On a gloomy November afternoon, police sergeant Josef Kummer spots a suspicious car in the bushes behind the Taubenschlag restaurant, a popular suburban brothel. Kummer, who is searching for an escaped prisoner, concludes that the fugitive is hiding nearby. But the car belongs to the mayor (Ueli Beck), who is enjoying an afternoon with a pretty young lady while his wife assumes he is working in his office. In his ambition, Kummer threatens to expose the local politician's amorous escapade and provoke a scandal of the first order. When he then mistakenly arrests the popular representative, chaos ensues.
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster.
Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated episodes, this absurd Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.
BEAUTIFUL FUNERALS is a hand-painted double-step-printed film composed of 1) dense blackness variously punctuated by brilliantly colored jewel/flower-like shapes AND 2) interruptive white sections which are fuzzily dotted with blurred whites and criss-crossed by black "brushstrokes" and hard-edge straight black and white lines.
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
A young man makes ends meet by selling camotes in his small providence town, has zero luck getting with the ladies, and is too broke to afford the hookers of the town.
When Hydro-Québec announced its intention to proceed with the enormous James Bay II hydroelectric project, the 15,000 Cree who live in the region decided to stand up to the giant utility.
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