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Arnaud Desplechin – Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse AKA My Golden Days (2015)
Paul is preparing to leave Tajikistan, while thinking back on his adolescent years. His childhood, his mother’s madness, the parties, the trip to the USSR where he lost his virginity, the friend who...
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Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love...
Quote: In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers’ minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening, Stanley Kubrick dared to make a film about...
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Curt McDowell – Thundercrack! (1975)
from imdb A true underground satire, 11 October 1999 8/10 Author: Dave Godin (Dave G) from Sheffield, England THUNDERCRACK! is, in a strange way, a scurrilous precursor of DEAD MEN DON’T WEAR PLAID,...
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Frank Capra – Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is a 1936 American screwball comedy film directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in her first featured role. Based on the 1935 short story “Opera Hat” by...
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Klaus Kinski – Kinski Paganini [Director’s Cut] (1989)
Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary “devil violinist” Paganini, who set whole Europe of the 19th century into frenzy and through whose personality Klaus...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Masculin, féminin: 15 faits précis AKA Masculine Feminine...
Synopsis: The story follows a young man in his early twenties named Paul (Jean-Pierre Léaud) who has just gotten out of his required tenure in the French army. He finds himself having difficulty...
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Peter Greenaway – Eisenstein in Guanajuato (2015)
Synopsis: In 1931 the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein travels to Guanajuato to direct his film Que viva México. There he encounters a new culture and its dealings with death; he also discovers...
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Jean-Luc Godard – 3x3D: Les trois desastres (2013)
Qute: It’s no surprise that in undertaking his first 3D project (one third of 3X3D, a triptych that also includes Peter Greenaway and Edger Pêra), Jean-Luc Godard would do so much that everything else...
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – 5 Fingers [+Extras] (1952)
Synopsis (possible spoilers): “Based on a true story. In neutral Turkey during WWII, the ambitious and extremely efficient valet for the British ambassador tires of being a servant and forms a plan to...
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Victor Fleming – Red Dust (1932)
Plot: Conditions are spartan on Dennis Carson’s Indochina rubber plantation during a dusty dry monsoon. The latest boat upriver brings Carson an unwelcome guest: Vantine, a floozy from Saigon, hoping...
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Stéphane Brizé – La loi du marché AKA The Measure of a Man (2015)
At the age of 51 and after 20 months on unemployment, Thierry starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?...
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Andreas Dresen – Stilles Land AKA Silent Country (1992)
Up until the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist rule in East Germany, the most anyone in the outlying regions of that country knew about its overall situation was...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Spokoj AKA The Calm AKA Peace (1976)
Quote: Based on the short story A Step Beyond the Gate / Krok za brame by Lech Borski). A television feature that is considered to have been one of the pioneering films in the cinema of moral anxiety....
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Claude Chabrol – La demoiselle d’honneur aka The Bridesmaid (2004)
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister’s bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is. Quote: the bridesmaid (First Run) Going to a new Chabrol film these days...
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Gaspar Noé – Love (2015) (HD)
Murphy is an American living in Paris who enters a highly sexually and emotionally charged relationship with the unstable Electra. Unaware of the effect it will have on their relationship, they invite...
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Jean Rollin – La comtesse Ixe AKA The Countess X (1976)
Rollin creates a scenery in an aristocratic atmosphere where a group of friends come together to have a party. However in the woods surrounding the castle a kleptomaniac is hiding and waiting to take...
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John Cromwell – Caged (1950)
Quote: Caged, considered the best woman’s prison film ever made, represents a union between realistic socially conscious drama and the more stylized world of film noir. Marie, (Eleanor Parker), is...
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Francis Ford Coppola – Dementia 13 AKA The Haunted and the Hunted (1963)
Dementia 13-Francis Ford Coppola’s black and white shocker is certainly one of the creepiest horror movies of an early 60’s.It predates all the slasher films made in 70’s and 80’s.Surprisingly spooky...
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Lizzie Borden – Born in Flames (1983)
Plot Summary for Born in Flames (1983) Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a revolution in which a socialist government gains power, this films presents a...
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Donna Deitch – Desert Hearts (1985)
Quote: It is 1950s Nevada, and Professor Vivian Bell arrives to get a divorce. She’s unsatisfied with her marriage, and feels out of place at the ranch she stays on, she finds herself increasingly...
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