On leave from the military, Cheol-soo arrives at his girlfriend’s apartment only to find it occupied by another woman, Choon-hee. After a few days he finds out that his girlfriend is now engaged to someone else, and having nowhere else to go he ends up staying with Choon-hee. At first the two struggle to get along, but before long Chul-soo discovers that she is writing a screenplay to enter into a competition, and they end up working on a story together based on their own experiences of love, titling it “Art Museum by the Zoo.”
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Filmed in Joyce Wieland and Michael Snow’s loft in New York, the film covers a day of friends visiting, writing and drawing from noon of one day to dawn the next day.Read More »
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A heist movie about three groups of thieves who independently plan to rob the same bank on the same day, which causes no end of pandemonium and confusion, or does it?Read More »
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Donkey Skin takes its story from the fairy tale of the same name, as told by 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault. A variant of Cinderella, the tale begins with a king (Jean Marais), who is well-loved and very happy, as he has a beautiful wife (Catherine Deneuve) and a beautiful daughter (Deneuve again), not to mention a literal moneymaker in a donkey that doesn’t excrete the usual fertilizer, but instead gold and jewels. The king’s fortunes take a turn for the worse when he loses his wife to a sudden illness. Before she dies, he makes the unwise promise to only marry a woman more beautiful than she. When the king’s ministers force him to undertake another marriage to produce a male heir, the only woman who surpasses the dead queen in beauty is…his daughter. Being that this is a fairy tale, things work a bit differently, and the usual opposition to incest is brushed over fairly easily. The most amusing bit comes when the king asks his wise man whether the marriage would be wrong, and the wise man responds that all little girls want to marry their father, and that if the wise man had a daughter, he’d want to marry her. So there!Read More »
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shouldn’t surprise anyone that when it comes to china, an obscure film that doesn’t even have a single rating on imdb could reveal itself as one of the most important pieces of their film history lol
the abudant shots of legs and feet to establish location and status are very hong kong, but that specific fluidity the cameras has traversing intimate space is uniquely china again. even on a watermarked, low quality chinese (i think bootleg) streaming salvage of a copy you can’t mistake the liveliness of this era. Read More »
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After witnessing the murder of her friend, Kenya, a trans woman sex worker, embarks on a path of struggle and search for justice that leads her to face the fear and pain of seeing herself reflected in that tragic ending.Read More »
“Niki de Saint Phalle’s take on the fairy tale is a visionary exploration of female desire
that unfurls according to the logic of dreams and poetry…” ~Lincoln Film Center
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Camélia drifts off to sleep wondering what it would be like to be grown-up.She awakens in a colourful dream-world run by a dragon, and now,she must open the Seven Doors of Mystery to find love.Read More »
It is a talker of the Keirin who has risen from the bottom by making the first escape cut to my good technique. But before him, Prince seirabara, Prince of Keirin, always stood, and Wataru felt sorry. Kiyohara, who was synchronized with Wacoal at the Keirin school, made an invincible streak record in the school and won a series of consecutive wins in the race in this season. Although he tried to fight against the defeat of Kiyohara, he was the ozoshi of the zaibatsu, and Kiyohara, who left the real world due to his sudden illness, lost his enemy.Read More »
