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A child is born. We see underwater swimmers representing this. He is young, in a jungle setting, with two fanciful "instincts" guiding him as swooping bird-like acrobats initially menace, then delight. As an adolescent, he enters a desert, where a man spins a large cube of metal tubing. He leaves his instinct-guides behind, and enters ...

Runtime

39m

Director

Keith Melton

Cast

Ian McKellen, Nicky Dewhurst, Brian Dewhurst

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

Terrence Malick

Cast

Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Gillian Armstrong

Cast

Judy Davis, Sam Neill, Wendy Hughes

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yūichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of pop star Lily Chou-Chou.

Runtime

2h 26m

Director

Shunji Iwai

Cast

Hayato Ichihara, Shugo Oshinari, Ayumi Ito

A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.

Runtime

2h 27m

Director

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast

Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Ginzô Sekiguchi