Arthouse

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When William Reardon, a steel magnate, dies and leaves a strange will. When his spineless and dandified heir and son returns home from living in Paris, he finds “Tons’ Walker, a strong and burly steel worker running the company, per his late-father’s will request. He also finds that his father’s will specifies the Junior will change his name to Bill Hall and work in the family steel mill for a year under the fake name. Walker’s job is to make a man out of the son. The son is not overjoyed by this prospect. Neither is Walker.Read More »

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The evolution of life, from the drop of water where hundreds of microscopic animals live to that of the great primates. Essential behaviors (feeding and reproducing) are innate, automatic, and never show any variation. The struggle for life and interspecies aggressiveness are found in all animals, with significant differences. The ancestors of the great primates learned to anticipate the outcome of their actions and to assess the risks they needed to take in order to survive…Read More »

Synopsis from Letterboxd
This free-form Canadian drama chronicles the dysfunctional lives of six young people living in Montreal during the summer of 1994. All of the characters are in their twenties, and all are dissatisfied with modern life. Rita is hell on rollerblades and makes her free-wheeling living snatching purses and breaking into cars. She camps out in the apartment of her wealthy friend, Roxan who devotes her spare time to caring for the homeless. Lloyd is a skinhead Deejay for an alternative radio station. His self-important, outrageous ranting provides the background for the rest of the stories. Lloyd is in love with Loulou, a barmaid at a punk club. Loulou is involved in a boring relationship with a liquor store clerk, Marc; she looks to Lloyd for excitement. Finally, there is screwed-up Henriette, who is so busy venting her neurosis in her shrink’s office that she has no time to listen to the doctor’s advice.Read More »

A young mother, alone with her daughter, confides in a friend who happens to be the director herself. Chantal Akerman, although she sympathizes with the mother, does not say a word.Read More »

All Movie Guide wrote:
A key figure in the New German Film movement, Ulrich Schamoni specialized in controversial satires beginning with his 1965 directorial debut Es (It), an ironic, but realistic portrayal of a counter-culture couple living in Berlin that critics dismissed as being too frivolous to be taken seriously. Undeterred, Schamoni made several more social satires, including a look at a family Christmas holiday All Jahre Weider (Every Year). In 1974, he caused controversy again with Chapeau Claque (TOP HAT), a tale of a lazy young businessman who would rather hang out in the pool of his father’s old mansion and live off his inheritance than work. German censors felt the film might have a negative influence on young people. By the mid-’80s, Schamoni had tired of directing and became involved with commercial media and the founding of a Berlin radio station.Read More »

imdb says:
After a tempest, fishermen do not find only fish in their nets. That is what happens to Jafaar, a poor fisherman who lives poorly in Gaza. And what he hauls in is really upsetting : imagine that, a pig! An unclean animal judged impure not only by the Faith of Islam but also by the Jewish religion. Determined to get rid of the animal, Jafaar tries desperately to sell it, first to a United Nations official, then to a Jewish colony where Yelena raises pigs not for their meat but for security reasons. Of course, going unnoticed in the company of a “forbidden” animal, among his Palestinian brothers, past Israeli soldiers and under the scrutiny of Islamic fundamentalists is no bed of roses and a series of misadventures await Jafaar….Read More »

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A modern epic at its most ridiculous. A group of Europeans calling themselves Operation Blue Angels fly in to offer aid in the form of surplus food to the black Africans. But those making the trip are themselves the surplus of European society, a lost and neurotic people…Read More »

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Burning from the core of the feminine divine we unravel.. uncoil.. undulating from where the patriarchy had us firmly wrapped up, silenced, burnt and buried beneath the sand, the earth, the blood soaked desert once lost in a mirage, lost in what we told ourselves as children was a far away dream, or nightmare, depending on how sharply you felt her claws caress you. The beguiling landscape of the Arizona desert forms the backdrop of the film, in which Lilith fights for the rights of marginalized minorities, be it the stereotype of the “wild” woman, the witches who were burned; the sex workers, the queers, POCs, transgender people, people with physical and mental disabilities. Lilith Rising is a tribute to all those we have lost on the way to claiming our rights.Read More »

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Drawing on a wide mosaic of texts from figures like Montaigne and Kafka, literary and philosophical fragments are used to illustrate and reflect on the human condition. It is a tribute to the landscape and the people who inhabit the Trás-os-Montes region of Portugal, portraying the region not just as a physical space, but as a place where imagination and reality intertwine.Read More »