You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates : Werner Herzog
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents : Orson Welles
People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television -- you don't feel anything : Andy Warhol
One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that : Oliver Stone
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema : Serge Daney
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake : Alfred Hitchcock
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are : Robert Bresson
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls : Ingmar Bergman
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance : FrantOis Truffaut
All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl : Jean-Luc Godard
This is another social statement about the dark future politicians preparing for us.
It is filmed by the talented Greek director Stathis Athanasiou.
The story emerges between science fiction and social drama as violence rules over civilization and people are advised to stay in their houses and call for products in order to survive from anarchists who kill them and destroy everything.
Total death of capitalism in the isolated environment of every customer.
Shilo is a genetically ill teenager locked in her house for life as her doctor father Nathan is keeping a dark secret about her mother.
Rotti Largo who shares the same secret, is the greedy and arrogant owner of GeneCo, a biotech company that offers organ transplants.
He thinks he is god but hates his children who are totally freaks.
He is caring only for business and when his customers miss their payments he sends the Repo Man, a vicious killer who eliminate them and take back their implants.
Soon the secrets will be exposed and lives of Shilo, Nathan and Rotti will be involved into the wildly anticipated spectacular event: The Genetic Opera with the worst sequences.
Do-wan, an untouchable bounty hunter, Chang-yi, a heartless assassin, and Tae-goo, a train robber with nine lives.
They will all meet at a train robbery where Tae-goo finds a treasure map while Chang-Yi was looking for the same thing and Do-wan was after them for a great reward.
Soon they will be hunted by various gangs and the Japanese army.
Each one wants the treasure for himself so a battle between them will soon start leading to a bloodbath.
With great scenes of action and a cool style direction this funny film from South Korea will entertain you a lot!
Based on a Kurt Vonnegut's novel this short film is about the dark future of civilization in the United States.
The laws have changed everything and people live into a dystopian future.
Because everyone is ''finally equal''. But is the the right solution for the man kind?
Can human rights change and what is the price?
The strong wear weights, the beautiful wear masks and the intelligent wear earpieces that fire off loud noises to keep them from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
It is a poetic tale of triumph and tragedy about a broken family, a brutal government, and an act of defiance that changes everything.
Including an excellent score performed by the famous band of Kronos Quartet.
The sad, strange life of Harvie, who is born into an impoverished Middle European existence, and whose one constant is the book of "fakts" he keeps adding to, worn around his neck.
After a childhood tragedy, he emigrates to Australia, where he has a succession of menial jobs, eventually ending up in a retirement home.
Along the way, he has a string of bad luck, leaving him with, among other things, a steel plate in his skull that becomes a magnet.
This amazing stop-motion animation from Australia won the Oscar in 2003 and a lot of other awards.
Deu is used to be abandoned from everyone. First from her mother, then as a band member.
So she is hopeless. In the mean time a mysterious gang is abducting and killing women around Thailand.
Sanim and his friends, having had loved ones abducted, have joined together to break the gang of kidnappers.
When Due is going to be their next victim, Sanim will save her and help her by learning her the unique martial arts style that fuses traditional Muai Thai with breakdance moves.
Soon they will be friends and Due will get in the team in order to find the killers and seek for revenge.
A great action film from Thailand full of amazing battle shots.
As a lot of people maybe misunderstood this is NOT a remake of the cult 80s sci fi movie Tron but it's sequel directed in the best way it could be.
I loved so much this story back to the 80s so it was quite relaxing that this attempt to continue the story was successful.
Sam Flynn is Kevyn's Glynn (hero of the first Tron) son and a genius at computer science.
When his father disappeared twenty years ago without a sign, Sam was so desperate. He didn't want to have any relationship with his father and his company and tried to sabotage it by spreading its technology for free through internet.
When he will visit his dad old electronic games store he will find a secret place where the transportation to the cybernetic world of Tron starts.
Amazing visual effects and a plot better than the first movie give the film a great success to the point.
The French electronic producers Daft Punk do their best for the soundtrack that fits perfect to the whole film!
Hopefully it's the best trick if you wanna have some fun before sleeping.
It is about an arrogant rich man who changes women from time to time.
But a gang of bike riders are looking for trouble and he is the ideal person to mess with.
They first beat him up and rape his date.
When he exits the hospital he completely forgets about the girl and he continues the mess asking help for a friend who owns a karate club.
But I don't think the karate gang do the martial art justice. So they beat the bikers and their leader cuts the cock of the riders leader and feed him with it.
The rest of the riders are looking for revenge so they start killing everyone in order to find the rich man and eliminate him.
The protagonist has sex with other two girls afterwards and he visits his parents house.
But the bikers actually find him and kill all the members of his family including the servants.
After that he goes crazy, grabbing a shot gun and the massacre begins.
Who is going to survive?
The plot and the directing could be better but the actors are not talented at all.
The soundtrack is horrible and finally this is one of the films you wish to forget as soon as possible!
Maybe you need to watch this extraordinary film twice to understand completely the vision of Ukrainian director Andrzej Zulawski.
It is a film that Polish government banned and Zulawski never recreated it back at its original form.
It is based on the adaptation of "The Lunar Trilogy" written by the directors Uncle Jerry Żuławski between 1901 and 1911 (never published in English but popular in Europe).
In the beginning we find two astronauts being in a ruined palace where primitive humanoids surround them with curiosity.
One of them has found a strange old device which shows the voyage of an earlier space flight to the planet crushing over the mountains.
Half of the crew survived and the rest die one by one.
The astronaut woman is already pregnant and she will bring her first child on a new world.
More children come in life but because the astronauts are getting older at a much slower rate, they become Godlike elders of the newly emerging (from incest) humans.
The second generation grows a new civilization based on Shamanism. The last astronaut named Old man is going to travel back to his comrades death spots and find the meaning of life.
When he will be back things will have been changed.
So the device keeps narrating the story of the past natives to the two astronauts.
Then we watch the second story.
When a new spacecraft is landing on the planet a cosmic traveller from the future is being selected as the messiah by the natives who we come to realize are the descendants of the first mission.
The new Messiah indulges in his Godking status, and deals with the threat posed by winged telepathic creatures called Sherns who kidnap and mate with native women to produce...lizard men?
What follows is espionage, decadence, war, and delirious parade of fantastic and occasionally grotesque images.
This film is a brilliant visual poetry and an interesting anthropological concept with impressive sets and great make-up.
If you ever liked Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, this is the next stuff for your mind and your eyes!
This sci fi film from Italy is one of the most rare in the world.
A Portuguese release version is discovered in Brazil but it was only the 40% of the film working.
The story is about a scientist creating device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.
The mechanical man possess super-human speed and strength. The scientist is killed however by a gang of criminals, led by a woman named Mado, who wish to get the instructions for building the mechanical man.
The criminals are captured before they are able to get them and are brought to trial and condemned. Mado manages to escape and kidnaps the scientist's niece whom she forces to give her the instructions which she uses to build a mechanical man.
The mechanical man is used for a variety of crimes, controlled by Mado. The scientist's brother however is successful in creating a second mechanical man which he uses to combat the original.
The two mechanical men fight each other in an opera house and end up destroying each other as well as the opera house. During the final battle, Mado frantically attempts to control the mechanical man and is electrocuted at the control panel by a short circuit.
He lost his wife when she committed suicide at the period they were drug addicts.
He also owns his father in law a big loan of money.
When the weird collector of films Bellinger (Udo Kier enjoyable as always)employing him to find the most extreme film ever made he will accept the deal.
But ''Le Fin Absolue du Monde" is a cursed film and everyone who saw that is condemned dying a horrifying death.
Carpenter is one of the best horror directors and he proves it again!
Then she has to go to Belgium and get back some personal things of him and a manuscript he was working on a book about the infamous serial killer Andries Martiens from his office.
This insane maniac killed some children in order to open the gates of hell so he could visit his parents for a personal matter.
Kristel will find an Ouija board which connects her with her dad.
When his boss invites her to visit the mines her dad was working into,
she and her company will be trapped into a cold, dark and damp place
where the evil spirit of Martiens starts possessing them one by one and the massacre begins!
Very bloody effects, coupled with the guarantee gloomy, claustrophobic atmosphere of an old mine nerve-jangling excitement for fans of the genre.
I was a kid while watching that slasher and it was an frightening experience.
I was looking to find it for many years so I finally did it.
The story is as simple as that.
Three teenagers couple want to spend some days on the desert having fun.
But their plans will be ruined by a maniac killer.
So the pursuit starts but where can anyone hide in the middle of nowhere?
It's a shame really that this flick is so forgotten because it's actually really good, the acting is well a mixed bag but the main girl Jennifer McAllister did a pretty good job and she was really stunning. An annoying aspect is that we don't get to find out why the killer is there or why he's killing everybody off, but he does play his part well.
An antiquary guy, a taxi driver and a betrayed husband are looking for a mysterious treasure following the instructions of a bizarre man at a bar.
After finding that, their lives will change dramatically and they will get in troubles.
A gang is after the taxi driver who is a snitch and plans to grab the treasure with the help of a cop. The cop has a secret relationship with the woman of the other guy of the triangle so things will be more complicated.
The plot is sometimes confusing but the actors do their best and the characters have many choices.
Directed by 3 people this story is really entertaining and keeps intense high.
This film is a must see for anyone interested in the virtuosic film work of the German and Soviet filmmakers of the late silent era as it is a rare example of similar work being done in America.
Ink is the last inspirational sci fi gem I trully enjoyed.
The plot was about the confrontation of two forces over humanity's sleep.
There are the good guys. They deliver hope and strength through good dreams.
And there is the opposite side, the Incubus sharing fears through nightmares.
John is a successful businessman who lost his wife at a tragedy.
He will lose his daughter's care because he is interested only for his job.
When Emma (his daughter) is being kidnapped by a monstrous man through her sleep, John will fight for her saving and his soul.
Separate in their journey, they encounter unusual characters that exist only in their subconscious. Or do they?
The political slam on capitalism and the analogy of drug addiction to that of power and greed are clearly contrast to true values of family and self worth.
Ink is a high-concept visual thriller that weaves seamlessly between the conscious and the subconscious.
Ink has been hailed as the new "it" movie and compared to cult classics Brazil, Donnie Darko, The Matrix, Dark City and Pan's Labyrinth.
Following the death of a young woman, the tragic story of her life and eventual demise slowly unfolds as the insects that consume her decaying body become actors in the fateful retelling of her downfall.
Placed at the Tasmanian jungle it is the story of a team of young people searching for the Tasmanian tiger, a rare species.
The leader of group is zoologist Nina.
According to a photograph which she found from her lost sister who died in search of the tiger. She starts the quest with her boyfriend Matt and a couple of friends.
They will arrive at an traditional village of weird residents.
Soon the things will be complicated after they will notice strange incidents happening.
And they will find out that the legend of cannibal prisoner Alexander "The Pieman" Pearce was real, as paying the cost.
This is an entertaining sci fi film from Georgian director Pavel Arsyonov.
The story is very simple.
Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space.
They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who's just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died.
It became known that they discovered a virus of hostility, got infected and killed each other.
Gromozeka also discovered that they had left the virus on Earth 26000 years ago, and the virus is about to become loose.
The only chance to save the Earth is to travel 26000 years back in time - to the epoch when witches, dragons and magicians lived along with usual people.
Part 2 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODBIRsXmInk&feature=related
Part 3 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-ZXDUhb8I&feature=related
Part 4 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1q0UlfMglk&feature=related
Part 5 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFWw0KJeITM&feature=related
Part 6 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPopVkQRJ7s&feature=related
Part 7 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWfI5zLdMYw&feature=related
This is a surrealistic film with a minimalistic view with few extras.
Every scene is shot continuously to complete the paradox.
The emotions are very strong and you have to be concentrated otherwise you will get lost in this fantastic world of Armelle.
She is one of three sisters (Bérénice and Roxane are the others).
She can't escape from the visual world she lives after her boyfriend's death.
Her two sisters cannot help her at all.
Although they both have men, we never see them, and the only time the other two sisters are on screen they complete a circle with Armelle, that no-one else enters.
After the advice of one to invite a medium she will meet a guy who looks like her dead man.
There starts a supernatural game between Armelle's mind and reality.
This obscure movie comes from Belgium and director Rob Van Eyck.
With no dialogues at all, it is almost a weird experience watching that flick.
Placed on a barbaric world, a guy who is not able to speak or write because he was living in a shelter after a nuclear war for many years, tries to survive alone.
He will meet a young woman after a difficult situation and together they will try to escape from madness and violence.
Between sexploitation and gore this film is a post-apocalyptic thriller hidden for many years.
Unfortunately there are not many people on the lookout for this film and that's mainly either because they don't know it exists or because the reputation of writer/director.
What could happened if intruders attack into our dreams and change our decisions?
This superb quiz comes out from director Christopher Nolan.
In an environment where secret agents can enter the human mind through dream invasion, there is only one opportunity for a thief to take back his life.
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.This is the first and short film of great Alejandro Jodorowsky!
What can you say about a ninja named Gordon and his fatal opponent Ivan the Red?
Something wrong happens here when you see that every ninja looks like a white american.
The story is about the conflict between Gordon and Ivan, when the second one starts killing every ninja till Gordon accepts his challenge.
Highlights included the fantastic Ninja headbands (all ninjas need a headband that announces their ninja status), the ninja shell suits and the urban cameo ninja.
Actually there is another movie with Billy, Gordon's student (is he really a ninja?)
fighting a gang who killed his mother and his friends.
I think this film would be best viewed while drunk.
What is the relationship between a hard rock band and a bunch of zombies?
When the band is being invited by a strange family to spend the week at a weird small city, the members will face death...and they will rise again through a song that can bring life back to everything.
Hilarious and bizarre, this low budget film will be something you will want to forget soon!
What can be the relationship between Orsini, an ingenious impostor and Jacob van Oppen, an famous but old wrestler?
Travelling around South America and organizing fake wresting matches.
When they will arrive in Santa Maria, Orsini will get in trouble with a young woman who wants the price of the wrestling match for her family and she will lead her fiance to have a fight with Jacob.
A simple plot leads to a great movie.
It was Uruguay's official submission to 82nd Academy Award's Foreign Language in 2010
