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42 One Dream Rush (2010)

An omnibus of short films by auteur directors based on Dreams.

04 Feb 42 One Dream Rush (2010)

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Tears Film is a remarkable medium. The broad class of storytelling and related emotional invocation is similarly broad. Watching these affirms my commitment to something else: long form cinema. These are short form, about a minute or so. Some are by well known filmmakers, including...

Published February 4, 2024

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Tagged: 2010s, f2010, p2015

Enter the Void (2009)

Filmmaker(s): Gaspar Noé

Fantasy

Drama

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

25 Nov Enter the Void (2009)

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Tomorrow Never Knows One of our next great filmmakers, yet another South American, makes a film about French filmmaking. That once great tradition was compromised in the sixties by a burst of non-sustainable creativity that ate itself. A decent enough metaphor is that cinema overdosed...

Published November 25, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2009, p2001

Irreversible (2002)

Time Destroys All Things.

Filmmaker(s): Gaspar Noé

Drama

Thriller

Crime

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

30 Oct Irreversible (2002)

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Kubrick for Dummies One of the giants of film, Kubrick’s contribution was an exploration of plastic narrative within the story. A simple story just happens and the narrative stance is one of simple observance. Kubrick looked at competing perspectives, for instance ‘2001′ shifts among three...

Published October 30, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2002, p2003

Destricted (2006)

Filmmaker(s): Gaspar Noé, Larry Clark, Marco Brambilla, Matthew Barney, Marina Abramović, Sam Taylor-Johnson, Cecily Brown, Sante D'Orazio, Marilyn Minter, Tunga, Richard Prince

Drama

A compilation of erotic films intended to illuminate the points where art meets sexuality.

20 May Destricted (2006)

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Holy Most of the films in this collection are simply silly. One is at least artistic in the old, wan sense of visual oddity. There is one interesting one, though. Larry Clark’s “Impaled”. It is rather clever: young men seeking to get into the “business”...

Published May 20, 2022

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Tagged: 2000s, f2006, p2006