From DVD booklet:
The works recorded here are made by Jun Kurosawa mainly in his years
at university.
The remarks on Jun Kurosawa’s works have been focusing on his
impulse of destruction, which are expressed in degenerative keywords
such as “death” and “thanatos”: whereas aesthetical images are
also often mentioned. Is it because his distinct features help them to
establish such images? The features can be described as “film scratch”
and “harsh noise,” all of which can be found in his masterpieces such
as “NEKO-MIMI (1994)” and “JESUS WITH ONE LEG (1991-1994).”Read More »
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Jun Kurosawa – IN HEAVEN (1988)
1981-1990ExperimentalJapanJun KurosawaShort Film -
Nikos Papatakis – Les abysses aka The depths (1963)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaFranceNikos Papatakis
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.Read More »
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Mervyn LeRoy – Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
1921-1930ClassicsMervyn LeRoyMusicalUSA
‘Rainbow Girls’ has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and promises her a movie contract, so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her. She meets washed-up actress Donny (Blanche Sweet) on the lot and they become friends. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank’s storyline is actually a copy of ‘Rainbow Girls,’ the Broadway stage play. They call Jimmy, the author and Dixie’s boyfriend, for the rights and he goes to Hollywood to produce it as a movie. Dixie gets the lead, but things start going wrong when dizzy Dixie, spurred on by the fired Director Buelow, thinks that she is better than the picture or the studio and starts to make demands. Interesting note: Good look at early Hollywood, with cameos by Loretta Young, Walter Pigeon, Noah Beery and a young Noah Beery, Jr. make the film fun to watch.Read More »
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Antonin Artaud – Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu AKA To Have Done With the Judgment of God (1947)
1941-1950Antonin ArtaudExperimentalFranceThe final work by French theatre artist Antonin Artaud, To Have Done With The Judgment Of God (Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu) was commissioned by French Radio but at the last minute the French Radio Director canceled the broadcast. To Have Done with the Judgment of God had its first radio broadcast twenty years later in 1968, and the piece has been influential in radio art circles since.Read More »
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Josef Kubota Wladyka – Manos sucias AKA Dirty Hands (2014)
2011-2020ColombiaDramaJosef Kubota WladykaThriller
Quote:
A desperate fisherman and a naive young man embark on a dangerous journey trafficking drugs up the Pacific coast of Colombia. Hidden beneath the waves, they tow a narco-torpedo filled with millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Together they must brave the war-torn region while navigating the growing tension between them.Read More » -
Fred Zinnemann – The Sundowners (1960)
1951-1960AdventureDramaFred ZinnemannUnited Kingdom
imdb:
In Australia’s Outback during the early twentieth century, the impoverished Carmody family lives a nomadic life out of their wagon, but the mom and son want to settle, while the dad is against it.Read More » -
Michael Verhoeven – Ein unheimlich starker Abgang (1973)
1971-1980DramaGermanyMichael Verhoeven
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Young Sonja is accused of murdering her boyfriend Manfred. The film reveals her background, which remains hidden in court: the half-orphan girl becomes pregnant by Manfred, has an abortion and is sent to a reformatory for it. Manfred gets her pregnant again and then leaves her; desperate and humiliated, she shoots him. In court she remains defiant and silent. On the last day of the hearing, a deus ex machina appears: the figure skater Hans-Jürgen Bäumler, Sonja’s great idol, descends from the sky and floats with her over the roofs of Regensburg.Read More » -
Hamid Nematollah – Bi pooli AKA Penniless (2009)
2001-2010ComedyDramaHamid NematollahIran
imdb wrote:
A haughty acclaimed newly married fashion designer named Iraj is shown the door by his boss after the boss’s son arrives at Iran to take over his father’s company. Iraj reluctant to promulgate the loss of his job, starts using his savings, trying to conceal the truth from his naive wife. Having squandered all the money he had on trivial matters, he tells his wife about being axed & that’s when the tables turn on him.Read More » -
Akihiko Shiota – Sayonara kuchibiru AKA Farewell Song (2019)
2011-2020Akihiko ShiotaDramaJapanRomance
Synopsis
Haru and Reo perform as musical duo Haru-Reo. With their indie music, they suddenly get popular. Even with their newfound success, they decide to disband the duo. Haru-Reo go on one last tour together. Their roadie Shima goes with the girls on the tour. Reo has feelings for Shima, but Shima has feelings for Haru. And Haru has feelings for Reo.Read More »








