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Blues

2009

GAZE

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In the vein of Raymond Carver, this abstract monologue captures the hidden truth behind our personas. What happens when you “see” a person for the first time? No walls up, a real face emerges.

5.5

Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers

1994

Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title: ten monologues adapted from various fiction and documentary sources which combine to produce an unsettling work that does not pretend to analyse nor to understand the serial killers.

8.0

Trainspotting

1996

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind as Begbie and Sick Boy come knocking.

2.0

Requiem for My Father

2014

Through the maze of a nightmare, a young man faces his father. His trauma springs from the darkness and he gradually exorcises his bitterness.

7.0

Jump

2021

Abandoned by his parents, a boy takes care of his younger brother Mattie as they fend for themselves in a council house in Sheffield. When the authorities come to take Mattie away, a desperation to retain control forces the boy to take Mattie and go on the run.

6.4

Gray's Anatomy

1996

The film documents, in an often dramatic and humorous fashion, Gray's investigations into alternative medicine for an eye condition (Macular pucker) he had developed.

5.9

The Libertine

2004

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

7.5

My Dinner with Andre

1981

Two old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews.

6.8

Nothing Funny

1996

One day, hospital orderlies, watching corpse in the morgue, recognize film director. Man, even though he died, he begins to remember his life. He made a career making movies, had numerous mistresses, but never realized their dreams. His life was interspersed with many setbacks that enfeebled him from the inside. Although he made a career in film, he was not happy with his life.

6.5

Cremaster 3

2002

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...

0.0

Doktor Glas

1989

A one man show based on Hjalmar Söderberg's book about Doctor Glas and his dilemma with his patient.

0.0

U Bent Mijn Moeder

1984

A theatre monologue in which a son visits his mother who suffers from Alzheimer's. While the son is talking to his mother's empty bed, the actor dresses up like her and has a conversation with the son. This play was remade as a regular feature film as Hersenschimmen (“ Mindshadows”), in 1988.

0.0

Menahan

2023

Pocho Huerta is an unemployed stuntman waiting for his students to come to class, until he realizes that no one will come because he forgot to promote it. This leads him to wonder about his life, death, and overall purpose.

8.0

Omero non piange mai

2023

Andrea Pennacchi questions whether it is still possible to restore the Homeric poems in all their power and tries in his own way, starting with the literal text and then enriching the narrative with reflections, memories, insights and fantasies.

0.0

Basilisk Stare

2005

A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia.

9.0

L’Ultimatum

2024

In a small apartment, a couple spends a tense evening. Arguments are frequent, but that evening, the situation reaches a climax. During a violent altercation, Sophie, exasperated, speaks to express everything that goes through her head to her boyfriend Marc. Her monologue marks a turning point in their relationship and in her daily struggle as a woman.

0.0

Rattlesnake in a Cooler

1982

A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down.

5.3

Soliloquy

1967

Featuring Joan Adler (who also appears in Chinese Checkers), Soliloquy is one of the four early Stephen Dwoskin films that were awarded the Solvey prize at the EXPRMNTL festival in Knokke, Belgium in 1967. “In Soliloquy a girl broods uncertainly over a failed love affair, while the camera roves over her fingers, her cigarette, her knuckles, her lips and the hand mirror in which she peers. In its dark reflection one isolated eye seems a dead thing, twitching; the split between her body and her spoken thoughts becomes a strange bilocation of consciousness; towards the end, an aeroplane drones overhead” (Raymond Durgnat)

0.0

Zero

2014

A late adolescent outsider tells his story while wandering through his city. Zero is the chronicles of a soul dissolved in poetry and existential limbo of nostalgia.

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U Bent Mijn Moeder

Menahan

Omero non piange mai

Basilisk Stare

L’Ultimatum

Rattlesnake in a Cooler

Soliloquy

Zero