An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement. This was one of cult filmmaker Jean Rollin’s few 1970s porn films to find an audience outside France, and is also the only one which the horror auteur made under his own name. Combining horror elements with traditional sexual motifs, the film concerns a woman falling in love with a sentimental maniac who holds a sadistic orgy in a decadent mansion.Read More »
Trials and tribulations of a Croatian Communist intellectual in the turbulent years before, during and after WW2.
Evening Bells (Croatian: Večernja zvona) is a 1986 Yugoslav film directed by Lordan Zafranović. It is based on Vrata od utrobe, a novel by Mirko Kovač.Read More »
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“Love Battlefield” is one of those movies, along with Johnnie To’s crime thrillers, that you wish Hong Kong would do more of instead of indulging in 500 moronic slapstick comedies a year starring the same stable of pop “stars”. A blending of genres, “Battlefield” stars Eason Chan (”Heat Team”) as Yui, an ER nurse who finds life and love hard going after a bad breakup with live-in girlfriend Ching (Niki Chow). It’s bad enough that Yui’s love life is falling apart, but he soon stumbles into the nest of vicious drug smugglers from the Mainland who has come to Hong Kong to complete a transaction or die trying.Read More »
A black-and-white experimental film with light and shade – the basic materials of cinematography and other projected art forms.Read More »
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A response to my young daughter’s discovery of language and to her questions about the world.
Messages was made over a 3 year period, when my daughter Maya was first learning to talk and write.
It was my first film that involved gathering material around a central theme. That theme was not constant, but shifted its ground between ideas to do with childhood, with language, or with visual perception.Read More »
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THE MIND OF A KILLER. THROUGH THE EYES OF A PSYCHIC.
Detective Kyle Robeshaw is a headstrong detective who finds himself stuck in a dead end job in missing person’s as a result. One of his cases leads him into the investigation of a serial killer who killed his policewoman girlfriend. Along the way he employs a psychic to help him find the missing person and the killer who kidnapped herRead More »
Here’s a wonderful example of the high standards quality of the Canadian production of the Film Office, whatever the destination of the film is : in this case, a TV movie.
If you have seen Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital, here’s a complementary view on the restless activity, and consequently accidents, generated by big cities that end into the Emergency rooms of public hospitals.Read More »
A 1945 American Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Hillary Brooke as the woman of the title and Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty. The film is not credited as an adaptation of any of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes tales, but several of its scenes are taken from “The Final Problem” and “The Adventure of the Empty House.” The Woman in Green is the eleventh film of the Rathbone/Bruce series.Read More »
Two Danish-Korean adoptees return for the first time to the country they were once born in. Confronted with the spirit of their Motherland and the personal stories of the fellow adoptees they meet in the city of Seoul, Karoline and Thomas are hurled into an emotionally disorienting journey that forces both of them to question and face their own destiny and identity. Operating in a hybrid field THE RETURN is partially based on director Malene Choi’s personal experience as well as stories shared by adoptees that Malene encountered in Seoul while shooting the film.Read More »