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Ken Loach – Poor Cow (1967)
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another...
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Satyajit Ray – Ghare-Baire aka The Home and the World (1984)
Quote: Both a romantic-triangle tale and a philosophical take on violence in times of revolution, The Home and the World, set in early twentieth-century Bengal, concerns an aristocratic but...
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Miguel Gomes – Redemption (2013)
Synopsis On January 21st 1975, in a village in the north of Portugal, a child writes to his parents who are in Angola to tell them how sad Portugal is. On July 13th 2011, in Milan, an old man...
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Miguel Gomes – Cántico das criaturas AKA Canticle of all Creatures (2006)
Synopsis Assis 2005: a troubadour walks the streets of St. Francis of Assisi hometown, singing and playing the Song of Brother Sun or Song of the Creatures, written by St. Francis back in the winter...
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Claire Denis – Vers Mathilde (2005)
Vers Mathilde (Towards Mathilde) France | 2005 | 84mins | col | dir. Claire Denis, with Mathilde Monnier Mathilde Monnier is more than France’s foremost contemporary choregrapher. An explorer of the...
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Carolee Schneemann – Fuses (1964 – 1966)
A silent film of collaged and painted sequences of lovemaking between Schneemann and her then partner, composer James Tenney; observed by the cat, Kitch. Carolee Schneemann wrote: …I wanted to see if...
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Peter Bogdanovich – Saint Jack [+Extras] (1979)
Quote: After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low budget film. Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara)...
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Bing Wang – Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 1: Rust (2003)
From All Movie Guide Filmmaker Wang Bing spent three years charting the decline and decay of one of China’s major industrial regions in his over nine-hour, three-part documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of...
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Igor Voloshin – Ya AKA I Am (2009)
Quote: With three full feature films in two years under his belt, Igor Voloshin has both received critical acclaim and provoked public debates. Nirvana (2008), a “gothic cyber-punk” about drug...
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Talkhon Hamzavi – Parvaneh (2012)
About the Film A 25 minute Swiss short film; which was nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Live Action Short Film, at the 87th Academy Awards. The short is about an Afghan immigrant, living in...
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Wei Hu – La lampe au beurre de yak aka Butter Lamp (2013)
About the Film A young photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to take their picture. Against diverse and more or less exotic backgrounds, families appear to the photographer. Through...
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Sung-eun Lee – I Am Jin Young (2006)
A cute and comic film about first love and sexual identity. Schoolgirl Jin s Young s mother brings home another woman and our model student finds herself coming to terms with growing up, a major crush...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Carne trémula AKA Live Flesh (1997)
Quote: Curious, seeing this after the smash hits of “Todo Sobre Mi Madre” and “Hable con Ella”, because this movie sort of prepared the viewers to what was coming. Grabbing a solid and original story,...
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Benoît Jacquot – Les enfants du placard AKA Closet Children (1977)
Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his...
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Andrew V. McLaglen – McLintock! (1963)
Plot: John Wayne’s most popular film of the 60s is a broad, boisterous comedy-western loosely based on William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Wayne in his two-fisted best stars as a George...
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Arne Mattsson – Vaxdockan aka The Doll (1962)
summary A night watchman (Per Oscarsson) in Stockholm interrupts a burglary and finds a mannequin that he takes home; in his mind, it’s a beautiful and very much alive woman. Director Arne Mattsson...
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René Clément – Plein soleil AKA Purple Noon [+Extras] (1960)
Synopsis: ‘Tom Ripley and Philippe Greenleaf are lately inseparable friends. They’re both idling in Europe, but on papa Greenleaf’s dime. Philippe’s fiancee Marge feels sorry for Tom but resents his...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Trzecia czesc nocy aka The Third Part of The Night (1971)
“Andrzej Żuławski is one of the true mavericks of European cinema and his wild, imaginative and unique films have won awards at many international film festivals over the years. A nightmarish and...
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Yimou Zhang – Hong gao liang AKA Red Sorghum (1987)
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized...
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Nathan Schiff – Weasels Rip My Flesh (1979)
An IMDB hater wrote: This movie is a total piece of junk. It was shot on what looks like 8 millimeter film(not sure though). It looks like it was somebody’s student film. I think that this is the...
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