Two friends, while having drinks together, share their memories of visiting the seaside resort of Tongyeong.
Monday, December 12, 2016
Das Eskimobaby (Heinz Schall,1918)
Young Polar Explorar brings Eskimo Ivigtut to his parents in Berlin. After experiencing Western culture, she finds herself pregnant but the explorer comes to her rescue.
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Mr. Steve/L'Étrange Monsieur Steve (Raymond Bailly,1957)
Georges Villard is a modest bank employee who dreams of earning more money so that he can live more comfortably. When Monsieur Steve offers him a chance to do just that he accepts without a moment's hesitation, partly because he wants to be near to Steve's woman, Florence. However, Georges knows there will be a catch.
Lola (Jacques Demy,1961)
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Heli (Amat Escalante,2013)
Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
The Beyond/...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà (Lucio Fulci,1981)
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Days of Eclipse/Dni zatmeniya (Alexander Sokurov,1988)
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
Monday, December 5, 2016
Five Dedicated to Ozu (Abbas Kiarostami,2003)
Five sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on a winter beach. A herd of dogs. A love story 4) A group of loud ducks cross the image, in one direction then the other 5) A pond, at night. Frogs improvising a concert. A storm, then the sunrise.
Crude Oil/Caiyou riji (Bing Wang,2008)
Documents a workday at a remote Chinese oil field, from a stolen nap in a break room to the massive drills plunging into the earth.
Days of Eclipse/Dni zatmeniya (Aleksandr Sokurov,1988)
Days of Eclipse is filmed in a psychedelic manner close to stream of consciousness using unusual cinematographic techniques. The action is set in Middle Asia.
The Cranes Are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov,1957)
Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
The Herd/Sürü (Zeki Ökten,1979)
Because of a local blood feud, a peasant family in eastern Turkey decides to sell its sheep - a most precious commodity - in far away Ankara. During their long train ride, bribes must be paid to petty officials, sheep are stolen or die in the packed, airless, contaminated wagons, and the sick wife of one of the family's sons becomes deathly ill.
The Farewell Party/Mita Tova ( Tal Granit,Sharon Maymon,2014)
Residents of a retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, though they are faced with a series of dilemmas when rumors of the machine begin to spread.
Hope/Umut ( Serif Gören,Yilmaz Güney,1970)
"Umut" is the story of an illiterate man and his family, whose existence depends on his income as a horse cab driver. When one of his horses is killed by an automobile, and when it is clear that neither justice nor charity will prevail, the man, played by Güney, begins a slow slide into despair. On the advice of a local holy man, and fuelled by an indefatigable optimism, he sets out into the desert in quest of a mythical lost treasure, slipping further and further into that final, ineluctable moment where hope itself becomes the last terrible delusion.
Censored Voices (Mor Loushy,2015)
The 1967 'Six-Day' war ended with Israel's decisive victory; conquering Jerusalem, Gaza, Sinai and the West Bank. It is a war portrayed, to this day, as a righteous undertaking - a radiant emblem of Jewish pride. One week after the war, a group of young kibbutzniks, led by renowned author Amos Oz, recorded intimate conversations with soldiers returning from the battlefield. The recording revealed an honest look at the moment Israel turned from David to Goliath. The Israeli army censored the recordings, allowing the kibbutzniks to publish only a fragment of the conversations. 'Censored Voices' reveals the original recordings for the first time.
Aferim! (Radu Jude,2015)
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur,1943)
A seemingly tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy new Mexico town.
Nazarin/Nazarín (Luis Buñuel,1959)
A priest in a poor community lives a charitable life in accordance with his religious principles, but many others do not return the favor.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
The Treasure/Der Schatz (Georg Wilhelm Pabst,1923)
In and around a bell maker near Marburg (today Slovenia) people tell the story of a treasure that was hidden during the Turki invasion of 1683, the year the Turkish Army was besieging Vienna. Everybody think it's nonsense except for an old worker there, who feels that the treasure must be in the bell maker's house. A young traveling worker who has fallen in love with the bell maker's daughter Beate makes fun of this, but she convinces him that the old worker is not that nuts. So he starts searching for himself, and soon he finds it, as well as the old worker. He tells his master, who decides, that the young one has to disappear. He and Beate are leaving, while the old worker offers his part of the treasure to the master if he allows him to marry Beate. Beate, after coming home, hears of that and leaves together with the young worker.
The Battle of the Sexes (D.W. Griffith,1928)
Gum-chewing frizzy-haired gold-digger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly, middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (D.W. Griffith,1914)
Objected to date his sweetheart by his uncle, a young man turns his thoughts to murder.
Sehnsucht (Valeska Grisebach,2006)
A metalworker and volunteer firefighter, who is content with his marriage to his childhood sweetheart, sees his life turn upside down when he falls in love with an attractive waitress from a nearby town.
Story of My Death/Història de la meva mort (Albert Serra,2013)
Famous lover Casanova now long past his prime, meets Count Dracula during a journey to Transylvania.
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino,1953)
Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Ivan's Childhood/Ivanovo detstvo ( Andrei Tarkovsky,1962)1962)
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Peter Watkins,2000)
In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.
Exiled/Fong juk (Johnnie To,2006)
A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Blow-Up/Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni,1966)
A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a mysterious beauty in a desolate park.
Water Drops on Burning Stone/Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brûlantes ( François Ozon,2000)
In the 70s Germany, a 50 year old businessman falls in love with a 20 year old boy.
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers,2011)
After working at sea, a man realizes his dream of moving to the middle of the forest.
A Talking Picture/Um Filme Falado (Manoel de Oliveira,2003)
Lisbon, Marseilles, Naples, Athens, Istanbul, Cairo, Aden, and Bombay. Along with a university teacher and her little daughter, we embark on a long journey, experiencing different cultures and civilizations.
Time to Leave/Le temps qui reste (François Ozon,2005)
A fashion photographer with terminal cancer elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Saturday, November 26, 2016
The Brood (David Cronenberg,1979)
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, amidst a series of brutal murders.
Scanners (David Cronenberg,1981)
A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.
The Red Turtle/La tortue rouge (Michael Dudok de Wit,2016)
The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds.
La madre (Jean-Marie Straub,2012)
Inspired by a Cesar Pavese’s short story, this film has as its main question the relationship with the mother. After killing someone, Meleagros is killed by his own mother, from whom he had never disconnected.
L'aquarium et la nation (Jean-Marie Straub,2015)
A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir’s film LA MARSEILLAISE. This is all from a film by Jean-Marie Straub – about fate, the soul and the cosmos, about the evident nature in which man lives, just like in the aquarium surrounding him. And finally, there’s the nation as a symbol for the community of free people. A Straub film represents a gift that isn’t based on exchange, but rather the opposite of communication. And what could be more beautiful and liberating in life? ×
Man with No Name/Wu ming zhe (Wang Bing,2010)
Man with No Name is an intimate portrait of an anonymous man living in a deserted wasteland in an unnamed part of China. He lives in an underground cave, in a harsh and otherworldly landscape that seems to be entirely cut off from civilization.
The Intruder/L'intrus (Claire Denis,2004)
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. He has heart problems, seeks a transplant, and then goes in search of a son sired years before in Tahiti. Told elliptically, with few words, we see Louis as possibly heartless, ignoring a son who lives nearby who is himself an attentive father to two young children, one named for Louis. He leaves his bed one night - and his lover - to kill an intruder; he dreams, usually of violence. Will his body accept his heart? Will his son accept his offer?
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