Pat Garrett and Billy were once friends. Now one of them is on the side of the law and the other an outlaw. As a sheriff, Pat Garrett has been integrated into the system that Billy hates with all his heart. It feels like times have changed! proclaims Pat Garrett at the beginning of the film; Times maybe. Not me!, is the Kid’s response. But it’s the landowners who rule things now. And they can bend the rules any way they want. The longer he takes to track down Billy the Kid, the more Pat Garrett begins to understand his erstwhile friend. When the search culminates, the hunter has long since become the mirror image of the hunted. And when Pat Garrett finally shoots Billy the Kid, it is an act of self-betrayal tantamount to suicide.
PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID was released in July 1973 to mixed reviews. many critics complained the film was incoherent. Unfortunately, during shooting open warfare broke out between Peckinpah and MGM. The studio forbid Peckinpah to shoot certain scenes, but the director defied them and shot them anyway. Fifteen years after its initial release, and four years after Peckinpah’s death, the film was restored and 16 minutes were added.
A 30-year old man is celebrating Midsummer’s Eve together with friends in Smogen, on the west coast of Sweden. He makes his friends come and watch as he is going to jump in to the sea from a very high bridge.
The road from reindeer scoring to the dentist is short for a little boy who gets acquainted with an unusual sort of dentist.
Young Jean Berlot’s mother has died in the lunatic asylum at Charenton. On his way home from the funeral he spends a night at a roadside inn. There he has a vivid dream ‚ the same dream he always has in times of stress, in which two hospital orderlies in white coats try to force him into a straitjacket. After a violent struggle, Berlot always wakes up to find that the room has been completely demolished. Another guest at the inn, the Marquis, witnesses the nightmare and its results. He pays for the damage and invites Berlot to his castle. On the way he hears Berlot’s story: when his father died his mother, who was much younger, went mad with grief. Since then Jean, who takes after her, has been haunted by the idea that he too will end up in an asylum ‚ hence the nightmares. But the staying at the Marquis’ castle will be therapeutic. After witnessing a blasphemous orgy and an unorthodox funeral, the Marquis helps him conquer his fears and takes his guest to an asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars.
The death of a child triggers this collection of personal reflections on grief and loss. (Phantom Limb is the illusion that a limb still exists after it has been amputated). PHANTOM LIMB uses this personal story as a point of departure.
Faith and fear. Duck and cover.
A clay animated film, using authentic sounds and voices, depicting a day at a holiday home for the elderly and handicapped. In different episodes everyday occurences and the interplay between the patients are shown.
A road movie through the changes in the the portuguese landscape and cities in the last 30 years, looking mostly at the areas involved in the European Football Cup of 2004 that took place in Portugal.
Tensions mount in surely the shortest game ever, as match emotions and park life are merged and condensed into mere minutes though the simple yet hugely evocative animation by studio aka regular animator orchard.
sCOpe is like a snake. The sound is a long whistling. The film is a little sadistic and wishes to take away from us a ¬´ full view ¬ª (it refers to the ad ¬´ Gimme more ¬ª for the CinemaScope format). “
A man recalls his first contact with the sea in a very concrete way.
Rich slacker Sebastian’s favorite sport is slumming in Vienna’s seedy bars and cafés in search of quirky characters to toy with. He also likes surfing for young women over the internet, seducing them with elaborated stories of truth, half truth and lies. Grade school teacher Pia is his latest conquest. Or maybe this wallflower who talks to much when she’s nervous has actually conquered him? Their romance is jeopardized when Pia becomes angry about Sebastian’s latest act of flippant cruelty: just for fun, he and his friend Alex picked up an unconscious drunk off the street and drove him to the Czech Republic, where they dumped him without any ID. Pia decides to rescue this man, Kallmann, a down and out poet whose drinking binges usually result in ranting and raving and aggressive attempts to sell his poems on the street. Little does he know, he’s about to have a moment of sudden revelation, lost and alone in the wintry Czech wilderness…
Pavee Lackeen tells the story of Winnie, a ten year old Irish Traveller girl, who lives with her mother and siblings in a ramshackle trailer on the side of the road in a desolate industrialized area of Dublin. The film follows Winnie through several weeks of her life as she struggles for her identity as a young Traveller girl in contemporary Ireland. Winnie fills her time wandering through the run-down shops and stalls of Dublin’s inner city, while her mother Rosie struggles to get her family housed by the local council. Pavee Lackeen presents an unflinching portrait of a marginalized community often living in Third World poverty in a modern, prosperous Ireland. The Travelling people of Ireland maintain a culture and language which sets them apart from the rest of the population, and have been the victims of much misunderstanding and prejudice that continues to this day. Shattering existing stereotypes, Pavee Lackeen presents an intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud, dignified family struggling day by day against faceless bureaucracy, poverty and prejudice.
Cristina, a young nurse from the countryside with big eyes and even bigger headphones, walks the streets of Santiago like a silver ball in a pinball machine, shooting from one person’s life to another’s. When she is not reading National Geographic articles to her elderly Hungarian patient Milos or flirting with a gardener in the park, she is following Tristán Greenberg , a 33-year-old architect whose wallet she finds after he is mugged. Tristán, who is temporarily unemployed while the construction workers on his project are on strike, has been dumped by his too-perfect girlfriend Irene , who it turns out is also worth following. With nowhere to go, he returns to the suburban home where he grew up, but his glamorous mother Laura is living with a sleazy magician and is soon throwing a pool party straight out of The Graduate.
He should be here any minute‚Ķ She will cook him something tasty. There is a radio in the room. What!? Has the Seven O’clock News gone interactive?
Short Of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide. It’s like a punch in the stomach.
Coming from the high mountains of Portugal, uncle Zé arrived to Lisbon when he was still a young man, carrying with himself a very special way to deal with everyone. He built a small world in a space where he feels free.
A homage remake to F.W. Murnau’s silent classic Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922). This richly drawn version of the Dracula tale is one of Herzog’s most beautiful and haunting films.
