England, 1905. The rise and fall of a young eccentric British writer, in the early 20th century. Based on the book by Elizabeth Taylor, Angel follows the story of a young woman with incredible imagination who refuses to accept the world around her, and creates her own realities. “
I placed the pick axe in one of the marble joints and pressed hard. And I pressed, and I pressed. There was James Joyce. I looked to the sky and couldn’t find the moon. Based on the short story The Corpse of James Joyce, by José Luis Peixoto.
Newhall, California sits about thirty miles north of Los Angeles. It’s a place where the youth work at Video Depot, go to community college, struggle with jocks and townies, and do their best to understand politics, their careers, and their love life.
In this movie there’s no car chases, there’s no one with a gun in his hand, nobody screaming, no one saving nobody; no one is abandoned, no one falls in someone’s arms; there’s no colors; no one makes a confession; no one looks at the clouds through the window of a plane; in this movie there’s no endless horizon nor the sea.
Huge high-rise residential buildings are built in a circle around a kind of park in the middle of which are swimming pools, restaurants and bars. This is, where the so-called Deutschländer live, for the most part Turks who worked abroad, mostly in the Federal Republic of Germany, for many years. The have saved up for years, in order to enjoy their retirement here. But they haven’t really arrived back in Turkey ‚ too much time has passed by. So they remain among themselves, these re-immigrants. For many it is no longer possible to return to the homeland‚Ķ
4 Elements consists of four chapters that each show the struggle of mankind with the different elements: ‘Fire’ shows the ‚Äòsmokejumpers’ of Siberia that control the fire but also how they paradoxically make a fire in the basecamp to cook their dinner. ‘Water’ tells the story of the Kingcrabfishers in Alaska and shows the men during the season of four days and nights. In ‘Earth’ two mineworkers crawl like ants between gigantic machines and is shown how they scrub each others back after a long and exhausting day. In ‘Air’, shot in Kazakhstan, astronauts are followed during their heavy physical trainings till the point where they are being launched into space.
A women return to a house in the Delta del Tigre, scene of a tragedy month before. She’s confronted to her memories, her desires and her fires.
Héctor has been working in the same factory for the last twelve years. This is his last day on the job.
Before, meanwhile, after. Present, past, future. Ready, steady… Go!
First there were the fishermen. Then the Portuguese called the place Bom Bahia and also Good Life. Today Bombay is Mumbai, an unintended city which grew by commercial and industrial impulses reflecting a complex mosaic of the human existence. We discover moments of its daily life during 24 hours of pure sensibility: pictures in time together with original music and street sounds.
The written languages of birds come to life.
A documentary about Ufology in Portugal. Everything started at Fátima or maybe before. Many are those who dedicate themselves to the cause. The UFO’s are not only manifestations of literature and Hollywood cinema. In Portugal many persons search for evidences and ways to communicate with extraterrestrial intelligent life.
Over the images of a country airport in the region of Saint André, a man asks if planes are allowed to land there. For he plans to build an international convention center not far away, which will have wired translation booths‚Ķ There is something suggestive about the manner in which this man plans, prepares and sets up a space, simply by stating his projects.
The assailant is AryoshiJun. The victim is Kazuki Shiro. Both were serving time for murder. Both were imprisoned on the same day. The murders are unrelated. Their arrival: a total coincidence. Q: Who had the strongest motive? Q: Was the victim insane? Q: The assailant’s motive? Q: Was the victim killed?
Alfred gets bullied. Benny is a bully. They become friends.
In a futuristic society, the war on drugs has essentially been lost. The most dangerous narcotic, Substance D, causes split personalities in people who abuse it. A gifted detective (Keanu Reeves) who gets addicted to the drug while working undercover develops a personality that becomes a dealer, which leads to problems when he is basically assigned to investigate himself.
In daily lives we might come cross certain characters whom we don’t know. Even though they become a part of the larger mise-en-scène which is life. This film is about two such characters who pass each other everyday: a man and a woman. In an urban space, they have only met as strangers, and till the end they remain so.
731: Two Versions of Hell is both a documentary about Japan’s World War Two biological weapons facility, Unit 731, and a demonstration of the power of historical revisionism. “