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Kevin Allen – Under Milk Wood (2015)
Quote: Concluding the 100th anniversary celebrations of Dylan Thomas’s birth, here is a ramshackle visualisation of the poet’s 1954 radio drama. Thomas’s Under Milk Wood has spawned diverse...
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Ester Amrami – Anderswo AKA Anywhere Else (2014)
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you....
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Roland Reber – Illusion (2013)
Synopsis: Eight people that cannot be more different meet in a bar. For one night they escape their everyday life which is paralysed of rituals and find themselves in a journey to their world of...
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Raj Amit Kumar – Unfreedom (2014)
The movie that is BANNED in India. Quote: When a film is “banned” by the Censor Board of Film Certification, you know you are onto something. Well, that is exactly the case with Raj Amit Kumar’s film...
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Yimou Zhang – Yao a yao yao dao waipo qiao AKA Shanghai Triad (1995)
Summary: “Country boy Shuisheng (Wang Xiaoxiao) is brought to 1930s Shanghai by his uncle who wants the boy to become a member of the powerful gang ruled by manipulative Tang (Li Baotian). In fact,...
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Barry Forshaw – Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World...
Sex and Film: The Erotic in British, American and World Cinema is a frank, comprehensive and insightful analysis of the cinema’s long love affair with the erotic – and how society is reflected through...
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Peter Tscherkassky – Tabula rasa (1989)
From PT’s website: The target of Tabula Rasa is the heart of cinema. Voyeuristic desire as the pre-condition for all cinema pleasure is at stake here. What Christian Metz and Jacques Lacan have...
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Jean-Loup Hubert – Après la guerre AKA The War Is Over (1989)
Synopsis The conflict in question is World War II; even though hostilities have all but ceased, the Germans and the French are not precisely reconciled. German soldier Richard Bohringer, absent...
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Sharunas Bartas – Laisve AKA Freedom (2000)
A handful of strangers hoping to find freedom discover it is no easy quarry in this metaphoric drama. Four people stand near the shore of a seaside community and board a small boat hoping to sail...
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Mikhail Kalatozov – Jim Shvante (marili svanets) AKA Salt For Svanetia (1930)
Quote: The Georgian-born filmmaker Michail Kalatozov (19031973) is best remembered for directing some of the most innovative and successful Soviet films of the 1950s and 1960s. This DVD presents...
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Giuseppe M. Gaudino – Per amor vostro AKA For Your Love (2015)
The film is built around Anna (Valeria Golino), a woman who has become so disconnected from life she can only see in grey. She works as a television show prompter, and is by all accounts pretty good...
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Charles Walters – Easter Parade (1948)
Quote: The film was originally to have starred Gene Kelly, but Kelly was injured just prior to production and Astaire, who had announced his retirement from film, was coaxed back to replace him....
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Jack Clayton – The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Synopsis: Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo’s eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo’s three...
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Lucrecia Martel – La niña santa AKA The Holy Girl (2004)
Quote: With her award-winning feature-film debut, La Ciénaga (The Swamp) (2001), writer-director Lucrecia Martel emerged as one of the brightest figures of the new Argentinean cinema. In her follow...
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Veit Harlan – Hanna Amon (1951)
Synopsis Hanna and her brother Thomas Amon live on the estate of their deceased parents. While Hanna of local veterinary and Thomas Brunner of the mayor’s daughter is secretly admired and sought...
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Joann Sfar – La dame dans l’auto avec des lunettes et un fusil AKA The Lady...
Quote: A secretary steals her boss’ car to go joyriding. She visits a seaside town she swears she’s never been to, but everyone knows her name. And when a body turns up in the trunk of the car, she is...
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Khavn – Desaparadiso (2015)
Plot Summary: One day, they just disappeared. Just like that. One didn’t go to work, one didn’t go to his appointment, didn’t meet his date. The dishes served were left to rot, and the bed remained...
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Narciso Ibáñez Serrador – La residencia AKA The House That Screamed (1969)
PLOT Welcome to La Residencia, a borderline reform school packed with over-blossoming maidens and presided over by a whacked-out head-mistress played to the hilt by Lili Palmer. It’s true that the...
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Hsiu-Chiung Chiang – Saihate nite AKA The Furthest End Awaits (2014)
Misaki Yoshida (Hiromi Nagasaku) runs a roasting coffee shop in Tokyo. She lives alone. In order to find her father, who was separated from her when she was a child, Misaki goes back to her hometown...
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Hirokazu Koreeda – Umimachi Diary (2015)
Plot There are three sisters: 29-year-old Sachi Kouda (Haruka Ayase), 22-year-old Yoshino Kouda (Masami Nagasawa) and 19-year-old Chika Kouda (Kaho). They live at a house in Kamakura, Japanese. Their...
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