A movie director who also produces films, goes to Gangneung on the weekends to get away from his tiring Seoul life. Meanwhile, a woman who works as a home health nurse in Gangneung travels to Seoul on the weekends for its culture. These two people then meet.Read More »
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Lawrence Lau provides another snapshot of social realism akin to his amateur acted affair Gangs. However with Sylvia Chang and debuting Rain Lau, Queen Of Temple Street is put into another division, providing up close but not overbearing views of the prostitution surroundings,.Read More »
Following the phenomenal worldwide success of The Threepenny Opera in 1928 in Berlin, cinema is trying to win over the author of the piece. But Bertolt Brecht is not willing to play by the film industry’s rules. His vision for the Threepenny Film is radical, uncompromising, political and pointed. He wants to make a completely new kind of film and knows that the production company will never agree to it. It is only interested in cashing in. While the London gangster Macheath’s fight with the head of the beggar’s mob Mr. Peachum begins to take shape in the film version in front of the author’s eyes, Brecht seeks the public dispute. He takes the production company to court in order to prove that their monetary interests are taking precedence over his right as author… a poet directs reality – that was unprecedented!Read More »
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Helge, a factory worker, awakens to life after he almost loses his arm in a machine. His happiness at not losing his arm has him see the world in a new way. He takes a vacation, where he sees Klara, a beautiful girl. He decides to spend the rest of the vacation searching for her.Read More »
An unnamed figure picks up a young man in his car. As the two drive together, and settle into an austere rental house in the country, the details of their arrangement become guttingly clear.Read More »
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A simple peasant discovers that Al-Iqtaa (feudalism) authority is an extension of the colonial authority, when his land is taken from him. He is imprisoned, beaten and insulted by the gendarme. He escapes from the prison to go to the mountains with a rifle. There, he begins his bloody struggle with the gendarme and Al-Iqtaa bands. At that time, the conditions for revolution were not riped yet. Peasants were with him in soul, but their will was not theirs. So, he remains alone, his revolution is that of one person, and so it ends as it shall be.Read More »
Niji Ikutabi / A Rainbow at Every Turn (1956) is a movie directed by Kôji Shima, based on the novel from Yasunari Kawabata. Notable casts including Machiko Kyô, Ayako Wakao, and Eiji Funakoshi.Read More »
A 19-year-old Polish immigrant working at a fish factory in Norway has feelings for his colleague. A strike begins among the Polish workers at the factory testing their relationship, and with their fellow workers.
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Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.Read More »