Shot on 16mm, Clémenti’s dystopian vision of Paris is called Necrocity, a hedonistic netherworld where state police (with the chief played by Clémenti himself) chase gangsters through a hazy, heroin-fueled nightlife.
With Home of the Brave, Laurie Anderson made a sparkling avant-garde concert film. The film is largely based on her album tour for Mister Heartbreak, supplemented by earlier work.
Anna, who is in her mid-forties and the owner of a rose farm, lives with her son Albert on a Mediterranean beach in Portugal. Albert is in love with a young Italian - yet he does not love him in a “conventional” way, but in the way he also loves his roses.
Jules Verne’s novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for the story of Delphine (Marie Rivière), a dreamy, introverted young secretary who, reeling from a breakup with her boyfriend, faces the anxiety-inducing prospect of spending her summer vacation alone. Eric Rohmer
The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.
“Just tell me one thing frankly. Is this monkey really your lover?”
Peter in Max mon amour
Working Girls depicts a day in the life of several prostitutes working in an Upper East Side condo apartment. It's told largely through the eyes of Molly (Louise Smith), a lesbian woman with an Ivy League education.
“What Ogawa’s Sundial Carved by a Thousand Years of Notches (and the Yamagata Documentary Film Festival that it inspired) suggests is that new transnational networks must be built, no matter how unprofessional and utopian, in order to wrest at least some of the power away from the core o
An intimate conversation in the midst of a festive crowd.
“Aanvankelijk zin om een komedie te maken.
Een komedie over de liefde... en de handel.
Burlesk; teder, waanzinnig.
Vervolgens was één plaats het uitgangspunt van alles.
Een plaats die ik goed ken omdat ik er verscheidene malen als verkoopster heb gewerkt.
“The documentary we have been shooting for the last seven or eight years hopes to recreate the natural features – rice, earth, water – and recreate the stories sleeping in the hearts of the villagers.
« Je veux bien faire des essais avec vous, mais avant, il faut que je fasse des essais avec l’humanité. »
Gaspard Bazin
“It’s rare enough that black people are seen in films, but even when we are, it’s always in stereotypical roles of making people laugh, or as singers and dancers. [...] Even the top stars like Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor never get to have any love interest in their films.