A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.Read More »
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The beginning of the 20th century. Led by the famous Bulgarian actor Pier Stomanyakov, the travelling theatrical troupe “Obnova” arrives at a small railway station. Before the performance of Shakespeare’s Othello, the actress playing Desdemona falls ill. The young local teacher Elisaveta Strezova, in love with theatre, offers to fill in for her role. She joins the troupe and travels with the actors along the dusty country roads. There comes a point when a chosen selection of the actors, with Stomanyakov top of the list, is offered a permanent job at the municipality theatre. Elisaveta assumes the role of leader of the rest, who bear in their hearts the memory of the “starry moments” of the “Obnova” theatrical troupe and are ready to serve art with might and main.Read More »
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Le point de départ du film est une entrevue inédite de Godard en juin 68, où il exprime ses idées et sa démarche cinématographique révolutionnaires. Il prône ainsi le gaspillage de la pellicule et la résistance au cinéma commercial. “Le Vivarium” pose la question: que deviennent les acteurs d’un film si on leur supprime leur texte ou le scénario?Read More »
Synopsis
Leonor works in a brothel called El Paraiso, in a Caribbean environment. Juan, a man in love with Leonor, has escaped from prison. Both Leonor and John want a new life, but they are hampered by the shadow of their past.Read More »
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A beautiful young woman is abducted and forcefully initiated into a live sex act on a private stage, participating in lesbianism, interracial sex and an orgy in front of a live audience.Read More »
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‘This region for an airman is just a map’, however, whosoever looks closer will discover a thousand secrets of a thousand lives on each Budapest corner or balcony. Memories of peacetime afternoons, family photos, love letters, then bombed houses, tanks driving down deserted streets and decrepit buildings awaiting demolition all flash up for a moment in this lyrical etude by István Szabó, not the first work in his series of filmmaking confessions for Budapest. The story of a city that preserves its past in its buildings and its inhabitants won the grand prix at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in 1977.Read More »
STORYLINE:
Filip buys an eight-millimetre movie camera when his first child is born. Because it’s the first camera in town, he’s named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie-making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.Read More »
Through a rich tapestry of characters, Christofis creates an ode to the Hellenic Diaspora. Rafailidis noted that the film was “the result of a serious reflection on the grave Greek past and its uncertain historical destiny”.Read More »
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“My intention was none other than to instill in people a loathing for the fabricated and nonsensical stories of entertainment films, which are already wavering due to my genuine heroes and will undoubtedly soon collapse completely. Thus, Mirador gives cinematic form and effectiveness to our demand: the demand for the suppression of feature films that corrupt the people’s imagination. This film opposes the absurdity and extravagance of the same recurring fantastic adventures and deeds of gangsters, cowboys, handsome men, monsters, etc.; the formulaic and inorganic nature of the plot and intrigue, the black-and-white portrayal of the characters, and indeed, the psychological shortcomings – in short, the distortion of the realities of life and the laws of art. The realistic and critical spirit of the film Mirador fights against the devastating effect of such extravagances on the imagination of immature people.” — Werner Nekes.Read More »