Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
In this oddball mix of music and drama, an actress (Carole Laure) in a traveling musical revue is involved with the show’s director until she meets and falls for an aging ecological activist. He too is drawn to her, and together they try to stop a factory from being built over an old-growth forest. Written by Jack H. – IMDBRead More »
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Though undeniably an exercise in style over substance from the opening frames, Tony Scott’s languid exercise in gothic vampirism may disappoint those with little patience for arty overindulgence, though those with a taste for slow-burning decay may find The Hunger an involving study in the desperation for love and eternal youth. Vampire enthusiasts and Ann Rice followers drawn to the more romantic aspects of the mythology will likewise succumb to Catherine Deneuve’s seductive menace and David Bowie’s otherworldly charismatic performance, with Susan Sarandon offering a compelling turn as a doctor drawn in to the dark underworld while attempting to halt the vampiric Bowie’s rapidly accelerated aging process. Read More »
Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.Read More »
Two agents – a lady-killer human and a voluptuous demon – attempt to protect a signatory to a peace ceremony between the human world and the “Black World” from radicalized demons.Read More »
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A film noirish atmosphere is created to show detective Lunch (a popular underground musician and poet) plow her way through the plans of a corporate businessman who seeks government defense contracts through real “corporate wars” and the manipulation of politicians.Read More »
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.Read More »
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On the island of Chios in the 1960s and a few days before schools close for the summer vacations, the friendship between Giannis and Vangelis is overshadowed by a minor misunderstanding. Before long, however, the misunderstanding is put behind them, and the two boys intensely experience various moments of the island’s social life, as well as an unforgettable summer in the company of all their friends. Tenderness and childish “hellishness” alternate with romantic feelings and nostalgia. The film, largely autobiographical, unfolds through a lyrical lament for lost innocence, and its recovery becomes a matter of memory and artistic creation.Read More »
Once upon a time there was the tree – very tall, proud and strong. It was doing neither good nor harm. This tree was kept aloof from everyone and everything. Once the tree encounters the cat. His presence changes everything.Read More »
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If you ever wanted to understand the debate about the independence of Québec, this is likely the best documentary made on the subject. Sadly, it comes without subtitle. A few may find it somewhat demagogical… it mostly is once it enter the popular opinion, the average man take on it. But the politicians are also abhorrent and you hear it loud and clear. Those against it are very vocal, screaming anger and anguish, always yelling. Using the same scare tactics that always are used to defeat the opposition. Showing it to be dangerous, irrealistic, etc. Even, as a testament to how little have changed, taking the oil price as a measure of achievement, saying Canada have it the cheapest and that the independence of Québec would double it’s price.Read More »