1990s

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A family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts.Read More »

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.

In an unknown area of the central Apennines, during the Holy Week of the year 926, a half-dozen stories intertwine, for which acts as thread the route of the Executioner Folco and his assistant. They all converge to Malfole, to the abbey of the Visitation.Read More »

A strange pilgrim with an army of wolves arrives to a small village in the middle of the night with the curse of the wolf over the baby of a family. Years late Marie grows as a doomed witch with supernatural powers. Very intereting movie in the vein of the Sabbath movies. Witchcraft, superstitions and old European folklore.Read More »

Before leaving to fight in Vietnam, a group of teenagers play a game where they try to seduce the ugliest girl they can find.Read More »

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The animated companion to Blade Runner, Ghost in the Shell seeks to delve even deeper into the nature of identity than its predecessor, distinguishing itself with a more political story and its backdrop as the advent of the information age. An animated art film is a nigh-singular achievement. It’s a cross-section of two genres you almost never get, and a great one to boot.Read More »

An ultra-rare two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner Catherine Binet (who is mostly known for her only feature film, The Games of Countess Dolingen of Gratz). It features a mixture of archival footage, scenes from Perec’s films and to-camera readings of excerpts from his work by various actors and friends of the author (Michael Lonsdale, Marina Vlady, Alain Cuny, Sami Frey, Edith Scob, Harry Mathews and others). Some consider this to be the best documentary about the author that has been made so far.Read More »

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Akio, who works at a gas station, earned his large motorcycle license and finally got his hands on the GSX1100S KATANA he’d always wanted. Devoting more affection to his bike than to his girlfriend Risa, he silently continues to test-run the engine.
One day, Akio meets Mioko, a tough-talking junior at Risa’s high school. She had a crush on Akio’s friend Takashi, but at the same time, she had caught the eye of Kikuchida, a member of a delinquent gang.Read More »

A yakuza hitman gets out of jail and decides to start a new life, but soon his old life catches up with him.Read More »

An acclaimed experimental documentary tracing the history of airplane hijacking as portrayed by mainstream television media.

Official Selection at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.Read More »