Second-hand Reading (2013)

第25話「Air」 全ての使徒を倒したNERVに対し、サードインパクト発動を目論むゼーレが戦略自衛隊を使った武力占拠を開始する。施設が次々と破壊・占拠されていく中、シンジは戦自隊員に発見され殺されそうになるが、生きる意思を失くしていたシンジは抵抗すらしなかった。それをミサトが寸前で救出するが、移動中に銃撃に遭って負傷し、シンジにEVAで戦うよう言い残して命を落とす。 第26話 「まごころを、君に」シンジを乗せたEVA初号機を依代としてサードインパクトが始まる。これによって人類は個体の生命体としての姿を保てなくなり液化して崩れていき、その魂は「黒き月」に集められる。初号機はレイやカヲルの姿をとる巨人（第2使徒リリス）に取り込まれ、シンジはレイとカヲルに再会する。そこでシンジは人類が単体の生命となることを望まず、それぞれの個人がいる従来の世界を望みリリスは首から血を噴き出しながら倒れ崩れ落ちていく。

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.

Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.

監獄の中、雑居房のひとつで、1人の少年が渾身の力を込め、1人の青年の首を絞めた。犯行を発見した看守たちに取り押さえられた少年は「ぼくがやりました！」と叫び続ける。この殺人事件を捜査し始める、警部（石橋蓮司）と警部補（遠藤憲一）。加害者と思われる少年は有吉淳（松田龍平）。ゲイバーで働いていた有吉は、男客から性的暴行を受けたことから逆上し殺害に及ぶ。被害者の青年は香月史郎（安藤政信）。幼い頃から様々な罪を犯し、最終的には路上で人を殴り殺した。偶然にも有吉と香月は同日に、この刑務所に投獄されている。誰にも心を開かない有吉と、気に入らないとだれかれ構わず殴り倒してゆく凶暴な香月。正反対のタイプにも関わらず、香月は有吉を守り、2人の間には濃密で暖かい空気が流れていた。そして、捜査線上に浮かび上がるもう1人の男。それはこの刑務所の新所長（石橋凌）。ぞっとするような笑みをたたえながら、恐ろしく優しい口調で話しかけるこの所長は、かつて自分の妻を香月に暴行され、結果妻は自殺するという壮絶な過去を持っていた。誰が真実を告げているのか？　そして、「ぼくがやりました！」と叫び続ける有吉の真意とは……。

What does the energy harnessed through orgasm have to do with the state of communist Yugoslavia circa 1971? Only counterculture filmmaker extraordinaire Dušan Makavejev has the answers (or the questions). His surreal documentary-fiction collision WR: Mysteries of the Organism begins as an investigation into the life and work of controversial psychologist and philosopher Wilhelm Reich and then explodes into a free-form narrative of a beautiful young Slavic girl’s sexual liberation.

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.

A woman lies on the sand, left there by the tides and waves (and in a pose that would be copied in From Here to Eternity). She reaches up across tree roots and makes a difficult climb. Only to discover herself climbing horizontally along a long dinner table as bourgeoise black-tie guests chat and drink and smoke, oblivious to her. At the top of the table, a man is playing chess but abandons the game. Fascinated, she gazes at board, the pieces moving unaided. The woman chases a pawn as it falls to the floor. Falls down a waterfall. Is lost.

Short documentary directed by Jean Vigo about the French swimmer Jean Taris. The film is notable for the many innovative techniques that Vigo uses, including close ups and freeze frames of the swimmer's body.

Songs for Drella is a concept album by Lou Reed and John Cale, both formerly of The Velvet Underground, and is dedicated to the memory of Andy Warhol, their mentor, who had died unexpectedly in 1987. Drella was a nickname for Warhol coined by Warhol Superstar Ondine, a contraction of Dracula and Cinderella, used by Warhol's crowd. The song cycle focuses on Warhol's interpersonal relations and experiences, with songs falling roughly into three categories: Warhol's first-person perspective (which makes up the vast majority of the album), third-person narratives chronicling events and affairs, and first-person commentaries on Warhol by Reed and Cale themselves. The songs on the album are, to some extent, in chronological order.

A train speeds through the country on its way to Berlin, then gradually slows down as it pulls into the station. It is very early in the morning, about 5:00 AM, and the great city is mostly quiet. But before long there are some signs of activity, and a few early risers are to be seen on the streets. Soon the new day is well underway. It's just a typical day in Berlin, but a day full of life and energy.

Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a teenage boy from his class named Toni, and the two engage in a brief sexual tryst. As the relationship between teacher and student begins to develop, some dark truths emerge about the young man and his mysterious group of friends.

A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.

A Japanese fairy tale meets commedia dell'Arte. All in white, the naïf Pierrot lies in a wood. Doo-wop music plays as he rises, stares about, and reaches for the moon. Although music abounds and the children of the wood are there at play, Pierrot is melancholy and alone. Harlequin appears, brimming with confidence and energy. He conjures the lovely Colombina. Pierrot is dazzled. But can the course of true love run smooth? Filmed in France in 1950, it was not completed nor released until 1971

A visual representation, in four parts, of one man's internalization of "The Divine Comedy." Hell is a series of multicolored brush strokes against a white background; the speed of the changing images varies. "Hell Spit Flexion," or springing out of Hell, is on smaller film stock, taking the center of the frame. Montages of color move rapidly with a star and the edge of a lighted moon briefly visible. Purgation is back to full frame; blurs of color occasionally slow down then freeze. From time to time, an image, such as a window or a face, is distinguishable for a moment. In "existence is song," colors swirl then flash in and out of view. Behind the vivid colors are momentary glimpses of volcanic activity.