2001-2010

To a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover’s face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game. From the melting clocks and hourglass sand, to the figure rendered in strips, to the character covered in eyeballs, the style and themes of Dalí are clearly recognizable throughout.Read More »

16-year-old Carsten just started dating Melissa. He is introduced to her sweet and likable parents, who kindly welcome their first son in law. On a weekend in their summerhouse it turns out that Carsten and Melissa’s dad might have more in common than they first thought.Read More »

A quartet of sterling performances from some of Sweden’s top actors (including the wonderful Pernille August) anchors Jorgen Bergmark’s tragicomedy about a marriage counseling couple who find themselves in deep water when the husband falls for his best friend’s wife. A smart, funny film made for adults.Read More »

A policewoman has always had the worst luck in love. On a trip to Malaysia, she finally meets the man of her dreams. However, her Perfect Man might not be all he appears to be.Read More »

From modernkoreancinema.com
The burden of expectation can sometimes be a heavy weight to bear and after a little too much of it, many films simply crumble. In 2009, an indie Korean film clocking in at three and a half hours began to make the rounds of the festival circuit and attracted some very positive attention. After a full year screening at various events it was finally accorded a domestic release in late December 2010 but, like the vast majority of independent features, it failed to find an audience in Korea. A number of people (myself included) patiently awaited its DVD release but it never came… until now. After premiering at the Busan Film Festival in October 2009, Café Noir was finally released on DVD in June 2012. While I can’t say exactly why the wait for the disc was so long, I can, to some extent, understand it.Read More »

The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in 1980s. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from the boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The action is not like the boot camp at all. It is very bloody and dirty. The 9th company is defending the position 3234, and is hopelessly calling for help. But help never comes. “This is war, you kill, or get killed”, says the 9-th company leader Khohol (Bondarchuk). The guys are killed one by one, by the viciously fighting dushman guerrillas. The last guy survives to learn that the war was over, and the 9th company was simply forgotten… They believed that they served their country. But two years later that country seized to exist.Read More »

In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.Read More »

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“Yoyochu” is the nick name for Tadashi Yoyogi. He is the father of Japanese adult video. Before becoming a pornographer, he was a flower arranger and a member of the mob. Here, we follow Tadashi Yoyogi as he seeks the truth behind love-making.Read More »

Actor-director Hamid Jebelli (Son of Maryam) offers a charming portrait of a mentally challenged man looking for love in a world that largely ignores him. Feeble-minded Reza works at a bridal shop where he transports wedding dresses on his old, rickety bicycle. Reza spends his time communing with his long-dead mother at the cemetery, or with a dress mannequin in the shop window. One day, not long after the mannequin loses its head, Reza’s life changes when a beautiful woman, accompanied by her maid, arrives at the store looking for bridal veils. “A sweet-natured Iranian film of considerable charm and humor” (Los Angeles Times).Read More »