1980s

Synopsis:
‘A young doctor exiles himself to a remote Austrian village when he accidentally causes a death. Once at the village, winter sets in and against that harsh and poetic backdrop a rabies epidemic sweeps through the population. The doctor convinces people he is a biologist but then he treats someone bitten and gives his real profession away. As the epidemic raises questions of life and death, the doctor’s mind is brought back to the death that caused his exile and he considers suicide for awhile. The same issues come up again when an enraged villager goes on a killing spree and in turn, is hunted by the citizens. Faced with the prevalence of death all around him, the doctor starts to gain some perspective on the personal experience that brought him here in the first place.’
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Plot: Where does the dividing line lie between insanity and supersensitive mentality? How should we treat people who act in a different way then we do? A young and gifted shrink sets up a group, using up-to-date and unknown methods. His idea is to socialize such people, to integrate them into a society they keep aloof from, and help them to survive.Read More »

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle’s art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.Read More »

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In 1986, the Cinémathèque française celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout the year, filmmakers and personalities from the world of cinema (from Bette Davis to Wim Wenders, from Elia Kazan to Nagisa Ōshima, from Claude Chabrol to Werner Schroeter…) took turns in the legendary hall of the Palais de Chaillot to show and talk about their films.
In 2023, twelve of these filmed interviews were rediscovered in the form of rushes on Betacam cassettes. Historic and never-before-seen, they will be presented on HENRI over the course of the 2023-2024 season.Read More »

“This footage was shot and edited from 1966 to 1970 and then edited to completion over a two year period ending in July 1982. Hours for Jerome (as in a Book of Hours) is an arrangement of images, energies, and illuminations from daily life. These fragments of light revolve around the four seasons. Part one is spring through summer; Part two is fall and winter.” (N. D.)Read More »

SYNOPSIS: Demi-dieu, a rich peasant from a village in Côte d’Ivoire, has five wives. He decides to marry a sixth. This way, he’ll have one for each day of the week. On Sundays, he’ll rest and reward the best-behaved one. But with Binta, the new wife conflicts soon erupt…Read More »

AMG plot
It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four U.S. musical artists who haven’t been content simply to entertain, but feel compelled to “push the envelope” of music.Read More »

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A married man and woman find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective families, the two decide to live together.

Hansa Vilak was ahead of its time and a movie like none other before in Sri Lanka Cinema. Sometimes quite experimental, it is most overall a movie of high sensibility. It shows like no other movie in Cinema History the sentiment of guilt and the consequences of an adultery affair.Read More »

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An old man is kidnapped. His interrogation uncovers the biography of a mass muderer: The 80 years old man was a SS leader and responsible for the killing of thousands of people in Russia. He also “invented” an evil technique of eliminating political prisoners: the manipulated suicide. Thomas Harlan reconstructs the history of a burocratic muderer, he also develops a direct connection between the Nationalsocialism and the treatment of prisoners of the RAF terrorists in the Stuttgart isolation prison. Robert Kramer filmed the shooting of Harlan’s Wundkanal: Notre Nazidocuments a social experiment in which the children of Nazis and of victims meet a real culprit. The reality seems to be stronger that the fiction in Harlan’s film.Read More »