Drama

In a dystopian future, the Israeli army keeps the population in check because of water scarcity but Saul Jordan, an activist journalist, finds out that it is an invention and tries with the help of a Palestinian tramp to spread the news from a small radio station improvised in the desert, inciting fellow countrymen to the resistance and the struggle for freedom. Wanted throughout the nation, the two during an escape take hostage to an army colonel and the group of his collaborators, including the sexy Liora (Alessandra Mussolini).Read More »

A young woman (Cosmina Stratan) deals with a self-centered, abusive boyfriend.Read More »

This film is a typical representative of the Serbian 60s Black Wave film. It attacks some social aspects of Tito’s communist regime, depicting two practically indigenous brothers that came from a small highland village and joined the communist partisans in WWII. After the war, they return to their village, revealing to each other that each has stolen a submachine gun from the army. It’s social critique is quite obvious, according to the film trend in Yugoslavia of that time. It’s plot line is blurred by some surreal inserted symbolical shots. Whereas some of these are brilliant , some of these are quite hard to explain and comprehend. A great film to be seen, (quite hefty cinematography) with some extraordinary choices in visual composition of the contents of particular shots. However, some parts are bit confusing, even more so, I assume, to the non-Yugoslavian audience.Read More »

青春とは、怪談である！芦川いづみの記念すべき「日活入社第一回作品」。獅子文六の評判小説を才匠市川崑が描く青春波乱のメロドラマ。バレリーナの千春と、徹底的な合理主義者で幼馴染の慎一。いずれは結婚を考えている二人の前に、船越トミという女が現われた。Read More »

Two families of Moroccan rug-makers are contrasted in this award-winning French-language film. The poor family makes its living by dyeing the wool used in the rugs made in the richer family’s factory. When the boss of the factory refuses to see the son of the poor family following an accident which has injured his father, the poor son breaks into the boss’s house. He is met by unsupportable abuse from the rich wife, who flogs him for dirtying her carpets.Read More »

Volodymyr Denysenko’s searing partisan drama is a neglected masterpiece of Soviet Ukrainian cinema. Recounting a partisan attack on a Nazi officer and the brutal recriminations that follow, Vasyl Zemliak’s quasi-autobiographical script draws on his own experiences in occupied rural Ukraine during World War Two. Denysenko renders Zemliak’s existentialist drama of conviction and sacrifice in starkly poetic visuals, accompanied by the discordant score of Krzysztof Penderecki. Conscience was shot as a diploma project in an effort to evade the censors, but was still denied a release and only screened in 1989. Reminiscent of Larisa Shepitko’s The Ascent, it is less celebrated than its contemporaries in the Ukrainian “poetic cinema” movement, but remains a clarion call of anti-war filmmaking.Read More »

PLOT: In the French legal system, a judge-magistrate conducts criminal investigations. In this story, Suzanne Corbier (Annie Girardot) is one such magistrate who is called upon to determine whether Catherine, who has been having an affair with an Englishman, conspired with him to murder her impotent husband, who condoned the affair. When Suzanne comes to a conclusion, she still must deal with the political demands of her office and her superiors.Read More »

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Aged penniless actors are living in a old people’s home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies… A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.Read More »

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Kabukicho, Shinjuku. A woman chased by a yakuza appears in front of Katsuhiko Goda, the master of the snack “Kashkash`. The woman’s name is Yang Meyrin, a Taiwanese. At that time, the chief of the Sakuradokai group Toida was shot dead. A VHS-C video adapter was left at the murder site, but there was no tape inside. On the other hand, “Kashkash` The store’s closing party, which lasted for 20 years, was held, and Katsuhiko’s former all-out companions, Kiritsuko, Akikawa, and Miyake, gathered there. Meyrin can be seen inside, and it turns out that she is a Vietnamese refugee and a smuggler with a forged passport. Meyrin, who left the store to get her passport for escape, was chased by the Toida group, but Katsuhiko rescued her. Read More »