Pierre Clémenti’s Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian prison in 1972.
An American doctor is operating in a Lisbon suburb. Doc, Kramer’s alter ego, lives a painful existence, shared between his warehouse on the quai and the hospital. Loneliness and alcohol are the signs of a ragged life. But his past is catching up with him.
Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy.
“It’s a film in which all the younger actors are the children of the director and lead actress. It was like a picnic, you know?”
Agnès Varda
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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close your eyes.
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.
“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.
The film portrays the journey of two children in search of their father, whom they believe lives in Germany. On the way they meet many people, including a troupe of actors (a reference to Angelopoulos' early movie The Travelling Players), and encounter dangers.
“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.”