A feverish dream full of witchcraft, giants, sages, ogres, speaking monkeys, a flying turtle that’s really a female warrior and a princess that has been turned into a spider by her own father. Pre-Khmer Rouge popular film.
Sakir, a humble dolmuş (minibus) driver, falls in love with a nightclub singer and embarks on a charming and adventurous journey into her world of high society.
At least forty films have been made about the Living Theatre; it remained to the American underground filmmaker Sheldon Rochlin (previously responsible for the marvellous Vali) to make the 'definitive' film about one of the most famous of their works, Paradise Now, shot in Brussels and at the Berlin Sportpalast.
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for.
A homage to nature and a plea for a careful approach to it. In one of his early films, Jon Jost shows impressions of a stream in the forest and a couple streaming through the forest: direct looks into the camera, cross-fades, multiple exposures, playing with sunlight, shadows and shapes.
"Canada's convention-shattering voice of poetry" (Globe and Mail). Michael Ondaatje documents the work and spirit of fellow poet bpNichol (1944-1988) Capturing the artist / writer / sound performer in "fantasy documentary", Ondaatje uncovers what made bpNichol an influence to a generation of North American and European writers.
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