1980s

A three part archival film documentary that traces the evolution of African American dance. Pt. 1: First half of the 20th Century; Pt. 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem; Pt. 3: Postwar era.

“The Spirit Moves”: Rescuing the Essence of DanceRead More »

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White-collar crime from the perspective of the public prosecutor’s office. The unemployed civil engineer Kaiser (Martin Lüttge) becomes the managing director of the construction company “Zielbau GmbH”. Bankruptcy is foreseeable because the only client, Siegmann (Alexander Radszun), has negotiated a construction price that is far too low. After the bankruptcy, the subcontractors cannot be paid, apparently planned by Siegmann, and Siegmann owns the apartment block. Prosecutor König (Hark Bohm) wants to prove that Siegmann is guilty of fraud. But evidence must not be obtained by illegal means.Read More »

Hae-joon seems like an ordinary middle-class, middle-aged family man. But his dreams are telling him a different story about himself. He has visions of his mother, a shaman, and is haunted by sounds of drums and chanting. Meanwhile his daughter lies bed-ridden with some mysterious ailment, preyed over zealously, if to little purpose, by his wife and her Christian cronies. He takes himself on a journey South, following scattered traces of his fire-obsessed mother, eventually to the festive scene of public shaman ceremonies on Jindo Island.Read More »

From the IMDB:
26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen by those who appreciate Greenaway’s darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side of his humanism washes through this quirky quasi-documentary of our most fundamental bodily needs and the spaces we create to fulfil them.Read More »

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A guide introduces his American acquaintances to the culture of Kerala.Read More »

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A young boy moves with his mother in a new neighborhood: a social housing in the subburbs of Paris (Bagnolet, where Brisseau was once teaching litterature and shot all his first films). He meets a mysterious classmate.Read More »

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An advice columnist in the midst of getting a divorce begins receiving threatening notes from an anonymous stalker. Meanwhile, members of her group therapy session are being murdered by an unknown assailant.Read More »

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In pre-colonial times a peddler crossing the savanna discovers a child lying unconscious in the bush. When the boy comes to, he is mute and cannot explain who he is. The peddler leaves him with a family in the nearest village. After a search for his parents, the family adopts him, giving him the name Wend Kuuni (God’s Gift) and a loving sister with whom he bonds. Wend Kuuni regains his speech only after witnessing a tragic event that prompts him to reveal his own painful history.Read More »

AllMovie Synopsis:
This film, directed by Malian director Cheick Oumar Sissoku confronts the patriarchal traditions of Mali, including the controversial issue of female circumcision. A recent widow, Nanyuma feels liberated from the cruel treatment of her late husband but is ordered by the village chief to marry her husband’s equally oafish brother. She leaves the village and hides with her niece Fili but is eventually forced to return. Although her resistance to her culture’s rigid traditions stirs her people to a higher level of awareness of freedom and social independence, Nanyuma realizes that her only chance at claiming her own freedom will be by leaving her community. The film’s satiric approach is modeled after a theatrical tradition native to Mali.Read More »