In Khojpuri ruled by King Bhadrabhoop, citizens sleep and work. Once they got bitten by mysterious mosquitoes, making some citizens rebellious even in their dreams. King bans dreaming. When a young scientist Hunshi gets an m-bite, he becomes violent. He is operated.. But what happens to Hunshi’s love, Parveen?Read More »
Frieda Liappa’s rarely seen last film: a highly symbolic feature, which was banned in Greece.
(she was accused of using a child as a voyeur).
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It is the end of a hot summer. A group of holiday-makers continue their holidays on a beach. Elektra, who was born there, lives alone, ignoring almost everything about herself in anticipation of something. One day, Pavlos arrives. Everything seems both familiar and strange to him at the same time. A strange virus, resulting from the high temperature, has affected his memory.Read More »
Johnny Guitar comes home but God knows where he’s been. He has been wounded in the head though there is no visible injury. An extract of the soundtrack to the film Johnny Guitar has lodged in his brain. It is said that Mr Monteiro, alter ego of John of God, occasionally goes out with Nicholas Ray. At least, they have been seen together.Read More »
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Set in Los Angeles two days before the end of 1999, Strange Days introduces us to Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), an ex-cop turned sleazy hustler who hawks the newest underground thrill on the black market: a “squid,” a headpiece that allows one to transmit digital recordings of other people’s thoughts, feelings, and memories into their brain; as Lenny describes it, “this is real life, pure and uncut, straight from the cerebral cortex.” Lenny deals “clips” (the software) as well as “squids” (the hardware) for this new and illegal entertainment system, and while sex and violence are the most popular themes, Lenny refuses to deal in “blackjack” — slang for snuff clips. Lenny is nursing a broken heart after his girlfriend, punk singer Faith Justin (Juliette Lewis), left him, and he spends a lot of time with clips he recorded when they were together.Read More »
Muriel is in love with Nora and has recently realized that yes, she prefers girls. Nora has other things in mind. Nothing too heavy here, it has a good feeling of youthful adventure, and some cool 90s parties.Read More »
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Inquietude, also known as Anxiety, is a movie in three parts; a one-act play, a short story, and a fable, bringing them all together brilliantly. It may seem talky at first, but there is some genuine thought going on behind the talk, and some of the images are gorgeous.Read More »
Marilyn Waring is the foremost spokesperson for global feminist economics, and her ideas offer new avenues of approach for political action. With persistence and wit she has succeeded in drawing attention to the fact that GDP has no negative side to its accounts–such as damage to the environment–and completely ignores the unpaid work of women. “Why is the market economy all that counts?” Ms. Waring asks.
In 1975, when she was just 22 years old, she was elected to the New Zealand parliament. She was re-elected three times, and eventually brought down the government on the issue of making New Zealand a nuclear free zone.Read More »
A woman who has a child out of wedlock decides to give him away to an orphanage; years later, when she goes back to the orphanage, she discovers that the place does not exist anymore.Read More »
Takehiro Nakajima directs this romantic drama about a love triangle between two men and a young woman. The film centers on Sayoko (Misa Shimizu of Unagi fame) who works as a voice-over artist for television cartoons. One day she happens upon a lithe young man and his middle-aged lover in mid-kiss. Something about the incident fascinates her, and soon she’s frequenting gay bars until she finds the couple once again. The young man is a designer named Go (Takehiro Murata) while the older man is married and named Terasaki (Takeo Nakahara). When Sayoko learns that Go’s ailing mother has moved in with him, disrupting the couple’s usual tryst, she offers them the services of her place. For a while, things go beautifully. As the two guys go at it upstairs, Sayoko merrily thumbs through art books. Then Terasaki’s wife gets wind of her husband’s extramarital activities and storms Sayoko’s pad. Terasaki is forced to dump Go and the lad consequently goes into a deep funk. In an attempt to cheer him up, she tries to set him up with a hunky former sailor. Instead, the sailor rapes and impregnates Sayoko. Years later, the three meet again.Read More »