Showing posts with label Experimental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Experimental. Show all posts

Friday, October 6, 2023

ENYS MEN (2022)

 


Written & Directed By: Mark Jenkin

Cast: Mary Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Flo Crowe, John Woodvine, Joe Gray

Set in 1973 on an uninhabited island off the Cornish coast, a wildlife volunteer's daily observations of a rare flower turn into a metaphysical journey that forces her as well as the viewer to question what is real and what is a nightmare.

Thursday, December 1, 2022

LISZTOMANIA (1975)

 


Written & Directed By: Ken Russell Cinematography: Peter Suschitzky Editor: Stuart Baird 


Cast: Roger Daltrey, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr, Sara Kestelman, Rick Wakeman, Fiona Lewis, John Justin, Veronica Quilligan, Nell Campbell 


Composer and pianist Franz Liszt attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner.

Thursday, September 9, 2021

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES & UNFINISHED BUSINESS: HALL OF FAME - FILE #0067 - IVANS xtc (2000)

 



Directed & Edited By: Bernard Rose Written By: Bernard Rose & Lisa Enos Based on the novel “THE DEATH OF IVAN ILYICH” By: Leo Tolstoy  Cinematography: Bernard Rose & Ron Forsythe 


Cast: Danny Huston, Peter Weller, Lisa Enos, Angela Featherstone, Valeria Golino, Joanne Duckman, James Merendino, Tiffani Amber Theissen, Heidi Jo Markel 

Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and the crown prince of La-La Land is dead. How and why did it happen? Was it drugs, murder or excess, or perhaps something altogether more mundane? We begin with an ending and then catapult back a number of days to the apex of Ivan's brilliant career as he bags international megastar Don West onto his company's books, and then charts the highs, lows (and they are so very low), and extreme excesses of his final days.

Thursday, March 4, 2021

2 OR 3 THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (1967)

 


Directed by: Jean-Luc Godard Written by Jean-Luc Godard & Catherine Vimenet  Cinematography: Raoul Coutard Editor: Francoise Collin & Chantal Delattre 


Cast: Marina Vlady, Anne Duperey, Roger Montsorat, Raoul levy, Jean Narboni 

In this film, 'Her' refers to both Paris, the character of Juliette Janson, and the actress playing her, Marina Vlady. The film is a kind of dramatised documentary, illustrating and exaggerating the emotionless lives of characters in the new Paris of the 60s, where commercialism mocks families getting by on small incomes, where prostitution is a moneyspinning option, and where people are coldly resigned and immune to the human nightmares of Vietnam, and impending Atomic war.