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Anthony Mann – The Tin Star (1957)
Synopsis Veteran bounty-hunter Morg Hickman rides into a town in danger. The sheriff has been killed, and young inexperienced Ben Owens named a temporary replacement until a permanent can be found....
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Edgar G. Ulmer – Ruthless (1948)
Quote: Multi-millionaire Horace Woodruff Vendig (Zachary Scott) shows himself to the world as an ambitious philanthropist, but that’s far from the case. Even as a young man he starts to exhibit an...
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Julien Duvivier – Voici le temps des assassins aka Deadlier than the male (1956)
Synopsis: André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André...
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Isaac Julien – Derek [+Extras] (2008)
Quote: An artist spends his or her existence examining life through their art, so why is it often so hard to use art to examine the artist’s life in turn? We’ve all seen biopics that merely scratch...
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Radu Jude – Aferim! (2015)
Story Set in early 19th century Wallachia, when a local policeman, Costandin, is hired by Iordache, a boyar (local noble), to find Carfin, a Gypsy slave who had run away from the boyar’s estate after...
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Safi Yazdanian – Dar donya ye to saat chand ast? AKA What’s the Time in Your...
On a sudden whim Goli decides to return to Iran after 20 years of living in France. She lands in Rasht, her home town, located in the north of the country. Farhad, a frame maker by trade, comes to...
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Raoul Walsh – Me and My Gal (1932)
Synopsis: Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen’s sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke....
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William Wyler – Ben-Hur (1959)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson This 1959 version of Lew Wallace’s best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a...
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Gianna Sobol – Public Relations (2010)
Sienna Farall and Summer Bishil, star in this hilarious short film about a miserable Hollywood assistant who finds romance when her sexy New York counterpart arrives in town. A funny, fresh take on...
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Yorgos Lanthimos – The Lobster (2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into...
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Jules Dassin – Brute Force [+Extras] (1947)
The meanest, heaviest, most unrelentingly grim hunk of American cinema you’re likely to see– at least prior to 1950– Brute Force is an explosive hybrid mixing aspects of the string of stark prison...
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Dean DeBlois – Heima AKA At Home [+Commentary] (2007)
‘heima’ is sigur rós’s first ever film, filmed over two weeks last summer when the band undertook a series of free, unannounced concerts in iceland. they hauled 40-plus people round 15 locations to...
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Alan Zweig – Vinyl (2000)
Alan Zweig investigates the wacky world of record collecting. An odd film made by a Toronto filmmaker who interviewed record collectors in their homes and in their favourite haunt – the record store....
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Jean Rollin – Les Pays Loin AKA The Far Country (1965)
LES PAYS LOIN was Jean Rollin’s second short film. It was never screened in the cinema-or even film festivals- until years after it was made and, even then, on extremely rare occasions. This Encore...
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Julien Temple – The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle (1980)
from imdb: A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols “documentary”, told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular...
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Richard Elfman – Forbidden Zone (1980)
Quote: Oingo Boingo fans and midnight movie mavens will love this bizarre black-and-white feature packed with music, madness, and members of the Elfman clan. The story revolves around the Hercules...
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Benoît Jacquot – Journal d’une femme de chambre AKA Diary of a Chambermaid...
Quote: It is an odd film: the central relationship between Joseph and Célestine is not entirely plausible, even as a desperate amour fou. But it is well acted and confidently performed. The...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La mala educación AKA Bad Education (2004)
Quote: The wag who first suggested running the trailer for Bad Education before screenings of The Passion of the Christ in southern France deserves a rosette for provocation beyond the call of duty....
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Cleo Uebelmann – Mano destra (1986)
Drama. Dressed in dominatrix leather fetish wear, the director pictures herself tying up her consenting girlfriend in frozen black and white images cut to the sound of high-heels clattering down a...
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Marcell Jankovics – Az ember tragédiája AKA The Tragedy of Man (2011)
Quote: Based on the 1861 masterpiece by Hungarian playwright and poet Imre Madách, Az ember tragédiája (The Tragedy of Man) is a powerful drama in 15 acts that guide us through the past and the future...
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