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Marcel Camus – Os Pastores da Noite AKA Othalia de Bahia (1975)
The last theatrical film by Marcel Camus based on the identically named novel by Jorge Amado. Set in Bahia, the film presents three interconnected stories set amongst prostitutes, cardsharpers, pimps,...
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Emin Alper – Tepenin Ardi aka Beyond the Hill (2012)
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: It’s a summer’s day and retired forester Faik is receiving visitors at his country home. His son Nusret has come to visit with Faik’s two grandsons Caner and Zafer. Despite the summer...
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Yesim Ustaoglu – Araf (2012)
Quote: There isn’t much that can prepare you for the drastic second-half turn of “Araf,” an often-gorgeous drama playing in the Main Slate at the New York Film Festival. Evocative and somewhat alien...
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Various – Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (2011)
Synopsis Several directors from countries of the region were invited to create stories taking place in and around the beautiful city of Istanbul, in the vein of “Paris, je t’aime” and “New York, I...
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Pelin Esmer – Gozetleme Kulesi AKA Watchtower (2012)
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: A man and a woman seeking refuge from the world: Nihat at a remote forest fire tower, Seher in her room at a rural bus station. When their lives collide, each now has to fight their...
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Aparna Sen – 15 Park Avenue (2005)
The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali (Shabana Azmi) is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for her family and...
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Luciano Emmer – Il miracolo di San Gennaro (1948)
Quote: Made on behalf of a Catholic society, it is a short document about anthropological myths and rituals in the city of Naples narrated by Eduardo De Filippo. Long considered lost, it has recently...
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Luigi Di Gianni – Nascita di un culto (1968)
Quote: In a country in the South of Italy, the cult born around the death of a boy, Albert, who each day, from the time of his death, at 8:36, up to 16 “incarnates” in the body of her aunt handing out...
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Jean Eustache – La soirée (1961)
Unfinished film by Jean Eustache (1961, or ’63), with Jean-André Fieschi, Chantal Simon, Paul Vecchiali and André S. Labarthe. 7 minutes – No sound Quote: Premier film de Jean Eustache, librement...
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Mary Ellen Bute – Finnegans Wake (1966)
Quote: A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only...
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Mary Ellen Bute – Seven short films by Mary Ellen Bute (1934 – 1940)
(From Wikipedia) Mary Ellen Bute (November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983) was a pioneer film animator who did much of her work in visual music. She was one of the first female experimental filmmakers in...
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Simon Klose – TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (2013)
An intellectual freedoms documentary based around the interpersonal triumphs, and defeats of the three main characters against the largest industry in the known universe. The media industry....
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Mary Ellen Bute – The boy who saw through (1956)
Bosley Crowther, NY Times, January 6, 1959 wrote: Also on the bill at the theatre is a whimsical and amusing three-reel film, entitled “The Boy Who Saw Through,” about a lad who can see through walls....
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Amat Escalante – Sangre (2005)
Quote: Diego (Cirilo Recio) is a cross-eyed, middle-aged man who works as a doorman in a government building and spends the day counting the persons who pass in front of him. His younger wife Blanca...
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Yôji Yamada – Otoko wa tsurai yo: Tabi to onna to Torajiro aka Tora-san 31:...
Quote: On a ship en route to the Sado Islands, Tora-san enjoys the company of a beautiful woman (Miyako Harumi), unaware that she’s a famous enka singer traveling incognito. In this variation on Roman...
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Alexander Mackendrick – Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Synopsis: ‘J.J. Hunsecker, the most powerful newspaper columnist in New York, is determined to prevent his sister from marrying Steve Dallas, a jazz musician. He therefore covertly employs Sidney...
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Paul Negoescu – O luna in Thailanda aka A Month in Thailand (2012)
“A twenty-something generation that doesn’t know what it wants is laid bare with droll accuracy but also a dose of sympathy in this slow-burning romantic dramedy by young Romanian director Paul...
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Terence Fisher – Wings of Danger (1952)
Quote: “A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes...
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Sergei Loznitsa – V tumane AKA In the Fog (2012)
Quote: Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation, and local partisans are fighting a brutal resistance campaign. A train is derailed not far from the village, where...
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Ramin Serry – Maryam (2000)
From IMDB Several of the negative comments about this film were so blind. This movie is about American culture and makes you think about big questions that nag us — why do Americans respond to a...
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