A number of grieving families in the UK struggle to come to terms with the unexpected and tragic 1989 Hillsborough Disaster, in which 95 football fans were crushed to death.Read More »

An evening-long collaborative work between Tharp and David Byrne (of The Talking Heads), The Catherine Wheel is a continuous piece of dance/theater that makes its way toward a firework-like finale [see: The Golden Section] through episodes presenting the disintegration of the nuclear family, while ruminating on the detonation of nuclear weapons. The dance ensemble becomes a cast of specifically defined characters: The Leader and The Chorus; The Mother; The Father; The Sister; The Brother; The Maid; The Pet; and The Poet. A pineapple prop plays a part as its natural self and as its symbolic self, as a nickname for explosive devices.Read More »

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History of the legal scandal involving the French Captain Alfred Dreyfus who was convicted of treason and sent to the penal colony at Devil’s Island in 1894 because of an anti-Semitic conspiracy in the war ministry. Supported by the writer Emile Zola Dreyfus’s wife Lucie fights for his release. In 1899, the verdict against Dreyfus was repealed and shortly after, Dreyfus was pardoned. But it took another six years until Dreyfus was fully exonerated. (filmportal.de)Read More »

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Autumn of 1941. A remote village in Serbia is affected by the whirlwind of war, which does not bypass the house of a respectable host. Old patriarchal norms are crumbling. Staying in neutral positions is not possible and it brings a split in his family. His sons, daughter and daughter-in-law try to find their way in the turmoil of war, which will lead some of them to betrayal and death. But, in his desolate house, life does not stop…Read More »

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3 AMERICAN LP’S was the first film I did with Peter Handke. It was a film about American music, about three pieces of three LP’s. There was a song by Van Morrison, another by Harvey Mandel, and one of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

It was mainly the music and some shots out of a car, landscapes out of the car window. And it had a little bit of commentary – dialogue between Peter and me about American music and about how American rock music was about emotion and images instead of sounds. That is to say, about a kind of phenomenon, that it was in a way a kind of film music, but without a moving picture.Read More »

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An old castle in Sweden inhabited by a family of 18th-century-costumed eccentrics holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.Read More »

Joe Sarno did his best to bring class to smut throughout the ’60s, in a string of “middle-class depravity” exposés that turned low budgets into assets. The director’s locations and casts looked authentically shabby, and because Sarno didn’t have to worry about playing Radio City Music Hall, his films possessed a bracing frankness about what frustrates people, sexually and otherwise.Read More »

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‘Four directors – four styles – four episodes, all relating the events of a single night which has entered the history books: August 12-13, 1961. There are thousands of complex narratives connected with the frontier drawn through the middle of Berlin and each episode relates the story of a difficult decision made on that night.Read More »

Paula, a 22-year-old student, witnesses the murder of her beloved father, a popular political science professor at a public university in the city of Medellín. From a distance, she catches a glimpse of the killer as he speeds away on a motorbike. Devastated by grief in the aftermath, Paula and her family will have to face official indolence. The authorities will make no effort to clarify what happened and the case will soon be shelved and suspended.
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