Johanna Verryck knows, deep in her heart, that Stanne Vanashe, son of a witch and unfortunate heir to her evil powers, killed her daughter with a knife twenty years ago for love. To relieve her pain and the unpunished crime, Johanna lives secluded with her second daughter.
An underground revolutionary group struggles against internal strife to stage urban guerilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist regime in the United States.
A little boy makes his way home clutching a loaf of bread. In an alley, a stray dog blocks his path.
“The mother of all my films.”
Abbas Kiarostami
“Why would I tie myself to one woman?” asks Jerôme in Le genou de Claire, though he plans to marry a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end.
By observing and talking to current and former practitioners of the profession, Fellini and a comically clumsy film crew investigate the director’s childhood obsession: the circus clown.
An experimental retelling of the story of Adam and Eve which then progresses into an allegorical depiction of loss of innocence.
Various tales in the lives of Tokyo slum dwellers, including a mentally deficient young man obsessed with driving his own commuter trolley.
“A montage of still and moving images, mixing and alternating black people and white people, fantasy and reality, a presidential suite and a mother’s kitchen: a sensitive, poetic evocation in the manner of the filmmaker’s Remembrance.
Filmed in the UK in 1969, this documentary by Godard and the Dziga Vertov Group represents an analysis of production and the status of women in capitalist society and a speculation about class consciousness and the need for political organization.
“In Hi, Mom!, the Be Black, Baby theater performance is being filmed as part of a documentary for educational television.
“It’s midnight mass at the Elgin. Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet has just ended, and the wait for El Topo is a brief grope for comfort before sinking back into fantastic stillness. The audience is young.
Set in the coal mining region of Pennsylvania, this film follows Wanda, an alcoholic who abandons her husband and children for a life of drinking and sleeping with strange men.
Le chantier de gosses is set in the Marolles in the 1950s. The narrow streets of this working-class Brussels neighborhood are full with kids. Their paradise is a wasteland. One day, the wasteland is barricaded, disembowelled by machines, while the surrounding houses are pulled down.
“Simply put, we feel the fictive in reality and the reality of fiction simultaneously in Angelopoulos’s work, with this ‘tag’ note: while Angelopoulos often refers to Brecht and the need for an audience to think as well as feel in theater and cinema, we do not experience anything close to what co