2001-2010

  • David Slade – Hard Candy (2005)

    2001-2010David SladeThrillerUSA

    Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.Read More »

  • Peter Whitehead – Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009)

    Peter Whitehead2001-2010ArthouseExperimentalUnited Kingdom

    Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey’s murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerising psycho-geographical exploration of modern day Vienna. The film incorporates a record of the subversive underbelly of the city into a poetic meditation on conspiracy theory, ecoterrorism, time and cinema, retracing the story of The Third Man. Adapted from a trilogy of Whitehead’s own Nohzone novels, the objective and subjective becomes blurred as the film director merges with the fictional detective in a journey into the murky activities of covert counter-insurgency groups. Kaleidoscopic in intent, the film mixes Noh theatre, Victorian novels, Vienna after the war, opium, domain names and Jacob’s ladder “pitched twixt Heaven and Charring Cross”.Read More »

  • Vincenzo Natali – Cypher (2002)

    Vincenzo Natali2001-2010Sci-FiThrillerUSA

    An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.Read More »

  • Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive: Final (2002)

    Takashi Miike2001-2010CrimeDramaJapan

    The ace cop of a totalitarian police force and a drifting android play their parts in a post-apocalyptic society. They are destined to fight. Their encounter will change them forever.Read More »

  • Koen Mortier – Ex Drummer (2007)

    Koen Mortier2001-2010BelgiumCultDrama

    Synopsis:
    Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.Read More »

  • Veronica Hart – Misty Beethoven the Musical! (2004)

    2001-2010EroticaMusicalUSAVeronica Hart

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    A snobby socialite and his mistress try to transform a sleazy hooker into a singing sex goddess.

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    Back in the 1970’s, during the Golden Age of Porn, Misty Beethoven was considered a classic. 30 plus years later, veteran performer and director Veronica Hart has re-envisioned the classic tale in a manner not even the original director/writer, Henry Paris, would have imagined…as a musical.Read More »

  • Reha Erdem – Bes Vakit AKA Times and Winds (2006)

    Reha Erdem2001-2010DramaTurkey

    Three youngsters lead difficult lives in a poor, rural mountain village in northern Turkey. Omer (Ozkan Ozen) hates his father, the village Imam, and imagines different ways to kill him. His friend Yakup (Ali Bey Kayali) has a secret infatuation with his teacher. Yildiz (Elit Iscan) must handle the housework handed out by her severe mother. Their tough existence is tempered by the wonder and excitement of youth, as their daily lives are divided into five sections, separated by prayer sessions.Read More »

  • Steve Boyum – King Solomon’s Mines (2004)

    2001-2010ActionAdventureSteve BoyumUSA

    Safari hunter, Allan Quartermain, heads into Africa in order to rescue a man, who had disappeared while searching for the fabled lost gold mines of King Solomon.Read More »

  • Isaki Lacuesta – La leyenda del tiempo (2006)

    Isaki Lacuesta2001-2010ArthouseSpain

    Named after legendary flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla’s groundbreaking record album (which, in turn, was inspired by the works of Andalusian poet, Federico García Lorca), Isaki Lacuesta’s The Legend of Time melds the improvised encounters of Johan van der Keuken’s ethnographic documentaries with the quotidian intimacy of Mercedes Álvarez’s El cielo gira to create a understated, yet meticulously observed meditation on grief, identity, and self-expression. Composed of two, self-contained chapters capture the disparate lives of figurative outsiders from Camarón’s ancestral hometown of San Fernando, Cádiz – a gypsy boy, Isra who decides to honor his father’s memory by refraining from singing during the family’s self-imposed period of mourning, and a young Japanese woman, Makiko who leaves her ailing father behind in order to follow in the footsteps of Camarón and learn cante by immersing herself in the culture – the film is also a lucid and thoughtful essay into the inalterable nature of change, resonance, and connectedness.Read More »

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