Overview of articles
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Mirage
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Modern crimes
In his film, which has its world première on the opening night of the festival, Alejandro Agresti plays one of the protagonists (Alex) while also…Published on: -
Lady Lazarus
The film comprises a stream of symbolic, experimental images. On the soundtrack, Sylvia Plath is reading her Lady Lazarus. This makes the film more literary…Published on: -
Resonance
Resonance tells the story of gay bashing in a slum neighbourhood of Sydney and of its `resonance’; the film tries to show the effect of…Published on: -
Hearts of Darkness – A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
In 1976 Francis Ford Coppola embarked on the filming of what was to be his most expensive and difficult undertaking. In Apocalypse Now he integrated…Published on: -
Eye to eye
A short black & white documentary about the recently-deceased photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. His work became controversial in the United States through the attempts to ban…Published on: -
Proof
Proof is a complex, intelligently-written film which tackles several issues, including that of an obsession which inevitably provokes fierce emotions within a three-cornered relationship. Someone…Published on: -
The hired hand
Thanks to the unprecedented success of Easy Rider, the makers Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Peter Fonda all had the opportunity to make another film.…Published on: -
Motorama
This debut film has all the ingredients necessary to make it a cult movie. A ten-year-old boy is obsessed by the so-called motorama game; a…Published on: -
Surviving desire
@ Surviving desire is about a brilliant but absent-minded professor of literature, Jude, and his obsession with a passage from The Brothers Karamazov. The professor…Published on: