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26.01.2022
Films byTexts by 1988
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Agnès Varda, 1988, 80’
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
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Jan Švankmajer, 1988, 86’
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.
You must...
close your eyes.
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Oliver Stone, 1988, 110’
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
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Claudio Pazienza, 1988, 4’
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 ...
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André Delvaux, 1988, 110’
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.
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Martina Attille, 1988, 30’
“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.
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Anne-Marie Miéville, 1988, 96’
“How to enter into the heart of the matter, starting from the first image, the first sound, with only a few clues?
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Jean-Luc Godard, 1988, 1998, 267’
“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.”
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Manoel de Oliveira, 1988, 90’
“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.
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Theodoros Angelopoulos, 1988, 127’
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.
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Jean-Luc Godard, 1988, 1998, 267’
“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.”