Drama

Suen Tie-Mei has grown up in the mountains and been engaged to Wong Hui when she gets pregnant. In an action against the Japanese occupation forces Wong gets killed.Read More »

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, shows him that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection.Read More »

A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man’s materialistic nature.Read More »

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Excerpt from “Slow Time, Visible Cinema: Duration, Experience, and Spectatorship” by Tiago de Luca, originally published in Cinema Journal Vol. 56, No. 1 (Fall, 2016)

A limping woman (Chen Shiang-chyi), with a broom in hand, walks into an empty cinema auditorium framed in a static long shot. She enters the frame from the right, walks up the stairs while slowly sweeping the floor, crosses the upper part of the auditorium, and then climbs down the stairs on the other side and leaves the frame from the left, an action that lasts nearly three minutes. Read More »

A guerrilla group tries to kidnap a politician. In the attempt several policemen and a guerrilla are killed. By chance the head of the guerrillas is recognised by a former comrade; to prevent betrayal they kidnap him. The plot explores the divergent political views of the characters in a mixture of action, intrigue and the reality of the era.Read More »

An erotic exploration of marriage and lust.Read More »

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A young man in a typical Macedonian landscape, plays the saxophone on his own. He plays only the scores of the famous saxophonist Charlie Parker. The landscapes and atmospheres in which we see the man change. In the last scene the young man takes tourists and passengers across a lake in a boat, and dedicates his free time to the saxophone, playing Charlie Parker’s compositions…Read More »

Sarah (O’Neal) is fifteen going on sixteen, and lives at home. Dad’s an Egyptologist; Mom refuses to acknowledge any generation gap; boy-friend wants to get her into the sack, but she refuses. Dodging him one day she meets Ashley (Burton), a once-chic artist who’s currently light on inspiration. He might be sixty but he’s hunky in that experienced way, and he has a Bohemian haven in the country where he plays Vivaldi. The pair get literary and have intense chats in which Sarah learns the difference between the Sistine Chapel and Burger Kings. Sarah tries the physical, but Ashley sagely demurs. Mom and Dad are horrified by the liaison.Read More »

In this freewheeling comedy, medical transport driver Vic risks his job to shuttle a group of rowdy seniors and a Russian boxer to a funeral, dragging clients like Tracy, a young woman with ALS, along for the ride.Read More »