Cult

A group of old men take over an empty house and proclaim it to be a new “country” they have founded, called Yama. (“Yamato” is one of the oldest names for Japan, “yama” itself means “mountain.”) The men basically refuse to be thrown out of this domicile by some gangsters, and they are successful for several months. Their resistance started on December 8th, the date Pearl Harbor was bombed (not the 7th because one crosses the International Date Line and gains a day while heading west from the U.S.) and lasts until August 15th, the date when Japan officially surrendered at the end of World War II.Read More »

A neo-Nazi organization is recruiting in the 1980s, and two youths of high-school age join for similar reasons, despite class differences. Thomas is the son of a self-made industrialist father and a scolding social-climbing mother. He attends private school and has a brother who’s an accomplished musician, but neither can satisfy mom’s constant demands for school and social success. She belittles them, and there’s incessant bickering at their table. Charly, a dropout, is the son of an abusive, alcoholic laborer. In the youth group, each finds order, respect, camaraderie, and adults who seem to value them. Where do domestic abuse and sanctioned political violence end?Read More »

Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers in , he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of Frrench drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane’s. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse…Read More »

Vampish miss Dolan hires hardboiled P.I. Harry Dobbs to tail her shady boyfriend. Harry realizes that the man leads a double life but then his client disappears. Harry teams up with his own tail, P.I. Stella Wynkowski, to clear things up.Read More »

Interface is a 2021 Canadian animated avant-garde sci-fi fantasy film directed by Justin Tomchuk (as Umami). Originally released as a series of web episodes from 2017 to 2021 before the episodes were combined to form a feature-length film, the film revolves around a mysterious silent man in a hat wandering through a strange digital afterlife, searching for meaning while a bizarre, shape-shifting clown-like creature follows him and offers profound insights.Read More »

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Brutes and Savages is a typical entry in the bizarre subgenre of mondo films. In it, narrator and explorer Arthur Davis visits Africa and South America in search of weird ceremonies and cultures. The film is basically trying to educate the viewer with a “partial” look at the locals’ everyday activities and beliefs and it tries to make everything look authentic and real. It clearly isn’t. Numerous camera angles and ridiculously staged events kill the illusion early on.Read More »

In 1964, after the end of a passion and the dismissal of her maid, G.H., a sculptor from Rio de Janeiro, decides to clean up her apartment. In the service room, G.H. comes across a huge cockroach and experiences her existential vía crucis.
Based on the Clarice Lispector’s bookRead More »

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Inasmuch as Manoel de Oliveira’s films convey what Randal Johnson describes as a cinematic hybridity that illustrates the amorphous nature of representation, No, or the Vain Glory of Command also reflects a temporal hybridity, where time is presented as a conflation of seemingly arbitrary, but integrally connected history. Opening to a long take of a large ancient tree shot from a moving camera platform in the African wilderness, the correlation between enduring image and its representation through a constantly shifting point of view also serves as a contemporary metaphor for Portuguese history itself, where its consequences continue to be re-evaluated through the shifting perspective of an increasingly marginalized legacy. Read More »

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Warsaw is mysteriously running out of water during the summer heat wave. This mystery can only be solved by a Polish superhero whose name is As.Read More »