Posts Tagged ‘abstract’

Naqoyqatsi: Life as War (2002)

Friday, June 5th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Troy Aikman | The Beatles | Osama Bin Laden | Marlon Brando | Fidel Castro | Warren Christopher | Bill Clinton | Thomas A. Edison | Albert Einstein | Adolf Hitler | Elton John | Nikita Khrushchev | Martin Luther King | Henry Kissinger | Dalai Lama
Directors: Godfrey Reggio
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In this cinematic concert, mesmerizing images are plucked from everyday reality, then visually altered with state-of-the-art digital techniques. The result is a chronicle of the shift from a world organized by the principles of nature to one dominated by technology, the synthetic and the virtual. Extremes of intimacy and spectacle, tragedy and hope fuse in a tidal wave of visuals and music, giving rise to a unique, artistic experience that reflects the vision of a brave new globalized world.

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Michael Gambon | Helen Mirren | Alan Howard | Tim Roth | CiarĂ¡n Hinds | Gary Olsen | Ewan Stewart | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | Ron Cook | Liz Smith | Emer Gillespie | Janet Henfrey | Arnie Breeveld | Tony Alleff
Directors: Peter Greenaway
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.