1980s

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The lives of three teachers in the outskirts of São Paulo, their love lives, their interaction with the poor surroundings, their family problems.Read More »

During the early 1980s, David Hockney focused on a new technique for creating photographic collages, which he termed ‘joiners’. These works involve assembling scores of photos of the same subject taken from different angles in a single session. Hockney’s aim was to inject a visible element of time into photographic images, which normally represent only ‘frozen moments’. To illustrate his approach, a special project was devised for this film, and Hockney is shown at his Los Angeles studio creating the ‘joiner’ later titled Fredda bringing Ann and me a Cup of Tea. Through his exploration of this new method, Hockney illuminates his underlying attitudes to the nature of visual representation. This film adds a further dimension by looking at the influence of photographs on Hockney’s paintings and graphic works throughout his career. Hockney places his own experiments in a wide perspective, highlighting the interaction between an artist’s creativity and chosen medium.Read More »

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Stock and Salamon have been partners for a while now. Their cabaret performance is a great success night after night. Being broadcasted on TV at New Years Eve is very important for both of them, too. Finally they can sing their song for the whole country: Nobody can do it alone.Read More »

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In 1944, in Dresden, a young Czech sailor plans to steal a shipment of tobacco and sell it by himself. Things complicate when he and a beautiful daughter of a German officer fall in love just before the allied bombing of the city.Read More »

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.Read More »

Public relations man is invited to guide American millionaire during his stay in Rio de Janeiro. In this course, he gets involved in the most bizarre situations, from orgiastic mega-parties and sexy ménages-a-trois to confrontations with the police, meetings with drug dealers and movie stars, facing corruption and even murder.Read More »

In Police Department 1985 (1985), Heise observes the ins and outs of the Berlin People’s Police Department. Fassbinderesque mise-en-scènes of officers watching the USA v. GDR hockey game in a rec room adorned with gaudy floral wallpaper are contrasted with long tracking shots of Berlin-Mitte streets and the recordings of police statements: A woman describes her domestic abuse incident and a man, arrested for trespassing, explains that he just realized that these walls were meant to contain them, not to keep the “others” out.Read More »

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Reishu quits a job on a US military base; while mulling over his future he catches snakes, sticks numbers on ants and gets village girl Nabi pregnant. But then he is ‘hidden by God’ and in this enfeebled condition is savaged by a wild rainbow pig.Read More »

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Spy spoof revolving around the unlikely alliance of three eccentric characters and their mission to uncover government foreign policy duplicity. Beautifully and humorously choreographed against London’s most famed locales. Produced in association with the British Film Institute and Channel Four Television.Read More »