2001-2010

  • Stephen Dwoskin – Oblivion (2006)

    2001-2010EroticaExperimentalStephen DwoskinUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Oblivion is of a man’s elderly paralytic literally unspeakable monologue of pain and fury as he finds himself caught in the isolation of dependency and sexual loss. His mind attempts to regain a certain equilibrium of desire as the women who he once loved surround his shrinking and shrieking mind with tantalising distain and pornographic voyeurism. They are both real and imaginary and appear, disappear, and suddenly come back to torment his memory. He is motionless and powerless to control even his fantasies, and in the confused, claustrophobic space the inner world of love and hate, death and life, loneliness and togetherness, and sex, all ambiguously collide as if they were torn out of time. His life becomes represented, not as remembrance, but of the traces and signs of an absence. Suggested by the book “Le Con D’Irène” by Louis Aragon.Read More »

  • Olivier Assayas – L’heure d’été AKA Summer Hours (2008)

    2001-2010DramaFranceOlivier Assayas

    Quote:
    Olivier Assayas is about as protean as today’s great filmmakers come, but the last thing I expected from the mad genius behind the globe-trotting, gorgeously kinetic Boarding Gate is a Chekhovian chamber drama whose mantra could be essentially reduced to: posterity cares. If Boarding Gate convincingly documented a 21st century where human beings can be bought, sold, and shipped from New York to Paris to Hong Kong like shares on the NASDAQ, Summer Hours is the sobering requiem for the safety of objects, for the shape and weight of everything we leave behind when we give in to perpetual flux. Together the two films offer a deeply affecting inquiry into the meaning (and market necessity) of attachment in an age of unfettered globalization.Read More »

  • Albert Maysles – Interview with Christo, Jeanne-Claude and Albert Maysles (2003)

    2001-2010Albert MayslesDocumentaryUSA

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    Albert Maysles, Christo and Jeanne-Claude discuss their friendship, the films, and their ongoing collaboration as well as the upcoming Gates Project for New York City’s Central Park.Read More »

  • Genjiro Arato – Ningen shikkaku AKA The Fallen Angel (2010)

    2001-2010DramaGenjiro AratoJapan

    The Fallen Angel tells the story of a young man who has felt since childhood utterly alien from others around him. Since that time he has learned to put on a face to hide his alienation. He feels incapable of belonging to the human society, especially so by society’s refusal to take him seriously. He then follows a descent into alcohol, drugs, & suicide …Read More »

  • Alina Marazzi – Vogliamo anche le rose AKA We Want Roses Too (2007)

    2001-2010Alina MarazziDocumentaryItalyPolitics

    Quote:
    This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Italy. Acclaimed director Alina Marazzi takes viewers on gorgeous storytelling journey through archival footage, advertisements, and colorful images juxtaposed with the true-life struggles and first person narrations of three diverse Italian women: Anita, who is struggling with an oppressive father and the strict rules of her Catholic faith; Teresa, who must resort to a heartbreaking illicit abortion; and Valentina, a militant feminist caught between love and her commitment to the movement.Read More »

  • Zhang Lu – Mang zhong AKA Grain in Ear (2005)

    2001-2010ChinaDramaZhang Lu
    Mang zhong (2005)

    Grain in Ear follows the plight of Cui (Liu Lianji), a young Korean mother living on the outskirts of Chinese society. With a husband in jail and a son to support, she barely makes a living selling kimchi to workers along the side of a bleak, industrial road. A love affair with a fellow Chinese-Korean leads to tragic consequences as Cui struggles against the vulnerability of her position.Read More »

  • Louise Hogarth – The Gift (2003)

    2001-2010DocumentaryLouise HogarthUSA

    Controversial documentary about gay men purposely contracting the AIDS virus.Read More »

  • Paul Verhoeven – Zwartboek AKA Black Book (2006)

    2001-2010DramaNetherlandsPaul VerhoevenWar

    In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance. Things get complicated when she falls for the enemy.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – La fleur du mal AKA The Flower of Evil (2003)

    2001-2010Claude ChabrolDramaFranceThriller

    Synopsis:
    In her 50s, French mother Anne Charpin-Vasseur (Nathalie Baye) makes a most uncommon choice: she decides to run for mayor of the town she lives in. Among the obstacles she faces are an unfaithful husband (Bernard Le Coq), mysterious leaflets that accuse her family of having collaborated with the Nazis during World War II, and a blossoming love affair between her returning son (Benoît Magimel) and his stepsister (Mélanie Doutey) that is cheered on by Aunt Line (Suzanne Flon).Read More »

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