Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1967)
A team of astronauts crashes on the surface of Venus. Accompanied by their robot, they explore the surface and end up destroying the Venusian God. This film is also known as The Gill Women and The Gill Women of Venus. Download here
Bororo UFO (1972)
Czech sci-fi film Bororo is about visiting aliens from Pleiades, they are trying to give our planet a cure for all diseases, but the international drug companies kill everyone, just to protect their profits. 1972 old communist era film. Download here
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction Classic I am Legend and later remade as The Omega Man starring Charlton Heston. This classic features Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer. Download here
The Kid (1921)
The Kid was Charlie Chaplin's first full-length movie. It, more than anything else to that date, made Chaplin a living legend. It took over a year to produce, and was an incredible success for Chaplin. Download here
The John Glenn Story (1963)
This brief, 30-minute biographical documentary looks at the early life and professional career of American astronaut John Glenn (before his days in politics). Several of the people who knew him back when in New Concord, Ohio take up a certain amount of time reminiscing on Glenn's boyhood and then the docu segues into the astronaut's preparations for his space flight -- three orbits around the earth, and then home again. Included are interior shots aboard the Friendship Seven space capsule, and Glenn's comments as he works inside the capsule during this mission. Download here
dradio.de: "Am 11. Mai 1931 feierte der Film "M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" Premiere. Er war Fritz Langs erster Tonfilm und sein bedeutendster. "M. Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder" zählt zu den wichtigsten Werken der deutschen Filmgeschichte. Lang wagte darin einen Blick in die seelischen Abgründe eines Massenmörders. Heute vor 75 Jahren feierte der Filmklassiker in Berlin Premiere." Weiter
greylodge.org: "Hamburg, 1983. F.M. is a youngster leading an idle urban life, totally alienated from his environment, and only active when making “sound experiments” in his home studio. [...]
One day F.M. suddenly wakes up to the surrounding reality, as he notices how the inconspicuous background music at a hamburger joint may have some connection with the junk food. It dawns on him that muzak is designed to control and brainwash the masses, not unlike lobotomy. On top of its paralysing effects, muzak is also laced with subliminal messages. F.M. decides to go back to the bar and records the muzak for his own purposes. He starts to develop a form of “anti-muzak” in his studio, by playing the original material backwards, or at a wrong speed, or by mixing it with interfering factors like sounds of street riots or squealing frogs.
In a dream of his F.M. receives support for his one-man war from an old shopkeeper (William Burroughs) selling electronics spare parts. He gives F.M. a disassembled cassette with the advice “This is all you need!” While wandering around the city, F.M. runs into members of a shady cult, “the pirates”, who have taken over an abandoned building in order to practice their nocturnal rituals of “black noise”. The core of their high priest’s (Genesis P-Orridge) message is: “Information is like a bank. Some of us are rich, while others are poor. It is our mission to rob that bank…” F.M. and the pirates decide to co-operate. They perform terrorist attacks in Burger Kings and McDonalds, armed with cassette players and anti-muzak." More
The cast includes:
FM Einheit (of Einstürzende Neubauten)
William S. Burroughs
Genesis P-Orridge
Alexander Hacke
I received an email from Bryan Wendorf, Festival Director of the Chicago Underground Film Festival: "the Chicago Underground Film Festival is looking for music videos for this year's festival. We're particularly interested in videos for "Wired" artists."
from his email:
"Founded in 1993, Chicago Underground is dedicated to the work of film and video makers with defiantly independent visions. As Roger Ebert said of this fest, "What you get for your money is not just admission to the films but admission to a subculture."
Radical beyond independent, the "underground" culture supports films that go beyond expectations and genre, to include a menu of films made with passion, obsession, and drive. In addition, CUFF has consistently honored the history of underground and independent cinema by presenting tributes and retrospectives of filmmakers such as Tom Palozzolo, Richard Kern, Kenneth Anger, George Kuchar, John Waters, and Paul Morrissey.
Every evening of screenings is followed by a great night of parties, events and concerts. Jury awards are presented in the following categories: Narrative Feature, Narrative Short, Documentary Feature, Documentary Short, Experimental, Animation, and "Made in Chicago" - along with an Audience Choice award.
Past success stories include filmmaker Sarah Jacobson, who debuted her film "Mary Jane's Not A Virgin Anymore" (six months before it screened at Sundance). Some other films that have received national theatrical distribution include: "The Manson Family," "Men Cry Bullets," "The Acid House" as well as Oscar-nominated "Weather Underground" and "The Decline of Western Civilization Part 3."
This is one highly accessible, user-friendly showcase for avant-garde, independent and cult cinema."
dradio.de: "Sex vor der Kamera: Das ist vor allem harte Arbeit. Mit seinen Dokumentarfilmen aus dem schwulen Alltag zwischen der amerikanischen Pornoindustrie und der schwäbischen Alb hat sich Jochen Hick einen Namen gemacht. Er lässt die Sexarbeiter mit ihren Träumen und Sorgen zu Wort kommen, ohne aus ihnen voyeuristische Objekte zum machen." Der Filmemacher Jochen Hick
kcrw.org: "writer-director Tim Burton (Beetle Juice, Batman, Big Fish), discussing his two films from last year, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the Academy Award-nominated animated feature Corpse Bride." listen here
Geschichts-Movies sind Quotenrenner
dradio.de: "Historiker reiben sich seit geraumer Zeit verwundert die Augen. So viel nachgefilmte Geschichte flimmerte noch nie über deutsche Fernsehschirme. Und mehr noch: Diese fiktiven Dramen vor historischem Hintergrund erzielen im Unterschied zu profunden Dokumentationen traumhafte Einschaltquoten. So zog der ZDF-Zweiteiler "Dresden" über 24 Millionen Zuschauer, das entspricht einer Quote von 32 Prozent, vor die Mattscheibe. Zuvor waren über 22 Millionen Bundesbürger im trockenen Wohnzimmer mit dabei, als der Privatsender RTL über Hamburg noch einmal "Die Sturmflut" hereinbrechen ließ. Und auch das Histo-Drama "Die Luftbrücke" bewog fast 20 Millionen Zuschauer, den Fernseher einzuschalten." Weiter
Sachbuch: "Hitler war's"
dradio.de: "Der Historiker Hannes Heer stellt bei den Deutschen eine Geschichtsumdeutung fest: Filme wie "Der Untergang" oder die Hitler-Filme des Guido Knopp, aber auch die Schriften von Joachim Fest hätten nur zum Ziel, so seine These, die Schuld der Deutschen an Weltkrieg und Holocaust auf Hitler und seine Chargen zu reduzieren. Jegliche Mitverantwortung kann so abgestritten werden." Weiter
Anmerkungen über das Herumhitlern
Wiglaf Droste: "Rational ist das nicht zu begreifen. Alles, was man über Adolf Hitler wissen muss, hat Sebastian Haffner in seinen "Anmerkungen über Hitler" geschrieben. Das kluge, klare Buch ist gut und verständlich geschrieben, es ist lieferbar, es ist schmal genug, um niemanden abzuschrecken - jeder Deutsche könnte es gelesen haben, und gut wäre es mit dem Thema." Weiter
INTERVIEW: EIKO TANAKA
She is the mastermind behind the fastest rising name in Japanese animation: Studio 4ºC, makers of the mindboggling and masterful Mindgame.
ANIMAL TREASURE ISLAND
The magical early anime from the Toei stables transposes Stevenson's classic pirate yarn to the realm of the antropomorphic. With a little help from a young Hayao Miyazaki.
URUSEI YATSURA: ONLY YOU
From the fertile mind of mangaka Rumiko Takahashi comes this wacky and colourful early effort by the now legendary Mamoru Oshii.
WICKED CITY
A refreshing reappraisal of one of the decidely adult titles that earned 'Japanimation' its notoriety in the immediate post-Akira days.
ROUND-UP: ANIME SPECIAL
A sampling of some of the many varied joys of Japanese animation, from Dragon Boys and Belladonnas to no-good Neighbours.
dradio.de: "Ein Kinofilm sorgt in der Türkei für Diskussionen. "Tal der Wölfe" strotzt nach Ansicht vieler Kritiker vor Anti-Amerikanismus. Der Streifen beruht auf wahren Begebenheiten im Irak und lockt die Türken derzeit massenhaft ins Kino. Über den Film und seine politische Dimension berichtet Gunnar Köhne aus Istanbul." Weiter Tal der Wölfe
Meine absolute Lieblingsserie der späten 90er, Für alle Fälle Fitz (im Orginal: Cracker), ist ab März endlich auf DVD erhältlich. Der erste Teil, quasi ein kompletter Speilfilm, ist in der aktuellen Ausgabe der SFT für 3Euro erhältlich.
wikipedia.org: "Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. It ran from 1993 to 1995 with a special in 1996 and was about a criminal psychologist, Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane. The part was originally offered to Robert Lindsay, who turned it down.
Fitz is a classic antihero, unfaithful to his wife, alcoholic, a chain smoker, overweight, addicted to gambling, manic, foulmouthed and sarcastic; and yet cerebral and excellent at his speciality: getting into the heads of violent criminals." Mehr
Geschichtsbilder im deutschen Film
Von Josef Schnelle
dradio.de: Hitlers letzte Tage im Bunker lockten Millionen ins Kino. Bernd Eichingers Großproduktion "Der Untergang" wurde sogar für einen Oskar nominiert. Lutz Hachmeister verfilmte Goebbels Tagebücher in einem dokumentarischen Essay. Heinrich Breloer setzte sich in drei Folgen mit dem Architekten und Rüstungsminister Albert Speer auseinander. [...]
Welch eine Anhäufung von Filmen über das Dritte Reich in einem einzigen Jahr! Sind das Scharmützel um die Deutungshoheit? Werden neue Bilder geliefert oder besetzen noch immer die Inszenierungen der braunen Barbarei die Imagination? Der Versuch einer Bilanz - mit den Stimmen von Heinrich Breloer, Lutz Hachmeister, Volker Schlöndorff und anderen."
arte-tv.com: Markus Staiger, ein junger Mann aus Donzdorf am Rande der Schwäbischen Alb, hat aus seiner Begeisterung für Heavy Metal eine der größten Plattenfirmen dieser Branche gemacht. Der Dokumentarfilm beobachtet ihn und seine Mitstreiter der Plattenfirma "Nuclear Blast Records", die aus der deutschen Provinz die Welt mit Heavy-Metal-Musik versorgt. Außerdem stellt der Film die These auf, dass besonders Jugendliche auf dem Lande Anhänger der Heavy-Metal-Kultur sind." Mehr
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bbc.co.uk: "Films such as Batman Begins and TV series The OC are to be made available over the internet via peer-to-peer (P2P) networks by studio Warner Bros.
The firm will sell movies and TV shows over the internet in Germany, Austria and Switzerland from March." Read on
INTERVIEW: YOSHINORI CHIBA
Behind such contemporary classics as Takashi Miike's Fudoh: The New Generation and Rokuro Mochizuki's Onibi: The Fire Within, stands a producer who continues to mount challenging films to this day. Midnight Eye catches up with Yoshinori Chiba. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
FEATURE: THE BEST (AND WORST) OF 2005
It's that time of the year again. The Midnight Eye folks make their annual lists and you get your say in our Readers' Poll. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
REVIEWS:
LITTLE BIRDS
Far from the embedded media, a Japanese cameraman follows the harrowing day-to-day life of ordinary citizens in Iraq. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
VENGEANCE IS MINE
Shohei Imamura's classic serial killer chronicle resurfaces on DVD. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
YAJI AND KITA: THE MIDNIGHT PILGRIMS
Psychedelia meets Japanese pop culture in this zany directorial debut by Kankuro Kudo, screenwriter of recent hits like Ping Pong, Zebraman and Go. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
ROUND-UP:
If Akira Kurosawa is not exactly a regular in these pages, it's certainly not for lack of appreciation. Here is a look at some recent DVD releases of a number of the master's films. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
BOOK REVIEW: THE FLASH OF CAPITAL
Eric Cazdyn's new volume looks at Japanese film history from a different angle. <a href=www.midnighteye.com">Read on
Telepolis: [...] "Herausgekommen ist also ein höchst ambivalentes Stück Kino, in seinem Realitätsgehalt gering, politisch wie moralisch fragwürdig, aber jedenfalls spannend anzusehen und unbedingt sehenswert. Ein letztes Problem von "Munich" ist das der fiktionalen Geschichtsschreibung. Wie auch in "Der Untergang" gibt der Film Ereignissen Bilder, die niemand je gesehen hat, von deren Ablauf keiner etwas weiß. Er suggeriert eine "Wahrheit", die es nicht gibt. Spielbergs Version der Geschichte wird sich als Faktum in den Köpfen festsetzen, zumindest vorläufig. Das verstellt nicht nur den Blick auf die historische Wahrheit, es verstellt auch den Blick für die künstlerischen Stärken von "Munich". Weiter
Es geht weiter mit der Cinemathek der Süddeutschen:
51. Sofi a Coppola: Lost in Translation 18.02.2006
52. Sam Peckinpah: The Wild Bunch 25.02.2006
53. John Carpenter: Die Klapperschlange 04.03.2006
54. Jacques Tati: Playtime 11.03.2006
55. Lars von Trier: Breaking the Waves 18.03.2006
56. Francis Ford Coppola: Rumble Fish 25.03.2006
57. Samuel Fuller: Vierzig Gewehre 01.04.2006
58. R. W. Fassbinder: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss 08.04.2006
59. David Lean: Doktor Schiwago 15.04.2006
60. Claude Sautet: Die Dinge des Lebens
wnyc.org: "It has sex between two matinee idols in a tent, but is Brokeback Mountain really a gay movie? Many critics think it isn’t. But—pardon the expression—how can you tell? And could Brokeback just be a Priscilla, Queen of the Desert for the 21st century? Also: NJ politics, suing the government and juicy supreme court decisions." Download/Listen here
"Set after the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg's film, Munich, follows a secret Israeli squad assigned to track down and kill the 11 Palestinians suspected of having planned the attack. Critic Kenneth Turan says Spielberg's film is about the "murkiest, most divisive of real world issues." Listen here
wnyc.org: "The Danish filmmaker set Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, and Manderlay in America. But they were all shot on sound stages in Europe, because von Trier won't set foot in the United States." Listen here
This interview is part of "Us and Them" - Kurt Andersen and Azar Nafisi talk about how artists around the world view American art and culture.
greylodge.org: "Hamburg, 1983. F.M. is a youngster leading an idle urban life, totally alienated from his environment, and only active when making “sound experiments” in his home studio. [...]
Auch diese "Superbox" ist mit 
Meine absolute Lieblingsserie der späten 90er, Für alle Fälle Fitz (im Orginal: Cracker), ist ab März 
I can't wait to see this one. Dancing, fighting, singing, beautiful men and women. A movie for the whole family.