USA, 92 min
Archive for the ‘1988’ Category
Hobgoblins (1988) [MST3K]
October 7, 2010Cannibal Tours (Dennis O’Rourke, 1988)
May 17, 2010
Tokyo Days (Chris Marker, 1988)
November 10, 20091988, 20:15 min, color, sound
This idiosyncratic view of Tokyo begins with a live mannequin in a store window and French actress Arielle Dombasle chatting with Marker as they wander around Tokyo. After Dombasle departs, the tape continues with footage from the Tokyo subway and an indoor market. Marker punctuates the tape throughout with playful visual and sound edits.
In Japanese and French.
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watch it:
Jack’s Back (1988)
October 29, 2009USA, 97 min
Rembrandt Laughing (Jon Jost, 1988)
May 8, 2009
Jon Jost’s ninth feature focuses rather elliptically on the everyday lives of a group of friends in San Francisco–chiefly Claire (Barbara Hammes), who works in an architect’s office, two of her former lovers (Jon A. English and Nathaniel Dorsky), who are close friends, and a recent boyfriend (Jim Nisbet). Masterfully shot and for the most part very persuasively acted, mainly by nonprofessionals (the film’s use of locals is one reason it captures the San Francisco milieu so perfectly), Rembrandt Laughing is a good deal more ambitious than it might first appear. A sense of the timeless and the cosmic hovers over the seemingly casual scenes, and the uses of a Rembrandt self-portrait and Beethoven’s opus 132 string quartet are integral to the film’s overall project–to discover the universe in a bowl of miso soup. Part of Jost’s method, like Godard’s in A Married Woman, is to convert the dramatic into the graphic, and his various means of carrying that out are unexpected and frequently beautiful (1988).
Time of the Gypsies (Emir Kusturica, 1988)
March 14, 2009
Ghosts… of the Civil Dead (John Hillcoat, 1988)
February 25, 2009AU, 93 min
insidious repression
rage
breaking point
Central Industrial Prison is set in the middle of the desert. It’s the future of maximum-security containment and it’s been “locked down” after an explosion of violence. A Committee’s been appointed to report on the events that led to the violence but their findings are in stark contrast to the reality we see with our own eyes.. “Ghosts.. of the Civil Dead” is a powerful drama on modern methods of social control.
Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead is set entirely within the confines of a modern Maximum Security prison – a “New Generation” Prison painted in playschool yellows, bathroom violets and resembling your modern Shopping Mall. Central Industrial Prison is located in the middle of the desert. It has been “locked down” – the confinement of all inmates to their cells, 23 hours a day, indefintely – following an outbreak of violence, and a Committee has been appointed to report..
Ultimately, Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead….
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (G. Tornatore, 1988)
February 19, 2009IT, 174 min (director’s cut)
this movie is famous
apparently.
perhaps i should get out more
or less….
High Hopes (Mike Leigh, 1988)
February 3, 2009
Guinea Pig 04: Mermaid in a Manhole (Hideshi Hino, 1988)
January 28, 2009Za Ginipiggu 04: Manhoru no naka no ningyo
Japan, 63 min
psychedelic pus
stolen mermaid, bathtub dreams
masterful oozings
