Takashi Ito wrote:
A long time ago, I would often dream of the uncanny and mystical landscape that appears in moonlight. Irrational landscapes and spaces filled with unspeakable pleasures like a black object that revolves slowly while flying over the scattered clouds that float in the night sky, their lumps illuminated by the light of the moon.Read More »
A yakuza film epic about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.Read More »
A young woman working in a bar is pushed into prostitution by her violent yakuza boyfriendRead More »
Ângela Carne e Osso (Angela Meat and Bone), a young nymphomaniac, lives surrounded by delinquents, and exerts intense allure on them, dominating them all with her erotic power.Read More »
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Les Gazolines est un groupe issu du Front homosexuel d’action révolutionnaire (FHAR) formé à Paris en 1972 et dissous en 1974. Leur nom proviendrait de la chanson Gasoline Alley de Rod Stewart. Le mouvement est fondé par Maud Molyneux, Patrick Bertaux et Paquita Paquin comme une «sorte de continuation du FHAR». Parmi ses figures les plus connues, on compte Marie France — en quelque sorte la « mascotte » du groupe, même si elle n’en faisait pas partie, une sorte d’«égérie» —, Hélène Hazera, Jenny Bel’Air. Constitué de travestis3 et de femmes déguisées3, le petit groupe se signale par sa provocation esthétique, idéologique, et ses jeux sur le genre. Read More »
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In 1976 Kieslowski produced Hospital, the 1977 winner of the Festival of Short
Films in Krakow. The film deals with Warsaw orthopaedic surgeons who are portrayed working long, 32-hour shifts. The camera follows them in the operating theatre, admittance room and smoky offices. They are portrayed as struggling with faulty equipment and overcoming fatigue. The film focuses on everyday hospital situations without any voice-over comments, with the passage of time carefully indicated every hour. The surgeons are portrayed as skilled workers in this, to use Kieslowski’s words, ‘film about some brotherhood’.
– Marek Haltof, The Cinema of Krzysztof Kieslowski – Variations on Destiny and Chance, 2006Read More »
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reed seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?Read More »
In a former mining town in North Ossetia, a young woman struggles to escape the stifling hold of the family she loves as much as she rejects.
Unclenching the Fists (Russian: Разжимая кулаки) is a 2021 Russian drama film directed by Kira Kovalenko, a graduate of Alexander Sokurov’s workshop.The film won the Un Certain Regard award at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.
Official submission of Russia for the ‘Best International Feature Film’ category of the 94th Academy Awards in 2022.Read More »
“Every generation needs Ibsen” says Bo Widerberg and presents his version of the classic drama “The Wild Duck” from 1884. As in a thriller we get to follow how the family happiness of the Ekdahls is driven towards a tragic disintegration.Read More »