Friday, October 8, 2010

Drowning by Numbers (1988, Director: Peter Greenaway)

"Tired of her husband's philandering ways, the mother of two daughters drowns her husband. With the reluctant help of the local coroner, the murder is obscured. Her daughters are having similar problems with relationships, and tend to follow their mother's example, and the coroner becomes reluctantly duplicitous. As the plot progresses, visual and spoken numbers appear in the scenes, counting from one to 100."...Ed Sutton, IMDB




















Cast


Joan Plowright ...
Cissie Colpitts 1

Juliet Stevenson ...
Cissie Colpitts 2

Joely Richardson ...
Cissie Colpitts 3

Bernard Hill ...
Madgett

Jason Edwards ...
Smut

Bryan Pringle ...
Jake

Trevor Cooper ...
Hardy

David Morrissey ...
Bellamy

Thursday, October 7, 2010

The Holy Mountain (1973, Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky)

"A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal."...Marty Cassady, IMDB

 

























Cast


Alejandro Jodorowsky ...
The Alchemist

Horacio Salinas ...
The Thief

Zamira Saunders ...
The Written Woman

Juan Ferrara ...
Fon

Adriana Page ...
Isla

Burt Kleiner ...
Klen

Valerie Jodorowsky ...
Sel

Nicky Nichols ...
Berg

Richard Rutowski ...
Axon

Luis Lomeli ...
Lut

Ana De Sade ...
The Prostitute

Chucho-Chucho ...
The Chimpanzee

Je t'aime moi non plus (I Love You, I Don't) (1976, Director: Serge Gainsbourg)

"The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay. Maybe because of her boyish looks, Krassky likes her too. Both don't notice the growing jealousy of Krassky's boyfriend Padovan - until an escalation."...Tom Zoerner, IMDB





























Cast


Jane Birkin ...
Johnny

Joe Dallesandro ...
Krassky

Hugues Quester ...
Padovan

Reinhard Kolldehoff ...
Boris

Gérard Depardieu ...
Man on horse

Jimmy Davis ...
Moïse