Extravaganza
Overview of films
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Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
With its extraordinary visual inventiveness Tetsuo: The Iron Man, shot in black and white, broke independent-cinema box-office records in Japan and become an instant cult hit. Its sequel, Tetsuo II: The Body Hammer, is even more compelling. The action in this cyber-hell centres on a happily married man, whose young son is abducted in a […]
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Two Features With One Ticket
Two Features With One Ticket is a film about film-making and about the people who make films in today’s Iran. A film director returns from America after many years to make his first Hollywood-inspired film. However the principal actor has an accident and pulls out, while the producer is in a hurry to finish the […]
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Pour demain
In a small fishing village at the turn of the century, sober everyday life is ruled by women because with the exception of an old-aged pensioner, the men stay at sea +!+ and do not always return from their dangerous work. Protagonist is the young woman Camille, who has to look after her bad-tempered, jealous […]
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Blade Runner – The Director’s Cut
Blade Runner, from 1982, is now recognised as a pioneering, influential film and has been admired even in avant-garde film circles. It was a classic way ahead of its time. Now The Director’s Cut of the film makes apparent just how far ahead of its time the film was. A significant difference between the old […]
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Terror 2000
A film, made with little money and proportionately more spunk and feeling for trash, which resists the weightiness which characterises German film. A special role has been reserved for Udo Kier, once a major star in horror films, now wrongly an almost forgotten legend. Kier demonstrates in this film that he has lost little of […]
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The Vampyr
Sung entirely from the original 19th century libretto, a television opera about the 200-year-old vampire Ripley who plagues London after being woken by the din of pneumatic drills. In his new guise he becomes a hard-nosed businessman, but also has to continue to gratify his natural needs as a vampire.By putting singing actors into naturalistic […]
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Le Déménagement
A man moves into a modern three-room flat. He surveys his surroundings with a confused feeling. Did he do the right thing by moving? He remembers his previous house, especially a summer several years back: the windows open, a slight breeze, three girls +!+ students +!+ laughing, in the morning, when the air is still […]
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Hors saison
A film about memories and the distortion of memories. The protagonist is a man who returns to the hotel where he spent part of his youth. The hotel, once built by his grandparents as a holiday resort for the rich people who came to the Swiss Alps, is about to be demolished. He wanders through […]
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Braindead
An exuberant, bizarre, gory horror-splatter-film with a surfeit of blood and effects. It wasn’t enough to be distasteful, because the effects also aspired to technical perfection.Lionel Cosgrove (25) lives in a house that is much too big with his mother who tyrannises him. His father died many years ago in suspicious circumstances. The life of […]