Pascal Comelade

From https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/screenings/the-velvet-suite/: "Velvet Suite is a 38 min. documentary of a concert event of the same name he recently staged with Lee Ranaldo and others interpreting the music of the Velvet Underground before a live audience in Spain. Ignacio Julia is a filmmaker and writer who published the book Linger On: The Velvet Underground through Thurston and Eva Moore’s imprint Ecstatic Peace Library. Ignacio is the editor of Spain’s Ruta 66 and the author of several music books."

A man trying to forget his loneliness with food, sees his left foot turn into Suzanne, a woman he once loved.

A feelgood documentary about Nothing, in which Nothing, tired of being misunderstood, tries to defend its cause. Filmed worldwide by 100+ complementary DoPs, scored by cabaret grandmasters Pascal Comelade & The Tiger Lillies, narrated - in simple childish verse - by Iggy Pop.

Verano en Berlín. Katrin y Nike son dos amigas que viven en una casa antigua de lo que fue Berlín Este. El piso de Nike tiene un balcón, donde pasa noches enteras charlando con Katrin, que vive con su hijo en la planta baja. Suspendidas entre el cielo y la tierra, se instalan en el balcón y observan la existencia diversa y compleja de los hombres, reflexionando acerca de sus propias vidas y de sus deseos.

Violeta está confundida por dos necesidades que chocan constantemente en su corazón: la de devorar hombres compulsivamente y la de una vida estable al lado de una sola persona que la quiera. Por eso, La mirada violeta es una visión de ese momento decisivo y crucial de nuestras vidas en el que decidimos –nos imponemos– ser maduros y dejar de vivir peligrosamente. Aunque, en este caso, Violeta determina vivir sola, libre en sus deseos.

Marie wakes up one morning in Beirut in a panic, convinced that she has lost her daughter’s wedding photograph. A photograph, however, that never existed… Ten years ago, her daughter’s marriage ceremony had to be cut short on account of a bombing raid. There was no time for a wedding photograph. Now, with the aid of a photographer and a chicken, Hoda and her husband decide to reconstruct the wedding ceremony once more, so that Hoda’s mother will at last have the photograph she deserves…

Una mujer llamada Lola encuentra trabajo en la casa de un escritor, excentrico y ermitaño. Poco a poco la mujer comprueba que el voluntario aislamiento del señor de la casa, oculta un extraño universo. Es un mundo interior lleno de sombras donde la mujer irá incluyéndose, siendo partícipe.

A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...

Emil is an elderly circus director. His pleasant and all-too-frequent duty is to greet people from every village in the land. Again and again the tired old fighter refuses to stop and wonder whether it is worthwhile - though this is the question foremost in his mind.

"The little dancer followed the music..."