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Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic variation on Griffith’s multipart Intolerance (1916). The Clair film deals with a disillusioned music teacher (Gérard Philipe) who dreams of the beautiful women of history, envisioning himself as the central male figure in each dream. The imaginary ladies (including such internationally famous lovelies as Martine Carol and Gina Lollobrigida) begin converging on the hero all at once, much to the delight of both Philipe and the audience. At several junctures, Clair revives a technique from his earliest talkies by having the characters sing their lines and thoughts rather than speaking them. These treasured musical moments are somewhat dissipated when Beauties of the Night is seen in an edited, redubbed American print — which also “fudges” the film’s notorious Gina Lollobrigida nude scene.Read More »

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A low budget b-movie from Britain’s poverty row specialists – Butcher’s Films. Patrick Holt (a former
leading man in British films of the 1940’s), plays Inspector Gregory of Scotland Yard who investigates the murder of an artist’s wife and the disappearance of his model which coincided with the murder.
Serena is very good for the type of picture it is , while the story is your routine murder mystery, director Peter Maxwell directs at a good pace and the b/w photography of Stephen Dade is very newsreel like and invests the proceedings with a nice feel for 1960’s London . All in all its a cut above the usual quality one normally expects of these things.Read More »

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Kristoball can be seen as a unique expression of the time; 1960 heading towards 1968 – individuality and playful modernism, the Vietnam war and awakening political consciousness .. Kristoball was in 1995 named one of the 100 best short films made under the short film festival in Clermont- Ferrand.Read More »

A Portugese soldier gets lost in the African jungle, in 1917.Read More »

Angelino is one of the thousands of deadbeats living in Dark Meat City, a ruthless megalopolis of California. Following a foolish scooter accident caused by the heavenly vision of a mysterious girl, the young man starts experiencing violent headaches doubled with strange hallucinations involving monstrous creatures lurking throughout the city…Read More »

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Work, earn a salary, live off that money. This simple postulate has always been a problem for Jungchul, who works at a soybean paste factory. During the winter, he fantasizes about traveling to the Philippines in spring, where the weather is mild and life is easier. The only thing he has to do to reach his dream and leave is to achieve the soybean paste quota he promised his boss, but soon the fermentation room turns musty and black mold starts spreading from the thousands of fermented soybean lumps…Read More »

Jean-René, owner of a chocolate factory, and Angélique, a talented chocolate maker, are too shy to admit their love for each other. Will they come together thanks to their common passion?Read More »

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In a small English coastal town, three teenage boys are drawn into a world of temptation and violence. Bored, troubled and excluded, the boys are unable to accept or even recognise moral boundaries. Their actions move inexorably towards a truly shocking act, that will horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest, hidden fears.Read More »

Pari and her aging husband leave Iran for the first time in order to visit their son Babak, who is studying in Greece. But when they arrive in Athens, Babak is nowhere to be found. Strangers in an unknown country, the two search for their son, but every clue leads to a dead end. Soon their only option is to return to Iran. But Pari doesn’t give up and continues searching for her son in the darkest corners of Athens. By navigating an alien, intimidating environment, she is also forced to look into herself. There, she will find deeply buried truths and become a new person. The film premiered at the 70th Berlinale.Read More »