2001-2010

  • Daisuke Gotô – Waisetsu sutêji: Nando mo tsukkonde AKA Blind Love (2005)

    2001-2010Daisuke GotôDramaEroticaJapan
    Blind Love (2005)
    Blind Love (2005)

    A romantic comedy about a blind girl that falls for the wrong man.

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    The films plot hinges on a bizarre love triangle involving a loser ventriloquist, his assistant & a blind woman – Hikari is blindly (literally) in love with Daisuke, a failing ventriloquist yet when she finally musters up enough courage to meet him face to face and present him with some flowers backstage she mistakes his assistant for him. For some reason Daisuke and his assistant decide to follow through with the mistaken identity farce which leads to some amusing complications, particularly in the bedroom.Read More »

  • Hitoshi Matsumoto – Shinboru AKA Symbol (2009)

    2001-2010ArthouseFantasyHitoshi MatsumotoJapan
    Shinboru (2009)
    Shinboru (2009)

    PLOT: A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.Read More »

  • Kevin Willmott – C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

    2001-2010DocumentaryKevin WillmottPoliticsUSA
    C.S.A. The Confederate States of America (2004)
    C.S.A. The Confederate States of America (2004)

    The Confederate States of America, through the eyes of a faux documentary, takes a look at an America where the South won the Civil War. Supposedly produced by a British broadcasting company, the feature film is presented as a production being shown, controversially, for the first time on television in the States. Through the use of other fabricated movie segments, old government information films, television commercials, news breaks, along with actual stock footage from our own history, a provocative and humorous story is told of a country which, in many ways, frighteningly follows a parallel with our own.

    Great social satire, distributed by Spike Lee, believe it or not. Was an audience favourite at Sundance and the Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival.Read More »

  • Genevieve Anderson – Too Loud a Solitude (2007)

    2001-2010AnimationGenevieve AndersonUSA
    Too Loud a Solitude (2007)
    Too Loud a Solitude (2007)

    An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.Read More »

  • Gabriel Range – Death of a President (2006)

    2001-2010CrimeDramaGabriel RangeUnited Kingdom
    Death of a President (2006)
    Death of a President (2006)

    Years after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.Read More »

  • Adoor Gopalakrishnan – Naalu Pennungal (2007)

    2001-2010Adoor GopalakrishnanDramaIndia
    Naalu Pennungal (2007)
    Naalu Pennungal (2007)

    A drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala’s Alappuzha district.Read More »

  • Miklós Jancsó & István Márton – Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál AKA Wake Up, Mate, Don’t You Sleep (2002)

    Miklós Jancsó2001-2010ArthouseComedyHungaryIstván Márton
    Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál (2002)
    Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál (2002)

    We are in standing in the ‘Puszta’, our pants are flapping, … Kapa and Pepe… Pepe, would you have guessed that you will be a prisoner-of-war in your own country? … There are some, who dig the soul out of its body. But who is to find there? A National German SS, a Hungarian foot-soldier, a Jew with a yellow star, a gymnastorkha Russian and a NATO soldier ride a bicycle on the Chain-Bridge.

    Wake Up, Mate, Don’t You Sleep! We lost the sheep with the bell. Jancsó in army uniform, Hernádi in a hat in front of the judges and then on a hospital bed, the T-34 Russian tank brings us Russian oranges and the feeding of fallen angels is strictly forbidden!Read More »

  • Farah Khan – Om Shanti Om (2007)

    Farah Khan2001-2010ActionDramaIndia
    Om Shanti Om (2007)
    Om Shanti Om (2007)

    In the 1970s, Om, an aspiring actor, is murdered, but is immediately reincarnated into the present day. He attempts to discover the mystery of his demise and find Shanti, the love of his previous life.Read More »

  • Cristina Comencini – La bestia nel cuore AKA Don’t tell (2005)

    2001-2010Cristina ComenciniDramaItalyQueer Cinema(s)
    La bestia nel cuore (2005)
    La bestia nel cuore (2005)

    Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her “beast inside the heart”.Read More »

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