Ula Stöckl – Neun Leben hat die Katze AKA The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968)
Here’s one of the quintessential films (according to film historians and secondary literature, that is) of the “New German cinema”, the feature debut of Ula Stöckl which is considered one of the first...
View ArticleWim Wenders – Chambre 666 AKA Room 666 (1982)
Synopsis: During the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, Wenders asks a number of film directors from around the world to get, each one at a time, into a hotel room, turn on the camera and sound recorder, and,...
View ArticleMaria Maggenti – The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995)
This enjoyable film combines features of teen movie, coming-of-age film, and lesbian flic. Made by a female director, with attractive actors, it is a role-reversal farce. The appeal is not restricted...
View ArticleRithy Panh – La France est Notre Patrie (2015)
Quote: La France est notre Patrie (English: France Is Our Mother Country) is a 2015 Cambodian-French film directed by Rithy Panh. This latest film of the director is a story of a failed encounter...
View ArticleKristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov – Urok AKA The Lesson (2014)
In a small Bulgarian town, Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher and devoted mother, struggling to keep her life together. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband has secretly spent...
View ArticleVarious – BFI Film Classics Series: 154 Titles (1992 – 2015)
Quote: BFI Film Classics is a series of finely written, illustrated books that introduce, interpret and celebrate landmark films of world cinema. Each volume offers an argument for the film’s classic...
View ArticleFred C. Newmeyer – Gambling Sex (1932)
Gambling Sex (1932) A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune. Stars: Ruth...
View ArticleYimou Zhang – Gui lai AKA Coming Home (2014)
Quote: The story is adapted from the novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi (simplified Chinese: 陆犯焉识; traditional Chinese: 陸犯焉識) written by Yan Geling. Lu Yanshi had been a professor before being sent to the...
View ArticleTonino De Bernardi – Verso la strada del sole (2015)
This last short of Tonino De Bernardi is a meditative film about his life and cinema: he recovers an experimental short film made in the 60s and sticks in the final part of the film a sequence with...
View ArticleSight & Sound – Sight & Sound: January – December 2015 (2015)
All 12 issues of Sight & Sound published in 2015. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/52BAE2E2013AA6C/Sound_and_Sight_2015.rar no pass
View ArticleSam Stourdzé – Fellini (2014)
The career of Federico Fellini lasted for forty years and made him perhaps the most illustrious of all the filmmakers to have come out of Italy. Those forty years saw the appearance of titles that...
View ArticleJanus Metz Pedersen – Armadillo (2010)
Storyline: In February 2009 a group of Danish soldiers accompanied by documentary filmmaker Janus Metz arrived at Armadillo, an army base in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. Metz and cameraman...
View ArticleIsaakas Fridbergas – Kukolka (1988)
Kukolka” tells the story of a young Russian gymnastics star who is forced to return to the life of an ordinary teenage girl after an injury prevents her from competing. As the film unfolds, the...
View ArticleTodd Solondz – Dark Horse (2011)
Quote: “Dark Horse” tells the story of Abe, a loser who leads a life of such agony that he might explode in misery if he weren’t protected by his cluelessness. A tubby, balding, 35-year-old arrested...
View ArticleAlex van Warmerdam – Schneider vs. Bax (2015)
Quote: A relatively straightforward genre exercise compared with last year’s Cannes-competing “Borgman,” “Schneider vs. Bax” (which has already opened in its native Netherlands, where it did arthouse...
View ArticleManoel de Oliveira – A Divina Comédia AKA The Divine Comedy (1991)
Quote: In a mental institution the patients see themselves as people like Jesus, Lázaro, Marta, Maria, Adão, Eve, Sonia, Raskolnikov, Aliosha e Ivan Karamasov, a Philosopher, a Profet, Santa Teresa...
View ArticleBartabas – Mazeppa (1993)
Quote: Mazeppa tells the story of a painter (Gericault) who is brought into the sensuous and strange world of a traveling “circus” — not like Ringling Bros., but more of a demonstration of horse...
View ArticleAlexander Alexeïeff & Claire Parker – The Pinscreen Animations (Various)
Quote: ALEXANDRE ALEXEÏEFF DVD Animation works DVD PAL, 30 films English French booklet 20 pages Total running time 137 min. Price 30 Euros. Languages : English – French Complements : Picture gallery,...
View ArticleKen Loach – Looking for Eric (2009)
Plot Synopsis from Allmovie A man trying to put his life back on track gets some advice from an unexpected benefactor in this comedy-drama from acclaimed British director Ken Loach. Eric Bishop (Steve...
View ArticleKen Loach – It’s a Free World… (2007)
Quote: Fresh from the great success of The Wind that Shakes the Barley, his Palme d’Orwinning story of the “Irish Troubles,” Ken Loach returns to a contemporary setting with an absolute zinger of a...
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