Cold Lazarus is a British television four-part drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying from cancer of the pancreas. Unfortunately, a side effect of his last wishes for the BBC and Channel 4 to collaborate on these works has been that the copyright and further usage rights to the works has remained unclear. For this reason neither Karaoke (prequel) or Cold Lazarus are available on DVD. Karaoke, however, can be found on this very channel. Dr. Emma Porlock and her colleagues, attempting to unlock the secrets of human memory for the Masdon drug empire, get a cryogenically stored 400-year-old human head to project its memories through virtual reality displays. But Porlock and her team are chronically under-funded, and she may have to go around Masdon to a media sleaze merchant to get the money she needs to maintain the project. But an even more complex world of secret police, RON (Reality-Or-Nothing) riots, and murder is going on outside the lab. And the deeper Porlock goes into the frozen memories of the writer Daniel Feeld, the more twisted the labyrinth of intrigue becomes. Writer Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney), first seen in Dennis Potter's Karaoke, returns three centuries later as a disembodied head. While technology has advanced in the 24th Century, global corporate control has brought about an austere, antiseptic way of life. In the year 2368, the terrorist organization RON (Reality or Nothing), seeks a return to the tranquillity of earlier times. At the Masdon Science Center, a team of scientists led by Emma Porlock (Frances De La Tour) succeeds in extracting memories from Feeld's cryogenically preserved head - memories which are, in fact, scenes from Karaoke. Aging Martina Masdon (Diane Ladd), the tyrannical owner of the Science Center, and international media mogul David Siltz (Henry Goodman) see the potential for the commercial exploitation of Feeld's memories. As Siltz puts it, "Who would want made-up stories from a hack when you can mainline into the real thing? At last, privacy has a true market value."

"A self-diagnosed nymphomaniac recounts her erotic experiences to the man who saved her after a beating." Nymphomaniac (stylised as NYMPH()MANIAC onscreen and in advertising) is a 2013 European two-part erotic art film written and directed by Lars von Trier. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Stellan Skarsgård, Stacy Martin, Shia LaBeouf, Christian Slater, Jamie Bell, Uma Thurman, Jean-Marc Barr, Willem Dafoe and Connie Nielsen. The plot follows Joe (played by Gainsbourg and Martin), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac, who recounts her erotic experiences to a bachelor who helps her recover from an assault. The narrative chronicles Joe's promiscuous life from adolescence to adulthood and is split into eight chapters told across two volumes. The film was originally supposed to be only one complete entry, but, because of its length, von Trier made the decision to split the project into two separate films. Nymphomaniac was an international co-production of Denmark, Belgium, France, and Germany. Nymphomaniac is the third and final installment in von Trier's unofficially titled Depression Trilogy, following Antichrist and Melancholia. Plot On a snowy evening, middle-aged bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) finds self-diagnosed nymphomaniac Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) beaten up and lying in the alleyway behind his apartment. He takes her back to his home and, over tea, listens intently as Joe recounts the story of her libidinous life. Seligman, a highly educated but cloistered man, connects and analyzes Joe's stories with what he has read about. Seligman's favourite hobby to read about is fly fishing, which is why he has a fly fishing lure on his wall and this is how their conversation begins. Throughout the story he parallels much of what she has experienced with various methods of the sport. Volume I Inspired by a fly fishing lure on the wall behind her and Seligman's love of Izaak Walton's book The Compleat Angler, Joe opens her story by talking about her precocious sexual fascination during her early childhood. Her father (Christian Slater) is a tree-loving doctor whom she adores while her mother (Connie Nielsen) is, as Joe describes her, a "cold bitch". In adolescence, Joe (Stacy Martin) loses her virginity to an arbitrary young man named Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf). This first encounter, which ends with Jerôme casually leaving her to fix his moped, leaves her disappointed, while Seligman observes that the combination of the number of times Jerôme penetrated her, three times vaginally and five times anally, resembles the Fibonacci sequence... ///// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymphomaniac_(film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1937390/ https://odysee.com/@BMovieBoxcar:d?view=lists https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

Hotel Chelsea / Chelsea Walls (2001) The Chelsea Hotel used to be grand, the place to live for New York City artists. Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Sid Vicious… they all passed through the hotel's halls. Still, even though the iron façade has become rusty, new dreamers come every day, hoping to be inspired by the ghosts of the past. Grace (Uma Thurman) and Audrey (Rosaria Dawson) are young poets, who constantly struggle with issues of art and love. Never learning from experience, they always seem to let the wrong men into their hearts. Grace should love Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio), an artist who respects and understands her. But she still responds to the siren call of the lover who went to Hollywood. Similarly, Audrey lets impenetrable Val (Mark Webber) back into her life, knowing he will leave again and maybe never return. Down the hall, Bud (Kris Kristofferson) is a writer who faces more endings than beginnings. He pretends that his wife, Greta, (Tuesday Weld) and his mistress, Mary, (Natasha Richardson) are his muses. But his novel is really fueled by an endless supply of alcohol, memories, and unfulfilled dreams. For every worn out writer, there are two new musicians who come to town. Ross (Steve Zahn) and Terry (Robert Sean Leonard) have just driven in from Minnesota, eager to experience the sights and sounds of the Chelsea Hotel. These new hotel residents, young and full of expectations, mingle with the old hotel ghosts and guests, ultimately becoming interchangeable. They form a community, linked by their dreams. The Chelsea Hotel never really leaves the people who live there, nor do they ever really leave it. Ethan Hawke, who directed the film, said about it that "“I think of it more as a double album than a film.” ...A tone poem of sorts, “Chelsea Walls” is a character meditation, rather than a character study. His film is slowly paced, achingly acted, and as languid as a pool of blood in a hotel hallway. It has almost no plot, no beginning, no middle, and no end. It simply is. And, with a few exceptions, it is something we want to see. There are not so much stories here as characters and moments. Not even moments… non-moments. Filmmaker and scripter Ethan Hawke would rather meander through the hallways of the fabled Chelsea Hotel in New York City, opting to pause here and there to collect a moment. His characters are vulnerable and hurt. They float through the hallways, between the walls, and into the rooms like mere ghosts of humanity, like artists. There is Kris Kristofferson as an aging writer coping with his immense sexuality and the notion of its loss. There is Uma Thurman as a would be artist caught in a purgatory of love with a men, not allowed to become a real woman because the men in the world will simply not allow her the freedom to grow. There is Robert Sean Leonard and Steve Zahn as two newbies to NYC who play beautiful and emotional songs in the bathroom. The beauty of the songs are a smoldering yet surreptitious indication of the dark elements threatening to crush Leonard. There is Rosario Dawson, a young poet stuck in the nether-world of love while her innocent and teenage boyfriend Mark Webber proves himself to be heading down the wrong track, thanks to the input of his brother Kevin Corrigan. There is Jimmy Scott as a gambler, a jazz singer lost and lonely in his world built on its own meaninglessness. Hawke rambles through these characters like a man on Quaaludes. He often lingers too long. (The Kristofferson story is not only reminiscent of several other films out there, it’s quite dull). Sometimes he doesn’t linger long enough. (The Jimmy Scott story goes nowhere). Sometimes it is perfection. (The moment where Dawson shaves Webber is flawless in its exploration of innocence about to be lost). Hawke’s film is masterful in its use of music. Not only do characters in the film play music on screen, but the score by Jeff Tweedy of Wilco is perfection. Tweedy often brings us songs that sound like Eno’s ambient work with acoustic guitar thrown in. The film plays, indeed, like the double album Hawke thinks it to be. It’s like listening to an old Dylan album. Only you’re listening with your eyes as much as your ears. You are listening visually. Chelsea Walls isn’t for everyone. It's of an acquired taste. Some people will hate it. But if one simply goes expecting to see glimpses of life, moments that pass, time in perfect and perfunctory order, they will be awed by its power to crystallize moments. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0226935/ https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

The Imitation Game is a 2014 American historical drama film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question "Can machines think?", in his 1950 seminal paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who decrypted German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong appear in supporting roles. The Imitation Game was released theatrically in the United States on November 28, 2014. The film grossed over $233 million worldwide on a $14 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing independent film of 2014. It received eight nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, winning for Best Adapted Screenplay, five nominations at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards, and three nominations at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards. It also received nine BAFTA nominations, and won the People's Choice Award at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival. The film was criticized by some for its inaccurate portrayal of historical events, and for downplaying Turing's homosexuality. However, the KGBTQ+ civil rights advocacy organization the Human Rights Campaign honored it for bringing Turing's legacy to a wider audience with its subtle and realistic approach. ///// The Imitation Game on vuonna 2014 ensi-iltansa saanut Morten Tyldumin ohjaama historiallinen sotadraamaelokuva matemaatikko Alan Turingista. Turing tunnetaan natsi-Saksan Enigma-koodin selvittäjänä toisen maailmansodan aikana. Turing tuomittiin myöhemmin homoseksuaalisuudesta. Elokuvassa Turingia näyttelee Benedict Cumberbatch. Elokuva perustuu Andrew Hodgesin elämäkertaan Alan Turing: The Enigma ja elokuvan on käsikirjoittanut Graham Moore.[1] Elokuva sai ensi-iltansa Telluriden elokuvajuhlilla vuonna 2014. Elokuva esitettiin myös Toronton elokuvajuhlilla vuonna 2014, jossa se palkittiin elokuvajuhlien pääpalkinnolla.[2] Elokuvateatterihin elokuva saapui Yhdysvalloissa 21. marraskuuta 2014. Suomessa ensi-ilta oli 20. helmikuuta 2015. Elokuva palkittiin parhaan sovitetun käsikirjoituksen Oscarilla. Lisää samanlaista: https://odysee.com/@TV-Kanava:b?view=lists https://odysee.com/@FinnKino:4?view=lists https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists