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Berthold Maschkara, 36, has lost the job he would have liked to keep. Even a severance package of 30,000 marks doesn’t make him happy. When he looks for a new job, he meets Thomas, who lives in the apartment hotel next door. Thomas is ten years younger and spent seven years as an air traffic controller in the German army. During his civilian service, he needs his high school diploma, which he now wants to catch up on. He, too, has 30,000 marks at his disposal, which is his replacement for his service with the federal government. Both are in the same situation. They have to start all over again. A little start-up capital could make their future easier. But they go different ways, which cross from time to time… The film tells what they experience in the next two weeks, how they lose their money and still keep going, two outsiders who have to realize that they can’t live outside society either.Read More »

A Deusa Negra is a love story that spans two centuries. In 18th century Yorubaland, Prince Oluyole is taken prisoner in the course of internecine warfare fanned by overseas slave traders. He is sold into slavery in Brazil. In present day Nigeria, at his father’s deathbed, the young Babatunde promises to go to Brazil and search for traces of their once-enslaved ancestors. Beginning with a Candomblé ritual, his journey takes him ever deeper into this culture and, in a dream-like sequence, affords him a deeper understanding of his ancestors’ suffering and powers of resistance. Balogun effortlessly links present with past, real with magical worlds and discourse with trance. The hypnotic atmosphere is also heightened by the music of the Nigerian drummer Remi Kabaka, which plays with repetitive patterns and distortions. ×Read More »

blurb sez: In Sept./Oct. 1992 a mini festival took place in the Temple Bar Area of Dublin. Called ‘The Here To Go Show’, it celebrated William Burroughs and Brion Gysin and was located at The Gallery of Photography, The Project Arts Centre, and a number of Private locations. Organised by English writer Terry Wilson, Irish rock singer Frank Rynne, and writer Joe Ambrose. The show was documented in guerilla fashion by the organisers the results of which have been distilled into ‘Destroy all Rational Thought’.Read More »

A nerd gets himself in hot water with the new bully, a quiet bad boy who challenges him to fight on the grounds of their high school after the day’s end.Read More »

Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by weakness, the coward sidesteps the obligations that love affairs impose: rather than living up to his dates he takes his sports-car from an ultra-modern garage and speeds to the fashionable beaches of Deauville. On his way, he is fatally hit by a descending swallow. The film is divided into three segments each of which consists of events the woman experienced. These sequences are embedded in scenes in which each of the three women is telling and casting her mind back to her own love affair. Thus, present, future and past merge and cannot be distinguished clearly. The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his “L’Année dernière à Mariënbad” to a certain extent.Read More »

The first movie to be directed by Stepan Andranikyan, better known as Sergei Parajanov’s art director. Based on a story by Andranikyan’s neighbour, it was originally meant to be entirely wordless, but officials insisted he add a narrative poem explaining the story about the love between Astghik, the star of the night, and the young sun Vahagn.

Sources differ on the year of release, with Armenian ones (including Kinodaran) saying 1971 and Russian ones (including animator.ru) saying 1972. It won 2nd prize in the animation category at the All-Union Film Festival in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, 1973.Read More »

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Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her husband, also a news photographer, gets wind of it, and is killed. As she investigates, she also begins to know more than is safe for her. Unfortunately for her, her charming neighbor Julien (Jacques Dutronc), an old friend, is also involved.

Danièle Gaur, photographe, enquête sur le suicide présumé de son mari Michel, retrouvé noyé. Ses investigations la conduisent à découvrir un complot visant à assassiner John W. Maxwell et à faire la connaissance de Julien Mercier, voisin de Michel.Read More »

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DAMNED IF YOU DON’T is Friedrich’s subversive and ecstatic response to her Catholic upbringing. Blending conventional narrative technique with impressionistic camerawork, symbols and voice-overs, this film creates an intimate study of sexual expression and repression. Featuring Peggy Healey as a young nun tormented by her desire for the sultry irresistible Ela Troyano.Read More »

In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries at WLIR Long Island knew they couldn’t compete with the mega radio stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. Program Director Denis McNamara, the crew at the station and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, mega-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America – including bands like U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode and Blondie.Read More »