Tributes - Retrospectives - Cinema on cinema
JAPAN | 89 minutes | 1963
Yakuza, Triads and maggoty GIs in a world of bloody revenge and impressionistic violence. A classic, just-restored cool-detective flick. An irreverent indulgence. A lesser-known film by the Japanese master, but still one of his most iconic works. The ultimate avant-garde pop rebel lays the foundations for his long-term deconstruction of the gangster movie. With the rules cast aside, the detective flick implodes and art fills the void. Starring the always amazing Jô Shishido.
Seijun Suzuki, born Seitaro Suzuki (24 May 1923 – 13 February 2017), was a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded as his magnum opus, Branded to Kill (1967), starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taish? Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagero-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991).
A jubilant backlash to the obscurantism inflicted by Communist diktat of the 1980s. A biopic tribute to the leader of the Gdansk shipyard workers’...
Feature film , Biography
POLAND | 89 minutes | 2013
Landmark restoration of a masterpiece of Spaghetti Western. The 50th anniversary of a cult film revered and fetishized by Tarantino and Alex Cox, and with...
Feature film , Western
ITALY , France | 89 minutes | 1968
The continuation of Man of Marble (1976), this feature film, winner of the 1981 Palme d’Or, is based on the famous struggle for workers’ rights that...
Feature film , Drama
POLAND | 89 minutes | 1981
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