1990s

An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.Read More »

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Kim teaches at a provincial film school and is no favourite among the students. Different from other professors who help them find contacts and start their film careers, Kim is too focused on film itself and on making his own film, a desire which begins to merge with his longing to fly. He is slowly working on his own screenplay about the life of birds and doesn’t notice that his professional and personal lives are falling apart. Kim’s girlfriend, Young-hie, struggles with her fears about the future and tries to interest her lover in their relationship. Her efforts have as much effect on him as a one night stand or college dance. Yet he does accompany Young Hee on a trip to her hometown, though he is plainly becoming ever more estranged from the human world.Read More »

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A romantic tale from the team of Fujio F. Fujiko and director Yoshimitsu Morita. The two heroines are played by Shizuka Kudo and Misa Shimizu, and it co-stars Motoya Izumi, David Ito, Toshiaki Karasawa, Isao Hashizume, Kyoka Suzuki, et al. The soundtrack is packed with hit songs incouding Wham’s “Last Christmas”, Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Let’s Groove”, Kome Kome Club’s “Roman Hikou,” Saki Kubota’s “Ihoujin” among others.Read More »

A documentary in the Cineastes de notre Temps series on legedary french director Philippe Garrel. Read More »

Gory remake of the Gaston Leroux classic story, only this time, the phantom is not disfigured, but a man who was raised by rats deep under the Paris Opera House.Read More »

Born in 1942, grand-son of Sicilian immigrants, Martin Scorsese made his first trial in 1964 before beginning his first feature film, “Who’s that knocking my door?”, Which is largely autobiographical. In 1970, he collaborated on “Woodstock” and joined Hollywood where Roger Corman says he “Boxcar Bertha” saga time of the Depression. “Mean Street” reveals to the public in 1973; he takes in this film introspection Youth Little Italy, wedged between the Mafia, the American dream and fantasy of a Catholic education. Read More »

A man in hospital has a weird and sexy conversation with a woman in the next bed, whom he cannot see. He later discovers she is in her sixties. They meet several more times and, each time, she is younger.Read More »

Javi, Rai and Manu go to the same school and live in the same area, out of town, where there isn’t much to do. Stuck in their boring neighbourhood, they look on with envy at the massive summer exodus. They have a lot of free time on their hands; too much. And the devil usually finds work for idle hands.Read More »

Synopsis from Cinémathèque québécoise:
À Tokyo, Paulo Rocha rencontre Shohei Imamura qu’il considère comme ” la parfaite illustration de l’espoir et du désespoir des anarchistes “. Rocha observe et écoute attentivement Imamura, s’intéressant particulièrement au regard qu’il porte sur ses oeuvres de jeunesse. Que ce soit à travers une conversation avec l’acteur Kazuo Kitamura, ou une rencontre avec une coiffeuse, Imamura se révèle comme le véritable artisan de la contre-histoire du Japon.Read More »