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SAFE (1995 Todd Haynes)
Full movie A first rate toxicological, socio-medical thriller. Lately, I’ve seen many quotes from this underrated masterpiece of the 90s. It’s really the dark side of Californian ideology, that peculiar blend of utopianism, high entrepreneurship and libertarianism. During the years of dotcom boom, of Fast Company and Mondo we see the rise of a new…
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Post Tenebras Lux
A few years ago I wanted to watch “Stellet Licht” by Carlos Reygadas, but while browsing through it and seeing the still and long scenes with little to almost no dialogue, made me postponed it, being afraid I would fall asleep. It’s been collecting “dust” on my hardisk ever since. History almost repeated with Post…
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Do Communists Have Better Sex?
This is an incredibly well researched mockumentary about a paradox: why was there better sexual education, more public nudity in the decidedly drab Communist East Germany vs the capitalist West where sex industry was booming. Sex historians, cultural critics and lots of unseen sexual education footage, Marxist sexology, trade union erotica, gender politics, Freie Körper…
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A Touch of Zen (1971)
I always tought there was some forgotten, misplaced post about this movie on the blog. This is a cult kung fu movie offering an Eastern, Chinese pragmatic interpretation of haunted places. And it’s not your usual B movie staple. It’s a beautiful, long winding story that drifts in and out of legend. If you didn’t…
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The Future Is Not What It Used to Be (2002)
A documentary film about Erkki Kurenniemi (b. 1941), whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art. His project of collecting everything around him will perhaps be the most significant of all his works. Kurenniemi records his thoughts, observations, objects and images constantly, with manic precision, with the…
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3 Women (1977)
In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naïve and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role model in fellow nurse “Thoroughly Modern” Millie Lammoreaux (Shelley Duvall), a misguided would-be sophisticate and hopeless devotee of Cosmopolitan and Woman’s Day magazines. When Millie…
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Sightseers
“Sightseers” by Ben Wheatley is about an odd couple, Chris and Tina, who go on a vacation across England until the story takes a very wrong turn.
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WOMB (aka Clone 2010)
What? Why? How? Reproductive technologies and the biotech revolution have rarely become sexy cinematic subjects or attractive to contemporary directors and it’s always been a mystery why. Do you consider Jurassic Park a biotech movie? Probably not. Well its rife with cloning, extracting ancient DNA, Polymerase Chain Reaction tech and depicts bio engineers as the…