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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst essen Seele auf AKA Ali: Fear Eats the Soul...
Quote: Ali (Salem), is a young Moroccan Gastarbeiter (guest worker) in his late thirties, and Emmi (Mira), a 60-year-old widowed cleaning woman. They meet when Emmi ducks inside a bar, driven by the...
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Koji Wakamatsu – Otoko goroshi onna goroshi: hadaka no zyudan (1969)
Description: Welcome in the underworld, on your left there’s some gangsters, on your right be careful there’s shootings, murders, betrayals… Enjoy the jazzy mood ! Three killers stole money and drugs...
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Paul Thomas Anderson – Junun (2015)
In Spring 2015 Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood and ‘The Rajasthan Express’ were hosted by the Maharaja of Jodhpur at Mehrangarh Fort. This beautiful and joyously unique 3...
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Jacques Demy – Les parapluies de Cherbourg AKA The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Quote: Geneviève, 17, lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. She and Guy, a twenty-year-old auto mechanic, are secretly in love and want to marry, but when she reveals...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Xiao Kang (2015)
Synopsis: This year, the Viennale has once again succeeded in garnering a great director of world cinema for the creation of the traditional festival trailer. At the Viennale’s invitation, the...
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Serdar Akar – Barda (2007)
Quote: A group of teens are having a fun night out at a bar until a gang takes the entire clique hostage. They torture the boys and rape the girls. After that night, nothing is the same anymore and...
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Cédric Jimenez – La French AKA The Connection (2014)
Quote: A stylish, 70’s-period crime thriller inspired by true events, The Connection tells the story of real-life Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (Academy Award, Winner Jean Dujardin, The Artist,...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – L’Eclisse (1962)
Synopsis : Leaving her lover of four years, Vittoria starts an affair with a stockbroker. But as the film progresses, her emptiness becomes more obvious, echoed in the buildings and the landscape, and...
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Liliana Cavani – Il portiere di notte AKA The Night Porter (1974)
Quote: In Liliana Cavani’s scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – Professione: reporter (1975)
Synopsis A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he’s been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance. IMDb.com...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Katzelmacher (1969)
Quote: Katzelmacher was a revelation. One of only a handful of Fassbinder films which I had not seen before, it seems among his best, and most challenging, works. Fassbinder’s second feature film,...
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Kaneto Shindô – Sanka AKA Hymn (1972)
Quote: Shindo’s “Hymn” is one of many adaptions of Tanizaki’s classical novella ‘Shunkinsho’ (‘A Portrait of Shunkin’,1933). The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind...
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Paolo Sorrentino – Youth (2015)
A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s...
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Sylvia Chang – Nian Nian AKA Murmur of the Hearts (2015)
Synopsis (by Giovanna Fulvi @ tiff.net) Legendary Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang directs this magical story of estranged siblings whose shared memories of their mother’s fairy tales...
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Koreyoshi Kurahara – Aru kyôhaku AKA Intimidation (1960)
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-sized noir concerns the intertwining fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed...
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Serge Gainsbourg – Charlotte for Ever (1986)
By Vladislav Mikhailov: Serge Gainsbourg is the same person in cinema as in music – a gambler, a cynic, a blackmailer, an unshaven bozo with raspy voice. This film is not a melodrama, it’s a story of...
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Philip Haas – Angels & Insects (1995)
In the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British aristocrats. based on A.S. Byatt’s creepy, wonderful, novel… And there’s nothing creepier than Patsy Kensit’s doughy pig-face. from allmovie:...
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Nicolae Margineanu – Poarta Alba AKA White Gate (2014)
Adrian and Ninel are among the inmates crammed into the freight cars that have just arrived in one of the forced labor camps of the Danube-Black Sea Canal. Among those convicted, there are teachers,...
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Elio Petri – Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto AKA AKA...
Quote: A paranoid police procedural, a perverse parable about the corrupting elements of power, and a candidate for the greatest predated Patriot Act movie ever, Elio Petri’s stunning thriller makes...
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Fritz Lang – Das Indische Grabmal AKA The Indian Tomb (1959)
Quote: The second part of “Der Tiger von Eschnapur” begins with a de rigueur summary. Although it’s the same movie divided into two for business concern,”Das Indische Grabmal” surpasses its...
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