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In Bernardo Bertolucci’s art-house classic, Marlon Brando delivers one of his characteristically idiosyncratic performances as Paul, a middle-aged American in “emotional exile” who comes to Paris when his estranged wife commits suicide. Chancing to meet young Frenchwoman Jeanne (Maria Schneider), Paul enters into a sadomasochistic, carnal relationship with her, indirectly attacking the hypocrisy all around him through his raw, outrageous sexual behavior. Paul also hopes to purge himself of his own feelings of guilt, brilliantly (and profanely) articulated in a largely ad-libbed monologue at his wife’s coffin. If the sexual content in Last Tango is uncomfortably explicit (once seen, the infamous “butter scene” is never forgotten), the combination of Brando’s acting, Bertolucci’s direction, Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography, and Gato Barbieri’s music is unbeatable, creating one of the classic European art movies of the 1970s, albeit one that is not for all viewers.Read More »

The Death of Yugoslavia is a BBC documentary series first broadcast in 1995, and is also the name of a book written by Allan Little and Laura Silber that accompanies the series. It covers the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. It is notable in its combination of never-before-seen archive footage interspersed with interviews of most of the main players in the conflict, including Slobodan Milošević, Radovan Karadžić, Franjo Tuđman and Alija Izetbegović.Read More »

The art scene of the New York of the 70’s captured through unpublished scenes of the filming of the classic documentary “Grey Gardens” with Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas or Truman Capote.

The summer of 1972, Lee Radziwill, the little sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, decides to make a film with the photographer Peter Beard about her childhood in Long Island. When Albert and David Maysles join the team, soon the film goes on to focus on Radziwill’s cousin Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith Ewing Bouvier.Read More »

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.Read More »

Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley’s Comet and crashing into it, achieving his “destiny.” It’s up to Tom, Becky, and Huck to convince him that his judgment is wrong and that he still has much to offer humanity that might make a difference. Their efforts aren’t just charitable; if they fail, they will share Twain’s fate. Along the way, they use a magical time portal to get a detailed overview of the Twain philosophy, observing the “historical” events that inspired his works.Read More »

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A desperate man flees his home country of China, in an attempt to escape the curse of Malice, a dark malevolent and vengeful Chinese Nu Gui. Chinese folklore believes that these demonic souls only haunt males that have done them wrong in their past life. In an attempt to hunt down a former Shinto associate for help, Zheng takes refuge in the city of Brisbane, Australia. His efforts are futile as the nu gui stalks him at every moment, tormenting him, mentally destroying him for weeks until he breathes his final breath. His suicide ritual fails him and his letter becomes cursed by Malice.Read More »

To describe documentarian Christine Choy as a bit of a live-wire would be like describing the national grid as a bit of an energy source. “How do I describe myself?” she asks, “Fuck you, you can’t describe me.” This sort of sparky response is what propels this debut feature from actor-turned-director Violet Columbus and Ben Klein as it flits between being a profile of Choy and her work and a consideration of what happened to the Chinese activists who were exiled in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre.Read More »

Leslie, a talented ballerina, has been having an almost incestuous relationship with her mother’s lover for quite some time. Torn between sexual desire and disgust, Leslie’s relationship with the tyrannical and voluptuous Maurice soon weighs on the (actually only pro forma) relationship between Maurice and Francine. One day, Leslie’s salvation comes in the form of the restless, roughly the same-age performance artist Brian. When both young people fall in love with each other, Maurice reacts jealously and Leslie has to decide with whom she wants to stay.Read More »

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Double-agent Brigitte Lahaie is the star attraction at a strip-joint/brothel called “Le Diable Rose” in Nazi occupied France which is frequented by both Nazis and Partisans alike.Read More »