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A Room And A Half |
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| Russian film that's a unique journey to the earlier life of Nobel Prize winning Russian poet Joseph Brodsky. A perfect blend of different styles - fiction, animation and historical footage - creates an unforgettable atmosphere, smoothly intertwined with one another in a highly original manner. Direc... |
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After Midnight |
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| Turin’s magical Mole Antontelliana (the Museum of Cinema) is the setting and inspiration for an unlikely love story, acclaimed by critics around the world and described as Cinema Paradiso meets Jules et Jim. Infused with humour, intelligence and passion, full of filmic references from Keaton to Kubr... |
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Ascent To Heaven |
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| Luis Buñuel's Mexican films of the '50s are pockmarked with barely repressed furies, yet this engagingly messy crowdpleaser, made in the jaunty-populist vein of El Gran Calavera and Illusion Travels by Streetcar, is arguably the closest he came to creating a vision of communal utopia. A young c... |
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Ashura |
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| In this fantasy epic by Japanese director Yojiro Takita we learn that demons spurt glowing green blood, laugh very obnoxiously, and tend to be most powerful when they take the form of really hot babes. Directed by Yogurt Takita.... |
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Blind Beast |
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| Controversial Cult Classic and S&M masterpiece from Japanese Director Yasuzo Masumura, made in 1969. A blind Sculptor kidnaps a beautiful young model and takes her back to his home. He and his mother live in a warehouse that he has turned into a surreal tribute to the senses. It is filled with... |
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Branded To Kill |
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| Classic Japanese crime thriller made in 1967, directed by Seijun Suzuki in B/W as he was forbidden from using colour due to his wild visuals in past films. Violence, shootouts, car chases, sex, and much much more. Ultra cool Japanese noir mixes with Sixiest surrealism to make this one of the hippest... |
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Fighting Delinquents |
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| Another Japanese flick directed by Seijun Suzuki in 1960 and his first colour feature. Contrasting tranquil glimpses of traditional regional life with the emergence of the new rock 'n' roll youth culture and the greed and seething cynicism of encroaching Westernisation. Starring Koji Wada, Chikako H... |
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Fighting Elegy |
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| Screenplay adapted from Takashi Suzuki's novel by Kaneto Shindo. A young man growing up in 30’s Okayama is torn between his emerging sexuality whilst living with a Catholic family whose daughter is attracted to him, and focusing on a gang he’s joined. Directed by Seijun Suzuki and starring Hideki Ta... |
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Irezumi |
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| 1966. Based on Junichiro Tanizaki's original short story. When a young girl is seduced and has a spider tattooed on her back she herself becomes a predatory monster, taking revenge on every man who has shared her bed. Directed by Yasuzo Masumura and starring Ayako Wakao, Akio Hasegawa, Gaku Yamamoto... |
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Jade Warrior |
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| Thousands of years ago in ancient China, a love struck sword hero fights against his destiny. He wants another chance to be reunited with his loved one and he gets that chance, in a far away place and a far away time, in the cold north, in modern Finland. Jade Warrior is set in ancient China early i... |
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