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A Life in SuitcasesGreenaway′s The Tulse Luper Suitcases trilogy ranks as possibly his most bizarre, inaccessible and vain works of cinema. They can also be called brilliant and iconoclastic. The multi-media, multi-visual films have inspired awe and...
World Cinema
A Little Trip to HeavenBaltasar Kormakur makes the move into large-scale major studio filmmaking with this thriller. A con artist with a multi-million dollar life insurance policy dies under mysterious circumstances in a small town, and as usual an insu...
Korean Cinema Retrospective: Lee Man-hee, the Poet of Night
A Road to ReturnAlong with Late Autumn, Road to Return is one of the all-time triumphs in the history of Korean cinema. Ji-yoen has lived with her crippled husband for 14 years. Her only relief is delivering her husband′s manuscripts to Newspaper...
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A Side B Side SeasideA Side B Side Seaside is a story about two girls who bid farewell to their own youth. Up against the same setting, the two girls′ story of how differently they spent their adolescence overlaps one another. One story is lead by a g...
Special Programs in Focus
A Simple EventA Simple Event is Sohrab Shahid Saless′ first feature film. He made it with the budget of a short film. Shahid Saless shot every scene in one take and made a feature in two weeks. At that time he was young (27 years-old) and unkno...
Korean Cinema
A Tale of Cinema2005 칸영화제 경쟁부문 A Tale of Cinema means both a ′story of cinema′ and a ′story before a theatre′. An audience member, Dong-soo, watches a film by his school senior suffering from cancer. In the film, a high school student, Sang-won,...
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A Way of LifeThe debut film by Amma Asante is an unblinking, disturbing and powerful look at contemporary race relations and hate crime. Set in the working class area of South Wales, the film begins with a vicious attack on a local man of Musl...
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A Zed and Two NoughtsA Zed & Two Noughts in the simplest of terms is about people desperately searching for meaning in life and death. Oliver and Oswald Deuce are twins. Both are zoologists, both work at the same zoo, and both lose their wives in a fr...