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Young Ralph James and his scheming friend Tommy Tricker collect stamps. But when Tommy snatches a rare stamp, Ralph discovers the secret of “stamp travel” to take him around the world and bring back the 75-year gone traveller Charles Merriweather.Read More »
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron’s deceased wife.
Ian Johnston, Not Coming to a Theater Near You wrote:
Zigeunerweisen, the first film in Seijun Suzuki’s Taisho trilogy, proved something of a surprise success in Japan, both commercially (this was very definitely unplanned) and critically—it took the Japanese Academy Awards for best picture, director, and supporting actress, and the prestigious Kinema Jumpo awards for best director, film, screenplay, actress, and supporting actress. So, Suzuki teamed up again with producer Genjiro Arato to double the budget for the follow-up Kagero-za.Read More »
Valie Export’s daring film about relationships, “Menschenfrauen” (loosely translated, “humanwomen”), focuses on Franz S., a journalist, and his relationship with four women: the kindergarten nurse Petra, he teacher Gertrude, barmaid Elisabeth and his wife Anna.
Franz “doles out honorary pieces of himself to the ‘human women’ in his seraglio, whispers the same assurances. Eventually, everyone catches on and makes some effort toward independence” (East Village Eye). “A landmark film…Valie Export achieves in ‘Menschenfrauen’ what Godard strove for but failed in his ‘Every Man for Himself’–a human view of a woman’s place in a man’s world…From credits to close, ‘Menschenfrauen’ eludes conventional cinematic vision” (Seattle Film Festival).Read More »
An Estonian folk tale about Tõll, the giant hero who lived on the Baltic Sea island of Saaremaa.Read More »
Rebecca Brite’s review from IMDB :
How has this gem slipped under IMDb users’ radar all these years, especially after winning a César for best documentary short subject? It is slow, succinct and absolutely riveting. With his photojournalist’s eye, and simple but inspired camera work, Depardon plunges us into both the sounds and silences of a day and a night in the city. Further description would be superfluous; what the film doesn’t do is as important as what it does. Kudos to distributor Marin Karmitz for resurrecting it.Read More »
The first film in the history of cinema to dare to address the problem of cockroaches from the perspective of religion and sexuality.Read More »
Synopsis
Toshihiro, a photography school dropout, is obsessed with secretly photographing the lovely Seiko. He is in love with her and hopes to lose his virginity to her someday but is unaware that Seiko may be attracted to him as well….Read More »
A medical center nurse dealing with a patient for amnesia finds out that he is the serial slayer whom has been wandering the city armed with a metal baseball bat.Read More »
