If you're not sure what the word ''eviscerateO' means, you'll know what it feels like by the end of this shocking bit of celluloid. Boy, will you know! As the title suggests, Fudoh represents a new…
1998
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If you're not sure what the word ''eviscerateO' means, you'll know what it feels like by the end of this shocking bit of celluloid. Boy, will you know! As the title suggests, Fudoh represents a new generation of nihilistic gangster mayhem. For the director, Takashi Miike, too much is never enough. Rivers of blood pour forth, bullets spew in torrents, heads part company from bodies and this is all before the opening credits. At the center of this revenge-driven madness is Ricki Fudoh and his ragtag bunch of schoolyard killers. Ricki is trying to wipe out organized crime's old guard.
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Let's get this out of the way immediately: Forbidden City Cop is the most hilarious martial arts film ever made. Period! Filled with slapstick, silly high jinks and goofy cinematic references, it'll leave you N- yes, I dare say N- rolling in the aisles. The story goes something like this: His name's Fat, Ling Ling Fat. He's one part mad inventor, one part Inspector Clouseau, and has somehow become one of the king's guardians. Fat is out of favor at court because his Kung Fu is kung fooey.
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The central character of Hamilton Sterling's Faith of Our Fathers is an optimistic chimneysweep N- there ends any similarity to Mary Poppins. Charles starts out in L.A. full of hope, believing he can succeed in turning an honest buck through honest effort. He encounters a failed priest, the ironically named Nicholas Nickleby, who radiates a tireless cynicism that would shock a politician. In most films, old Nick would be a glowing guardian angel, magically appearing and guiding the neophyte away from evil. Sterling instead assigns Charles a fallen angel of the streets.
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Resck camp isn't even marked on the map,'' muses Comrade Nagi as he threatens an elderly inmate. A hopeless situation for the internees in this prison. Save for one man's mission to escape from behind the Iron Curtain and broadcast to the world their existence. Gyala Molnar is detained by the police on New Years Eve, 1948. He is never seen again. Unknown to his family and friends, Molnar is locked away in a secluded labor camp outside of Budapest. By a twist of fate, Molnar's arresting officer has also been imprisoned.
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Many children prefer to leave the closet light on to keep the monsters away at night. Some end up in their parents' bed. Those monsters, however, are but imaginary. But the monster who is the main focus of Barry Hershey's feature debut The Empty Mirror is far too real. A bold re-imaging of the man who committed the most heinous crimes in history, we find Adolf Hitler (Norman Rodway) if he had survived WWII, left to contemplate his deeds. If Hitler lived to write his memoirs, how would he justify his actions? Hershey challenges us to examine the myth vs.
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San Francisco-based filmmaker Marcia Jarmel never identified herself as a Jew. That was before a friend's wedding where she was drawn into the Orthodox Jewish world. She takes her camera to Crown Heights, Brooklyn, the center of Lubavitcher Chassidic life, to explore what draws modern, educated women to choose such a restrictive way of life. Along the way, Jarmel learns about her own Jewish identity as well as the choices one makes in life and the rich benefits of community.
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In 1992, the small peninsula community of East Palo Alto was filled with crime and designated as the ''murder capital of the United States.'' This absorbing, in-depth documentary by Michael Levin tells the 100-year history of this misunderstood town. A superb blend of historical research and a revealing and hopeful portrait of how people can make a difference.
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Three women, two days, one family: an apt, if oversimplified, synopsis of Chris Brown's absorbing feature film debut. Daughters gives us a snapshot view of the lives of three generations of women, each facing an age-related crisis. Jade is turning 50. She lives with her mother, a cynical woman who refuses to stop smoking despite serious health problems, and her daughter, a 25-year-old slacker-in-training. Jade tries to prod her housemates into doing what's ''right'' while dealing with the eminent bankruptcy of her own home-based business.
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Every so often a film acquires the status of a landmark, not necessarily because it is a wide-screen epic or has Hollywood stars or has an unusual amount of violence or sex. Darling is none of these, but is the story of the ruthless, self-seeking climb in London society of an ordinary girl (albeit very attractive). It came along in the mid-sixties when social upheavals were just starting to happen on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Alone by choice, Billie has settled for the life of a drifter. Until, that is, she finds herself stuck in a small fishing village. After a scam goes bad, she limps back to the motel only to discover all her money has been stolen. Billie's definition of freedom is tested as she is forced to ''rely on the kindness of strangers.'' Thinking that a local man, Ben, is responsible for the theft, she bullies her way into his life. Although he is often frustrated by the rules, Ben is ready to play. Then she meets his friend, Ted.