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We are responsible for our dreams. This is the ultimate lesson of psychoanalysis - and fiction cinema. The makers of 'The Pervert's Guide to Cinema' return with 'The Pervert's Guide to Ideology'. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving pictures to present a compelling cinematic journey into the heart of ideology - the dreams and beliefs that shape our common practices. - Director:
- Sophie Fiennes
- Cast:
- Slavoj Zizek
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Neighbouring Sounds (2012)O Som ao Redor / Neighboring Sounds
The convergences and complexities of life in a middle-class suburb of Recife, Brazil, are played out in mesmerising style in this stunning debut feature from film critic turned director Kleber Mendonca Filho. Taking a broad, diverse set of strikingly realistic characters -including a bored housewife seeking solace in technology, a descendant of colonial landowners struggling with his dark, mysterious past and a security company employed to provide protection to them all - Filho paints a rich, detailed portrait of a community connected and engulfed by fear, desire and the incessant murmur of modern life. A beautifully subtle, fiercely intelligent and utterly engrossing snap-shot of present-day Brazil, this bold, compelling and endlessly intriguing film has announced one of the most exciting new voices in contemporary world cinema. - Director:
- Kleber Mendonça Filho
- Cast:
- Ana Rita Gurgel, Caio Almeida, Maeve Jinkings
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Fifteen minutes of fame was never going to be enough for Suzanne (Nicole Kidman). Married to small-town restaurateur Larry Maretto (Matt Dillon), all she ever wanted was to be a high-flying anchorwoman on network TV. Blessed with more determination than ability, she plans her way to the top and will do absolutely anything to achieve her goals - but as Suzanne's ambition grows, her grip on reality starts to slide... - Director:
- Gus Van Sant
- Cast:
- Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix
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The Passenger (1975)Professione: reporter
When a fellow traveler dies suddenly, burned-out journalist David Locke (Jack Nicholson) assumes his identity. Using the dead man's datebook as a guide, Locke travels throughout Europe and Africa, taking meetings with dangerous gun runners and falling for a beguiling young woman (Maria Schneider). But his exciting newfound freedom carries a fateful price as Locke gradually realizes he is in over his head. - Director:
- Michelangelo Antonioni
- Cast:
- Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre
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Julian (Ryan Gosling) runs a boxing club in Bangkok as a front for a drugs operation. He has everything he wants for until his brother is murdered, and his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas), the head of a powerful criminal organisation, arrives to collect her son's body. Furious with grief she dispatches Julian to find his killers and 'raise hell'. The stage is set for a bloody journey of betrayal and vengeance towards a final confrontation and the possibility of redemption. - Director:
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
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Patrick Keiller's imaginative and highly original film documenting a journey undertaken by the unseen 'researcher' Robinson and his similarly unseen companion, the film's narrator (voiced by Paul Scofield). Robinson in Space sees Robinson commissioned to undertake a study of the problem of England. Keiller’s immaculately framed images and sly deadpan narration take the viewer on an unpredictable exploration of the cultural and economic landscape. - Director:
- Patrick Keiller
- Cast:
- Paul Scofield (Narrator)
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In the House (2012)Dans la maison
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, and finds himself strangely compelled as the boy becomes more dangerously involved with his class-mate's attractive mother. However, as the line between reality and fiction becomes blurred, the boy's intrusion unleashes a series of uncontrollable events. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer
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Darren Aronofsky follows up his acclaimed debut 'Pi' with this gritty, emotionally charged film set amidst the abandoned beaches and faded glory of Coney Island, Brooklyn. Based upon the novel by celebrated author Hubert Selby Jr. , the story intricately links the lives of a lonely widowed mother (Ellen Burstyn), her son Harry (Jared Leto), his beautiful girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly), and his best friend Tyrone (Marlon Wayans). Requiem for a Dream is a hypnotic tale of four human beings each pursuing their vision of happiness. Even as everything begins to fall apart, they refuse to let go, plummeting with their dreams into a nightmarish, gut-wrenching freefall. - Director:
- Darren Aronofsky
- Cast:
- Ellen Burstyn, Scott Franklin, Jared Leto
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Two ordinary inner-city Chicago kids dare to reach for the impossible -professional basketball glory - in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, 'Hoop Dreams', by Steve James, Frederick Marx, and Peter Gilbert, follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates and their families as the boys navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while dealing with the intense pressures of their home lives and neighbourhoods. This revelatory film continues to educate and inspire viewers, and it is widely considered one of the great works of American nonfiction cinema. - Director:
- Steve James
- Cast:
- William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates
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Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) challenges the system and defies conventional wisdom when he is forced to rebuild his small-market team, on a limited budget. Despite opposition from the old guard, the media, fans and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beane, with the help of a young, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist (Jonah Hill), develops a roster of misfits...and along the way, forever changes the way the game is played. - Director:
- Bennett Miller
- Cast:
- Brad Pitt, Greg Papa, Robin Wright
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Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story of Josie's hapless search for intimacy over the course of a summer, which sees his life changed forever. A landmark in Irish cinema. Garage is a beautifully portrayed cinematic drama interspersed with razor sharp shards of black humour, with acutely observed characters that leave a lasting impression. - Director:
- Lenny Abrahamson
- Cast:
- Pat Shortt, John Keogh, George Costigan
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Taking philosophy out of the books and classrooms and putting it back onto the streets, Examined Life accompanies some of the world's most influential thinkers in places and spaces that reflect and resonate their ideas. Peter Singer dissects the ethics of consumption against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue's extravagant stores. Man's relationship with environment is theorised by the 'Elvis of cultural theory', Slavoj Zizek, in a recycling centre. Judith Butler takes in San Francisco's Mission District with a friend as they question society's complex and often awkward relationship with disability. In New York, Cornel West - perhaps America's best known public intellectual - vividly compares philosophy to jazz and blues within a backdrop of Manhattan as he drives through the streets, reminding us that great ideas are born of engaging with the hustle and bustle around us. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life explores the way we see the world and philosophy's ability to influence it. - Director:
- Astra Taylor
- Cast:
- K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt
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La Jetée / Sans Soleil (1983)The Pier / Sun Less
One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, 'La Jetee' and 'Sans Soleil' couldn't seem more different - but they're the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. Filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, videographer, and digital multimedia artist, Chris Marker challenged moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his investigations of time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. These two films - a tale of time travel told in still images and a journey to Africa and Japan - remain his best-loved and most widely seen.
La Jetee (1962)
This unique film was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's Twelve Monkeys. It is a cinematic landmark using black and white stills almost entirely to narrate the story. Set in Paris destroyed by a third world war, the survivors have been forced to retreat underground where scientists conduct strange time travel experiments to escape from a terrible present to a better past or future...
Sans Soleil (1983)
Director Chris Marker takes the viewer into a different dimension, weaving footage from Japan, Africa, Iceland, France and the USA to produce a study of 'the dreams of the human race'. He is particularly attracted to the two extremes of Japan and Africa, and discusses the images that he creates with the woman, ever mindful of the astonishing store of memory he has created.- Director:
- Chris Marker
- Cast:
- Jean Négroni, Jean Négroni, Davos Hanich
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"Drive" is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best - Drive! - Director:
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Ralph Lawler, Carey Mulligan
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