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James Whale – Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Sequel to 1931’s Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein was directed by James Whale and stars Boris Karloff as The Monster, Elsa Lanchester in the dual role of his mate and Mary Shelley, Colin Clive as...
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Eugène Green – A Religiosa Portuguesa AKA The Portuguese Nun (2009)
Quote: Filmmaker Eugene Green pays homage to Manoel de Oliveira, a Portuguese director whose had a profound influence on his style, with this drama of a woman eager for a new lease on life. Julie...
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Woody Allen – Shadows and Fog (1991)
Quote: As Wolcott Gibbs once said to Shakespeare: Kafka, here’s your hat. That’s just one of the deliciously eccentric messages being sent out by Woody Allen in his rich, not easily categorized new...
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Ange Leccia – Nuit bleue AKA Blue Night (2010)
Quote: Following a death, a young woman returns to her island of birth, Corsica. She finds herself in a nationalist male world in the impressive and desolate landscape around Cap Corse. The story in...
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José Luis Guerín – Tren de sombras AKA Train of Shadows (1997)
Quote: Ostensibly framed as a restoration of a degraded found film recovered some 70 years after the sudden and unexplained death of its creator, a Parisian attorney and amateur filmmaker named Gérard...
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Stefano Sollima – Suburra (2015)
About A gangster known as “Samurai” wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long. In...
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Naomi Kawase – Futatsume no mado AKA Still the Water (2014)
On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the...
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Derek Jarman – The Tempest (1979)
Quote: Prospero, a potent necromancer, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He’s in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence...
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Robbins Barstow – Disneyland Dream (1956)
“The Barstow family films a memorable home movie of their trip to Disneyland. Robbins and Meg Barstow, along with their children Mary, David and Daniel were among 25 families who won a free trip to...
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Eugène Green – Le pont des Arts AKA The Bridge of Art (2004)
Quote: In the rarefied stratosphere of Eugene Green’s film “Le Pont des Arts,” music, literature, philosophy and aesthetics, and the characters’ engagement with them, are literally matters of life and...
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François Truffaut – Une belle fille comme moi AKA A Gorgeous Bird Like Me (1972)
Quote: François Truffaut’s Une belle fille comme moi is a pitch-black comedy of sexual exploitation in which who’s doing the exploiting and who’s getting exploited is neatly reversed. Camille...
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Claudia Lorenz – Unter der Haut AKA What’s Between Us (2015)
Quote: After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children...
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven – Mustang (2015)
Quote: Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that...
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Akio Jissôji – Uta AKA Poem (1972)
Quote: This is the last film of the ATG trilogy of the director Akio Jissoji, who sought the roots of inner psychology and eroticism. It’s a story of a young man who turns his back on the modern...
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Cary Joji Fukunaga – Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Quote: Fukunaga, who’s emerged as the MVP of True Detective’s first season after departing before its disastrous second, sketches out this precarious stability with affectionate efficiency, then rips...
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Kun-jae Jang – Han yeo-reum-ui pan-ta-ji-a AKA A Midsummer’s Fantasia (2014)
Split into two parts, shot in black and white, the opening chapter First Love, Yoshiko follows a Korean director (Lim Hyung-kook) who is scouting for locations for his next film in the Japanese rural...
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Nicholas Ray – Born to Be Bad [+Extra] (1950)
Synopsis: One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as “a cross between Lucrezia...
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Jaco Van Dormael – Le tout nouveau testament (2015) (HD)
About: Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his rebellious daughter and nagging wife? An off-the-wall Belgian comedy offers a refreshing new perspective on the Biblical tradition....
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François Truffaut – Domicile conjugal AKA Bed and Board (1970)
Quote: So here he is for the last time, Antoine Doinel, who has grown up like the rest of us and has finally, apparently, found conjugal peace. He has changed a lot along the way. Francois Truffaut...
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André Heinrich & Alain Resnais – Le Mystère de l’atelier quinze (1957)
The role of the doctor in a factory. The investigations he makes to discover the origin of ailments which attack the workers in a large chemical factory. Commande de l’Institut National de la...
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