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.
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