From the “The Return of the Sorcerer” (featuring the late great Vincent Price) from the TV show The Night Gallery. This episode is an adaption of the classic Clark Ashton Smith horror short story of the same name and is a part of the Cthulhu/Elder God Mythos created by H.P. Lovecraft. The giant painting is from Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot Deck.
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.
I'll be uploading some films and documentaries once in a while (I'm only going to put up the masterpieces). Many of them will be European with English subtitles. Hope you enjoy them.
Let me start you will a stunning beautiful and heartbreaking Russian film called...
Utomlyonnye solntsem (Burnt by the Sun)
Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his village with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianist bravura. But Kotov isn't fooled: this is the time of Stalin's repression, with telephone calls in the middle of the night spelling doom - and he knows that Dmitri isn't paying a social call...
The French title for the movie was "Deceitful Sun", and I find it more appropriate. Although the film bathes in quiet sunlight, it deals with one of the darkest eras of Russian/Soviet history: Stalinism. In the early 1930's, Stalin decided to eliminate much of the newly arisen communist elite whom he did not trust anymore, and hired former enemies of communism, or half-criminals, to eradicate his own official allies.
I can't get enough of the pure beauty of the scenery in this film, the warmth of the characters, the pain you feel when you know what doom awaits them around the corner. Based on an a autobiography written by the character depicted as the young girl, she wrote the book as an old woman in remembrance of her father and those dark and terrible times.
In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. An illegal guide (Aleksandr Kajdanovsky), whose mutant child suggests unspeakable horrors within The Zone, leads a writer (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) and a scientist (Nikolay Grinko) into the heart of the devastation in search of a mythical place known only as The Room. Anyone who enters The Room will supposedly have any of his earthly desires immediately fulfilled.
Some people would call David Icke controversial. I would call him a brilliant psychotic.
His ability to speak for hours on an incomprehensible doctrine is stunning. But listen carefully and the methods of his madness become apparent.
He has a brilliant talent for the subtle interweaving of plausible with crazy, and packaging the in-between gray areas as thought-terminating clichés like “secret societies”, “brotherhood”, “free masons” and other slogans and catchphrases popular with modern conspiracy thinking.
The magic is in his ability to dispense seemingly innocuous tidbits of (allegedly true) earth history one moment, then slipping in talk of aliens crossbreeding with humans the next moment. Talk sane, touch on some crazy, go back to the safety of sane. Rinse and repeat until the listener can swallow the crazy with the sane.
This ability to subtly slide in and out of the realm of plausible is the same potent cocktail used by science fiction writers to blur the lines between the possible and the impossible to keep viewers coming back for more.
This 25 minute video has been distilled from a 217 minute video. I’ve removed the plausible to expose the rest. Enjoy the madness.
Brilliant documentary documentary by French director Jean-Michel Roux.
In Towns like
Hafnarfjörður and Reykjavik, Iceland a large percent of the population
believe in elves, ghosts and other paranormal entities. In fact, many
claim to have seen them, and some even claim to engage in frequent
contact with them. This rare documentary is the first outside look at
the strange, but seemingly common events that take place on this small,
remote island country.
This
film is definitely not for the faint hearted. Its subject matter is
violent and brutal; the characters are bizarre; the film is graphic in
its images, and pacing. At first sight this may appear just another film
about violence in a prison. This, I suggest, is an illusion. Rather,
this is one of the most intense films I have ever watched on any subject. "Ghosts... of the Civil Dead" does not seem to be well known. I
recommend it to those seeking thought-provoking movies : but be
prepared for a real walk on the wild side! You will remember this one. Trust me. Download: https://mega.co.nz/#!14lSCaDC!emXM8LDM-tJWnFmwrk31aocgpwCfLIoVLCRcKOLnk_U
And now for something completely different. Famed Royal Shakespeare Company director Peter Brook helms this multinational production of India's greatest epic myth. A seemingly simple tale of two sets of semidivine brothers vying for the throne spirals out to include wider themes of fate, free will, and the problems of behaving dishonorably to preserve the greater good. The film, adapted from Brook's stage production, uses a presentational style, with the epic's narrator slipping in and out of the action and characters stopping to address the camera. The international cast and simple costuming add to the timeless, dreamlike feel of the story. The Mahabharata does an excellent job of reverently presenting a cherished myth without losing the passion and excitement of the story.
Peter Brook's version of the Mahabharata is theatrical, philosophical, spare, poetic. It is rendered in gentle, nearly monochromatic hues and with often silent backgrounds, interspersed with periods of hauntingly beautiful music. The actors are gifted, if a bit too grand and mythic in their presentation. As in the written versions, the characters motives are seen to be, in turns, grounded and human, and unearthly and enlightened.
Such a powerful mix, and such a penetrating vision of life. I highly recommend this film!
