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Love (1971)

December 31, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Szerelem
Year: 1971
Runtime: 84 minutes
Country: Hungary
Language: Hungarian
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director: Károly Makk

Cast:
Lili Darvas … The old woman
Mari Töröcsik … Luca
Iván Darvas … János
Erzsi Orsolya … Irén
László Mensáros … The doctor
Tibor Bitskey … Feri
András Ambrus … Jailer
József Almási … Teacher
Zoltán Bán … Barber
Éva Bányai … Feri servant
Ágnes Dávid … Feri servant
Mária Garamszegi … Feri servant
Alíz Halda … Professor
Magda Horváth … Kissné
Nóra Káldi … Old woman

Plot/Synopsis:

This tender black-and-white Hungarian drama takes place in the ’50s.
A woman’s husband has been arrested by the Hungarian secret police and imprisoned as a dissident. The young wife lives with her mother-in-law, a sweet and magnetic woman who appears to believe that her son has emigrated to America. Unable to do anything about her husband’s imprisonment, the daughter-in-law keeps the old woman’s good cheer alive by concocting a series of letters from her husband, wherein he does incredible and wonderful things. The two of them share the older lady’s memories of a gentler time. When the husband is finally released, his mother has already passed away, but the love he and his wife share is shown.
The role of the mother-in-law was played, at the request of the director, by octogenarian Lili Darvas, the wife of the famous Hungarian playwright and novelist Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952). ~ Clarke Fountain, Allmovie

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Labyrinth (2002)

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Original title: Lavirint
Year: 2002
Runtime: 115 minutes
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Language: Serbian | English
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Adventure | Mystery | Thriller

Director: Miroslav Lekic

Cast:
Dragan Nikolic … Pavle Aksentijevic ‘Pop’
Maja Sabljic … Suzana Lojtes
Branislav Lecic … Milan Aksentijevic
Katarina Radivojevic … Tamara Lojtes
Svetozar Cvetkovic … Tomas
Josif Tatic … Laki
Ivan Zaric … Zoran Radosavljevic
Ana Stefanovic … Mlada Suzana
Dejan Lutkic … Mladi Pop
Gordan Kicic … Mladi Laki
Olja Pesic … Sekretarica
Sonja Vukicevic … Medijum
Vlasta Velisavljevic … Milutin
Ljubomir Todorovic … Doktor
Goran Sultanovic … Kontrolor u kazinu

Plot/Synopsis:

Labyrinth is an exciting contemporary thriller placed on locations of Old Downtown Belgrade and dungeons of Kalemegdan Fortress.
Secrets from the past that haunt this town settled on two rivers and mysterious Christian sects that once existed in this region have set the destinies of generations over the centuries and left an irremovable mark in lives of contemporary characters. This roller coaster of past, present and future effects deeply the lives of our film heroes.
Main character, Pop (Nicknamed The Preacher due to the fact his father was a priest.), is tormented by death of his youth mate, faced with treachery of a friend, and becomes an object of romantic struggle between mother and daughter. Pop will find him self in the midst of mysterious and dangerous events that will lead him to a place he never new even existed and face him with answers to the questions he never dreamt of asking. ~ Rotten Tomatoes

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Bluebeard (1963)

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Original title: Landru
Year: 1963
Runtime: 114 minutes
Country: Italy | France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama

Director: Claude Chabrol

Cast:
Charles Denner … Henri-Desire Landru
Michèle Morgan … Célestine Buisson
Danielle Darrieux … Berthe Heon
Hildegard Knef … Mme X. / Madame Ixe
Juliette Mayniel … Anna Collomb
Stéphane Audran … Fernande Segret
Catherine Rouvel … Andrée Babelet
Françoise Lugagne … Catherine Landru
Mary Marquet … Madame Guillin
Denise Provence … Madame Laporte
Serge Bento … Maurice Landru
Claude Mansard … Defence attorney
Robert Burnier … Presiding judge
Mario David … Prosecutor
Jean-Louis Maury … Commissioner Belin
Diane Lepvrier … Landru’s Daughter

Plot/Synopsis:

This black comedy is based on the dastardly deeds of French serial killer Henri-Desire Landru, who wined, dined, scammed, and dismembered over 10 women during WW I.
He obtained his victims by placing ads in the Personals section of the paper. He then chose wealthy dowagers in their fifties. First he would woo them to his villa. Then he would con them into forking over their fortunes. Finally he would kill them, chop them up, and immolate the pieces.
He is finally captured after he is recognized by the sister of one of the victims. Landru swears that he is not a psychotic killer, that he only did it so he could continue to support his family in the bourgeoisie style that they were accustomed to.
During his trial, Landru refused to plead for himself one way or the other; he showed no remorse at all. He was guillotined on February 25, 1922. ~ Sandra Brennan, Allmovie

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Enclosure (1961)

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Original title: L’enclos
Year: 1961
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country: Yugoslavia | France
Language: French
Subtitles: English | French | Spanish (.srt)
Genre: War

Director: Armand Gatti

Cast:
Herbert Wochinz … Karl
Jean Négroni … David
Hans Christian Blech … Lieutenant
Jean-Marie Serreau … Doctor

Plot/Synopsis:

This prison camp drama … reflects the early ’60s resurgence of interest in the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis in World War II.
[It] focuses on two men in a German concentration camp who have been cruelly penned inside an enclosure. One of the men, Karl, is a strong, bitter anti-Nazi German — a target of the Gestapo. The SS wants information on a rumored organization of resistance fighters inside the prison and they know he has it. The other man, David, is a Jew. If one of the men dies within a certain time then the other will be released. He will not be killed. Otherwise, both will be executed.
The resistance fighters in the prison try to help the two as best they can, while the pair inside the enclosure slowly come to know each other as though they were brothers. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Allmovie

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Enclosure (1961) L’enclos {Yugoslavia}
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The Demons of St. Petersburg (2008)

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Original title: I demoni di San Pietroburgo
Year: 2008
Runtime: 111 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English | Italian | Serbian | Spanish (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Giuliano Montaldo

Cast:
Miki Manojlovic … Fyodor Dostoevsky
Carolina Crescentini … Anna
Anita Caprioli … Aleksandra
Roberto Herlitzka … Pavlovic
Filippo Timi … Gusiev
Sandra Ceccarelli … Nataliya Ivanovna
Giordano De Plano … Young Dostoevsky
Patrizia Sacchi … Advotya
Giovanni Martorana … Trifonov
Stefano Saccotelli … Stellovsky
Emilio De Marchi … Gazin
Sara Basso de Marc … Young lady
Eugenia Caruso … Lab student
Marco Gandini … Tailor

Plot/Synopsis:

One of the greatest writers in Russian literature is forced to take on a task his gift with the pen has not prepared him for in this historical drama.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky is working on his latest novel, The Gambler, with the help of his secretary Anna when he’s summoned to a insane asylum to meet with Gusiev, a former associate who is now an inmate. Gusiev tells Dostoyevsky a remarkable story that he’s joined a band of rebels who are plotting to assassinate the leaders of the Russian royal family.
A loyalist to the throne, Dostoyevsky is determined to stop the revolutionaries before they can carry out their deadly plan, but can he fully trust the words of a supposed madman? ~ Mark Deming, Allmovie

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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)

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Original title: La sindrome di Stendhal
AKA: Stendhal’s Syndrome
Year: 1996
Runtime: 114 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Spanish (.srt) | English (.srt – not in sync)
Genre: Crime | Thriller | Horror

Director: Dario Argento

Cast:
Asia Argento … Det. Anna Manni
Thomas Kretschmann … Alfredo Grossi
Marco Leonardi … Marco Longhi
Luigi Diberti … Insp. Manetti
Paolo Bonacelli … Dr. Cavanna
Julien Lambroschini … Marie
John Quentin … Anna’s father
Franco Diogene … Victim’s husband
Lucia Stara … Shop assistant
Sonia Topazio … Victim in Florence
Lorenzo Crespi … Giulio
Vera Gemma … Policewoman
John Pedeferri … Hydraulic engineer
Veronica Lazar … Marie’s mother
Mario Diano … Coroner

Plot/Synopsis:

Anna Manni is a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. The problem is that she suffers from “Stendhal’s syndrome”, a psychosomatic disease that gives her dizziness and hallucinations when she is exposed to the sight of paintings and artistic masterpieces. When the maniac lures her into a trap inside Florence’s famous Uffizi museum, her troubles are just beginning… ~ IMDb

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The Stendhal Syndrome (1996) La sindrome di Stendhal
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Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (2009)

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Original title: Mapa de los sonidos de Tokio
Year: 2009
Runtime: 109 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Japanese | English
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Thriller

Director: Isabel Coixet

Cast:
Rinko Kikuchi … Ryu
Sergi López … David
Min Tanaka … Narrador
Manabu Oshio … Yoshi
Takeo Nakahara … Nagara
Hideo Sakaki … Ishida
Jun Matsuo … Pukka
Joan Potau
Josep Sandoval

Plot/Synopsis:

Ryu is a solitary girl whose fragile appearance is in stark contrast with the double life she leads, working nights at a Tokyo fishmarket and sporadically taking on jobs as a hit-woman.
Mr Nagara is a powerful impresario mourning the loss of his daughter Midori, who has committed suicide. He blames David, a Spaniard who runs a wine business in Tokyo.
Mr Nagara’s employee, Ishida, was silently in love with Midori and hires Ryu to murder David.
A sound engineer, obsessed with the sounds of the Japanese city and fascinated with Ryu, witnesses this love story which searches the shadows of the human soul, reaching deep into places where only silence has the power of eloquence. ~ Cannes Film Festival

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The Moon in the Gutter (1983)

December 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: La lune dans le caniveau
Year: 1983
Runtime: 133 minutes
Country: France | Italy
Language: French
Subtitles: English | Portuguese-Brazil (.srt) & French (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Drama

Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix

Cast:
Gérard Depardieu … Gérard Delmas
Nastassja Kinski … Loretta Channing
Victoria Abril … Bella
Bertice Reading … Lola
Gabriel Monnet … Tom
Dominique Pinon … Frank
Milena Vukotic … Frieda
Vittorio Mezzogiorno … Newton Channing
Bernard Farcy … Jésus
Anne-Marie Coffinet … Dora
Jacques Herlin
Guido Alberti … The cathedral keeper
Katya Berger … Catherine
Rosa Fumetto
Graziano Giusti

Plot/Synopsis:

Gerard is a dock worker who becomes an emotional wreck following the rape and suicide of his sister.
As his relationships with his girlfriend Bella, his drunken brother, and his depressive father begin to decay, Gerard becomes obsessed with finding the man who attacked his sister and spends most of his nights lurking about the scene of the crime. In time, Gerard makes the acquaintance of Loretta who cruises by the waterfront every evening in a red sports car.
Desperate to pull himself out of his emotional doldrums, Gerard becomes involved with Loretta. Bella, however, is not at all happy about this, and she convinces a pair of strong-arm men to teach him a lesson. Gerard must now decide if he wants to be with Loretta or Bella, just as he’s discovered evidence that may reveal who raped his sister ~ Mark Deming, Allmovie

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The Moon in the Gutter (1983) La lune dans le caniveau
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Conceptual Paradise (2006)

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Year: 2006
Runtime: 110 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: English
Subtitles: English (hardsubbed – non-English parts)
Genre: Documentary

Director: Stefan Römer

Cast:
Vito Acconci, Michael Baldwin, Mel Ramsden, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Hartmut Bitomsky, Mel Bochner, Gregg Bordowitz, Klaus vom Bruch, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Luis Camnitzer, Jan Dibbets, Mark Dion, Sam Durant, Stano Filko, Andrea Fraser, Liam Gillick, Dan Graham, Renée Green, Shilpa Gupta, Hans Haacke, Július Koller, Joseph Kosuth, Sonia Khurana, David Lamelas, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Locher, Marcel Odenbach, Yoko Ono, John Miller, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer, Allen Ruppersberg, Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Peter Weibel, Lawrence Weiner, Stephen Willats, Heimo Zobernig

Plot/Synopsis:

During three years of research, the German artist Stefan Römer interviewed a range of artists that are usually associated with the ‘conceptual art’ label.
Engaging in intellectual exchanges before the camera, Stefan Römer developed a special filmic mode of reflecting on the state of international contemporary art.
[It] is a personal film essay and not a historical documentary.
It traces debates that allowed the intellectual art movement of Conceptual art to emerge in the 1960s, which led to the most relevant questions in art today. A wide range of artists speak about their own artistic practices and the socio-historical development of the various conceptual movements. ~ Institute of Network Cultures

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Headhunter: The Assessment Weekend

December 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Year: 2010
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: Germany
Language: English (original)
Subtitles: None
Genre: Thriller

Director: Sebastian Panneck

Cast:
Keith Blaser
Manuel Cortez
Mareike Fell
Jesse Inman
Niels Kurvin
Alexander Laurisch
Shannon Lower … Sarah
Clayton Nemrow
Thomas Pagels … Student
Maverick Quek

Plot/Synopsis:

A motley group of business students in Berlin sign up for Takahashi Corp’s assessment weekend, hoping to land one of the coveted spots with the consulting company.
Under the watchful eye of a company psychologist, the team-working and improvisational skills of the aspirants will be put to the test in a survival-type situation. But nothing goes according to plan – the group arrives to find the base camp completely destroyed. Trapped in the woods with no food, no shelter and no way to communicate with the outside world, the real characters of the students come to light, as one by one, they start to lose their heads… ~ DVD

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