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Asghar Farhadi – Darbareye Elly AKA About Elly (2009)
Quote: About Elly, Iranian director Asgher Farhadi’s fourth feature, is a tightly-knit, intense drama about a sunny story gone tragic. Winner of the Best Director award at the Berlinale this year, the...
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Jean-Loup Hubert – Le grand chemin aka The Grand Highway (1987)
IMDB Review: Roads Scholar, 20 September 2004 Author: writers_reign Quite simply this is one of the Best French films of the last fifty years. The relatively unknown Jean-Loup Hubert has produced the...
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Satyajit Ray – Pather Panchali (1955)
Quote: A boy named Apu is born to a poor but proud Brahmin family. His loving older sister, Durga, is a sweet girl, but has formed the bad habit of stealing fruit from an aunt’s orchard, much to her...
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Chaitanya Tamhane – Court (2014)
“India’s Oscar entry, COURT by Chaitanya Tamhane, is a masterpiece – a work of the deepest empathy, sublime in its construction.” –Joshua Oppenheimer, director of ACT OF KILLING Sypopsis: Winner of...
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Sergei Loznitsa – Sobytie AKA The event (2015)
Synopsis In August 1991 a failed coup d’e´tat attempt (known as Putsch) led by a group of hard-core communists in Moscow, ended the 70-year-long rule of the Soviets. The USSR collapsed soon after, and...
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Alice Wu – Saving Face (2004)
A romantic comedy about right, wrong and everything in between A Chinese-American surgeon, living in Manhattan, is shocked when her single mother shows up on her doorstep pregnant. To help her mom...
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Jean Rollin – Le lac des morts vivants AKA Zombie Lake (1981)
In a small lakeside town in the French countryside, young women are disappearing without a trace. The superstitious locals blame “The Lake of Ghosts,” but the town’s mayor (Howard Vernon) seems...
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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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Pasquale Festa Campanile – La ragazza di Trieste AKA The Girl from Trieste...
Synopsis: Dino Romani (Ben Gazzara) is an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket,...
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TVTV – TVTV Looks at the Oscars (1976)
EAI writes: Made in 1976, TVTV’s close-up look at Hollywood’s annual awards ritual mixes irreverent documentary with deadpan comedy. TVTV’s cameras go behind the scenes to follow major Hollywood...
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Benoît Jacquot – Pas de scandale AKA Keep It Quiet (1999)
Quote: In common with many of Benoit Jacquot’s films, Pas de scandale is an intensely sombre character study centred around one person experiencing a mid-life crisis. This time, his subject is a...
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Ferdinando Baldi – Una vita lunga un giorno (1973)
Quote: An unsual thriller with gialloesque themes Andrea Rispoli a desperately poor Genoese sailor, Anna, the sick wife (Ewa Aulin) needs an expensive treatment to escape death. The only way ‘exit for...
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Erwin C. Dietrich – She Devils of the SS (1973)
In the last days of WW2, women are volunteering from all over Germany to serve in the front lines by having sex with the brave Nazi soldiers. But when they start having sex with each other, things get...
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Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon – Mita Tova (2014)
THE FAREWELL PARTY is a compassionate dark comedy about friendship and knowing when to say goodbye. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to...
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Ismail Basbeth – Menuju rembulan AKA Another trip to the moon (2015)
A magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom. In fairy tales, legends and myths that spread throughout Indonesia;...
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Guy Maddin – Cowards Bend the Knee or The Blue Hands (2003)
Quote: It’s time for hockey! There’s no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons’ own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her...
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Saverio Costanzo – La solitudine dei numeri primi aka The Solitude of Prime...
Adapted from the novel by Paolo Giordino, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is the third feature film from the Italian director Saverio Costanzo (Private, In Memory Of Me) and is, to my eyes anyway, a...
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Bing Wang – Feng ai AKA ‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Wang Bing wrote: There is no freedom in this hospital. But when men are locked inside a closed space, with iron wire fence and no freedom, they are capable of creating a new world and freedom between...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Hable con ella AKA Talk to Her (2002)
Quote: The closing act of the New York Film Festival, and one of the season’s most rewarding films, Talk to Her strikes a variety of chords: It’s uproarious, whimsical, sad, preposterous–sometimes...
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Ki-duk Kim – Samaria AKA Samaritan Girl (2004)
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin “manages” her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in...
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