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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Moolaade [2004]
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. L'Ennui [2000]
Release Date: 2001-04-16, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. No End [1984]
Release Date: 2003-11-24, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Suzhou River [2000]
A film from China directed by Lou Ye, <I>Suzhou River</I> is a story of doomed romantic love very different from the social realism of many contemporary Chinese films. Set in modern Shanghai, it's about Mardar, a motorcycle courier who gets involved with Moudan, the daughter of a businessman. When she learns he's implicated in a scheme to kidnap her, she jumps off a bridge into the river. Devastated, Mardar refuses to believe Moudan has drowned and eventually thinks he's found her, now performing a mermaid act in a sleazy bar. But the narrator of the story tells him she's Meimei, another woman. Which of them is right? The story has strong echoes of the Hitchcock classic <I>Vertigo</I>, in which James Stewart searches for his lost love. Stylishly shot, teasingly told, this is an intriguing film with a melancholy ending, though Zhou Xun, who plays both female parts, doesn't quite have the charisma of <I>Vertigo</I>'s Kim Novak. --<I>Ed Buscombe</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Kings And Queen [2004]
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Camera Buff [1979]
Release Date: 2003-12-08, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train [1998]
<I>Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train</I> marks a change of genre and setting after Patrice Chéreau's last film, the lurid and sweeping historical drama <I>La Reine Margot</I> (1994). But here too he gives us a story of familial violence and emotional extremes. The train-takers in this classy French drama of extended family relations are the friends, relatives and ex-lovers (of both genders) of the deceased Jean-Baptiste (Jean-Louis Trintignant plays both the dead painter and his brother), a depressive Parisian painter, fond of Francis Bacon, and a conduit, he sometimes thinks, for the voice of Satan. The first section gets good mileage from putting contrasting and sometimes squabbling people in a confined space to see what happens. Mostly they out themselves as troubled types (there are problems with drugs, illness, failing and new relationships), because they're like that anyway, and because their dealings with the exploitative old painter haven't helped. Like most dramas of family life in times of crisis, especially the French ones, it's a pageant of dysfunction, maybe given a touch more colour by the bohemian setting.<p> As the film continues, the cast swells to include other relatives and friends who arrive at the funeral at Limoges. The film partly resembles <I>Festen</I>, in that a familial get-together occasions the unveiling of secrets and lies. But compared to <I>Festen</I>, the revelations are less shocking, if only because the ramparts of respectability are very shaky from the word go. Chéreau's visual style has its handheld moments (though it's never as austere as <I>Festen</I>), but there's a classical rhythm to the revelations, some of which emerge in powerful set pieces. The bust-ups feel necessary, and they usher in a more upbeat ending, of which the transsexual Viviane (Vincent Perez) is the guardian angel. Viviane seems to stand for the possibility of leading a more authentic and inventive life. --<I>Peter Swaab</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. La Ville Est Tranquille [2001]
Release Date: 2002-04-22, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Barbarian Invasions [2004]
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Noi Albinoi [2002]
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Minor Mishaps [2002]
Release Date: 2003-03-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Dolls [2003]
<I>Dolls</I> is a film of extraordinary beauty and tenderness from a filmmaker chiefly associated with grave mayhem and deadpan humor. That is to say, this is not one more Takeshi Kitano movie focused on stoical cops or gangsters. The title refers most directly, but not exclusively, to the theatrical tradition of Bunraku, enacted by half-life-size dolls and their visible but shrouded onstage manipulators. Such a performance--a drama of doomed lovers--occupies the first five minutes of the film, striking a keynote that resonates as flesh-and-blood characters take up the action.<p> The film-proper is dominated by the all-but-wordless odyssey of a susceptible yuppie and the jilted fiancée driven mad by his desertion to marry the boss's daughter. Bound by a blood-red cord, they move hypnotically through a landscape variously urban and natural, stylized only by the breathtaking purity of light, angle, color, and formal movement imposed by Kitano's compositional eye and rigorous, fragmentary editing. Along the way we also pick up the story of an elderly gangster, haunted by memories of the lover he deserted three decades earlier and generations of brothers for whose deaths he was, in the accepted order of things, responsible. Another strand is added to the imagistic weave via a doll-like pop singer and a groupie blinded by devotion to her.<p> This is a film in which character, morality, metaphysics, and destiny are all expressed through visual rhyme and startling adjustments of perspective. It sounds abstract--and it is--but it's also heartbreaking and thrilling to behold. Kitano isn't in it, but as an artist he's all over it. His finest film, and for all its exoticism, his most accessible. <I>--Richard T. Jameson</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Zatoichi (2 disc Collector's Edition) [2003]
Release Date: 2005-01-24, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Monday Morning [2002]
Release Date: 2003-04-28, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Japon [2002]
Release Date: 2003-07-28, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Time Out [2001]
<I>Time Out</I>, which won the Lion of the Year at Venice in 2000, is a midlife crisis film with a difference. Vincent is an out-of-work consultant who fabricates an increasingly complex and unsustainable business life to give his wife and children a secure existence. In the process, old friends are caught up in shady investments and Geneva becomes the focal point of his fugitive career. Then, as the net closes, the eternally routine nature of Vincent's professional life returns to haunt him anew. <p> Aurélien Récoing is persuasively understated in the lead role, conveying a myriad of emotions with his subtle facial gestures. Karin Viard is sympathetic as the trusting Muriel, ready to offer support even when the web of lies has all but unravelled, and there's an engaging contribution from Serge Livrozet--the adept black marketeer sincere in his willingness to help. <p> Laurent Cantet's direction is a fine example of less is more, sustaining the film with relative ease over 129 minutes. Pierre Milon's camerawork makes the most of some stunning scenery on the Franco-Swiss border and Jocelyn Pook's spare but brooding score is a discreetly effective enhancement. As the closing scene ties up loose ends with a neatly barbed irony, you're left in little doubt that Vincent's problems are about to start again. --<I>Richard Whitehouse</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. An Angel At My Table [1990]
Originally produced as a three-part miniseries for New Zealand television, this extraordinary film is based on the life of Janet Frame, an introverted, sensitive girl who was later misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and spent eight years in a psychiatric hospital. She would later become one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets and novelists, publishing her first books while she was still confined to a mental ward. She had endured over 200 electroshock treatments and had almost been lobotomized by careless physicians who took no time to understand that she was merely awkward and shy and suffered from little more than routine depression. From a solid screenplayby Laura Jones, director Jane Campion (<I>The Piano</I>) tells this story without soapy melodrama but rather as anexploration of a challenged creative spirit--a journey into a writer's mind, exploring the power of imagination as a mechanism of survival and self-defense. Three talented actors play Janet Frame at different ages throughout the film, with Kerry Fox giving a powerful performance as the young-adult Janet, whose own skill and creative tenacity would prove to be her salvation. Frightening, harrowing and ultimately a source of humanistic enlightenment, <I>An Angel at My Table</I> (titled after Frame's autobiography) is a film you won't soon forget.<I>--Jeff Shannon</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Welcome To The Dollhouse [1995]
Release Date: 2005-09-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. I'm Going Home [2002]
Release Date: 2002-11-18, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Russian Ark [2003]
Russian master Alexander Sokurov has tapped into the very flow of history itself for the flabbergasting <I>Russian Ark</I>. Thanks to the miracles of digital video, Sokurov (and cinematographer Tilman Buttner) uses a single, unbroken, 90-minute shot to wind his way through the Hermitage in St Petersburg--the repository of Russian art and the former home to royalty. Gliding through time, we glimpse Catherine II, modern-day museumgoers, and the doomed family of Nicholas II. History collapses on itself, as the opulence of the past and the horrors of the 20th century collide, and each door that opens onto yet another breathtaking gallery is another century to be heard from. The movie climaxes with a grand ball and thousands of extras, prompting thoughts of just how crazy Sokurov had to be to try a technical challenge like this--and how far a distance we've travelled, both physically and spiritually, since the movie began. --<I>Robert Horton</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Van Gogh [1991]
Release Date: 2005-09-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Le Chignon D'Olga [2003]
Release Date: 2004-03-29, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Koktebel [2003]
Release Date: 2005-05-23, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Sex Is Comedy [2003]
Release Date: 2003-12-08, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Platform [2000]
Release Date: 2003-02-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Va Savoir [2002]
Release Date: 2002-06-24, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Floating Weeds [1959]
Release Date: 2004-01-26, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Good Morning, Night [2003]
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Zatoichi [2004]
Takeshi Beat Kitano, the Japanese actor-director best known in the US for his quirky, ulraviolent gangster movies (<I>Fireworks</I>, <I>Brother</I>, <I>Sonatine</I>) and in the UK (among satellite and cable viewers, at least) for the bizarre <I>It's a Knockout</I>-meets-<I >Endurance</I> gameshow Takeshi's Castle, applies his off-kilter sensibility to the samurai genre in <I>The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi</I>. A blind masseur (Kitano with his hair dyed white) wanders into a small town divided up by rival gangs. Though hunched and shuffling, Zatoichi soon reveals his deadly skills as a swordsman. He befriends a pair of geisha girls with secrets of their own and helps them hunt down the bandits who killed their parents. But one of the gangs has just hired a ronin, a masterless samurai, whose fighting skill may equal the blind swordsman's. <p> <I>Zatoichi</I> mixes a melodramatic storyline, deadpan comedy, and dazzling, CGI-enhanced swordfights into a supremely entertaining package. In Japan, Zatoichi is a recurring character in popular action movies, but Kitano places his own unique stamp on the series. <I>--Bret Fetzer</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Farewell [2001]
Release Date: 2001-12-26, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. A Tale Of Springtime [1989]
Release Date: 2005-10-24, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Waiting For Happiness [2003]
Release Date: 2004-03-29, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Heimat 3 - A Chronicle Of Endings And Beginnings
Release Date: 2005-12-05, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Father And Son
Release Date: 2004-12-06, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Machuca [2004]
Release Date: 2005-10-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 1-5 [1988]
A terrible idea, of course, was Krzysztof Kieœlowski's first reaction when his co-scriptwriter, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, first suggested the idea for <I>Dekalog</I>--a series of 10 one-hour films, each inspired by one of the Ten Commandments. But from this unpromising beginning came an edgy, unsettling <I>tour de force</I>, the culmination of Kieœlowski's work in his native Poland and, quite possibly, the last cinematic masterpiece to come out of Communist Eastern Europe. <p> The full <I>Dekalog</I> consists of ten one-hour films: this pair of double discs contains the first five. The links to the specific commandments are often oblique and imprecise, and shouldn't be taken too literally. Kieœlowski is using this framework not as a direct exposition of Mosaic Law, nor even as a commentary on its relevance today, but rather as a series of meditations on the complexity of moral choices. All the films are set in the same drab high-rise Warsaw housing estate, and characters from one story will show up the background of others, passing across the frame as they go about their business. One young man who appears in nearly all the films never plays a leading role nor even speaks a line, but remains a watchful, melancholy presence, haunting and disquieting, gazing at the events unfolding around him like an uneasy conscience. <p> Grim though these stories are, there's often a note of ironic humour leavening the overall bleakness. But this set ends with one of the grimmest of all. In <I>Dekalog 5</I> a young man murders a taxi driver for no apparent reason, then is executed himself. Both deaths are equally squalid and appalling. This episode was later expanded to feature-film length with the title <I>A Short Film About Killing</I>. The greater length enhanced its impact; it's a pity that room wasn't found for that longer version here. <p> <B>On the DVDs:</B> <I>Dekalog, Parts 1-5</I> offers very little additional material. The second disc, which contains episodes 4 and 5, also includes a brief on-screen text biography and filmography for Kieœlowski. The films are shown in their original 4:3 ratio, in a crisp clean transfer. --<I>Philip Kemp</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Pickpocket [1959]
Release Date: 2005-04-25, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Secret Ballot [2002]
Release Date: 2003-02-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Scar [1976]
Release Date: 2003-10-27, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Captive [2001]
Chantal Akerman's <I>La Captive</I> is a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust's <I>La Prisonniere</I>, the Proustian elements are often largely submerged. Yet as a study in obsession it is balanced somewhere between <I>Death in Venice</I> and <I>Vertigo</I>. A chase through the streets of--an apparently timeless but actually contemporary--Paris, this is a picture of inexplicable obsession, moved along by fragments of whispered dialogue and a glimpse of bizarre daily ritual. With much of the story framed within the odd anti-hero Simon's grandiose apartment (which he appropriately shares with an ailing, rarely glimpsed grandmother), the film cleverly avoids suffocating its viewers by giving odd gasps of breath from the cheeky, light encounters between his girlfriend Ariane and the beautiful Andree--friends, or possibly sometime lovers. As a portrait of a relationship, <I>La Captive</I> will keep its viewers absorbed with its elegant tone and its intriguing and inexplicable story; but it might just as easily frustrate with its unresolved twists and turns.--<I>Tricia Tuttle</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Land And Freedom [1995]
Release Date: 2005-03-21, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Merci pour le Chocolat [2001]
Claude Chabrol's nervy and nasty little 2001 thriller <I>Merci Pour le Chocolat</I> is based on Charlotte Armstrong's novel <I>The Chocolate Cobweb</I>. In Chabrol's hands it becomes a vehicle of considerable power for the unsettling, disturbed qualities of actress Isabelle Huppert, who has been one of his most important muses over the years (their other collaborations include <I>La Cérémonie</I> and <I>Rien ne va Plus</I>). Huppert plays Mika, the owner of a Swiss chocolate factory, now married to a world-class concert pianist (Jacques Dutronc) and with a stepson who is obsessive about making the family's drinking chocolate every day. As the clues unravel, it soon becomes clear that Mika is damaged goods. When Dutronc acquires a piano student (Anna Mougalis) in curious circumstances, Mika is forced to escalate her secret agenda. Huppert is fascinating throughout and the film is sinewy and, for the most part, rather clever, evoking shades of Hitchcock and Clouzot. Liszt's <I>Les Funérailles</I> is the ominous leitmotif, worked on by Dutronc and his protégé, and the Lausanne setting creates an other-worldliness which seems almost sterile. Only at the end does the picture dwindle into an almost Strindbergian inertia as Mika's motivation seems to evaporate in a rather unsatisfactory way. Until then it is spellbinding. --<I>Piers Ford</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Unknown Pleasures Xiao Wu [2000]
Release Date: 2004-02-23, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The End Of Summer [1961]
Release Date: 2004-01-26, Rating Universal, suitable for all,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Water Drops On Burning Rocks [2000]
Release Date: 2001-03-19, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Apple [1998]
Release Date: 2004-08-23, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Werckmeister Harmonies Damnation [2003]
Release Date: 2004-02-23, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Roberto Succo [2002]
Release Date: 2002-10-28, Rating Suitable for 18 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Eureka [2001]
Release Date: 2002-04-22, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. At The Height Of Summer [2001]
<I>At the Height of Summer</I> is a film by Vietnam's most prominent director, Tran Anh Hung. It's the story of three sisters in present-day Hanoi: the youngest is just discovering sexuality, the middle one is about to have a baby but suspects her husband is having an affair, and the oldest discovers her husband has a child by a woman who lives in the country. In the course of preparing an elaborate meal on the anniversary of their mother's death, the three women discuss their lives and problems.<p> This is a film of great beauty and sensitivity, immaculately shot and owing nothing to stereotyped Western images of Vietnam. The radiant Tran Nu Yen Khe, star of Tran's first two films, <I>The Scent of Green Papaya</I> and <I>Cyclo</I> offers another great performance. One of the director's trademarks is a virtual obsession with food and its preparation. If you aren't hungry when you start this film, you will be at the end. --<I>Ed Buscombe</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Life Of Oharu [1952]
Mizoguchi reckoned <I>The Life of Oharu</I> was his masterpiece, and who are we to disagree? Certainly it's among his most perfectly structured films, in which anger at the treatment of women in Japanese society is balanced by the director's flawless sense of period, and by expert pacing and visual composition. The story is set in the 17th century, when Japan had settled into a rigidly hierarchical society. Kinuyo Tanaka, in perhaps the finest role of her career, plays Oharu, a highborn woman of the Imperial court. Disgraced when she falls in love with a man of a lower class (Toshiro Mifune, in his only film for Mizoguchi), she's made the mistress of a feudal lord. After bearing him a son she's cast out, and gradually sinks into prostitution and penury. The inevitability of Oharu's fate is tempered by her resilience of spirit--and by the compassion of Mizoguchi's gaze. Although the story is set in the past, he fully intends parallels with modern-day Japan; just after completing the film, he told an interviewer, Comparing today with [earlier] periods, I don't find much difference: women have always been treated like slaves. <I>The Life of Oharu</I> was shown at the 1952 Venice Festival, where it was awarded the Golden Lion. It brought Mizoguchi a belated international fame just four years before his death, and initiated the run of late masterpieces that rounded off his career. --<I>Philip Kemp</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Red Lights [2004]
Release Date: 2005-01-24, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Taste Of Cherry 10 On Ten [1997]
Release Date: 2005-05-23, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Kiss Of Life [2004]
Release Date: 2004-06-28, Rating Suitable for 12 years and over,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Fanny And Alexander [1982]
<I>Fanny and Alexander</I> is one of the more upbeat and accessible films from Ingmar Bergman. This autobiographical story follows the lives of two children during one tumultuous year. After the death of the children's beloved father, a local theatre owner, their mother marries a strict clergyman. Their new life is cold and ascetic, especially when compared to the unfettered and impassioned life they knew with their father. Most of the story is seen through the eyes of the little boy and is often told in dreamlike sequences. Colourful, insightful, and optimistic, this is far less grim than most of Bergman's work. It was awarded four of the six Oscars for which it was nominated in 1984, including Best Foreign Language Film. Though this was announced as his last film, Bergman continued to work into the late 1990s, though mostly for Swedish television.--<I>Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Blackboards [2000]
<I>Blackboards</I> is an unusual film. First, it's from Iran; second it's directed by a woman, Samira Makhmalbaf; third, she's only 22. Set near the border with Iraq, the film follows a group of itinerant teachers who wander the countryside looking for students, carrying their blackboards with them. At various points a blackboard comes in useful as cover from gunfire, as a stretcher, and, chopped up, as a splint. Though the film is full of social observation, it functions mainly as allegory. Despite the eagerness of the wandering teachers to impart knowledge, their efforts are largely in vain, and though the film has moments of humour its tone is ultimately rather pessimistic. The director is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, himself a noted Iranian director who wrote Samira's earlier film <I>The Apple</I>, a deceptively simple story of two girls who are kept for years in seclusion before social workers order their release. <I>Blackboards</I> is a more elusive film and won't be everyone's cup of tea, but it's thought provoking, often moving and full of insights into an unfamiliar world. --<I>Edward Buscombe</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. The Day I Became A Woman [2000]
<I>The Day I Became a Women</I> continues the upsurge, following years of cultural control, of vital films to have come out of Iran (remember 1999's <I>Blackboards</I> ?). Marziyeh Meshkini's poignant and uninhibited feature packs a great deal into its 74 minutes: the arrival of nine-year-old Hava at the brink of puberty and the consequent loss of her childhood; the frustrated determination of Ahoo to take part in a cycle race against her family's wishes (some breathtaking camerawork here); and the pleasure of an ageing widow, amassing the material possessions long denied her as she creates the perfect home for her final years. Together, these stories present a three-stage study of the position of women in Eastern societies, facing up to often harsh realities with not a little courage. <p> The contrasts between the unyielding landscape and expansive coastal scenery--much more a presence than a mere backdrop--is tellingly caught, and reproduces well in the widescreen format. At a time when the debate over the standardisation of cinema is again in full swing, Meshkini shows how social restrictions can be channelled into filmmaking of emotional power and artistic vision. --<I>Richard Whitehouse</I>
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Orlando [1992]
Release Date: 2003-05-26, Rating Parental Guidance,
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. A Winter's Tale [1992]
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Keys To The House [2004]
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. La Nina Santa [2004]
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Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd. Dekalog - The Ten Commandments - Parts 6-10 [1988]
The double-disc set <I>Dekalog, Parts 6-10</I>, contains the last five of Kieslowski's 10 one-hour modern morality tales, each one loosely linked to one of the 10 Commandments. All set in and around the same drab, high-rise Warsaw housing estate, they intriguingly explore moral dilemmas without ever coming to any glib conclusions. As always, Kieslowski is far more interested in posing questions than in supplying answers. The series was originally made for Polish television, and has since been shown on TV stations all round the world, though never in the cinema. While they can easily be watched separately, being individual stories, there's no question that they gain in impact from being taken in conjunction with each other. <p> Kieslowski used a different cinematographer for each film (except Nos. 3 and 9, both photographed by Piotr So |
