W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (Serbo-Croatian: W.R. - Misterije organizma, W.R. - Мистерије организма) is a 1971 film by Yugoslav director Dušan Makavejev that explores the relationship between communist politics and sexuality, as well as exploring the life and work of Wilhelm Reich.
Read this after watching the film, otherwise it's be a spoiler! (Text bellow is taken from wikipedia and it explains some of the ideas in the film)
The film intercuts documentary footage with, predominantly, a narrative about a Yugoslav woman who seduces a Soviet ice skater. Despite different settings, characters and time periods, the different elements produce a single story of human sexuality and revolution through a montage effect.
The main elements juxtaposed throughout the film are:
Milena is a metaphor for the Yugoslavian working class's struggle for liberation against the totalising influence of the communist state. Milena is killed when her sexual encounter with Vladimir Illych (a reference to Lenin and the representative of communism) goes awry. He, unable to fully experience his orgasmic urge, beheads her with his skate which is the film's metaphor for revolutionary theory. Makavejev dooms self-determination of the Yugslav people, and the struggle of people worldwide for true freedom, to the fate of being totalised by state communism, and the quest for sexual freedom.
The song that Vladimir sings in Russian after Milena's murder at the end of the movie is called "François Villon's Prayer" by Bulat Okudzhava.
The Incal is a science fiction comic book meta-series written in French by Alejandro Jodorowsky and illustrated by Moebius and others. The Incal takes place in, and introduced Jodorowsky's "Jodoverse", a fictional universe in which his science fiction comics take place.
The Incal (These 12 volumes were adapted for american readers, that means that colours are not original (bubble gum colours) any more but it still is good peace)
La Montaña Sagrada (The Holy Mountain, reissued as The Sacred Mountain) is a 1973 cult film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky who also participated as actor, composer, set designer, and costume designer. The film was produced by The Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO after Jodorowsky scored an underground phenomenon with El Topo and the acclaim of both John Lennon and George Harrison (Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money). It was shown at various international film festivals in 1973, including Cannes,[1] and limited screenings in New York and San Francisco.
El Topo (The Mole) is a 1970 Spanish language allegorical, cult western movie and underground film, directed by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky. Characterized by its bizarre characters and occurrences, use of maimed and dwarf performers, and heavy doses of Christian symbolism and Eastern philosophy, the film is about the eponymous character - a violent, black-clad gunfighter - and his quest for enlightenment.
Two men and a woman happen to meet in a bar. We learn from their conversations both the intriguing and banal details of their lives. But is anyone really telling the truth? From the meat market, to the president's drinking habit or the soviet cloning project, this allegory opposes different aspects of contemporary Russian society.
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Generation P is the first feature-length screen adaptation of the eponymous novel by the Russian author Victor Pelevin. Work on the film begun at the end of 2006, and it was released in Russian cinemas on April 14, 2011. Like the novel, the film has a complex structure and many intertwined storylines. During work on the film, the plot was subjected to a major reworking: in contrast to the novel, the story of which ends at the end of the 1990s, the film is brought into the present day and even extended slightly into the future. The film is also in many respects built on hallucinations, including a speech by Che Guevara concerning how and why television is destroying humankind.
The film follows Vavilen Tatarsky as he struggles to work and adapt to life in Moscow in the newly independent Russia. Vavilen is a very skilled writer of advertisements, and so he begins working in an advertising agency which promotes Western brands, adapting their advertising campaigns to the "Russian mentality."
Despite having already read the book and knowing fully well what was coming, I was still shocked. Confessions is a disturbing film, a morbid film and what happens is mind-blowing. It is disheartening, scary even, to see middle school students who are close to demented, with no heartfelt mercy or sympathy, who can kill freely for baffling reasons. At the same time, the adult characters are just as heartless. The teacher, Yuko Moriguchi (played by Takako Matsu) is intimidating – her only purpose in life after the death of her daughter is revenge; far from the typical adult mentor and role model that we are so used to seeing.
But the reason why I gave a higher rating to the film than the novel was because the director, Testuya Nakashima, did a marvelous job at taking a mediocre book with stagnant flow and transforming it into an intelligently crafted suspenseful film that maintains realism and proper flow. The 'blue' look (most obvious in the classroom scenes) and the ominous, monotonous soundtrack just adds to the film's darkness. Though the initial confession by Ms. Moriguchi is rather long winded, the rest of the film will consistently confuse, startle and even upset audiences. You will see children involved in relentless bullying and even cold-blooded murder – the middle school students' performances are astonishingly convincing. By the end of the film, you may feel cheated at such a disgusting and horrifying ending. You will be astounded and maybe even depressed at mankind's depravity – if that was the intention of both the author and director, they succeeded in playing a cruel joke on us all.
Kirikou and the Sorceress (French: Kirikou et la sorcière) is a 1998 Franco-Belgian animated film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. Drawn directly from West African folk tales,[2] it tells of how a newborn boy saves his village by ridding them of the evil witch Karaba. It was so successful that it was followed by a midquel,Kirikou et les bêtes sauvages, released in 2005, and adapted into a stage musical, Kirikou et Karaba, first performed in 2007.
The Man from Earth is a 2007 science fiction film written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Richard Schenkman. The film stars David Lee Smith as John Oldman, the protagonist of the story. The screenplay for this movie was conceived by Jerome Bixby in the early 1960s and was completed on his death bed in April 1998, making it his final piece of work. The movie gained recognition in part for being widely distributed through Internet peer-to-peer networks and its producer publicly thanked users of these networks for this.
The plot focuses on John Oldman, a departing teacher who claims to be a Cro-Magnon (or Magdalenian caveman) who has somehow survived for over 14,000 years. The only setting is in and around Oldman's house during his farewell party, with the plot advancing through intellectual arguments between Oldman and his fellow faculty.
Noriko's Dinner Table(紀子の食卓Noriko no Shokutaku?), is the sequel to the cult filmSuicide Club (Jisatsu Sākuru), a Japanese film concerning a mass suicide of 54 schoolgirls and how it leads the law to a shadowy cult. It won the Don Quixote award at the 40th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic and a special mention. The movie was written and directed by Sion Sono. This film deals with various themes such as the generation gap on modern families, the nature of happiness, suicide, the lack of real communication, the alienation it causes and how the Internet is used in an attempt to mend it, and the concept of family. It takes place before, during, and after the first film, in hopes of explaining some of the lingering mysteries that film left behind. The film was released theatrically in Japan on September 23, 2006.
Suicide Club, known in Japan as Suicide Circle(自殺サークルJisatsu Sākuru?) is a 2002 Japanese independenthorror film that gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its controversial subject matter and gory presentation, and has since developed a significant cult following. It won the Jury Prize for "Most Ground-Breaking Film" at the Fantasia Film Festival. The movie was written and directed by Sion Sono. It deals with a wave of seemingly unconnected suicides that strikes Japan and the efforts of the police to determine the reasons behind the strange behavior.
Aachi & Ssipak is a 2006animatedSouth Korean film, directed by Jo Beom-jin and featuring the voices of Ryoo Seung-beom, Lim Chang-jung, and Hyeon Yeong. It screened at the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival."Ssipak" is pronounced like "she pahk"
Sometime in the future, mankind has depleted all energy and fuel sources, however they have somehow engineered a way to use human excrement as fuel. To reward production, the government hands out extremely addictive, popsicle-like "Juicybars", which in turn also act as a laxative. Aachi and Ssipak are street hoodlums who struggle to survive by trading black market Juicybars. Through a chain of events involving their porn-director acquaintance Jimmy the Freak, they meet wannabe-actress Beautiful, whose defecations are rewarded by exceptional quantities of Juicybars. For that reason, Beautiful is also wanted by the violent blue mutants known as the Diaper Gang (led by the Diaper King), the police (most notably the cyborg police officer Geko), and others.
Dead Leaves(デッド リーブスDeddo Rībusu?) is a 2004 Japanese anime film produced by animation studio Production I.G. It was distributed in Japan by Shochiku, in North America, Canada and the UK by Manga Entertainment, and in Australia and New Zealand by Madman Entertainment. It is directed byHiroyuki Imaishi. It is notable for its fast pace and energetic visual style.
Downtown 81 (a.k.a New York Beat Movie) is a fictional film that was shot in 1980-1981.
This film, directed by Edo Bertoglio, written and produced by Glenn O'Brien with post-production in 1999-2000 by Maripol, is a rare real-life snapshot of ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan. Starring renowned artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and featuring such early Village artists as James Chance, Amos Poe, Walter Steding, and Tav Falco, the film is a bizarre elliptical urban fairytale. In 1999, Michael Zilkha, founder of ZE records (the label of several of the film's artists), became the film's Executive Producer.