A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in shadowy backplay, which relates the imagined encounter of two passengers.
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The Wheel of Life
Jointly and respectively directed by King Hu, Lee Hsing, and Pai Ching-Jui, three major Taiwan directors of the 1970s, this film consist of three shorts with the same cast of two actors and one actress, who through reincarnation meet in three different times.
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The Weird Man
Chang is known for his lone swordsman and hero movies and strangely The Weird Man still reflects this. Cheng plays a righteous, beheaded priest with supernatural powers that returns from the dead to wreak havoc against one of the corrupt kingdoms, making Cheng a heroic swords-ghost.
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Khaidi
Suryam, the son of a poor farmer, falls in love with a vicious feudal lord’s daughter, with drastic consequences.
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Mududida Tavare Aralithu
Chandrashekar, a construction engineer, meets his uncle, who he considers to be responsible for his father’s death. But, his uncle tries to prove his innocence and rebuild a healthy relationship.
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Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
A New York detective and a victim’s colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.
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Aalaya Sikharam
Seenu is the bread winner of his family. When his older brother Shekhar completes his education, the family hopes for better times. However, Seenu has to shoulder more responsibilities.
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Uruvangal Maralam
Uruvangal Maralam is a Tamil language film starring Y. Gee. Mahendra in the lead role of the protagonist. This movie is literally a remake of the English movie ‘Oh, God!’. The story revolves around Y.G.Mahendra who believes in God more than anything else in this world.He is once called by God Sivaji Ganesan who tells him that he has to inform people about the various things about to happen in the future. Y.G starts his task of telling people, but no one believes him in the beginning. Slowly when what he says starts occurring people term him a powerful monk and start coming to…
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Neil Young in Berlin
The Godfather of Grunge is captured live on his TRANS tour on this release filmed in Berlin in October 1982. The gravel-voiced, messy rock legend is as impassioned as ever, banging out 11 hits, including the classics “Hey Hey, My My,” “Like a Hurricane,” “Cinnamon Girl,” and “Needle and the Damage Done” as well as such new songs as “Transformer Man” and “Computer Age.”
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Tower of Tanneries
The wealthy merchant Salama moves from the tannery neighborhood to live in his new building in Mohandessin. His son, Hisham, returns from the war of 73 with a leg injury and PTSD, and his wife, Nadia, clings to him. As for his son, Issam, he owns a boutique, and his girlfriend, Nana, supplies him with goods from abroad, including medicine for his father. Salama decides to marry Nana, so Issam gets rid of her so that she will not share the inheritance with them.