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Desperate
Troy and Tan-Yah are two desperate people. Their insatiable hunger for success and sensation puts them deeper and deeper into a spiral of detachment of…Published on: -
The adjuster
In The Adjuster Egoyan has shifted from small-scale to large-scale film-making, without losing sight of his specific themes (voyeurism, bizarre sexuality, de-personalisation by the modern…Published on: -
Son of Sam and Delilah
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Thank you and goodnight
In an original and very personal film, Oxenberg sketches an intimate portrait of her grandmother and investigates her own youth. She follows intensively the last…Published on: -
Roy Rogers, king of the cowboys
In the fifties, the American singin’ cowboy Roy Rogers was the great hero of the silver screen, in Holland too. His films had fixed ingredients:…Published on: -
Forbrydelsens element
Forbrydelsens Element is a ‘post-modern film noir’ which evokes fierce and mixed reactions when it came out. It is Von Trier’s first full-length feature and…Published on: -
Goin’ south
A remarkable actor’s and director’s film by Jack Nicholson, who reveals an extreme side of his burlesque talents within the genre of the comic western.…Published on: -
Speaking Directly
Speaking Directly can best be described as an original mixture of a political film against the Vietnam War and a personal film: a home movie.The…Published on: -
Ambition
In this recently-completed nine-minute film, bodies are thrown around, hands are shaken and breakfast is consumed — all in the name of ambition. Everything revolves…Published on: -
American Orpheus
A contemporary variant on the Orpheus myth in which the myth is not only a metaphor for a change: The protagonists really do descend into…Published on: