Dienstag, 26. November 2013

take 58: 27.11.2013

Fantasy à la Anders!

Door open 20h


20h30: France 1979, 84min. with english subs
Director Stanislav Stanojevic, who later broke new ground in political filmmaking with Notorious Nobodies, offers an absurdist allegory about the nature of political repression. A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and his corrupt daughter to keep his country in line. His beautiful, clever daughter works her own agenda while striving to be the equal of men. She appoints herself Chief of Firefighters and then commits arson to ensure that her job is needed.







22h10: USA 1972, 82min.
 
This visually freaked-out blend of fantasy and sexploitation tells (after a fashion) the story of Cindy (Margo), a young woman who becomes fascinated with witchcraft. Cindy's dabblings in magic put her in contact with Abigail, a witch who died years ago at the hands of do-gooders in Salem, MA. Abigail teaches innocent Cindy the secrets of "sex magic," which initially allow her to satisfy herself without a partner, but as time goes on Cindy seeks greater thrills and makes her way through a number of partners both male and female before she encounters the "King of the Sex Vampires." Boasting no sync sound and a startling array of low-tech neo-psychedelic visual effects, Psyched By the 4-D Witch was the sole directorial credit for director Victor Luminera. 
 KINO ANDERS 4 OF 4 STARS !!!



 

Dienstag, 19. November 2013

take 57: 20.11.2013

 Movies for Videogames!

Door open 20h


20h20: Japan 1989, 100min. with english subs




A TV production crew are making a documentary about the infamous painter Mamiya Ichiro. When they start filming at his old home, they come under attack from the ghost of the painter's wife.

"Sweet Home" was made concurrent to the Famicom game of the same name by Resident Evil/Biohazard game designer Shinji Mikami. This is a key film in the development of the survival horror genre. "Sweet Home" is obviously inspired by Tobe Hooper's "Poltergeist" and Robert Wise's "The Haunting". If there was any way to truly describe this film, it would be if Dario Argento (during his heyday in the late 70's) directed a film with Japanese stars. Every shot has the look and the lighting from films like SUSPIRIA, PHENOMENA, TENEBRAE, even down to the tracking shots and steadycam work.





22h10: Japan 1991, 98 min. with english subs
 
Teppei and Kamiya, two average joes working in the electronic services industry, stumble upon the intergalactic bounty-hunter Ilia, and her partner, the artificial intelligence named Bob. Both men are accidentally transported to the Zone, a virtual reality in which Bob has trapped Ilia's latest prey, a biological weapon named Zeram. The Earth natives must both survive the experience and help Ilia capture Zeram before the Zone disappears around them.
A potboiler sci-fi action adventure, with gorgeous, Samurai-flick-inspired costuming and effects, goopy creature effects and a gorgeous leading lady. The comedy duo is a bit much, but overall tolerable once the action really gets going.  




Dienstag, 12. November 2013

take 56 13.11.2013

BEWARE THE KRAUTS ARE COMING!



Door open 20h
20h30: BRD 1974, 87 min. german, opt. english subs

Dorothea, a 16-year-old bourgeois girl from Hamburg, plays with her friends of both sexes, imitating the production of adult movies. In the end, pretending to make sex-scenes is not satisfying enough, and with a street professional, Dorothea is initiated in hard sex. 

Dosto-Sado-Maso-Jewski!!!

Though primarily intended to be a parody on the then-notorious wave of German sex-films that claim to be "scientifically" accurate, "Dorotheas Rache" won a price as best picture of 1974. And if that wasn't good enough, the price is the Prix de Group Panic, donated by the brilliant cinematic trio infernal consisting of playwright/artist Roland Topor (best known to film lovers as the author who provided the story for Roman Polanskis "Le Tenant"), neo-surrealistic director Fernando Arrabal ("Viva la Muerte") and multi-talented filmmaker-genius Alejandro Jodorowsky ("El Topo"). The three applauded "Dorothea" as a masterpiece of the new, larger-than-life, politically reflective film of the post-68 years. It offers, they stated, thought-provocation in a daring, symbolist manner that resembles a mix-up of Pasolini and Breton. And indeed, director Peter Fleischmann and fellow screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière (long-time collaborator of Luis Bunuel) have gone to the limits with this passion of a young girl in search for the meaning of love. Almost all the actors are non-professionals from the sinister underworld of St. Pauli, Hamburg. Anna Henkel – who later starred in Bernardo Bertoluccis "1900" and still later married famous German pop singer Herbert Grönemeyer, but tragically died of cancer at a young age – is brilliant as the 17-year old protagonist on her journey through darkness, weirdness, obscurity and obscenity.

 While trying to find out about the nature of love and the magnetic force between the sexes, she stumbles across pornographers, prostitutes and dominatrices, all of them deliberately depicted not as bizarre caricatures, and all of them behaving as if their home ground were the suburbs of a sex-loaded hellfire. Eventually, Dorothea's trip turns out to be a rite of passage in the midst of a capitalistic system. As first, there's her parental background: Her father owns a factory that produces comedy articles (such as jewel cases that provide laughter when opened), her mother is as average and boring as a mother can be – but only at first sight. Dorothea slowly evades from this surrounding into unknown territory when a friend, with whom she is making a hilariously absurd 8mm film called "Encyclopedia of Love" (devoted to the weirdest sexual practices you have ever been advised to re-enact) starts posing for pornographic pictures and is sexually abused during the first session. Both disgusted and attracted at the same time, and being broad-minded as can be, Dorothea starts trying it out herself. It's all done for her quest for the meaning of love in a world of exploitation, humiliation and perversity.

 Stations of Dorotheas passion include her being laid by three old, very unattractive men (full frontal nudity here, even "fuller" than usual!), with the girl surprising the men by turning the situation around. Subsequently there are her lesbian experiences with a domina (among whose clients is a single-legged masochist that likes to be crucified), her (harshly punished) attempt to be a nice to an unloved, frustrated man even prostitutes don't want as a customer, her idea to comfort her fathers economical problems with incest, and a personal encounter with Jesus who advises Dorothea to have sex with the mad and the lunatic to become happy… It sounds like a porn-revue from the asylum, and in some way, it is. But it's also an astonishing insight, a hallucinating voyage seen through the eyes of an, after all, innocent girl that tries to understand why things are the way they are. She keeps her innocence throughout her experiences – almost, at all (there's one "guilt" appearing out of the middle all those unredeemed sins). German writer Martin Walser called it a film in "Dosto-Sado-Maso-Jewski"-qualities when it came out, newspapers spoke of a "moralistic fable", of "Sex with a slice of Mao", and the film was nicknamed the "Maria Magdalena of the red-light district" or "Alice in Sexland". Views may vary, but there's no doubt "Dorotheas Rache" is an amour fou with erotic tension being the prime subject of a surrealistic roller-coaster ride.
review from imdb.com by Thorsten_B (thb8@hotmail.com)




22h10: BRD 1983,  77 min. german, opt. english subs

  Owing to a computer error at the factory for instant children, model child Konrad, age nine, is mis-delivered to a woman artist.  The well-mannered child and the bohemian artist are very different, yet they bond as a family.  The factory, realizing the mistake, tries to reclaim the misdelivered product, but Konrad does not want to leave his new mother.  What to do?








Dienstag, 5. November 2013

take 55: 6.11.2013

DOLCE VITA!

More Italian Pulp Masterpieces!

Door open 20h

20h30: Italy 1973, 72 min. with english subtitles

Strange things have been happening to Valentina, a young and beautiful professional photographer, ever since she made the acquaintance of Baba Yaga, a mysterious older woman who gave her a lift home late one night. For one thing, Valentina has been having weird, kinky nightmares. For another, one of Valentina's cameras seems to have acquired a deadly curse.
 Massive underrated psychadelic cult movie, kinky, godardesque and with an incredible Soundtrack!!!






22h: Italy 1972, 90 min. with english subtitles

A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.