2000s

A short film set in the mountainous province of Svaneti, documents the performance of polyphonic men’s funerary laments common to the region.Read More »

wikipedia:
Litoral is a four-part 2008 Chilean TV miniseries written and directed by Raúl Ruiz. Originally subtitled “Tales of the Sea”, it is thematically similar to the director’s film Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983) and is the second of the oneiric folklore-themed miniseries’ he made for TVN, following on from La Recta Provincia (2007).Read More »

The film is composed of six whimsical yet blackly comic short stories, each one set in the late communist period in Romania and based on urban myths from the time, reflecting the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alleged “Golden Age” (by communist propaganda) of the last 15 years of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s regime. Each episode concludes with “legend tells us … “, each item being legend because, of course, no such thing could have happened during the “Golden Age”.Read More »

A young couple in Berlin’s “Mitte” district. He’s lying on the sofa, reading. She can’t stand it anymore. In the afternoon the parents come to see the baby. She goes out in the evening. The young man waits desperately. She comes back – but not alone.Read More »

A middle school teacher (Norito Yashima) falls in love with a hostess (Eriko Sato) and they end up quickly getting engaged and moving in together. However, as he struggles to come to grips with his jealousy of her past relationships with men she begins to complain of pain in her breasts. And of course, dies.Read More »

Synopsis:
A country schoolteacher reaching retirement comes to Wuhan in search of his only son. His dying wife has requested to see her boy one last time. He is met by his daughter Yanhong who works as an escort in a karaoke bar. Yanhong introduces him to a policeman who sympathizes with his plight and agrees to help him to find his son. The two quickly become friends. Yanhong also presents her father to her boyfriend, the owner of the karaoke, an older man, who drives a luxury car. However when the four of them meet for dinner one night the old policeman recognizes the boyfriend as a man he arrested over ten years ago…Read More »

In the 1980s, Sang-ho, a student activist in a rural village, witnesses a married couple having sex. He becomes bolder and imitates the husband’s foreplay, leading to a sexual encounter with the wife.Read More »

Quote:
A heist movie about three groups of thieves who independently plan to rob the same bank on the same day, which causes no end of pandemonium and confusion, or does it?Read More »

letterboxd review:
shouldn’t surprise anyone that when it comes to china, an obscure film that doesn’t even have a single rating on imdb could reveal itself as one of the most important pieces of their film history lol

the abudant shots of legs and feet to establish location and status are very hong kong, but that specific fluidity the cameras has traversing intimate space is uniquely china again. even on a watermarked, low quality chinese (i think bootleg) streaming salvage of a copy you can’t mistake the liveliness of this era. Read More »