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Drama

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The Wrestler (Ο Παλαιστής, 2008)

O Darren Aronofsky απεικονίζει τον φθαρτό ρεαλισμό που ποτέ δεν μπορεί να συνάδει με ονειρικές ελπίδες του American Dream. Χρυσός Λέοντας στο 65o Φεστιβάλ της Βενετίας.

Crime

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Scarface (Ο Σημαδεμένος, 1932)

Το pre-code αριστούργημα του Howard Hawks που αποτελεί το αρχετυπικό σημείο αναφοράς για όλες τις ταινίες που ασχολήθηκαν με τους gangsters και το πρώτο κύμα της Μαφίας.

Action, Crime, Science Fiction

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The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

Το magnum opus του Christopher Nolan και το τέλος της τριλογίας του Batman.

Drama

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Claire Dolan (1998)

Η καλύτερη ταινία του ανεξάρτητου σκηνοθέτη Lodge Kerringan με την Katrin Cartlidge στον πρωταγωνιστικό ρόλο.

REVIEWS

Bezúčelná Procházka (Aimless Walk, 1930)

Alexandr Hackenschmied directs the landmark of Czechoslovak avant-garde cinema and one of the most influential of its genre.

Valerie a Týden Divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970)

A disturbing surreal erotic horror coming-of-age fairytale of political allegory by Jaromil Jireš marks the end of Czechoslovak New Wave.

Marécages (Wetlands, 2011)

Α highly realistic kitchen sink drama of a family's dissolution set in the rural isolated environment of Quebec's Wetlands. Debut feature film by Guy Édoin.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Nagisha Ôshima is performing a requiem for Japanese New Wave and he is covering everything, from the sociopolitical changes till his own alienation that he feels as an artist.

QUOTES

Chris Marker on time

Who said that time heals all wounds?

André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

The Ontology of the Photographic Image by André Bazin's Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (What is Cinema?)

Les Amants Réguliers

You see. We communicate without words. You'd never have believed it.

Grandrieux on his films

I don’t think in terms of stories. To me, these films are objects. They're plastic. They're formed.

Alain Robbe-Grillet: What is Formalism?

There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: "You see," he says, "now that’s formalism."