Synopsis:
Eddy Booth and his wife Joan live next door to Bill and Barbie Reynolds Joan and Barbie are best friends, having much in common….that is apart from their husbands! Whilst Eddy is a staunch Socialist, Bill is a cautious Conservative but this is not the only point of contention. The Booths are white, the Reynolds black and Eddy’s attitudes on matters of race cannot be considered liberal. Sparks and tempers are about to fly when the two women enter a competition whose theme is Love Thy Neighbour in this light hearted but poignant examination of ignorance and bigotry.Read More »
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John Robins – Love Thy Neighbour (1973)
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Lasse Braun – Provocation (1972)
1971-1980DenmarkEroticaLasse BraunNadine is a young lady who tells her boyfriend about her sexual experience at an elegant dinner with five guests. He relates his fornication with a blonde lady. These revelations provoke in them a higher level of orgasm.
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Lasse Braun – Hotel Amour (1971)
1971-1980EroticaFranceLasse BraunTwo ladies meet at a hotel room and get a visit from the staff.
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Kveto Hecko & Michal Ruttkay & Vladimir Stric – Iba den AKA Only a Day (1989)
Drama1981-1990Kveto HeckoMichal RuttkaySlovakiaVladimir StricA joint work of three debuting directors. It is a film about former rock musicians, members of a banned rock band. The friends were forced to replace their ideals by settled family lives and ordinary jobs. When their former lead singer has to go to hospital for therapy, they get an unexpected opportunity to play together again and recall the old times. The day when all needs to be arranged for the performance is full of small lies, compromises, and morally doubtful decisions.Read More »
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Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi – Trasparenze (1998)
1991-2000Angela Ricci LucchiDocumentaryExperimentalItalyYervant GianikianQuote:
« Transparences : voir à travers, pouvoir entrevoir le “cinéma” sur pied, ou porté. Œil et main deviennent mouvement, griffes et projection. Sur la décomposition du matériau nitrate, ses transformations (d’un fragment de guerre ayant appartenu à Luca Comerio, tourné par lui en 1916 sur le mont Adamello). Aspect physique en continuelle mutation. Restent les supports déchirés de la pellicule : perforations, collages, fluorescences, couleurs éteintes, jusqu’au total effacement de l’image originale contenue sur le photogramme. Effacement de l’image de la guerre ; parenté entre le nitrate et la poudre à canon. Métamorphoses du cinéma “qui défile” en cinéma de la matière collante, gommeuse, explosive. Dernier état du cinéma : devenir bombe explosive incendiaire de la mémoire. »Read More » -
Julie Dash – Daughters of the Dust (1991)
1991-2000ArthouseDramaJulie DashThe Female GazeUSAQuote:
A film of spellbinding visual beauty and brilliant resonant performances, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust has become a landmark of independent film. With great lyricism, Daughters tells the story of a large African-American family as they prepare to move North at the dawn of the 20th Century. Using this simple tale, the film brings to life the changing values, conflicts and struggles that confront every family as they leave their homeland for the promise of a new and better future.Read More » -
Roberto Rossellini – Francesco giullare di Dio aka Saint Francis, God’s Jester aka Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
1941-1950ClassicsItalyRoberto RosselliniThe Film:
The Flowers of St. Francis is Roberto Rossellini’s answer to the despair
of the Italian neorealism he had previously been credited with initiating;
through a disconnected series of events in the story of the popular saint,
it affirms Christian beliefs at their most pure. The original Italian title
‘Francesco, giullare di Dio’ translates as “Francis, the Jester of God.”
It is even more inspirational than Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According
to St. Matthew mainly because of the natural behavior of the characters.
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Aki Kaurismäki – Hamlet liikemaailmassa AKA Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
1981-1990Aki KaurismäkiArthouseComedyFinland
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A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. After the death of his father, young Hamlet inherits a seat on the board of a company controlled by his uncle that decides to move into the rubber duck market. But Hamlet is suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his father’s death…Read More » -
Werner Herzog – The White Diamond (2004)
2011-2020DocumentaryGermanyWerner HerzogQuote:
Aeronautic engineer Graham Dorrington tries his hand at a journey towards the massive waterfalls of Kaieteur, in the heart of Guyana, hoping that his helium airship will make it successfully over the treetops. His undertaking is not without risks: twelve years earlier, a similar expedition that attempted to fly over a rainforest habitat in Sumatra had culminated in the tragic death of Dieter Plage, a friend of Dorrington. Werner Herzog is among the protagonists of the expedition, embarking in a new dirigible prototype to observe the lost world of this uncontaminated rainforest, one of the least explored territories on the planet.Read More »








