Jan Švankmajer’s surrealistic take on Lewis Carrol’s classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), using stop-motion animation and one live actor playing Alice.
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A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
A street with passers-by. Music. A voice reads the credits and clarifies: “This is a very violent film.” The action begins: A man crosses the street and enters his apartment. He opens the door, puts out the fire under the kettle in the kitchen and enters the living room ...
André Delvaux's final feature film, based on the novel L'oeuvre au noir (Het hermetisch zwart/The Abyss) by Belgian-born novelist Marguerite Yourcenar, tells the story of Zeno, a doctor and alchemist whose quest for knowledge takes him around 16th-century Europe.
“In Martina Attille’s own words Dreaming Rivers ‘illustrates the spirit of modern families touched by the experience of migration.’ A Sankofa film production, the film evocatively weaves together the ambition-fuelled dreams and memories of Caribbean-born Miss T. and her family.
“How to enter into the heart of the matter, starting from the first image, the first sound, with only a few clues?
“I think the best way to look at these programs is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. The less you know, the better.”
“De tijd bekommert me erg ... De tijd heeft een intieme relatie met de cinema. Films worden in blikken dozen gestoken en worden objecten die we kunnen bekijken onafhankelijk van elk idee van tijd, onafhankelijk van de tijd zelf waarin ze werden gemaakt.
“Before I saw Angelopoulos’s film, I, who had been brought up without a father, would never have thought that I would discover him in the image of a tree. This last scene of Landscape in the Mist was a revelation for me.
“I think the best way to look at these programs is to enter into the image without a single name or reference in your head. The less you know, the better.”