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Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man’s eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Zivko Nikolic continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temptation. It is basic human relation: from the intimate to the families’ vying with each other.Read More »
Shimon, a 70-year-old widower, travels to Paris to visit a childhood friend. He stays with his daughter and discovers that her marriage is falling apart. He decides to help. In the process, he finds out that he and his daughter share both dreams and desires of which they had been previously unaware.Read More »
One of the most exciting novelties of cinema: the possibility to present objects in technical-aethetical pointed ways, like the time-lapse in “Das Blumenwunder” that turn ones own garden into a distant planet.
Sponsored by the chemical corporation BASF (Badische Soda and Anilin Factory), “Das Blumenwunder” – a hybrid of “Kulturfilm” and “Lehrfilm” (instructional film) — set out an almost impossible task, to give time-lapse cinematography a “feature length” run.
A new spin on the art of macroprojection, the “film symphony of the life and death of flowers” premiered on February 25th, 1926 in Berlin’s Piccadilly-Theater with an original music score and elaborate frame narrative.Read More »
A woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.Read More »
Young congressman Miguel Horta represents a party that is directly opposed to the present government. He slyly switches parties in order to gain favor with those in power — seriously compromising his own ideals and ethics in the process.Read More »
Shot over the course of a single scholastic year, Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s The Making of a Japanese concerns itself with the formative qualities and values instilled by the country’s education system. Documenting first and sixth grade students in Tokyo suburb Tsukado, one of Japan’s largest public elementary schools, this rare snapshot into the country’s schools is full of revelations as it courses from one spring to the next. Following the lives of both teachers and students, and their subsequent development as individuals as well as their struggles, Yamazaki’s intimate eye captures what it means to learn and become a member of Japanese society.Read More »
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Kaliman, The Incredible Man is one of best known superheroes ever created in Latin America (though curiously, the character himself isn’t Latino.)
Kaliman is a legendary magician/hero character. Dark skin and blue eyes, he is a mestizo. He was raised as a prince somewhere near Pakistan, but learned the secrets of the Tibetan monks. He has wealth, psychic powers, knowledge, and high moral values. He travels with an Egyptian child, “Solin”. Kaliman born as a radio series and soon have his own comic book. Starting with sales of 150,000 a week. It reached sales of 3,500,000 a week.
This first Kaliman film is perhaps the highest budgeted of any Mexican sci-fi film. Shooted in Egipt, with actors form Canada, Spain, Italy and Egypt. The film was processed in Italy, so it has a better color quality than most American films from that time.Read More »
1782. A Japanese ship named Shinsho-maru is blown off course and severely battered during a wild storm, and wounds up floundering off a remote Aleut island after drifting seven months at sea. The remainder of the crew is taken in and given shelter by an expedition of Russian seal hunters, but forced to survive in very harsh and sparse conditions. Will they ever see their homeland again?Read More »
Ancient objects of sensual power are buried all around us, just waiting for a sexy team of Archaeology students to dig them up. When these lusty artifacts are finally unearthed, their erotic energies are released, and any who touch them are seduced by the primal urges of a primitive people who, free of shame or modern distractions, had little else to do with their lives than rut around in the warm sun. Witness the carnal passions of the ancients embodied in contemporary beauties as these sexually charged totems are released into “civilized” society. Will these tokens of fertility find a place in our modern era, or will the unbridled passion they release drag polite society into a quagmire of non-stop, sweaty fornication? Dare you unearth your deepest desires and leap headlong into the Passions of the Lost Idol?Read More »