After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.Read More »
During the 1930s in the remote highlands of Australian Tasmania, Ruby Rose (Melita Jurisic – Mad Max: Fury Road) lives with her husband, Henry (Chris Haywood – Muriel’s Wedding), and stepson, Gem (Rod Zuanic – Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome).
Ruby is alone for much of the time and, afraid of night’s darkness, she concocts elaborate mythical stories to survive, retreating into a private world. Eventually, she sets out to reconnect with her estranged father, and in the process recovers her past, and transcends the fear that had gripped her so tightly.Read More »
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A downbeat, hypnotic retelling of Mankind’s story from Adam and Eve to the present, played entirely by children. But don’t expect a romp — these kids are deadly serious as they tackle issues of mortality, religion, and the struggle of class against class. Brilliant photography enhances the deliberate pacing, yet the film is never boring. Literary sources include Emily Dickinson and William Blake, and every line is delivered with full conscious intention. Especially effective is the Byzantium sequence, where a single syllable (homousios, or homoiousios) means the difference between life and death. Seldom has the narcotic influence of religious power been so effectively portrayed. The use of a cast composed entirely of children is a conceit that lends itself to preciousness, but here it succeeds without the least trace of “cuteness”. In sum, a daring, challenging, and ultimately worthwhile experiment.Read More »
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Plot: Sahak Kamsaryan, a teacher from a mountain village, deciphers an inscription carved on an ancient stone and discovers that it dates back a thousand years to his native Lernasar. Determined to celebrate the village’s millennium, Sahak sends invitations to his fellow villagers scattered across the country, hoping to commemorate the occasion with grand festivities. However, news reaches the village that a procession is en route bearing the remains of Sirak Agayan, whose accusations once unjustly harmed many residents of Lernasar. As the funeral procession arrives in Lernasar, it is met by a group of elderly villagers blocking its path.Read More »
A thrilling “who-dun-it?” that weaves in and out of the lives of the residents of a small village. Sex and subterfuge bubble to the surface when the young coquettish Mrs Wang (Elaine Chin Yen-ling) disappears. A young girl, Marble (Hsu Ke-ying) says she saw someone falling in the water after a violent quarrel. When the police find no evidence, Marble and her friends launch their own investigation. But Marble is going to get more than she bargained for now that the killer knows there is a witness out there.Read More »
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The dates of the exhibit have been set. Bernd Hoffmann is in Lisbon, which he had already visited in 1974, when he met the young artist Hanna Brauer. The exhibit will present paintings by both artists. Bernd is waiting for Hanna, but neither she nor her paintings seem to have arrived in Portugal. And yet he knows that the woman is in Lisbon. He looks for her among his old revolutionary friends, then turns to the police for help. He discovers that Hanna is dead. A natural death? Suicide?Read More »
Dr. Valois has invented the “flashage”, a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody’s happy except may be Alain’s wife, Jeanne, who’s worrying about the changes in Alain’s personality.Read More »
A week in the life of “The Gong Show” host and creator Chuck Barris who lives through a series of outrageous competitors, stressful situations, a nervous breakdown and other comical characters involved in his life and work on the TV show.Read More »
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When I started creating the ‘Ecology’ series, I wanted to create something like a different universe in a different time-space called a movie film, like a Cornell box.
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The Ecosystem movies are a series of films that work with abstract patterns of extraordinary density and complexity; the series is inspired by the complex chaos systems present in nature.Read More »