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The title refers to the postcode 1000, which was valid for the whole of West Berlin at the time and was often abbreviated to 1. In larger cities, the number of the postal delivery district was placed after the place name. This resulted in designations such as “1 Berlin 36” or “1 Berlin 44”.Read More »
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Having left Senegal to work in France, Amin leads a solitary life far from his wife Aïcha and their three children. For the last nine years his life has been limited to the hostel where he lives and his work on the building sites. One day Amin meets Gabrielle…Read More »
Camille, 17, bored during family camping vacation, flirts with married sailing instructor Blaise to make her boyfriend jealous, despite their age gap and Blaise’s marital status and child, leading to an inappropriate dynamic between them.Read More »
Plot Synopsis (by Hal Erickson)
Unlike most Italian films of the 1940s, Augusto Genina’s Cielo Sulla Palude opened in Venice rather than Rome. The film’s American title was Heaven Over the Marshes, and indeed most of the story is set in the disease-ridden Pontine Marshes on the outskirts of Rome. This was the home of Maria Goretti, a pious young girl who was murdered by her would-be seducer. For reasons elucidated in the course of the film, Maria’s short time on earth made her worthy of Sainthood, which was actually bestowed upon her shortly after the release of this film. Maria Goretti is well-played by Ines Orsini. Cielo Sulla Palude served as the comeback feature for director Augusto Genina, whose previous pro-fascist films had caused him to be blacklisted after WW II.Read More »
Heated tempers, frustrated desires and dashed hopes plague a diverse group of individuals whose lives cross paths in Mexico City. There is the bar-owner’s son, Chava (Juan Manuel Bernal), who yearns to emigrate to America. A poor barber, Abel (Bruno Bichir), is madly in love with the gorgeous Alma (Salma Hayek), who eventually becomes a high-class prostitute. Finally, there is Susanita (Margarita Sanz), the desperate spinster who pursues many love affairs in hopes of finding a husband. Adapted from the novel of the Egyptian Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfuz. (From Film Movement)Read More »
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Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.Read More »
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An expressionist, at time semi-surrealist account of a Brazilian family over the last 40 years, in the historical impasse which the non-revolutionary classes could not overcome. A succession of political plots, melodramatic upheavals, and betrayals capture the violence, color, and atavistic strangeness of an opressed, stagnant civilization and its victims.Read More »
In an elegant restaurant where gourmet food and gourmet sex are both on the menu, former high-class prostitute and acclaimed author Barbara Broadcast (played by stunning Annette Haven) transforms lunch with journalist C.J. Laing into an afternoon of sexual excess. Barbara seduces her way through a corporate office and a busy Manhattan night club, while Laing ventures into the kitchen for a smoldering encounter with Wade Nichols that may just be the greatest sex scene ever filmed. Climaxing with the return of Misty Beethoven, Constance Money, and her tormentor, Jamie Gillis, the Distribpix release of Barbara Broadcast is presented here digitally re-mastered and uncut for the first time.Read More »
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MENTAL is a feature-length documentary that observes the complex world of an outpatient mental health clinic in Japan, interwoven with patients, doctors, staff, volunteers, and home-helpers, in cinema-verite style. The film breaks a major taboo against discussing mental illness prevalent in Japanese society, and captures the candid lives of people coping with suicidal tendencies, poverty, a sense of shame, apprehension, and fear of society.Read More »