#7 Malcolm McDowell & Christine Noonan My fellow Sex Gourmets, today we take a look at Lindsay Anderson’s classic ‘If…’ (1968). Here, we have a rare exemplary of a sex scene managing the impossible limbo between half-way hinted sex and a pure animalistic attack. The semester has just started at one of the renowned grey …
Director: Michael Haneke Born in Munich in 1942, Austrian director Michael Haneke has consolidated in recent times as one of the greatest exponents of European cinema. Renowned for his gloomy and disturbing style, Haneke delves into the dark human nature and the discomfort that it produces, and he often takes violence as a starting point. …
The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has become essential within the art cinema, his films are characterized by exploring obsessions such as alienation and disorientation produced by a gap between language and reality, the robotic repetition of social conventions , dystopia, and the use of catharsis as an escape route. There is no better way to …
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan “You know, sometimes things I see in you, me and even Grandad remind me of a wild pear tree. I don’t know. We’re all misfits, solitary, misshapen.“ Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers and on an impressive roll: since the Turkish auteur made his first feature film …
Melancholia is a very special film for me, coming from my favorite director in cinema, the Danish Lars von Trier. The story begins with the opera “Tristan und Isolde“, by the legendary composer Richard Wagner. While we listen to it we see the space trajectory of a mysterious and unknown planet that is getting closer …
by Octavio Carbajal González “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” , a remarkably gleaming and grotesque film, brought to us by the peculiar and extraordinary Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, is directly based on the Greek tragedy “Iphigenia in Aulis” by Euripides.We are introduced to Steven Murphy, who is a respected cardiologist and surgeon. His wife …
(This is an early interview from 1997 that Güldal Kızıldemir did for the Turkish newspaper Radikal. Translation by Saliha Enzenauer) “States like meaninglessness and melancholy can only be melted in a transcendental value. Art is one of these values.” Nuri Bilge Ceylan You received two big awards so far for your first feature film, The …
10. Mommy (2014 / directed by Xavier Dolan)In a fictitious Canada, a new law allows parents to lock their problematic children inside a special center. But Diane “Die” Despres (Anne Dorval), a widowed mother, decides to educate her hyperactive and violent teenage son Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon) herself. Steve has insanely violent episodes and suffers …
by Octavio Carbajal Gonzalez “Lost In Translation”- a splendid and extremely endearing film directed by Sofia Coppola. It’s the story of Bob, an almost retired actor who arrives in Tokyo for work reasons; and Charlotte, a young woman who also is in that city accompanied by her husband, John. As the film moves on, we …
