilliant or awful, depending on your point of view. Consider that when this film was first shown at Cannes, a lot of the audience walked out, including some professional film critics. In short, this is a film you need to see to have any true appreciation of how it works. I could describe everything that happens in minute detail, and still not impart what actually happens.Read More »
A young woman searches for information about her father who starred in the classic movie ‘Days of Tomorrow’, which she is helping to remake. She finds out about his restless youth, career in the 1970s Hong Kong film industry, and tragic love affair.Read More »
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One of the most influential and visionary artists of the past century is celebrated in this documentary which covers the highlights of his fascinating career. The format of the film mirrors the restless reality of his life; an inveterate traveller and always on the move, Max Ernst lived and worked in Germany, France, and America. His nomadic way of life kept him searching: “A painter is lost if he finds himself.” This film looks at his involvement with the Dadaists in Cologne, his time in Paris, his flight to New York, his life in America, and his return to Europe, revealing the “private, brittle places of refuge” he created at various stages in his life.Read More »
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Pantelis Voulgaris directed this three-part Greek anthology film in which three middle-aged men confront their personal demons. In the 40-minute “A Silver Coin on the Lips,” a Macedonian archaeologist (Dimitris Katalifos) stumbles onto the remains of a soldier with a coin on his lips, payment to the ferryman Charon of legend; this discovery reminds him of his son’s death, and he departs for the border outpost where the death occurred. A 34-minute segment, “The Last of the Lesser Whites,” takes place in Thrace where ornithologists meet with the game warden (Thanassis Vengos) who watches over a beautiful wilderness area with thousands of birds. A Norwegian woman in the group seeks the only known survivor of rare Bergen geese, but a poacher shoots it. The 40-minute “Vietnam” follows a rich factory owner (Giorgos Armenis), a man in such a state of emotional torment after his wife of many years leaves him that he drunkenly destroys a bar named Vietnam. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival.
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A man faces police questioning after helping a drunk girl the night before.Read More »