1.THE ANNIVERSARY GIFT (2008, Paul Agusta, Indonesia, 72 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQTu1BCQFnA
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1347052/
“A young man wakes up chained to metal chair in a room painted a sickening shade of pink and illuminated by a single blinding block of neon lights placed at his right. A razor blade hangs on a string before him, and sharp pink pencils are aimed at his left eye and stomach. He does not know where he is or why he is there. Periodically, a beautiful young woman dressed in floral summer dress enters the room and performs cruel and calculated acts of seemingly senseless torture. Who is she? Why is she doing this? What has he done to deserve this? And most importantly, will he survive?”
2.BE GOOD (SOIS SAGE) (2008, Juliette Garcias, France)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Z6yWsg0Qs
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3622/3449739799_120d1c2c7e_o.jpg
3.BORDER (2009, Harutyun Khachatryan, Armenia)
http://www.volyafilms.nl/main/films/Nakhsho.html
“Through the story of a wounded water buffalo we look at the Armenian-Azerbeidzjanian war with the eyes of the innocent. A universal tale told in a poetical way, against the backdrop of rural Armenia.”
4.THE DEAD GIRL’S FEAST (2009, Meathus Nachtergaele, Mexico)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hgxdX-jhw
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3567/3449739797_f731bbaa95.jpg
5.EXHAUSTED (2009, Kim Gok, South Korea)
http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/nl/film.aspx?ID=b1de8c5c-1bc7-41e8-b496-2d2f6a0a3c30
http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentID=99083
“Michael Hanake meets the Blair Witch Project in Kim Gok's Exhausted, a vicious kick in the pants to everyone in the audience, all in the name of "style." A man meets a mute woman, and as any reasonable person would do in such a situation, makes her his prostitute. But the pimping is the least of our problems. As we get exhausted by the grainy faux-16mm camerawork, the film gets increasingly deranged.”
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3595/3449739793_ce537399a3_o.jpg
6.FIXER: THE TAKING OF AJMAL NAQSHBANDI (2009, Ian Olds, USA, documentary)
http://www.fixerdoc.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1372256/
“In 2007, the Taliban kidnapped 24-year-old Ajmal Naqshbandi and an Italian journalist. Naqshbandi was one of Afghanistan's best "fixers" -- someone hired by foreign journalists to facilitate, translate, and gain access for their stories”
7.GULABI TALKIES (2008, Girish Kasaravalli, India, 122 min)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulabi_Talkies
“The film is set in the late 1990s among the fishing communities around Kundapura, in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka. The impulsive midwife Gulabi (Umashree) is the protagonist, whose one passion is the cinema. She leads a lonely life in an island inhabited by fisher folk. Her husband Musa (K.G. Krishna Murthy), a small-time fish-selling agent, has deserted her and is living happily with his second wife Kunjipathu and their child Adda.
A family gifts her a television with a satellite dish antenna in gratitude after she attends to a difficult delivery (for which they even had to bodily remove her from a movie theatre). The arrival of the first color TV in her small island village heralds great changes in the sleepy hamlet. The women in the village begin gathering at her house once the men leave for fishing. But a few of them stay away, since Gulabi is one of the few Muslims in the village. Yet others prefer to watch from outside her shack, without entering it.”
8.THE HIDING (2008, Fukui Shozin, Japan, 40 min)
Fukui Shozin directed RUBBER’S LOVER (1996) and 964 PINOCCHIO (1991).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0TOooBQ6uI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SHlSJIw99o
9.KISSING PARIS (2008, Anna Kannava, Australia)
I knew about this film from Bill Mousoulis’ list:
http://www.innersense.com.au/productions/writings/films08.html
http://www.stgeorgebiff.com.au/films/FilmDetails.aspx?id=1251
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332057/
“Claire suspends a safe relationship in Australia in search of the history behind her mother's secret love letters from Paris”
10.WE WANT ROSES TOO (2007, Alina Marazzi, Italy, documentary, 85 min)
I knew about this film from Adrian Martin’s comment in Girish’s blog:
http://www.girishshambu.com/blog/2009/01/favorite-cinema-discoveries-in-08.html#comments
http://www.vogliamoanchelerose.it/index_en.php
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3352/3449739803_014b722aca_b.jpg
B. RETROSPECTIVE WISH LIST
JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIERE, a screenwriter who was born in 1931
1.RUPTURE (1961, Pierre Etaix, 11 min)
2.THE SUITOR (1962, Pierre Etaix, 83 min)
3.YOYO (1965, Pierre Etaix)
4.AS LONG AS YOU’RE HEALTHY (1966, Pierre Etaix)
5.ATTACK OF THE ROBOTS (1966, Jesus Franco, Spain)
6.THE GREAT LOVE (1969, Pierre Etaix)
7.TAKING OFF (1971, Milos Forman, USA)
8.THE WEDDING RING (1971, Christian de Chalonge) starring Anna Karina
9.A FEW HOURS OF THE SUNLIGHT (1971, Jacques Deray) from Francoise Sagan’s book
10.LIZA (1972, Marco Ferreri)
11.BRAINWASHED (1972, Eric Le Hung) starring Florinda Bolkan
12.THE OUTSIDE MAN (1972, Jacques Deray)
13.DOROTHEA’S REVENGE (1974, Peter Fleischmann, West Germany)
14.LOVE DOLL (1974, Luis Garcia Berlanga)
15.FLESH OF THE ORCHID (1975, Patrice Chereau)
16.WEAK SPOT (1975, Peter Fleischmann)
17.LES ETONNEMENTS D’UN COUPLE MODERNE (1986, Pierre Boutron) starring Delphine Seyrig
18.BOUVARD AND PECUCHET (1989, Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe) from Gustave Flaubert’s novel
19.HARD TO BE AGOD (1990, Peter Fleischmann)
20.THE CONTROVERSY OF VALLADOLID (1992, Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe)
C.ART EXHIBITION WISH LIST
SOPHIE CALLE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Calle
“Sophie Calle (born 1953) is a French writer, photographer, installation artist, and conceptual artist. Calle's work is distinguished by its use of arbitrary sets of constraints, and evokes the French literary movement of the 1960s known as Oulipo. Her work frequently depicts human vulnerability, and examines identity and intimacy. She is recognized for her detective-like ability to follow strangers and investigate their private lives. Her photographic work often includes panels of text of her own writing.
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“In Suite Venitienne (1979), Calle followed a man she met at a party in Paris to Venice, where she disguised herself and followed him around the city, photographing him. Calle’s surveillance of the man, who she identifies only as Henri B., includes photographs accompanied by text”
“Another project, Detective (1980), consisted of Calle being followed for a day by a private detective, who had been hired (at Calle's request) by her mother. Calle proceeded to lead the unwitting detective around parts of Paris that were particularly important for her, thereby reversing the expected position of the observed subject”
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