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Empty room is a dark, highly erotic tale of a married couple whose relationship is slowly sliding into oblivion. Bored and sexually frustrated, the wife begins taking lovers while her unemployed husband spends his days wandering aimless around the city parks.Read More »
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Toshiki Sato – Akibeya aka Empty Room (2001)
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Alain Cavalier – Le paradis (2014)
2011-2020Alain CavalierArthouseExperimentalFranceThe experience of living through two periods of depression and the quiet expectation of a third has endowed a filmmaker with the capacity to perceive the true beauty of life and to capture it on film. He films everything he sees, without favour and without preference, providing it awakens within him a feeling of love. His only worry is that he feels he may have lost some part of that essential quality of his art: innocence…Read More »
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Pedro Almodóvar – Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (1985)
1981-1990ArthouseMusicalPedro AlmodóvarQueer Cinema(s)SpainSynopsis: A Woman abadoned by the husband, suffer and pass for differents adventures until she finds the love.
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Nagisa Ôshima – Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa AKA The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)
1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDramaJapanNagisa OshimaQuote:
Aesthetic and political rebel, Oshima is one of the most original directors now working in Japan. This is a metaphysical tale of a radical student filmmaker who succumbs to the illusion that he has committed suicide and left a film as his testament. Attempting to
“decipher” this film and the “dead man’s” life, he rapes his own girl (who plays along with the illusion to cure him) and retraces the “other man’s” life by means of the film, only to find himself in his own birthplace. The film testament proves incomprehensible. He therefore refilms it, intending to create a work superior to that of his illusory rival; but his girl, to save him, willfully interrupts and changes each scene.Read More » -
Jean-Luc Godard – Vrai faux passeport (2006)
2001-2010ArthouseExperimentalFranceJean-Luc GodardVrai faux passeport was produced by Godard as part of the Pompidou Center retrospective and the Voyages en Utopie exhibition held in Paris in 2006.
The film opened the film retrospective -one of the most complete dedicated to Godard until then- the same day the exhibition was opened to the public.
Those interested in the Godardian adventure at the Pompidou Center should check Morceaux de Conversation avec Jean Luc Godard by Alain Fleischer , Reportage amateur (maquette expo), short film codirected by Godard and Miéville and also Godard, le dos au musée essay by Anne Marquez which summarises the tumultous birth of this major event. Die hard fans will also need to look for Voluptes Grand Master by Korean Paris-based photograph Wori Seung Chol, the very rare unofficial official catalogue of the exhibition.Read More »
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Nikos Panayotopoulos – Melodrama? (1980)
Drama1971-1980ArthouseGreeceNikos PanayotopoulosSynopsis
A 30-year-old man (Lefteris Vogiatzis) returns from America suffering an existential crisis. He goes to Corfu to see his sick mother and tries to find happiness through a desperate love affair with a young music teacher (Maria Xenoudaki). Along the way, he loses his love and ends his sick mother’s suffering.
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Martina Kudlácek – Im Spiegel der Maya Deren AKA In the mirror of Maya Deren (2002)
2001-2010ArthouseAustriaDocumentaryMartina KudlácekMaya DerenWith IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. Crowned “Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body” by the L.A. Weekly, Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Using locations from the Hollywood hills to Haiti, Deren made such mesmerizing films as AT LAND, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME and her masterpiece MESHES OF THE AFTERNOONRead More »
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Ming-liang Tsai – Wu Wu Mian AKA No No Sleep (2015)
2011-2020ArthouseAsianChinaMing-liang TsaiNo No Sleep’ sees Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang revisiting Lee Kang Sheng’s walking monk, this time in Tokyo. But rather than spend all his time on the city streets, Tsai eventually transplants the anonymous monk to a Japanese ‘onsen’ (a public bathhouse), where he’s joined by an equally anonymous Japanese man. Read More »
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Avishai Sivan – Ha’Meshotet aka The Wanderer (2010)
2001-2010ArthouseAvishai SivanDramaIsraelIsaac, a young yeshiva student, an only child to born-again orthodox parents. Trapped in a dysfunctional family and a failing body, Isaac finds refuge in wandering. Tormented by his newfound infertility, Isaac looks for answers in his father’s dubious past. Wandering through the backstreets of the city, he seeks deliverance.Read More »









