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A fantasy about a woman’s attempts to exorcise the influence of her sexually domineering father.Read More »

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Lemonade Joe also known as Lemonade Joe or the Horse Opera is a film directed by Oldrich Lipský, based on a series of short stories by Czech writer/animator Jirí Brdecka. It was the Czechoslovak entry to the 1964 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.

Probably the most well known of the spoofs on Western culture and cinema (which included science fiction, comic strips, and spy movies) to come out of the Czech New Wave—and in my opinion the most effective—Lemonade Joe is a hilarious musical parody of the Wild West inspired by B grade silent era westerns and infused with that wonderful Czech sense of satirical comedy that holds universal appeal.Read More »

This is a film adaptation of a chamber drama of the same title by Plínio Marcos which is something of a classic repertory piece in Brazilian theater.

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A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello’s gay cleaner fight over the gigolo’s missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.Read More »

A wealthy Chilean landowner is used to having powers within his domain which would not surprise a feudal lord in Spain in the 14th century. In this story, set in 1917, Julio Garcia Castano is preparing to celebrate his son’s 15th birthday by inviting a selection of local whores to vie for the privilege of initiating him into sexual manhood. His plans go awry when the boy (who is also named Julio) and one of the prostitutes fall in love with each other. With a ruthlessness that would put a Borgia to shame, he ends the relationship. He also has a boundary dispute with a nearby Franciscan monastery, which he solves with similar dispatch. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »

Considered one of the most significant films of DEFA, the state-run East German film studio, Goya is a monumental 70mm production directed by one of East Germany’s leading directors, Konrad Wolf, who won a Special Jury Prize at the 1971 Moscow International Film Festival for this work which was also nominated for the festival’s Golden Prize. The film is based on a 1951 novel by the German-Jewish exile author Lion Feuchtwanger. Goya is one of ten East German films originally shot in 70mm.Read More »

A French striptease artist is desperate to become a mother. When her reluctant boyfriend suggests his best friend to impregnate her, feelings become complicated when she accepts.Read More »

When a couple decides to adopt a stray cat their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves.Read More »

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Here’s Omori second movie directed for the ATG Studio. It is, as most people would know, the transposition to the screen of Murakami Haruki’s very first and eponymous novel. The novel itself is hard to describe in another way than a “conceptual” novel, as it is obviously no “watakushi shōsetsu (I novel)”. It is quite a unique movie, with an arty-experimental flavor. Some of you might recognize Kuroki Kazuo playing a little role as a psychologist.Read More »

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In ancient Romania, where simplicity hides deep inner life, Doina rises each dawn to bring food to her shepherd husband. What begins as a daily routine becomes a quiet ritual. One morning, nature’s signs reveal his death. The film follows her through grief, blending symbolic realism with myth and magic as she journeys to the edges of despair where reality and imagination intertwine.Read More »