Three dissatisfied and dysfunctional couples in their thirties spend a weekend together in a summer cottage. A drunkard called Lars is brought along by one of the couples. At the cottage Lars provokes the others and urges them to try something new. They then go on a binge, fuck, provoke various authority figures, and wrestle with the consequences and implications of their new-found liberty. Their libertine games continue until their dark inner human core is released.Read More »
“Based on Denis Cannan’s 1966 protest play on the Vietnam war ‘US’ which Brook directed for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the film adaptation is a fascinating insight into how Vietnam was lived in London at that time.
As a young couple search for the truth about the conflict , we are shown a mixture of opinion from a number of artistic and intellectual communities together with sequences about Vietnam revealing the complex and often comic contradictions between belief and reality. With songs by Adrian Mitchell, the cast includes Kingsley Amis, Glenda Jackson, Paul Scofield and Peggy Ashcroft.” – The BarbicanRead More »
Standard Time is 8 minutes and feels, hypnotically, like a time-less segment fragment of life.(Life-physical movement in a space/time enclosure). The camera swivels (pans) left to right, over and over again, then tilts, up and down, over and over again establishing movement as such as the given conditions of perception and existence. This suspended tension of being holds for both the cameraman and the spaces/walls/objects/(people?)…The film establishes each viewer’s autonomous sense of self. The bombarding impulses, through the ‘repeated’ pans/tilts, permit (for each viewer, each time) different moments of reality to become relevant, exciting etc. The speed at which the camera sees the given visually creates frustration at not being able to hold (the) experience, to pattern it in a conventional manner. Michael Snow’s film activates one’s internal mechanisms for grasping, (idiosyncratically, in time), the substances one is faced with, a negates objective experience once and for all. In terms of the politics of experience and human consciousness, few films could be less fascist. Standard Time is also a beautiful ‘8’ minutes. – Peter Gidal.Read More »
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In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a “Sit a poor man at your table” dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that night. The celebrations also include a parade, and in it we find Plácido, the humble owner of a three-wheeler, whose family is forced to live in a public lavatory because of the lack of money to pay the rent, and who has to pay the second bill of his vehicle before midnight or else he will loseRead More »
A male photographer and a female reporter meet at the newspaper they work for in Copenhagen and become friends. She helps him get an apartment with a marriage of convenience – or so he thinks.Read More »
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Based on the moving true story of a senior high school student named Michiko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) who contracted a terminal illness and spent the following three years exchanging over 400 letters with her boyfriend Makoto (Mitsuo Hamada).Read More »
The saga of adolescents living on their own as adults was treated as early as 1961 by Triguerinho Neto in this film set in Salvador, Bahia, under the Vargas dictatorship. Tonio has left home, unable to identify with his parents’ community centered around their African-derived religion. But he finds that, as a mulatto, in the outside world he is rejected by whites who see him as black and by blacks who see him as white. Tonio, who prefers the company of marginals who are as indefinable as himself, settles into the protection of a woman old enough to be his mother and befriends local dockworkers who are on strike. Betraying the former to help the latter, he finds himself alone. In his inability to commit, Tonio may be a proletarian version of the rootless character central to early sixties Cinema Novo in such films as São Paulo S/A.Read More »
An experimental film with various flashing lights, colors, and World War II footage. This is part of the Song series by Stan Brakhage.Read More »
