Once upon a time--1967, to be precise--Danish director Jørgen Leth released The Perfect Human. In The Five Obstructions, fellow countryman Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) challenges his "hero" to remake the short five times and provides a different set of "obstructions" for each. Because Leth likes cigars, von Trier suggests the first be made in Cuba. For the second, however, he sends Leth to "the worst place on earth"--Bombay's red light district. The obstructions keep coming, interspersed with conversation and clips from the original film, in which actors engage in a variety of activities, like eating and dancing, while the narrator posits oblique questions like "Why is joy so whimsical?" (Von Trier claims to have watched it "at least 20 times.") In the end, the two Danes have whipped up an unclassifiable concoction that plays less like documentary and more like a duel between friendly adversaries. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
A Hammer story set in Cornwall. Local police are baffled when strange fang marks appear on the necks of victims in a series of mysterious deaths. Filmed back-to-back with 'Plague Of The Zombies' using several of the same sets. One of the last films made at Bray Studios.
In a time of war hunger and fear a child of the farmlands would change the fate of a nation. Her faith gave her a mission. Her king gave her a command. Her country became her army. She brought freedom to her people until the people who praised her plotted to destroy her. Hers is a tale of boundless faith and unfaltering courage... the extraordinary story of a quest that took an illiterate French peasant girl and transformed her into one of the most revered leaders of all time.
Blue Parrot: Suspense and romance erupt when a nightclub becomes the scene of a murder, and its owner and her American boyfriend the prime suspects. Classic crime thriller set against the post-war backdrop of spivs, black-marketeers, pawnbrokers and raincoat detectives. Burnt Evidence: Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a ...
Verena Steynton (Judy Parfitt) is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending with all their guilty secrets. Lord Archie Balmerino (Edward Fox) a crippled war veteran and his long suffering wife will be there. Edmund Aird (Michael York) a wealthy entrepreneur and his beautiful American wife have been invited. And Pandora (Jacqueline Bisset) Archie's exotic and mysterious sister who disappeared from the village twenty years ago is returning under a cloud of suspicion. Only Edmund and her brother know the secret of her flight from home. But the rumours are flying and the local families feel that Pandora's return can only bring bad luck. When a lifeless body is found in the loch the tension rises. Why has Pandora come back after so long? What are her motives? And has her return already had deadly consequences?
Two captains. One destiny. Stardate: the 23rd Century. Retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk Montgomery Scott and Pavel Chekov are guests of honor aboard the newly christened Enterprise-B. A test run takes an unexpected turn however when the starship encounters two vessels trapped inside the Nexus a mysterious energy ribbon. During a perilous rescue attempt Kirk is swept out into space. Seven decades later Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue an
One of the earliest attempts to capture the excitement of rock 'n' roll music on film Rock Rock Rock featured an impressive cast list including the man who first coined the phrase rock 'n' roll (Alan Freed) and some of the genres early pioneers including Chuck Berry Frankie Lymon and Johnny Burnette. The storyline such as it is concerns the quest of a teenage girl trying to earn enough money to buy a dress for a school dance but all that really matters are the performances of the likes of The Moonglows and The Flamingos among the greatest vocal groups of all time.
Man Bites Dog is a spoof documentary about an amiable erudite but seriously warped mass murderer who kills without motive conscience or discretion. The movie charts the flourishing relationship between the killer and a film crew making a documentary about his exploits as the line between perpetrator and voyeur becomes increasingly dubious.
""You cannot rewrite history not one line."" In the 15th Century civilisation is hardly civilised as the Doctor discovers when the TARDIS materialises in an ancient Aztec temple. When Barbara is mistaken for the reincarnation of the Aztec's High Priest Yetaxa she seizes the opportunity to put an end to the ceremonial rites of human sacrifice and save the Aztecs from self-destruction. The Doctor must somehow convince Barbara to let history follow its natural course and return
A married man asks his wife for time off in their relationship so that he may spend time with his dying lover...
Deuce is tricked again into man-whoring in Amsterdam while other man-whores are being murdered in his midst.
Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. But things begin to change for him when he meets Anna - one of his students..
When a young boy's father becomes seriously ill the youngster comes to the conclusion that the only way that he can save him is to become an angel...
An utterly engrossing story of rampaging neo-Nazi skinheads that may well be one of the most disturbing films. It's intoxicating violence and willingness to suspend moral judgement on its hypnotic characters make the film complex. Emotionally powerful and never afraid to portray the ugly destructive face of ignorance and prejudice 'Romper Stomper' excites disturbs and boldly challenges the viewer. Winner of 3 Australian Institute Awards including Best Actor (Russell Crowe) f
Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud (1958): In this his debut feature film director Louis Malle captures the hidden beauty of Jeanne Moreau the brilliant camerawork of Henri Decae and the musical force of Miles Davis in a tightly constructed film noir experience that launched his and Moreau's careers. Le Feu Follet (1963): Maurice Ronet stars as an alcoholic writer who upon leaving a drying-out clinic decides to commit suicide. He elects to visit all his friends to see if
Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller Merci Pour le Chocolat is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel The Chocolate Cobweb. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include La Cérémonie and Rien ne va Plus). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's Les Funérailles is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --Piers Ford
Get on board for one of the very best hard-boiled thrillers ever to hurtle out of Hollywood. Charles McGraw (His Kind Of Woman) stars as Detective Walter Brown a cop with a simple mission - get mobster's wife Frankie Neale (Marie Windsor Force of Evil) on the train and take her to the grand jury in Los Angeles where she's going to testify against her late husband's colleagues. But the mob don't want her to spill the beans and they'll stop at nothing to stop her taking the stand; Brown realises they've planted assassins on the train with them and it's up to him to keep her safe. It's going to be one hell of a journey...
A suave and seductive serial rapist (Mark Cheng) is on the prowl terrorising an apartment block. Fearing her life to be in danger Chu (Jacqueline Ng) enlists the help of her old friend Yau (Chingamy Yau) as an avenging angel who will seduce the rapist and wreak revenge on behalf of the victims of his terrible crimes. Soon the two are embroiled in an erotic and deadly game of cat and mouse...
The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself who wrote his famous Trout quintet when he was 22 years old and then from five young artists of the highest rank. They pick up the spirit of Schubert's music magnificently both in preparation and rehearsal and in their 1969 performance of the work which has become one of the most remembered ever given.The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer not to the details of Schubert's life but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried to brighten the world. The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven at which Schubert was a torch-bearer and the story is told almost entirely in music that Schubert wrote in the twenty months that remained to him after that date together with quotations from his letters and diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs.
In this Hispanic re-telling of Ang Lee's acclaimed kitchen-based romantic comedy Eat Drink Man Woman Hector Elizondo is Martin Naranjo, a Mexican-American master chef and father of three daughters who has lost his taste for food but not for life.
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