Cinema of the World

Júlio Bressane - O Mandarim aka The Mandarin (1995)

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:32:00 +0000

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The history of Brazilian popular music in the 20th Century, focusing specially on the life and works of intriguing singer Mário Reis, a loner who, with his special way of singing - whispering and softly saying the words - in a time when singers with potent voices ruled, was in a way a forerunner of Bossa Nova style.

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O_Mandarim.avi - 700.0 MB

http://filepost.com/files/4b4f41bd/O_Mandarim.avi

Language:Portuguese
Subtitles:none

Walerian Borowczyk - La Bête AKA The Beast (1975)

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:27:00 +0000

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Plot: The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son.
The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious beast is stalking the vicinity.

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Language:French, English & Italian
Subtitles: English (for French & Italian dialogues) & French (for English & Italian dialogues)

Ugo Liberatore - Il sesso degli angeli AKA The Sex of Angels (1968)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:28:00 +0000

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Synopsis
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Here's an interesting Italian/German co-production, full of subjects from 1968 protest, recalling the two infamous "bikini thrillers","Interrabang" and "Top sensation", in which three young beauties (Rosemarie Dexter, Doris Kunstmann and Laura Troschel), alluring their male friend (Bernard De Vries), embark on a journey in a luxury yacht around the coast of Yugoslavia, plenty of bedhopping, nudity and the usual hijinks occur before things take a sinister turn when they decide to lock themselves in a cabin and dose up on LSD
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Language:Italian
Subtitles:none

Arthur J. Bressan Jr - Buddies (1985)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:17:00 +0000

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The elusive first film about that “new” disease of the 80s, AIDS.
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Gay-porn-director-turned-indie-film-maker Arthur Bressan (who also made ABUSE) deals directly with the subject of the disease by having David, a young typesetter (David Schachter) undertake volunteer work as a ‘buddy’ to visit AIDS patients in a New York hospital. His assignment is Robert (Geoff Edholm), who’s down and nearly out for the count, but still passionate about the politics behind the disease. Although David is currently processing a book about the illness from all points of view – medical, religious, etc – he finds there’s more to learn first-hand about attitude.?

Bressan keeps the viewpoint exclusively on the two buddies and makes the unusual choice to block out all other actors in the movie – it took me a while to realise that we were only hearing people’s voices (on the phone, in the adjacent room, on tape recorders) or not seeing who they were (filmed from the back, behind shower curtains, out of focus, etc). Not unexpectedly for an indie film it’s low-key and low-budget, with an erratic level of performance, but nice-looking and with a suitably simple score for string quartet. As a piece of cinema, it’s of interest primarily for historical reasons, but surveyors of the NY Indie scene or those with an interest in alternative cinema may want to check it out, too.

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D.W. Griffith - Lady of the Pavements (1929)

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:03:00 +0000

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Art Cinema Corporation production; distributed by United Artists Corporation. / Produced by Joseph M. Schenck. Screenplay by Sam Taylor, with dialogue by George Scarborough, from the short story “La Paiva” by Karl Gustav Vollmoeller. Set design by William Cameron Menzies. Costume design by Alice O’Neill. Theme song “Where Is the Song of Songs for Me?” by Irving Berlin. Cinematography by Karl Struss. Assistant cameraman, G.W. Bitzer. Intertitles by Gerrit Lloyd. Edited by James Smith. Music arrangement by Hugo Riesenfeld. Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. / © 4 February 1929 [LP79]. Premiered 22 January 1929 at the United Artists Theatre in Los Angeles, California. General release, 16 February 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. Movietone sound-on-film sound system. / A silent version of the film was also released in eight reels at 7495 feet. / Silent film, with talking sequences, synchronized music and sound effects.
Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant hi his wish, and enlists the services of a Spanish singer/dancer from a disreputable nightclub to pose as a sophisticated, convent-educated singer, and surreptitiously arranges for her to meet Karl.

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Language:English
Subtitles:spanish hard subs

Jacques de Baroncelli - La Duchesse de Langeais AKA Wicked Duchess (1942)

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:52:00 +0000

IMDb's Benoît A. Racine:The novella this film was based on was written by Balzac in the 1830s as part of a group of novels detailing the adventures of a secret society of 13 men ("Les Treize"), of whom Armand is a member. This slightly sinister society was bent on acquiring power at all cost and by all means. It can be understood that Armand's forceful quest to conquer Antoinette is part of that fascistic scheme. Armand is a general who was ennobled by Napoleon for his military exploits whereas Antoinette is an "Ancien Régime" aristocrat, like the French Queen she was named after.Armand resents Antoinette as much as he "loves" her because (1) she is "just a woman", (2) she thinks she is somewhat superior to him socially, (3) she refuses his advances and (4) she is highly desirable socially as well as sexually. Balzac also portrayed Antoinette as a caricature of a real-life socialite, the Duchesse de Castries, who had spurned his attentions. For all these reasons, it is permitted to concede that he was not altogether "sincere" in his depiction of an idealized, spiritual love, of which he probably knew nothing and was only serving his (female) public the usual clichés of Romantic literature which had been floating around the literary world since at least Jean-Jacques Rousseau, while simultaneously serving a warning that the penalty for refusing the conquering Napoleonic penis is death. Antoinette is, after all, a "castrating" coquette who deserves the "axe" that rids the world of aristocrats of her kind. It is rather telling that Antoinette's public humiliation by her would-be lover was borrowed almost unchanged for inclusion in Alexandre Dumas fils' "La Dame aux camélias", where the heroine is a woman kept by an Ancien Régime aristocrat and her young would-be lover is a commoner.What XXth Century playwright Jean Giraudoux did with this unsavoury hodge-podge is something else entirely. While remaining faithful to the sequence of events – including the very much contrived central plot point of a maliciously-substituted letter, Giraudoux makes his characters utter speeches that still resonate with contemporary audiences about the nature of love, fidelity, possession, domination, sex, idealism and transcendence. Antoinette, before dying in a spiritual blaze, in the Spanish convent to which she has retired rather than being humiliated further, discovers another facet of love - self-sacrifice - that women know about when men seldom do. This "Duchesse de Langeais" can be seen as the prequel to Giraudoux's "Madwoman of Chaillot", whose 1968 film adaptation is arguably the last "serious" film on the subject of love of the XXth century.Giraudoux's dialog is rendered by the very best of France's stage talent, including Edwige Feuillère, whose aristocratic presence and Parisian "chuintement" could only be rivalled later by Michèle Morgan, who also would have been a natural for the role (and played Marie Antoinette on screen). Greta Garbo supposedly considered this script a proper vehicle for a comeback in 1947 with James Mason as Armand. The project never materialized.The highly improbable subject of this film allowed it to escape censorship under Nazi occupation – although aspects of Armand's and Antoinette's husband's character can be seen as "fascistic" and Antoinette's "resistance" to those fascist forces "heroic". It remains, like the novella itself, and in spite of itself, the epitome of the depiction of Romantic love as an otherworldly concept rooted in human sexuality.The film is an impressive accomplishment in terms of sets, costumes, art and musical direction, photography, writing, acting and direction. It has stood the test of time, although a more realistic and contemporary depiction of the same themes can be found in René Clair's 1956 comedy "Les Grandes Manoeuvres" ("Summer Manoeuvres", starring Michèle Morgan and Gérard Philipe, about an exiled, divorced Parisienne with [...]

Francesco Rosi - Il momento della verità AKA The Moment of Truth [+Extras] (1965)

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:31:00 +0000

Reviews… The Moment Of Truth is a visceral plunge into the life of a famous torero; played by real-life bullfighting legend Miguel Mateo, known as Miguelín. Charting his rise and fall with a single-minded focus on the bloody business at hand, the film is at once gritty and operatic, placing the viewer right in the thick of the ring’s action, as close to death as possible. Like all of the great Italian truth seeker’s films, this is not just an electrifying drama but also a profound and moving inquiry into a violent world - and it’s perhaps the greatest bullfighting movie ever made.Not so much a film about the narrative; director Francesco Rosi plunges us headlong into the ritual of it all. Rosi known for his efforts in telling truthful and occasionally controversial stories in a cinema verite style puts us right down in the pit for all the violence and reverence that the sport of bullfighting entails. There’s no CGI or special effects or even a guy in a bull suit, if some gets trampled, they get trampled and the violence is on display for full effect. By putting the viewer in the thick of it all, we don’t necessarily like what is going on around us, but we do have a better understanding of it and gain a certain respect for it all as we see the respect that the bullfighter receives in that community but the reverence given to the bull itself during the sport. Dialogue in the film is actually kept to a minimum as the gritty surroundings of the arena are dialogue enough as Rosi tells his story much more through the use of visuals rather than through words. With his surroundings telling the story, bullfighting legend in his first screen role Miguel Mateo ‘Miguelin’ wasn’t really required to do much as he was essentially playing himself however it was interesting as we get to see what motivates these men to participate in this brutal yet revered form of entertainment. Creating an effect of pity and terror unique in Francesco Rosi’s cinema, The Moment of Truth ought by rights to be counted among his finest achievements. On its original release in 1965, Pauline Kael acclaimed “the beauty of rage, masterfully rendered in art,” the anonymous reviewer for Time magazine almost identically celebrating a work of “brutal and paralyzing beauty.” But since then, the film has largely fallen off the critical map, now consid­ered at best a minor entry in the Rosi canon, at worst a betrayal of the perfect analytical clarity defining its immediate predecessors, Salvatore Giuliano (1961) and Hands over the City (1963). How might one explain the historical neglect of so transcendently powerful, indeed ruthless, a work?…Definitely not a film for everyone given the real violence and the cinema verite style which doesn’t quite work for everyone; The Moment Of Truth is still an interesting piece of cinema that will spark some conversation about the topic of bullfighting and it’s level handed view on the sport that neither glorifies it or condemns it.Excerpts from David Voigt’s review on new Criterion DVD of “Il momento della verità” in Examiner.com…Throughout The Moment of Truth, there's an emphasis on methodology and ideology of the bullfighting profession. Here, poetic wisdoms - like "you must think only of the bull" and "the bull is sacred"- are often used to justify the more sinister undercurrents of greed and sacrifice, even when the bullfighting scenes themselves attain a level horrific purity beyond words. Furthering the theme of contradiction to include matters of economy and tradition, Rosi positions these near-metaphysical moments against the corruption and manipulation examined by many sports films, from Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday to John Sayles's Eight Men Out. Exhaustion seems to be at the center of those movies, and The Moment of Truth is no different. In the end, blood sports of all kinds are unforgiving, even to those[...]

Dharmasiri Bandaranayake - Suddilage Kathawa (1984)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:36:00 +0000

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A masterpiece of Sri Lankan cinema, "Suddilage Kathawa" or "A Woman in a Whirlpool" is the third film by Dharmasiri Bandaranayake. Swarna Mallawarachi plays the role of Suddi who is married to Romiel, a hired assassin played by Cyril Wickramage. Suddi's life becomes complex when her husband ends up in prison and she is forced to have multiple affairs in order to support herself. Joe Abeywickrama plays the role of the village head whose brother-in-law is a shop owner played by Sommie Rathnayake. Observe how the lives of these characters are intricately nested around love, hate, deception, crime and murder. Witness the facets that greed takes in this exceptional feauture film, beautifully shot and portrayed by accomplished cinematographer Udaya Perera.

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Language:Sinhala
Subtitles:English (Hardsubs)

Melvin Frank & Norman Panama - Above and Beyond (1952)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:53:00 +0000

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The story of Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Although unaware of the full potential of this new weapon, he knows that it is capable of doing tremendously more damage than any other weapon used before, and that the death toll resulting from it will be enormous. He is reluctant to be the person who will end so many lives, but if using it may bring an end to the war, then not doing so may result in even more lives being lost in continued ground assaults as the fighting goes on. At the same time, the intense secrecy surrounding this mission leaves him with no one he can express his thoughts and doubts to, not even his wife. As time goes on, the pressure upon him only increase. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher

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Boris Stepantsev - Vovka v Tridevyatom tsarstve AKA Vovka in Far Far Away Kingdom (1965)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:18:00 +0000

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19 min. 48 sec.
SOYUZMULTFILM, 1965

directed by Boris Stepantsev
written by Vadim Korostylev
art directors Anatoly Savchenko, Petr Repkin
artists O. Ghemmerling, Lev Arkadyev
animators Anatoly Abarenov, Galina Barinova, Antonina Alyoshina, V. Dolgikh, Youry Butyrin, Leonid Kayukov, Tatiana Taranovich, Victor Arsentiev, Olga Orlova, Anatoly Petrov, S. Zhutovskaya
cameraman Michael Druyan
music I. Yakushenko
sound Boris Filchikov
script editor Raisa Frichinskaya
voice artists Emma Treivas, Michael Yanshin (Tsar) , Clara Rumyanova (Vassilissa) , Elena Ponsova (The Old lady and the Librarian) , Rina Zelenaya (Vovka)

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Language:Russian
eng subs:
subs.com.ru/page.php?id=15835&a=dl

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László Benedek - Affair in Havana (1957)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:28:00 +0000

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PLOT DESCRIPTION
In this suspenseful crime drama the trouble begins when the healthy wife of a crippled plantation owner prepares to leave with her handsome lover. Just before she does, her ailing husband tells her that he will only live a few months more, and if she remains with him she will inherit $20 million. She then dumps her lover and returns to her husband. Time passes and he is still alive. She grows impatiant and pushes her husband and his wheelchair into the swimming pool and gets her money. Afterward, she murders a snoopy servant, but in the end one of her late husbands' servants avenges his death and kills the conniving wife. Meanwhile, the lover returns to the piano bar where he met the woman. The film was shot in oppulent Havana, Cuba before Castro came to power. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Enrique Urbizu - 6 Películas para no dormir: Adivina quién soy aka 6 Films to Keep You Awake: A Real Friend (2006)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:49:00 +0000

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Synopsis: "Estrella, a girl of ten, has lived alone with her mother Angela since her father died when she was very small. She is a lively and sociable child, but she spends a lot of time alone at home. Too much. Estrella enjoys fantasy and horror stories and, in order to exorcise the fear that the 'big monsters' cause her, she makes friends with them: she gives them a body, talks to them, they go to school with her, they protect her.... One day, Estrella makes friends with a new companion, a vampire. But could it be that this 'friend' is not merely a product of the girl's imagination?"

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Language:Spanish
Subtitles:english (.srt)

Merzak Allouache - Harragas AKA Burn (2009)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:01:00 +0000

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Description from IMDB:
"Set in the northern Algerian port city of Mostaganem. The title refers to the hordes of refugees, the 'Harragas', who smuggle themselves out of the country via any means possible. Here we meet one such group, Rachid, Nasser and Imene who pay a smuggler, Hassan, to take them to Spain in his rickety boat. Along with a group of African and Arab migrants, they are risking all they have to cross the stormy Straits."

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Language:Arabic, French
Subtitles:none

Laïla Marrakchi - Marock (2005)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:56:00 +0000

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Marock is the 2005 Moroccan film by the female Muslim director Laila Marrakchi. The movie was very controversial as it deals with a Muslim/Jewish love between two high school mates, Rita and Youri. The film was 2006's most successful film in Morocco, scoring more than 3 million dirhams at the Moroccan box-office, according to TelQuel.
The film was shown in Moroccan cinemas without being edited or censored.[citation needed] The title Marock is a play on words based on the French name of Morocco Maroc and Rock as in Rock'n Roll.

The universal language of youthful rebellion takes center stage in director Laïla Marrakchi's tale of a Moroccan Muslim teen who falls for a handsome and progressive-minded Jewish boy. High school is drawing to a close for 17-year-old Rita (Morjana Alaoui) and her carefree friends, and as the footloose girls pound the pavement of Casablanca's Anfa district, it seems that their summer of fun is already well under way. When Rita meets fun-loving Youri (Matthieu Boujenah) and the pair hit it off, her liberal Muslim family's open-minds soon begin to close when they discover that their daughter's new boyfriend is Jewish.

Casablanca 1997, dans le quartier bourgeois d'Anfa. Trois jeunes femmes, étudiantes, sont le symbole d'une jeunesse dorée et insouciante qui passe son temps entre dancings, bars, courses de voitures. En tombant amoureuse d'un juif, l'une d'elles se heurte aux traditions familiales et religieuses, incarnées par un frère tenté par l'intégrisme. A travers l'année de ses 18 ans, la réalisatrice évoque une jeunesse prise entre deux feux et tente de briser les tabous dans un film polémiste

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Language:Arabic French
Subtitles:French hardcoded

Herbert Achternbusch - Heilt Hitler! AKA Heal Hitler! (1986)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:56:00 +0000

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Herbert in plaster
In the films of Herbert Achternbusch the plot is more of a space in which the Bavarian filmmaker, poet and painter improvises. For example as artist and soldier Herbert in Heilt Hitler!, which premiered 25 years ago at the Berlinale. At night Herbert sits with his last comrade in the trenches of Stalingrad. While his comrade is writing with his finger one last letter to the Fuehrer into the air, Herbert starts to plaster himself with the last bucket of plaster, so the Russians find only a statue. Suddenly Herbert finds himself in the Munich of the eighties. At the war memorial in Munich's Hofgarten is written "They will rise again". That's the miracle of Stalingrad. Herbert does not know where he is and tries to scrounge cigarettes, in Russian. Maybe the Germans have won the war, have rebuilt Stalingrad after the model of Munich and renamed it Hitlergrad. On the Munich Marienplatz and Lake Starnberg Herbert observes that all Germans are sick. Like Hitler: "No one is healed." Heilt Hitler! is an absurd farce, shot in eleven days in Super-8 and blown-up to 35 mm, a histrionic, avant-garde artist's film with wonderful monologic passages, where Achternbusch's later conversion to Buddhism is already indicated.
Detlef Kuhlbrodt in DIE ZEIT, 7th July 2011

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Dino Risi - Sesso e volentieri (1982)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:47:00 +0000

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SESSO e VOLENTIERI (1982) – Director Dino Risi helmed this late-model Italian-language episodic erotic comedy. The main point of interest in this one is the incredible cast of Eurosploitation starlets in various stages of undress. Laura Antonelli, Gloria Guida and Margaret Lee all shine in each of their episodes. Fans of all three leading ladies will want to check this film out for the obvious eye candy factor!

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Language:Italian, Russian
Subtitles:None

Christopher Morahan - All Neat in Black Stockings (1968)

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:25:00 +0000

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A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the 60's. Ginger (Victor Henry) divides his time between picking up the cleaning rag and picking up women in the London pubs. One girl he meets is the pretty and demure Jill (Susan George), who his best friend Dwyer (Jack Shephard) takes a shine to. When Ginger agrees to becomes a caretaker at an old man's mansion and a wild party results, he asks Dwyer to look after Jill. Dwyer takes that invitation as a chance to seduce Jill. Later, when Ginger is informed by Jill that she is pregnant.

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Sergio Rubini - L'amore ritorna (2004)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:40:00 +0000

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Tale of a self-centered actor preparing to direct his first film, but who is struck down by illness, recalls everything from Bob Fosse's "All That Jazz" to Denys Arcand's "The Barbarian Invasions" with a friendly ghost thrown in for good measure.

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Language:italian
Subtitles:none

Alfred Zeisler - Alimony (1949)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:30:00 +0000

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Small town girl Kitty Traves comes to New York with the idea of getting rich fast. Beginning as a 'model' she then becomes a divorce co-respondent in hotel room frame-ups. When her songwriting boyfriend, Dan Barker, runs out of songs and money, she send him back to his loyal, true-blue fiancée, Linda Waring. She moves on to marry a wealth industrialist, with divorce and alimony her only goal.
(from IMDB)

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Allen Reisner - All Mine to Give (1957)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:17:00 +0000

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This is a story based on fact that follows a husband and wife who emigrate from Scotland to Wisconsin in the 1850's. They work very hard and become welcome citizens of their new town, Eureka. They have six children. They prosper in the husband's boat building business. But when their eldest is 12, tragedy strikes the family, and the 12-year old is burdened with a terrible task which he handles as well as any adult could.

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Gianni Celati - Strada Provinciale delle Anime (1991)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:22:00 +0000

Quote:"First, some back­ground information on the making of the film. Celati had spoken for some time about his wish to make what he called a “pseudo-documentary.” That is, the “realism” of the documentary would be maintained in terms of overall structure and style, but the film would be constructed according to a highly self-conscious artistic vision. In a recent interview, Celati was asked what aspects of the documentary interest him the most, and he responded: “Non credo molto ai documentari, perché l’idea che le immagini ti mostrino davvero come è fatta la realtà appar­tiene a un modo di pensare che non è il mio. A me sembra che i documentari siano racconti come tutti gli altri. Però mi piace poco anche l’idea di ‘fiction’ in cui il cinema è irrimediabilmente incastrato” (“Il sentimento dello spazio” 25-26). Clearly, the mixing of “real” documentary and “fictional” art film forms acts on both, blurring the boundaries between life and art, internal and external. With the financial support of RAI Tre, Celati was finally able to produce the film, which was shown last year on televi­sion, to what sort of audience response it is hard to imag­ine. When I saw Celati this summer in Bologna, he lamented the treatment accorded his film; it was shown very late at night and at least one part of the sound-track mix was missing. He asked that it be shown right, but so far no reshowing has been scheduled. Celati also men­tioned, as a visual reference point, the importance of Edward Hopper’s painting to his takes, as he and Ghirri (and the “tourist-group” cast, made up of thirty relatives and friends) traveled through the Po Delta region gathering many many hours of shots that were eventually edited down into the film of around one hour. Let me begin, especially for those of you who have not seen the film, with a bare-bones description of it. A group of tourists takes a bus tour through the landscapes and towns of the Po Delta. That is, in a sense, it. There is no plot as such; there are no “meaningful” human interac­tions or extraordinary occurrences. The film is, quite con­sciously I believe, about “nothing.” And, although I call it a “silent movie” in my title, I should say that it is not literally silent, but rather reaches after the silent, seeks to “ascoltare il silenzio,” to use Paolo Valesio’s wonderful phrase.[5] Celati uses various sounds—music, human voices—as well as actual silences to great effect through­out. The “videostory” brings together many threads that run through the recent writing: the locales are, of course, those also found in Narratori delle pianure and Verso la foce; the dialogues and monologues are often “mini-stories” which, in being seen and heard on screen, remind us of the basic corporeal orality and presence of story­telling, just as the written texts seek to do; the constant emphasis on seeing and being seen harks back to the interest in appearances as in Quattro novelle sulle apparenze.This film works on our imaginative capacity much more than on a logico-rational apperception of the world. In her excellent study, The Body in the Mirror: Shapes of History in Italian Cinema, Angela Dalle Vacche uses Vico (among others) as a starting point for her consideration of filmic representation. She reminds us that “Vico believed that human beings acquire knowledge only by representing themselves, and by translating mental processes into visi­ble, anthropomorphic forms.” The earliest[...]

Ken Annakin - Miranda (1948)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:10:00 +0000

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A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.

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Michel Ricaud - Sexandroide (1987)

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 11:59:00 +0000

PLOT SUMMARYPlot? Are you kidding or what ?There is no plot! This is 57 minutes of naked French weirdness.Directed by porn king Michel Ricaud and starring a French theatrical troupe in the tradition of Grand Guignol (pronounced Grahn Geen-yol), this shocker contains three gore-drenched, sex-filled tales.In the first, a sadist with a voodoo doll tortures an attractive woman. The catalogue of humiliation includes vomiting, menstrual trauma, pins through nipples, and finally death.Next, a possessed woman is tortured by a crazed zombie, who slices off her nipples and gouges out her eye before disembowelling himself. Finally, a woman is attacked by a vampire and returns to life as a lascivious temptress.- source: http://hiroshimavideo.comWHAT THE HECK IS GRAND GUIGNOL?The Grand Guignol was a theatre (Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol) located in Paris’ infamous red light district Pigalle (at 20 bis, rue Chaptal) which, from its opening in 1897 to its closing in 1962, specialized in naturalistic horror shows. The name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment.At the Grand Guignol, patrons would see five or six plays, all in a style which attempted to be brutally true to the theatre's naturalistic ideals. The plays were in a variety of styles, but the most popular and best-known were the horror plays, featuring a distinctly bleak worldview as well as particularly gory special effects in their notoriously bloody climaxes (which inevitably featured eye-gouging, throat-slashing, acid-throwing, or some other equally grisly climax). These plays often explored the altered states, like insanity, hypnosis, panic, under which uncontrolled horror could happen. Some of the horror came from the nature of the crimes shown, which often had very little reason behind them and in which the evildoers were rarely punished or defeated. To heighten the effect, the horror plays were often alternated with comedies.A FEW WORDS ABOUT GRAND GUIGNOLIn 1897, the French playwright and chien de commissaire (french term for a police employee who spends the last moments with prisoners sentenced to death.), Oscar Metenier, bought a theater at the end of the impasse Chaptal, a cul-de-sac in Paris' Pigalle district, in which to produce his controversial naturalist plays. The smallest theater in Paris, it was also the most atypical. Two large angels hung above the orchestra and the theater's neogothic wood paneling; and the boxes, with their iron railings, looked like confessionals (the building had, in fact, once been a chapel).The Theatre du Grand-Guignol--which means literally the "big puppet show"--took its name from the popular French puppet character Guignol, whose original incarnation was as an outspoken social commentator--a spokesperson for the canuts, or silk workers, of Lyon. Early Guignol puppet shows were frequently censored by Napoleon III's police force.Oscar Metenier was himself a frequent target of censorship for having the audacity to depict a milieu which had never before appeared on stage--that of vagrants, street kids, prostitutes, criminals, and "apaches," as street loafers and con artists were called at the time--and moreover for allowing those characters to express themselves in their own language. (…) The Theatre du Grand-Guignol was an immediate success. Without realizing it, Metenier had laid the first stone in the edifice of the Grand-Guignol repertoire, which was to last for over [...]

Ishirô Honda & Terry Morse - Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:24:00 +0000

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American reporter Steve Martin, on his way to Cairo for an assignment, has a stop over in Tokyo. During the layover, he decides to visit his old friend Dr. Daisuke Serizawa. However, the night before he lands, his plane passes over an area where a ship suddenly exploded and caught fire killing all hands.

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Martin is then questioned by the authorities and he tells them he saw nothing. After seven more ships suddenly disappear, Martin decides to stay in Japan to see what is going on. He and policeman Tomo Iwanaga then go to Odo Island, which is close to where many of the ships were destroyed. While there, they are caught in a typhoon and during the storm something comes ashore and kills several of the inhabitants and destroys several buildings.

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A few days later a scientific expedition led by paleontologist Dr. Kyohei Yemane arrives on the island and they are horrified to find a giant monster the natives call Godzilla. Now Japan and the world wait to see what horrors this monster will bring.

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Manuel Mur Oti - El batallón de las sombras (1957)

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:13:00 +0000

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In a tenement, men and women fight in the same trench of a gray battle. Their dreams, their passions, their problems and hopes are the same for hundreds of millions of people who are struggling to make their way to happiness.

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