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A poem on the female body, the man who eats a rose, intense flicker, and other fetish images. Jun Kurosawa was inspired by a political anecdote and created this film. In the early 1970s, the Asama-Sans? incident caused by the United Red Army. The group?s chairman led the horrific group killings of another 12 members who were said to be undergoing a process of ?soukatsu? ? general review, or self-criticism.Read More »
Experimental film about the schizoid man by using double exposure.Read More »
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope!!! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island: Favignana.Read More »
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Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of buildings, holding up windows, roofs etc. (the title translates as ‘the so-called Caryatides’). As one might expect from Varda, the film is strongly feminist, as she draws out wider symbolic and social implications from these images of women holding up huge weights, both then and now, but it is playfully so. The film becomes much sadder when she talks about Baudelaire, whose Paris these ladies grace; his poetry, success, notoriety; his subsequent physical decline, loss of voice and death. These statues are now so familiar that they are barely noticed, but in mapping the mental geography of a city, foreign viewers will be ravished by this Rameau-soundtracked exploration of a forgotten Paris.Read More »
A psychiatrist donates his time to help the mentally ill street people of Hong Kong. A reporter who hears about his activities accompanies him on his rounds.Read More »
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Story shows the genesis of the career and the rise of Esther the most beloved actress of most popular theater in Havana at the turn of the 19th century.Read More »
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.Read More »
Henry, or rather Ned, wants to leave his home town to travel the world or to look up a girlfriend. From the moment he wants to climb aboard the train, he is prevented or delayed by people from his surroundings. A friend has a car crash, a girl he knows is unhappy with her husband and tries to seduce Ned, several youths decide that, before he gets on board the train, he should be beaten up.The people in Kid don’t seem to communicate with each other, they continuously talk at each other and launch into monologues about the purpose of their lives. In this world,events determine the people and not the other way round.Read More »
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After the death of his beloved wife, an unbalanced painter, who believes he is the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh, freaks out and digs up her corpse – with the help of his necrophilic butler – to bring her back.Read More »