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Kustom Kar Kommandos by Kenneth Anger (1965)
Kustom Kar Kommandos is a short movie by underground cult director Kenneth Anger(Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Scorpio Rising, Invocation of my Demon Brother, Lucifer Rising). His intricate dreamscapes that combine Thelema magic with homoeroticism and fetishism are even today deeply hypnotic and seductive. Kenneth Anger was friends with pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey (of Kinsey…
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Upside Down (2012)
Upside Down is a fantasy-romance film written and directed by Juan Diego Solanas. Starring Jim Sturgess and Kirsten Dunst, the film is about a man searching an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth. Adam (Sturgess) is an ordinary guy in an extraordinary universe. He lives humbly trying to make ends meet, but his romantic spirit holds on to the memory…
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Moon 2009
Sam Bell is nearing the end of a three-year work contract at Lunar Industries’ largely automated “Sarang” lunar base, where he is the sole resident. Sam oversees automated harvesters and launches canisters bound for Earth containing the helium-3 they extract. Chronic communication problems limit him to occasional recorded messages with his wife Tess, who was pregnant with…
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Los cronocrímenes (2007)
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
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De Noorderlingen (1992)
De Noorderlingen (The Northeners) is a 1992 surreal black comedy by dutch director Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of the excentric inhabitants from a ’60’s unfinished real estate development (a town with only one street). A curious postman nosing in people’s correspondence (played by the director himself), a butcher with a huge libido…
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Shivers by David Cronenberg (Canada 1975)
This is the SHIVERS poster by Zlatko Parmakovski (ex-NMP art collective) for the Мракфест or Darkfest (‘dark’ = ‘mrak’ in Macedonian). I think it does more for the movie than the original posters. Shivers is the second movie of Canadian-born new flesh director David Cronenberg. Really enjoyed to put the Canadian labelling, even if I…
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Terminator I by Randall Frakes & W.H. Wisher(Romanian translation from 1994,editura Elit Comentator Bucharest)
I got this book from our friend at toate.org from a fleamarket raid ending with a few other classix such as The Sphere. This was the book the movie was based on. There are several reasons why I started reading it. First, because it introduced the cyborg as a pop phenomenon into the US. Particularly…
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CHICUSURI – a Romanian documentary by Corneliu Cîrdeiu
https://vimeo.com/31722320 CHICUSURI watch on Vimeo This is a short documentary after an original idea by Liviu Petrescul, directed by Corneliu Cîrdeiu. It is under CC licence on Vimeo and got to me via Bogdan Otaku via Dermot. Sincerely I cherish the moments when I get to blog about some local stuff, not that we have…