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A Mongolian film maker currently residing in Germany. Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ulaanbaatar. In 1998 she began to work as a moderator and director’s assistant with Mongolian National Television. In 2000 she moved to Munich, Germany, to study […]
In a world where most «art-house» movies are pretentious meaningless garbage, Kim Ki-duk [1960-2020] was one of the few directors whose films are pure art.
♦ Seom (The Isle) ↓ [2000]
Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and […]
Narrated by Derek Jacobi and Joseph Fiennes this is one of the most famous ancient sagas ever told, Beowulf tells the tale of a young Danish warrior called Beowulf who goes to the aid of King Hroðgar and his people, who are attacked by a half-man half-monster named Grendel.
♦ ◊ ♦ 1998 […]
◊ The Lady and the Reaper is a 3D imaging animated short film created by Javier Recio Gracia and co-produced by Kandor Graphics and Antonio Banderas,. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film and won the Goya Award for Best Animated Short of 2009.
The lady and the reaper […]
◊→ A Grand Day Out ⇐
‘A Grand Day Out’ (full name ‘A Grand Day Out with Wallace and Gromit’) is an award-nominated 1989 animated film directed and animated by Nick Park at Aardman Animations in Bristol. This was the first adventure featuring the eccentric inventor Wallace and his quiet but smart dog […]
◊ Drawing Inspiration ⇔
‘A wino, resigned and stuck in his ways, finds mysterious sketches on the park bench that he visits every day. As these pictures stir his thoughts, he begins to notice the world around him and to reflect upon his own place within it. He meets a young boy whose […]
♦ ◊ ♦ Down By Law ↓ (1986)
It all happens in New Orleans. DJ Zack and pimp Jack are sent to prison for being too laid-back to avoid being framed for crimes they didn’t commit. They end up sharing a cell with eccentric Italian optimist Roberto, whose limited command of the […]
◊ «Smoke» ↓ Wayne Wang + Paul Auster 1995
Read SCRIPT…→http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/texts/articles/paul-auster-smoke_699.html←
•→ SMOKE & ILLUSIONS: AN INTERVIEW WITH PAUL AUSTER ← [read]
♦ ◊ ‘Blue in the Face‘, a sequel to ‘Smoke‘ ↓ highlights
Auggie (Harvey Keitel) runs a tobacconist’s in Brooklyn, while Jim Jarmusch comes into the […]
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Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block in Brooklyn, NY.
Three businesses dominate the block: a storefront radio station, where a smooth-talkin’ […]
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•→dramatic_men⇐ / •→comic_women⇐ / •→children⇐
¤ Bob Rafelson‘s «Five Easy Pieces» [1970]
⇓ Bobby Dupea’s (Jack Nicholson) monologue with his old mute father
Are […]
The Visitor is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Thomas McCarthy and produced by Michael London and Mary Jane Skalski. Executive producers were Jeff Skoll and Omar Amanat. The screenplay focuses on a lonely man in late middle age whose life changes when he is caught up in the […]
Very few films achieve a kind of subliminal greatness with cross-cultural impact, but Walkabout is one of those: a visual tone poem that functions more as an allegory than a conventionally plotted adventure.
Considered a cult favorite for years, Nicolas Roeg‘s 1971 film is about two British […]
This is reputed to be the best film ever made involving native Americans.
Atanarjuat the Fast Runner is the first feature film in the Inuktitut language, spoken by the Inuit tribes of northern Canada. The film, based on an ancient Inuit legend, is set at the dawn of the millennium. It’s an epic […]
The Night of the Hunter [1955]—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for […]
Adapted from James Dickey’s popular novel, John Boorman‘s 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (Ned Beatty), and Drew (Ronny Cox) agree […]
[1925-1984]
↑ Badass Digest ↓
¤ The Ballad of Cable Hogue ⇓ [Starring Jason Robards & Stella Stevens _ 1970]
The film is a charming and surprising comedy/love story built loosely around the biblical story of Job. It constantly defies the expectations of […]
Von Trier first established his name as a filmmaker with a trilogy of films dealing with a dark and traumatised Europe: The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987) and Europa (Zentropa, 1991). However, it was his second television outing, The Kingdom (1994) co-directed by Morten Amfred, that brought him public acclaim, and helped […]
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Based on Stephen King‘s work of the same title
The Twins… ↓ «Come Play With Us…» [Stanley Kubrick, […]
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1. Eraserhead (song: In heaven) 2. The elephant man (song: Recapitulation) 3. Dune (song: Toto – Main title) 4. Blue velvet (song: Bobby Vinton – Blue velvet) 5. Twin peaks (song: Julee Cruise – Falling) 6. Wild at heart (song: Nicholas Cage – Love me tender) 7. Fire walk with me (song: Sycamore […]
¤ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ⇓ [1920]
A 1920 silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. The film used stylized sets, […]
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