Revenge of the Punks (1991)

Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.

昼はホームセンターの従業員。夜は世の悪人を葬る仕事請負人。二つの顔を合せ持ち、19秒で世の不正を抹消するイコライザーことロバート・マッコールが帰ってきた。日米でスマッシュヒットとなった前作『イコライザー』から4年、昼はタクシードライバーとして働く今作でも、彼の仕事の流儀は変わらない。世の不正を裁くのに必要な時間は19秒。身の回りのモノを武器に変えて完全抹消。報酬はなし。 しかし、無双の戦闘スキルで仕事を完遂してきたイコライザーに、その流儀さえも脅かす最大の難関が訪れる。何故ならば、今度の敵は自分と同じ特殊訓練を受けた《イコライザー》だった―。

互いに大事な人を殺し、運命的に出会ったふたりの女の子。意気投合し、あてのない逃避行の旅に出る。現金や銃を強奪し、男を誘惑してセックスしては殺していく“無敵のガールズ”ナディーヌとマニュの行き着く先は…。

Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when protecting his family.

パットがボーカルを務めるバンドは、車のガソリン代にも事欠く、売れないパンクバンド。彼らが極貧ツアーの中、ようやく出演することができたライブハウスは、なんとネオナチの根城だった。パットとバンドメンバーは、そこで殺人の現場を目撃してしまい、ネオナチ軍団から命を狙われる事態となってしまう。圧倒的に不利な状況で、グリーンルーム（英語で「楽屋」の意味）に閉じこもったパットたちは、アイデアと反骨精神を武器に極悪非道なネオナチ軍団に立ち向かう。

アメリカ西部の原野、ハンターのヒュー・グラスは狩猟の最中に熊の襲撃を受けて瀕死の重傷を負うが、同行していた仲間のジョン・フィッツジェラルドに置き去りにされてしまう。かろうじて死のふちから生還したグラスは、自分を見捨てたフィッツジェラルドにリベンジを果たすべく、大自然の猛威に立ち向かいながらおよそ300キロに及ぶ過酷な道のりを突き進んでいく。

悪質な暴走族が牛耳る町、ブルックス。そこに謎の黒い車、ターボ・インターセプターが出現し暴走族たちを蹴散らす。やがて両者を巡る驚きの真実が明らかに……。チャーリー・シーン主演の80年代カー・アクション。

When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.

野獣に襲われたとおぼしきいくつもの死体。宮廷より派遣されたフロンサックは、野獣の正体解明と事件解決に向けて捜査を始める。予想外の展開にド肝を抜かれるアクション・エンタテインメント作。

Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem.

ベン・アフレックの長編監督デビュー作は、弟ケイシー・アフレックを主演に迎えたサスペンス・アクションだ。小さな町で少女誘拐事件が発生。捜索を依頼された私立探偵は、やがて衝撃の真実に気付くが……。

A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a horrible revenge.

レイプ罪で捕まった男が14年の服役を終えて出所。自分を敗訴に導いた弁護士への逆恨みに燃える男は、弁護士の家族に復讐の魔の手をのばしていく……。『恐怖の岬』をリメイクした究極のサスペンス・スリラー。

自動車修理工のスタンリー・ヒル（ジョン・トラヴォルタ）は、目の前で強盗に妻を殺害される。容疑者は逮捕されたにもかかわらず裏社会とつながる悪徳警官によって釈放され、事件は闇に葬り去られてしまう。理不尽な現実と、妻を守れなかった自分の無力さに怒りを爆発させたスタンリーは、かつて特殊部隊の工作員として極秘任務に関わった殺人スキルを解き放ち、リベンジの鬼と化していく。

愛する妻と娘を惨殺され、不在だった自分を責める敏腕弁護士。多くの言葉を操り成功してきた彼が、家族のかたきを取ろうと沈黙の誓いをたて、憎き犯人に挑む。

スゴ腕スタントマンのマイクは、愛車“デス・プルーフ”に乗り、美女をナンパしては死のドライブに誘っていた。ある日マイクは、テネシー州で豪快なスタントライドを楽しむ3人の女性たちに目をつける。いきなり車をぶつけ、しつこく追い回すマイクにキレたゾーイたちは、決死の猛反撃に挑む。

ある男を探してゲイクラブへ押し入る2人組。彼らは男を見つけ出すと凄惨な暴力を加える。発端はあるパーティの夜。マルキュスは会場に残り婚約者アレックスを一人で帰してしまう。その直後、アレックスはレイプに遭い、激しい暴行を受けてしまうのだった。自責の念に駆られるマルキュス。彼は友人でアレックスの元恋人のピエールとともに犯人探しを開始する。やがて、女装ゲイ、ヌネスを探し出した2人は、ヌネスからついにテニアという男の名を聞き出すのだった…。＜邦題はモニカ・ベルッチ演じる主人公の名前。原題は「ひっくり返せない、不可逆、取り返しがつかない」を意味するフランス語で、いくつかの文字が裏返されている。シークエンスは後に起こったものが先にあり、時系列的には最初のシーンがラストに示される。また、エンドロールが冒頭で逆回しされ、クレジットの文字R/E/Nが鏡文字となっている。およそ9分にわたるレイプシーンの描写は評価がわかれた。＞

Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...

Naturally beautiful, Katie has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. But what starts out as an innocent and simple photo shoot soon turns into something disturbingly unthinkable! Raped, tortured and kidnapped to a foreign country, Jessica is buried alive and left to die. Against all odds, she manages to escape. Severely injured, she will have to tap into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive, but to exact her revenge…

アメリカ北東部からカナダへと大自然が広がる、アパラチア山脈。そこに山小屋を構え、一人暮らしをしている元アメリカ軍人のベンジャミン。そんな彼の前にセルビア人の元兵士コヴァチが現れ、一緒に狩りを楽しむことに。しかし、山へと足を踏み入れるや、コヴァチはベンジャミンに向けて矢を放つ。混乱しながらも、軍隊と山での生活で得た経験と技術を生かして応戦するベンジャミンだが、この人間狩りにはボスニア紛争で起きたある事件が深く関わっていた。

A short film by Stan Brakhage featuring music by Rick Corrigan.

Flares of color break into streams of light, leaves, wood grain and prism-etched vegetation. A moon lifts out of this dark weave to be replaced by autumn leaves against a grainy sky, a fiery sky. A gray cat licks itself. A black cat sits quickly down on a green lawn. A "night" of showering dark, a "dawn" of pinks and yellows of plant growth in close-up. A gentle yellow "high noon" prevails into which the orange worm appears and reappears, twisting, arching, turning. A phosphorescent orange of leaves explodes midst greens and black holes appropriate to the image of the worm. The forms of many varieties of leafage mix with a veritable rain or clash of overall tones, a fire of forms, a glowing color photo-negative of worm, and the final canopies of autumn tone and sky tone permeated by sun, sun streaks and octagonal prism shapes ad infinitum.

A send-up of Griffith's THE LONELY VILLA and other movies of that sort, such as THE GIRLS AND DADDY, THE LONEDALE OPERATOR and many others, as the heroine, thinking that burglars are trying to break into her home phones her husband at the office, who rushes home.... well, who tries to rush home in his chauffeur-driven automobile.

The second part: Brakhage’s layering of images spends less time with images of war, and begins filtering in scenes of Vienna and his home in Colorado. He sets up a comparison between “Kubelka’s Vienna” and his own.

We move back and forth between scenes of a family at home and thoughts about the stars and creation. Children hold chickens while an adult clips their wings; we see a forest; a narrator talks about stars and light and eternity. A dog joins the hens and the family, while the narrator explains the heavens. We see a bee up close. The narrator suggests metaphors for heavenly bodies. Scenes fade into a black screen or dim purple; close-ups of family life may be blurry. The words about the heavens, such as "The stars are a flock of hummingbirds," contrast with images and sounds of real children.

This meditation takes its visual imperatives from the occasion of Mesa Verde.

No information available regarding the film's director. Just under 10 minutes of over an hour's footage survive.

Rather than telling his parents, who have another girl picked out for him, Bob brings home his new wife disguised as his friend "Steve."

In honor of the cat, so named, and the goddess of all cats which she was named after. - CAT Film Festival

ハナワカズイチは銃砲刀剣類等不法所持、火薬類取締法違反で懲役3年の刑を受ける。晩秋の日高刑務所で受刑者番号222番を与えられ、刑務所生活が始まった。ハナワはそれぞれひとクセもふたクセもある4人の受刑者たちと同房。ハナワを含めた彼ら5人は次第に奇妙な連帯感で結ばれていく。ハナワにとって刑務所内での暮らしは予想に反して平穏で居心地の良いものだった。厳しく、一見風変わりな規律はたくさんあるが、暴力などは一切なく、テレビも見れて雑誌も読める。刑務所の中では、そんな穏やかな毎日が日々繰り返されていた。

An experimental animated short film in which a piano plays a song and the keys, hammers, and various other parts of the piano are different colors.

A science fiction story about a young boy who discovers and befriends a small robot at a shopping arcade. The robot is hungry and he grows in size as he devours a number of machines of increasing size.

A necrophilic doctor, a man wearing headphones and a bunch of cannibals are just a few of the characters in this bizarre debut by director Lê Bình Giang about the cyclical effect of violence.

A short film by Stan Brakhage.

The final Duplicity film does seem at resolve with the term. All previous visual manifestations have been extended to their limits, through four-roll superimpositions. Obvious costumes and masks. Drama as an ultimate bid for truth, and totemic recognition of human and animal life-on-earth dominate all the evasions a duplicity otherwise affords.

When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...

A short film by Stan Brakhage.

“Freud established that jokes were structurally akin to dreams in their use of condensation, displacement, representation by opposites, punning and ‘nonsense’. All of these strategies are much in evidence in (Land’s) marvelously duplicitous ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE… [...] so clever and original a filmmaker as to make most others – not to mention his critics – seem flat-footed by comparison. ON THE MARRIAGE BROKER JOKE harks back to Bunuel’s early work. Not only is it structured like a dream and filled with sexual imagery, but like Un Chien Andalou, it smacks of being an insider’s joke played upon the avant-garde. Where Bunuel used the insights of psychoanalysis to satirize Christianity, Land– with an almost equal perversity – reverses the process and uses Christianity to send up Freud.” – J. Hoberman, American Film

This film by Stan Brakhage investigates the process of memory and thought by melting a series of images and a field of color. The positive-negative flickering graphs a sort of shutter-window all over the matter of the vision. Jittery flocks of space are interweaving as pieces of language in a scant illumination, whereas the process of thought is sheared in fuzzy transience.

“The Riddle of Lumen” presents an evenly paced sequence of images, which seem to follow an elusive logic. As in “Zorns Lemma” the viewer is called upon to recognize or invent a principle of association linking each shot with its predecessor. However, here the connection is nonverbal. A similarity, or an antithesis, of color, shape, saturation, movement, composition, or depth links one shot to another. A telling negative moment occurs in the film when we see a child studying a didactic reader in which simply represented objects are coupled with their monosyllabic names in alphabetical order. –P. Adams Sitney