A film that excavates layers of myth and memory to find the elusive truth at the core of a family of storytellers.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Contact (Alan Clarke, 1985)
Drama about a platoon of British paratroopers on patrol in Northern Ireland
Monday, September 26, 2016
Bridgend (Jeppe Rønde, 2015)
Sara and her dad Dave move to a small village, which is haunted by suicides among its young inhabitants. Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie, while Dave, as the town's new police officer, tries to stop the mysterious chain of suicides.
The House Is Black (Forugh Farrokhzad, 1963)
Set in a leper colony in the north of Iran, The House is Black juxtaposes "ugliness," of which there is much in the world as stated in the opening scenes, with religion and gratitude.
The Return (Andrei Petrowitsch Swjaginzew, 2003)
In the Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father - a man they know only through a single photograph - resurfaces.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
On his deathbed, Uncle Boonmee recalls his many past lives.
2 or 3 things I know about her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)
n this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind of dramatized documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a money spinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war.
Envy (Zeki Demirkubuz, 2009)
It’s the 1930s. The Republic Day Ball is in progress in Zonguldak, a coal mining town in Turkey. Among the invited guests are the newcomers to this small and boring town: Halit, an engineer; his gorgeous wife Mukerrem, and Halit’s sister and unwanted household member Seniha. During the ball Seniha realizes she would be the one who determines the destiny of beauty.
Christine (Alan Clarke, 1987)
Drug abuse is the subject of Christine, but once again neither the characters nor the approach would be too familiar to viewers. The hero (Vicky Murdock) is a pasty-faced teen in a windbreaker and ill-fitting striped shirt who walks endlessly from one peer-aged client to another during the deserted daytime of the suburbs. Needless to say, from the first shot, Clarke is on the trail: Steadicam shots of Christine walking take up the majority of screen time, with the journeys culminating in affectless shoot-ups in empty homes.
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Chungking Express (Kar-Wai Wong, 1994)
Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Pierrot le Fou (Jean Luc Godard, 1965)
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)
A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Vampyr (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1932)
A drifter obsessed with the supernatural stumbles upon an inn where a severely ill adolescent girl is slowly becoming a vampire.
The Creatures (Agnès Varda, 1966)
A young mute woman, living in a small village, is expecting a baby. Her husband is at the same time writing a novel and using the villagers as his characters. In the creative process, reality and imagination are constantly intertwined.
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)
Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.
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