• Various – O Estado do Mundo aka State of the World (2007)

    2001-2010DramaExperimentalPortugalVarious

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    O Estado do Mundo is a compilation of 6 different short movies, retracting differents views of people above the world, showing people from different continents.

    Luminous People from Thailand.
    People traveling from Thailand to Laos on a boat, most part of the people seems to be dislocated with the travel, every one lost in their own reverie.

    Germano from Brasil.
    Some fishermans are trying to explore different parts of the ocean, trying to find better fishes and unpolluted areas. In their trip, their boat broke down, and they need help to back home safely.

    One Way from India.
    A man travel from Nepal to India. At his new country, he’s working as a security man, thinking about his trip, his expectations from a new and free Nepal and his future.Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Thirdworld (1998)

    Documentary1991-2000Apichatpong WeerasethakulThailand

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    “This film depicts landscapes, metaphorically and actuality, of the southern island called Panyi. It reflects the impression of the shooting time at the island for several days. The sounds are taken from different sources, but all were recorded while the subjects were not aware of the recording apparatus. Thus, this piece may be called a re-constructed documentary. The title is intended as a parody of the word that is being used by the West to describe Thailand or other “exotic” landscapes. This film is the voice from individuals who reside in such environment. The film is presented in crude and rugged quality, as it is a product from the uncivilized.”

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  • Leos Carax – Hymn to Merde (2009)

    2001-2010FranceLeos CaraxShort Film

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    A clip by Leos Carax, inspired by his film “Merde” (part of the feature film “Tokyo!’), with Denis Lavant singing in Merdogon.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Sculpting in Time (1989)

    1981-1990Andrei TarkovskyBooksUSSR

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    This extraordinary book is not just about filmmaking, it’s about all art…about life, faith, inner exploration and the Russian soul. It contains exquisite poetry, mostly written by his father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, and detailed descriptions of the making of several of his films as well as photos of them that are eerie, mystical, and incredibly beautiful. Tarkovsky is the master of making us see the wonder of creation in the most mundane subjects. He brings us one step closer in our journey towards the light. From page 43: “The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good”.Read More »

  • Olivier Assayas – Irma Vep (1996)

    1991-2000DramaFranceOlivier Assayas

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    As much as Olivier Assayas resists having his themes and styles pinned down, one is tempted to put Irma Vep at the center of the French filmmaker’s shape-shifting oeuvre. A virtually ad-libbed project—written, shot, and edited, like Wong’s Chungking Express, in a creative rush between larger productions—it uses a gallery of frazzled characters to crystallize many of Assayas’s obsessions and, casually and boldly, makes the medium itself the most frazzled character of all. Appropriately, the setting is a hectic Parisian movie shoot in which director René Vidal (Jean-Pierre Léaud), once respected but now shaky and befuddled, plans to remake Louis Feuillades’s 1915 serial Les Vampires. Read More »

  • Olivier Assayas – “Carlos” (2010)

    1991-2000CrimeDocumentaryDramaFranceOlivier Assayas

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    The story of Venezuelan revolutionary, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez

    Review:
    A television production in format but not form, Olivier Assayas’ ambitious Carlos spans many years and many hours in recasting the life story of Venezuelan terrorist Carlos the Jackal. With a script that hews closely to the facts of the life of Illch Ramírez Sánchez (who adopted the “Jackal” moniker once he became a revolutionary), this action-oriented drama finds its talented director in territory that he recently explored with his similarly themed, but entirely fictional, works Boarding Gate and demonlover. Just as those two movies depicted espionage as a globalized phenomenon, Calros shows the international face of terrorism. Like those movies, this globe-trotting epic has as many scenes set in anonymous airports as in identifiable cities. Even more peculiarly, though, like those genre exercises, Carlos offers a kinky combination of sex and guns that, making this more titillating and exciting than standard biopic fare.Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Shinya Tsukamoto, Il-gon Song – Jeonju Digital Project 2005 (2005)

    Arthouse2001-2010Apichatpong WeerasethakulIl-gon SongJapanShinya TsukamotoShort Film

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    Worldly Desires (43min)
    A couple escapes their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. When the night falls, a song comes from somewhere. It speaks about an innocent idea of love and happiness and conveys a sense of guiltless freedom when being hot by love. The film is a little simulation of manners and dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005.
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  • David Lynch – The Lime Green Set – Mystery Disc (2008)

    2001-2010David LynchShort FilmUSA

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    C o n t e n t

    DAVID LYNCH INTRO (04:46 min.)

    WILD AT HEART DELETED SCENES (76 min.)

    OUT YONDER:
    – TEETH (13:28 min.)
    – CHICKEN (17:10 min.)

    RABBITS:
    – New EPISODE 1 (14:52 min.)
    – New EPISODE 2 (12:15 min.)
    – SCOTT (06:27 min.) (= Rabbits Episode 6)
    – NAOMI (07:02 min.) (= Rabbits Episode 7)

    CAVELCADE:
    – EARLY EXPERIMENTS 16MM (21:40 min.)
    – ABSURD ENCOUNTER WITH FEAR (02:11 min.)
    – FICTITIOUS ANACIN COMMERCIAL (01:06 min.)
    – CANNES SHORT FILM “SCISSORS” (02:21 min.) (= Absurda)
    – TWIN PEAKS FESTIVAL GREETING 2008 (04:21 min.)
    – A REAL INDICATION VIDEOCLIP (05:36 min.)
    – HOLLYSHORTS FESTIVAL GREETING (03:58 min.)Read More »

  • Robert Bird – Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema (2008)

    2001-2010Andrei TarkovskyBooksRobert Bird

    A revered filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky is secure in the long and illustrious line of Russian masters in arts and letters. Linking cinematic technique to broader questions of meaning and intrepretation, Robert Bird offers a wholly original investigation into the aesthetic principles of Tarvkovsky’s filmmaking. While providing a comprehensive analysis of his work in all media, including radio, theatre and opera, Bird argues that Tarkovsky was most at home in the cinema. Accordingly, the author dwells chiefly on Tarkovsky’s major films: Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Stalker, Nostalghia and Sacrifice. With its wealth of film stills and photographs, this book is a key text for all admirers of Tarkovsky and European cinema.Read More »

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