This homage to film noir and gangster films is the 25th film by the Iranian film maker Masud Kimiai. It tells the story of two lovers who commit a robbery with their accomplice and their dealings with other gangsters. The Persian title is حکم.
Starring: Leila Hatami, Bahram Radan, Poulad Kimiayi, Khosro Shakibai & Ezzatolah Entezami.Read More »
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Greta Scacchi plays a lonely spinster living on her own on a secluded farm in the mid-west of the USA. Unable to keep the farm by herself she hires a drifter, played by Bill Sage, as her handyman in return for food and lodging. As Christmas approaches the relationship between the two blossoms with a surprising and unexpected turn.Read More »
Amechiyo is being hunted by his father for being too beautiful and as he tries to escape he runs into Princess Raccoon, a raccoon in human form. They fall for each other, but humans and raccoons shouldn’t mix so the raccoon court causes some trouble. She saves his life, then he saves hers by finding the Frog of Paradise on the Sacred Mountain and so forth, until the tragic finale.Read More »
Original Title in Japanese: パレスチナ1948 NAKBA
The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Israel. It marks also the beginning of 60 years of the suffering for the Palestinian people. This tragedy is referred to as the “Nakba,” meaning catastrophe in Arabic.
Since 1948 at least 420 Palestinian villages have vanished. The photo journalist Ryuichi Hirokawa has filmed over 1,000 hours of footage and has taken thousands of photographs of the Palestinian people and their vanished villages. This film is a distillation of this footage.Read More »
Quote:The alarm rings. It’s time. What time ? Time to fuck! And if the woman is emacipating herself by sleeping with another woman it’s the moment for the husband to discover them together. From here the film is metric, which is to say that all the shots are constituted from 9 images or their multiples. The film is named ‘Hybrid’ because different shots from different films tell the same story, that of the man who fucks the woman who fucks the man. All in all of the man who fucks the manRead More »
Asami (Rina Uchiyama) is about to gradute from college. One rainy day, she offers her umbrella to Mayama (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who was her mother’s lover, and Asami’s real father, though he doesn’t know it. As they keep meeting each other, Asami realizes how much her dead mother means to him. At the same time, Mayama’s current lover decides to leave him, sensing there’s no room for her in his heart.Read More »
A few summer days of three ordinary Moscow girls on threshold of adulthood. Farewell to childhood in yards, where everything is for the first time – from secretly bought cigarettes and cans of G&T to first love and almost real tragedies.Read More »
Various individuals named Ichiro undergo life-changing events while being inspired by the baseball player Ichiro. A heartwarming movie about the people who root for the baseball player Ichiro, and their struggles to make their own dreams come true.
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Chronogram is a photomontage that explores stillness, motion, and memory. Using a 35mm still camera, multiple exposures were composed and edited in-camera, creating frameless sequences of images printed on 35mm filmstrips. When projected, these images become a non-linear, non-synchronized collage. The ephemeral quality of the images-their transparency, layering, and repetition-invites us to reflect on the role memory plays in perception, the ways we mentally reconfigure fragments to construct stability and meaning in an environment of perpetual flux. – by Malena SzlamRead More »