2001-2010

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Pinup model Laura (Isadora Edison, Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing) learns of some bad news on the home front from her sister Winnifred (Chelsea Mundae, The Seduction of Misty Mundae). She just has time for some lesbian love before heading back to New England to see what’s up. Turns out that her Aunt Cynthia (Tina Tyler, Pulp Friction) is getting it on with Laura’s ex hump buddy, Nelson Nyland (John Samuel Jordan, Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing) Laura’s ire vanishes when she finds out that the two are in love. But Laura knows that Nelson’s jealous sister, Judith (Kay Kirtland), will stop at nothing to break the lovers apart.Read More »

“As a writer of brilliant comedies, where satire tosses and turns under sheets of exquisitely embroidered farce, Michael Frayn’s biggest hit came with the hysterical “play within a play” fiasco Noises Off. Film work such as the John Cleese comedy Clockwise and the touching TV play First and Last have showed off Frayn as a fine observer of people. But in Copenhagen he turns to history, and a moral conundrum so trenchant that at points it overtakes the carefully reconstructed plot in the viewer’s mind. For every visual image there is an imaginary imp hovering behind it asking us to see a wider picture.Read More »

One day Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in. Tord and Tord start to spend time with each other.Read More »

An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.Read More »

Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is singled out to receive a “Memory of the Nation” medal, however, it transpires that this reputedly morally irreproachable dissident once collaborated with state security agencies, informing on a former friend of his wife, Borek, and ultimately being responsible for the latter’s forced emigration. Josek’s family and close friends try to come to terms with these new facts.

*Czech official submission to 83rd Academy Award’s Foreign Language category (2011)Read More »

An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments featuring Charles Laughton directing ‘The Night of the Hunter.’

A truly unique and powerful masterclass in filmmaking.Read More »

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a comfortable bourgeois life in his native country. Thanks to Anedda, a corrupt police inspector, and after giving away former comrades, he obtains a reduced jail sentence. Once released from prison he obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a “respectable” citizen, even if the way to it is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist and murder…Read More »

In collaboration with Nada Gordon & E.J. Bellocq. Subversive sexuality and the poignancy of desire. The women are visions, desirous, delicate, illusory; the illusionary nature manifest–traversing boundaries, expectations and physical limits. By the close, we, in the audience, remain trans-fixed.

In collaboration with Nada Gordon & E.J. Bellocq. Music by Marty Ehrlich.Read More »

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A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner, Les Saignantes is shot in high contrast lighting in what seems to be one long continuous night. The throbbing bass soundtrack of the film underscores the pulse of its rapid, jump-cut, music-video style editing. The characterization of the future city is a pessimistic allegory of the contemporary nation in Africa. By the year 2025, nothing has progressed; rather the country is still ruled by abusive power-drunk leaders who promise contracts to their mistresses; the police still take bribes and have no authority to actually investigate the crimes of the rich and powerful. Near the end of the film the smooth woman’s voiceover, which has performed the narrator’s function throughout the film, intones “We were already dead.” Re-watching the film with these words in mind, one wonders if the film, set a few years ahead in the future in 2025, is not the portrait of the spiritual aftermath of nation that has already died.Read More »