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"Simon-killer" ("Simon Killer")

Director Antonio Campos (2012)

The second film is a deceptive ordinary American director of Kampos (from his debut work “Afterschool” - about the dull tragedy of growing up, the longing of the American college and the possibility of cinema as a magical means of exposing reality, it seems that half of the Sandensian contestants of the last four years). "Simon" is written in co -authorship with the performers of the main roles of Matti Dyop and Brady Corbet. The character of the latter belongs to the ancient and vast group of sobs-sobs, each step of which creates a mixed sense of disgust and anxious expectation of disaster in the viewer. The matter takes place in Paris - in search of himself and peace, American Simon, Mamenkin’s son of vague classes and with an unexplored past, arrives in his soul. He glues girls on the streets, writes sentimental and invigorate letters to the former, enters into constant street conflicts with a sharp Parisian youth and, in the end, finding himself without money and without a house, finds a shelter with a young prostitute-scam-macock (from this moment the most interesting begins). It can be seen that, despite all the abominations committed by Simon for the film, the director sympathizes with his hero a little-he, firstly, supplies him with beautiful passionate dreams, and secondly, almost childish vulnerability, and thirdly a good and slightly girlfriend in Ipod.

"Always on Sundays" ("Always on Sundays")

Director Ken Russell (1965)

The early and rare television movie Ken Russell, Bayopic about Henri “Customs” Russo (in the role of Russo is the famous British self-taught artist James Lloyd). In this short, only 40 minutes, a black and white dumb tragicomedy, there are still no characteristic signs of the directorial manner of Russell-a camp grotesque, a complex, almost opera scenography, a mixture of black humor and transgression, a parody of sex and a cartoon for the church. The style of Rousseau’s television life is congenial, but bewitching wild work-almost a flat picture of three by four, the eccentric in the spirit of the early slappsters (the main comic load lies on the dwarf-pataphysics of Alfrede Jarry) and, which is quite uncharacteristic for Russell, sentimental humanism. In the figure of a lonely enthusiast in a beret, tirelessly rolling a wheelbarrow with his works, either in the salon or back, every decent person of a free profession easily recognizes himself, his friend, or, if lucky, his enemy.

"Comrades: Almost a love story" ("Tian Mi Mi")

Director Peter Chan (1996)

The secret treasure of Hong Kong Cinema, the great folk hit of 1997. In fact, this, of course, is a completely love story: a visiting person from continental China (Leon Lai) is approaching the business and independent employee of the Hong Kong McDonald's (Maggi Chun), successfully leaving himself as an indigenous islander. The bride is waiting for him at home, she dreams of success, wealth, career. He makes a difficult path from the peddler to the chef, she plays on the stock exchange, begins to speculate with real estate, organizes her real estate agency. He writes out the bride from the mainland, she marries a tattooed kolobok from the Triad. All this time - 10 years, almost before the transfer of Hong Kong China - they continue to sleep, walk, talk to each other, in vain convincing themselves that this is not love. The film continuously sound honey hits of the Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. Another bonus of the film is a small role, in fact, Camoo, Christopher Doyle, who plays, in general, himself - an ever -drunken expanse who teach the Chinese English curses.

"Summer in Red Hook" ("Red Hook Summer")

Director Spike Lee (2012)

Lee Lee Lee Remock Oldboy is now in a wide box office; But the previous one, somewhat more ambitious film Lee Lee last year almost no one noticed. Invisible, invisible in the Brooklyn quarter of Red-huk (rows of identical multi-storeys of red bricks, views of the docks, Crac-trading at the corners) at first, his hero-thirteen-year-old Flik, ​​who grew up in Atlanta, is still in the greenhouse and sent to the New York to his grandfather, who had never seen. Grandfather is a pastor in a tiny Baptist church, Flik is a convinced (as far as possible at 13 years) an atheist who shoots everything around on the iPad ; The senior relative, of course, will try to turn the youngest into faith. It is quite painful to look at this story of one growing up: the film stumbles, stumbles, then rolls into absurd comic episodes, then it revels in spectacular scenery (“Dawn over the ghetto”, panorama) - in truth, I would like to escape. Whether in fact the same trick is turning here with the viewer as with the hero. When Flik is mastered in the area and begins to listen to the spectacular militias of the grandfather (the church appears here to a full-fledged music theater), it calms down, and is formed and loose before that, imperceptibly tightening inward. Well-being in the films of a violent African American is never long-and here there is also a hard plot turn that suddenly makes an idle question about how much teenage boys need a church, painfully urgent. Is there God in the church, doesn’t he know, but in an unobvious, soulful finale, however, he will make it clear exactly where he himself has repeatedly noticed the presence of the Divine. In the viewfinder, the film cameras and on the movie screen-and I must admit, I would like to turn into this faith after the “Summer in Redkhuk” immediately.

"Escape from tomorrow" ("Escape from Tomorrow")

Director Randy Moore (2013)

For a low-budget debut “Escape from Tomorrow”, he managed to produce an enviable splash-first of all, of course, thanks to the partisan background: Randy Mour shot his film (on “tourist” fiber cameras) on the territory of Disneyland in Orlando without permission from Walt Disney . Nobody would have given him permission - in the “escape from tomorrow” Disneyland, this through the artificial world of embodied fantasies, becomes the perfect decoration for the revived nightmare. In the first scene of the film Rochl-hero, who is resting in the entertainment park with his wife and two children, the phone call is fired from work. In the second, he will already stare at a couple of French high school students, in the third-he will begin to hallucinate right on the carousel. Further, the degree of madness will only increase (formally the plot will explain this with the virus of the “cat” influenza), until it turns out to be completely Kronenberg absurdity. Very bold - and not only in terms of shooting with a hidden camera, but also in the dashing of the delirium that occurs on the screen, - cinema.