Posts Tagged ‘avant-garde’

Strings (2004)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Strings
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: James McAvoy | Catherine McCormack | Julian Glover | Derek Jacobi | Ian Hart | Claire Skinner | David Harewood | Samantha Bond | Jens Jacob Tychsen | Iben Hjejle | Henning Moritzen | Jesper Langberg | Jens Arentzen | Marina Bouras | Søren Spanning
Directors: Anders Rønnow Klarlund
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Anders Ronnow Klarlund's fantasy-action film Strings tells the tale of Hal Tara, the son of a slain ruler who sets out to settle the score with those who dispatched his father. Interestingly, all of the characters in the film are marionettes, explaining the title of the film to some degree.

Eraserhead (1977)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Eraserhead
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Jack Nance | Charlotte Stewart | Allen Joseph | Jeanne Bates | Judith Anna Roberts | Laurel Near
Directors: David Lynch
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Stomp Out Loud (1997)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Stomp Out Loud
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
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Directors: Luke Cresswell | Steve McNicholas
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The producers have done a good job, capturing most of the magic of a Stomp show without (of course) interaction with the audience. Stomp could be classified as a dance troupe, performance art, or industrial-type music, and for the full effect, it's necessary to watch them; that makes this much better than the various soundtracks and albums floating around that have "songs" performed by Stomp.

The Shining (1980)

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Shining, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Jack Nicholson | Shelley Duvall | Danny Lloyd | Scatman Crothers | Barry Nelson | Philip Stone | Joe Turkel | Anne Jackson | Tony Burton | Lia Beldam | Billie Gibson | Barry Dennen | David Baxt | Manning Redwood | Lisa Burns
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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A novelist - Jack Torrance take a job interview as winter caretaker of the isolated, old, huge and beautiful Overlook Hotel. In the interview, Jack is told by the manager himself, that the previous caretaker - Grady, chopped his family and later killed himself with a shotgun. Ignoring the story, Jack brings his wife - Wendy and his son Danny. It happens that Danny, has a mysterious power known as "The Shining" that shows him things from the past and future. Some of the visions come from Tony - "the little boy who lives in Danny's mouth". Danny meets Hallorann - the hotel cook in their first day arriving at the Overlook, who also has this "Shining" and he warns him about the hotel and the sinister Room 237. As the days go by, Danny has visions of previous guests and employees who died at the hotel years before, meanwhile Jack starts driving into insanity, turning more and more aggressive, at the point that Danny and Wendy gets convinced that Jack might try to do the same thing, Grady did.

Romeo Is Bleeding (1993)

Monday, April 13th, 2009
Romeo Is Bleeding
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Gary Oldman | Wallace Wood | Juliette Lewis | David Proval | Will Patton | Gene Canfield | Larry Joshua | Michael Wincott | Lena Olin | William Duff-Griffin | James Cromwell | Paul Butler | Annabella Sciorra | Tony Sirico | Victoria Bastel
Directors: Peter Medak
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A corrupt New York police officer's double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to catch up with him when he's bribed to kill a deadly female Russian assassin in custody while keeping his lifestyle a secret from both his wife and teenage mistress.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Black Christmas
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone's favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Suspiria (1977)

Friday, December 19th, 2008
Suspiria
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Jessica Harper | Stefania Casini | Flavio Bucci | Miguel Bosé | Barbara Magnolfi | Susanna Javicoli | Eva Axén | Rudolf Schündler | Udo Kier | Alida Valli | Joan Bennett | Margherita Horowitz | Jacopo Mariani | Fulvio Mingozzi | Franca Scagnetti
Directors: Dario Argento
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A young American dancer travels to Europe to attend a famous school of dance. As we arrive, the camera turns to another young woman who seems to be fleeing from the school. You will be returned to his apartment, where he gruesomely murdered by a hideous creature. Meanwhile, the young American is trying to settle in at the school dance, but feels strange noises and is troubled by strange events. It finally discovers that the school is only a front for a much more left organization. Una giovane ballerina americana viaggia in Europa per partecipare a una famosa scuola di danza. Come si arriva, la fotocamera si trasforma in un altro giovane donna, che sembra essere in fuga dalla scuola. Si ritorna al suo appartamento, dove è gruesomely assassinato da un orribile creatura. Nel frattempo, il giovane americano sta cercando di risolvere in presso la scuola di danza, ma sente strani rumori ed è turbato da eventi bizzarro. Si scopre infine che la scuola è solo uno per uno davanti molto più sinistro organizzazione.

The Holy Mountain (1973)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Holy Mountain, The
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Horácio Salinas | Zamira Saunders | Juan Ferrara | Adriana Page | Burt Kleiner | Valerie Jodorowsky | Nicky Nichols | Richard Rutowski | Luis Lomeli | Ana De Sade | Chucho-Chucho | Letícia Robles | Connie De La Mora | David Kapralik
Directors: Alejandro Jodorowsky
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A Christlike figure walks through strange, grotesque scenes full of religious and sacrilegious imagery. Meet a mystical guide that is presented to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guidance of the wizard, to sell their worldly goods and form a new group to seek the Holy Mountain, in order to move the gods who live there and become immortal. Una xifra Christlike passeja a través d'estranys, grotescos escenaris plens de religiosos i sacrílego imatges. Coneix un místic guia que es presenta a set rics i poderosos individus, cadascun en representació d'un planeta en el sistema solar. Aquests set, juntament amb la protagonista, la guia i la guia de l'assistent, de vendre els seus propis béns mundans i la forma d'un grup de nou de buscar la Muntanya Sagrada, amb la finalitat de desplaçar als déus que viuen allà i es converteixen en immortal.

THX 1138 (1971)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
THX 1138
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Robert Duvall | Donald Pleasence | Don Pedro Colley | Ian Wolfe | Marshall Efron | Sid Haig | John Pearce | Gary Alan Marsh | John Seaton | Eugene I. Stillman | Jack Walsh | Mark Lawhead | Robert Feero | Johnny Weissmuller Jr. | James Wheaton
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The human race was transferred to an underground city located under the surface of the Earth. In the underground city, the population is amused by the holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and the robotised police applies law. In the underground city, the society controls all life, one dopes to all citizens to control their emotions and their behaviour and sex is a crime. The worker of plant THX-1138 gives up taking medicine and he infringes law when he is by falling in love his ROOMMATE LUH 3417 and imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. By escaping from the prison with the illegal programmer the SENATOR 5241 and a hologramme called SRT, THX on 1138 goes in research of LUH 3417 and escape to the surface, being followed by the robotised policemen. La race humaine a été transférée à une ville souterraine localisée sous la surface de la Terre. Dans la ville souterraine, la population est divertie par la TV holographic qui diffuse le sexe et la violence et la police robotisée applique la loi. Dans la ville souterraine, la société contrôle toute la vie, tous les citoyens sont drogués pour contrôler leurs émotions et leur comportement et le sexe est un crime. L'ouvrier d'usine THX-1138 arrête de prendre les médicaments et il enfreint la loi quand il se trouve en tombant amoureux de son camarade de chambre LUH 3417 et est emprisonné quand LUH 3417 est enceinte. En s'échappant de la prison avec le programmeur illégal le SÉNATEUR 5241 et un hologramme appelé SRT, THX 1138 va à la recherche de LUH 3417 et la fuite à la surface, étant poursuivi par les agents de police robotisés.

Clockwork Orange, A (1971)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Clockwork Orange, A
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates | Warren Clarke | John Clive | Adrienne Corri | Carl Duering | Paul Farrell | Clive Francis | Michael Gover | Miriam Karlin | James Marcus | Aubrey Morris | Godfrey Quigley | Sheila Raynor
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
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In the futurist Great Britain, a group of adolescents does commotion each night, beating and snatching incompetent victims. After one of the boys abolishes a revolt in the group, they impress it and leave it for the police officer to find. He accepts to try *quot; the therapy of aversão*quot; to shorten his prayer of chain. When he is consequently left to go out, he hates the violence, but the rest of his members of group is still after him. Na Grã-Bretanha futurista, um bando de adolescentes faz rebuliço cada noite, batendo e arrebatando vítimas incapazes. Depois que um dos rapazes suprime uma revolta no bando, eles impressionam-no e deixam-no para a polícia para encontrar. Ele aceita tentar "a terapia de aversão" para encurtar a sua oração de cadeia. Quando ele é conseqüentemente deixado sair, ele odeia a violência, mas o resto dos seus membros de bando são ainda depois dele.
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