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  • Various – Wet dreams (1973)

    1971-1980EroticaUSAVarious

    IMDB:
    Experimental anthology film consisting of nine segments – Contrasts, The Janitor, The Plumber, Another Wet Dream, The Happy Necrophiliacs, On a Sunday Afternoon, A Face, Politfuck, Flames – all focused on 70s sex, love and politics.Read More »

  • Various – Danske piger viser alt AKA Danish Girls Show Everything (1996)

    1991-2000ArthouseDenmarkVarious

    Quote:
    This Danish omnibus film consists of 20 shorts, by a bevy of international directors; the project
    as a whole was conceived by Danish visual artist Ane Mette Ruge and Dutch opera-director Jacob F. Schokking. The title represents a pun; in addition to its obvious sensationalistic implications (which is used ironically – almost nothing in the film, aside from some incidental nudity, is exploitative), the “everything” refers to the plethora of subjects at hand, with the filmmakers exploring topics from national identity to ornithology, to trips abroad to Vietnam and Brazil, to the history of Berlin. Shown at the 1998 Gothenburg Film Festival.Read More »

  • Various – Lumière et compagnie AKA Lumière and Company (1995)

    1991-2000ExperimentalFranceSilentVarious

    40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière brothers.Read More »

  • Various – Ten Years Thailand (2018)

    2011-2020DramaExperimentalThailandVarious

    10 Years Thailand is a collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future. The project is a continuation of 10 Years, a Hong Kong film produced in 2015 that posed the same question to five Hong Kong directors.

    Featuring shorts by: Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul.Read More »

  • Various – Lian hua jiao xiang qu AKA Symphony of Lianhua (1937)

    1931-1940AsianChinaVarious

    “The Lianhua Film Company became the leading progressive studio of the 1930s. Symphony of Lianhua 1937 is a rarely seen showcase of short films by eight directors, many of whom later worked in Hong Kong. Cai Chusheng’s Five Little Brothers is an early cinematic exploration of children’s lives and Zhu Shilin’s contribution is one of the first Chinese horror films. Other films range from comedy to social realism.Read More »

  • Various – Questa è la vita AKA Of Life and Love (1954)

    1951-1960ClassicsComedyItalyVarious

    Movie in 4 episodes, taken from as many short stories by Luigi Pirandello.

    1) “La giara”: in order to repair the jar of quarrelsome Don Lolò, zi ‘Dima remains locked inside it;

    2) “Il ventaglino”: an unwed mother spends the first money received in charity to buy a fan;

    3) “La patente”: a jinx requires that he be officially recognized, with a licence, his ability to bring bad luck;

    4) “Marsina stretta”: the anger for a too tight tailcoat induces a best man to make celebrate a wedding that the groom’s rich parents were trying to avoid.Read More »

  • Various – Dekalog 89+ AKA Decalogue 89+ [Official Dekalog Remake] (2010)

    Drama2001-2010ArthousePolandVarious

    This is a very rare and obscure official remake of Kieslowski’s Decalogue.

    Episodes:
    I: The Scent of Flowers Does Not Blow Against the Wind (You shall have no other gods before me)
    II: Newbie (You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain)
    III: Overboard (Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy)
    IV: My Poor Head (Honour your father and your mother)
    V: Janusz W. Case (You shall not kill)
    VI: The Lodger (You shall not commit adultery)
    VII: Street Feeling (You shall not steal)
    VIII: The Fence (You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour)
    IX: Yoko Ono’s Cups (You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife)
    X: Real (You shall not covet your neighbour’s goods)Read More »

  • Various – Ponts de Sarajevo AKA Bridges of Sarajevo (2014)

    Drama2011-2020FranceJean-Luc GodardVarious

    13 European directors explore the theme of Sarajevo and what this city represents in European history over the past hundred years, and what Sarajevo incarnates today in Europe. From different generations and origins, these eminent filmmakers offer many singular styles and visions. François Schuiten, famous Belgian comic book artist (Cities of the Fantastic) imagined animated cartoon links in between these films, a metaphoric transposition in his graphically luxuriant world of the emblematic bridges of the city of Sarajevo.Read More »

  • Various – Chacun son cinéma ou Ce petit coup au coeur quand la lumière s’éteint et que le film commence AKA To Each His Own Cinema (2007)

    2001-2010DramaFranceShort FilmVarious

    A collective film of 33 shorts

    Review:
    The specter of the death of cinema and the communal movie experience hangs like an ironic shroud over “To Each His Own Cinema,” a mostly engaging compilation of 33 three-minute films made by leading international auteurs on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival’s 60th birthday. Venture was conceived and produced by fest prexy Gilles Jacob as a way to celebrate the cinema rather than Cannes per se, and the directors were asked only to express “their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theater.” Collection was televised throughout France on Canal Plus simultaneously with its Cannes preem and will be released on DVD in Gaul on May 25.Read More »

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