CALLE SANTA FE BY CARMEN CASTILLO (2007)
Carmen Castillo’s Calle Santa Fe is a monumental documentary about Chilean resistance and its repression by the Pinochet estate. In 1974, Castillo was forced to exile after she escaped a military assault that took her husband’s life -Miguel Enriquez, one of the MIR leaders. France has thus become her adoptive country. From there however, the struggle continues more than ever. As Castillo returns to Chile, she tries to gather the pieces from her memories but also from her relatives, neighbors and formers comrades to question the sense of a lifetime struggle that aroused so many sacrifices. Check out our full review.
THE PICK OF THE WEEK BY... JACQUES BIDOU. French Bidou is known for his committed productions, from Rithy Panh’s Rice People to Patricio Guzman’s Salvador Allende through Raoul Peck’s Lumumba. He’s producing these days Tsaï Ming-liang’s new project among others. If you've missed the previous Picks of the Week (Alain Cavalier, Juliane Lorenz, Jacques Maillot), click here to know more.
VIDEO ON DEMAND It is now possible to watch your selection of movies from home without actually leaving your home: all you need do is download them ! Check out our VOD catalog of films exclusively available on Dissidenz on a worldwide basis : Otar Iosseliani’s early Georgian films, Marc Caro’s short films and also a selection of films by Luc Moullet, Raul Ruiz, Marguerite Duras as well as contemporary filmmakers such as Anastasia Lapsui, Mariana Otero, Jean-Stephane Sauvaire etc. Feature-length films are available for rental for €4.99 for 72 hours and short films are available for €1.99. You can download the films from a PC or a Mac!
You don’t understand anything about VOD ? Filmmaker and former Cahier du cinéma critics Luc Moullet will take you to an interactive tour. Click here.
sHOPPING. Check out our DVD online store. For your first DVD purchase on Dissidenz, we are delighted to offer you one of the following DVDs in the limit of available stock : Nathalie Granger by Marguerite Duras, Bab el-Oued City by Merzak Allouache and Seven Songs From The Tundra by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio. Click here to know more about the conditions.
DECEMBER 7 Opening of the 7th Marrakech International Film Festival (until December 15), whose jury president this year is Milos Forman.
DECEMBER 11, 20:00 Screening of Amerika - Rapports de Classes at Reflet Médicis (3 rue Champollion, 75005 Paris) as part of a Straub & Huillet retrospective (every Tuesday until March 11, 2008).
ONE FROM THE HEART (DVD)
On the occasion of Francis Ford Coppola’s latest theatrical release (Youth Without Youth), (re)discover one of the Italian American master’s boldest films. Click here!
MAN RAY's FILMS (DVD)
Here’s a selection of Man Ray’s cinematic works: the very famous Return to Reason and Emak Bakia -two of the most important experimental works in film history- but also The Mysteries of the Chateau de De and L'Etoile de Mer, as well as ten short autobiographical films, creating an intimate portrait of an extraordinary life and a fascinating personality. Buy now!
HARUKI YUKIMURA & NANA-CHAN (VOD)
On the occasion of the French DVD release of Destricted by Larry Clark, Matthew Barney, Gaspar Noé, Marina Abramovic, Richard Prince, Sam Taylor-Wood and Marco Brambilla, check out Haruki Yukimura & Nana-Chan, a fascinating 38-min film by Xavier Brillat (Ballroom’s co-director with Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic) about shibari –the Japanese art of binding that comes from the samurais’ era and produces genuine erotic living paitings. The film is available on Video on Demand worldwide for as much as 1.99 euro (for a 72-hour period). Read the review to learn more.
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