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Mark Robson – Edge of Doom (1950)
Martin Lynn (Farley Granger) has crossed his breaking point. Poor, stuck in a menial job and mourning his recently deceased, devoutly Catholic mother, the mentally fraying youth visits his local...
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Claudio Cupellini – Alaska (2015)
Fausto and Nadine meet for the first time in an hotel in Paris. They both are fragile, alone and obsessed with an unreachable desire of happiness. Fausto is an Italian man who moved to France and is...
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Gábor Bódy – Kutya éji dala AKA The Dog’s Night Song (1983)
In a story that hops around a little, a priest arrives in a village to go from person to person offering his own form of consolation or advice. On his list of “clients” is a former Communist Party...
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Rita Azevedo Gomes – Frágil Como o Mundo (2002)
Quote: An impossible love. Two young people in love. Vera and John can’t find a space nor time, nor identity in this life that can solve this love. Apparently everything is beneficial to them, their...
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Hal Salwen – Denise Calls Up (1995)
Synopsis by Mark Deming Thanks to the technological marvels of wireless phones, answering machines, the internet, and e-mail, it is no longer necessary actually to see anyone you know, and seven...
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Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu – Seiyûgi AKA Sex Game (1969)
Quote: The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a ‘play“ rape being enacted by a group of aimless, listless and political apathetic students. As they loaf around, reading...
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Andrzej Zulawski – La Femme publique [+Extra] (1984)
P l o t S y n o p s i s An unexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky’s ‘The Possessed’. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life,...
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Mohammad-Ali Talebi – Beed-o baad AKA Willow and Wind (1999)
Quote: A school window is broken, and kids can’t concentrate because the rain is getting in. The culprit isn’t allowed back into class until he mends it. So he carries a large pane of glass by hand...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Nouvelle Vague (1990)
Synopsis: Nouvelle Vague marks the beginning of a period in Jean-Luc Godard’s career in which he made films that looked back on his previous work. In these retrospective films, Godard asked himself...
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Rafi Pitts – Sanam (2000)
Plot Summary: In a small valley, riders pursue and kill a man. A horse thief, so his assassins claim. But for his ten year old son Issa, the disappearance of his father causes an avalanche of...
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Sergei Solovyov – Stantsionnyy smotritel AKA The Postmaster (1972)
Quote: In May, 1816 narrator passes through a small station. At the station, Dunia, Beauty daughter of the superintendent, serves tea. On the walls of the room hang pictures of the story of the...
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Tom Hooper – The Danish Girl (2015) (HD)
Quote: A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as...
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Atom Egoyan – Remember (2015)
Quote: Atom Egoyan’s ongoing search for his own best form makes no real breakthrough in “Remember,” a state-hopping Nazi-hunt mystery that puts a creditably sincere spin on material that is silly at...
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Rubén Mendoza – Tierra en la Lengua AKA Dust on the Tongue (2014)
IMBD synopsis: In his twilight years, Silvio Vega, a child of the destitution and violence of Columbia’s countryside, takes a trip with his two grandchildren to force them to kill him instead of dying...
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Thom Andersen – The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015)
An opening title card from director Thom Andesen’s new feature film, The Thoughts That Once We Had, directly identifies the cinematic writings of philosopher Gilles Deleuze as the project’s primary...
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Kiyoshi Nishimura & Sergei Solovyov – Melodii beloy nochi AKA Melodies of a...
Quote: Ilya, a Russian composer, played by Yury Solomin, meets a beautiful woman named Yuko, a Japanese pianist. The music they share makes them feel close to each other and fall in love. However, the...
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Peter Tscherkassky – Three Short Films (1981-89)
From PT’s website: Aderlaß is a youthful attempt to process the inheritance of the Vienna Actionists through the use of a super 8 camera. In front of the camera is a performance from Armin Schmickl...
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François Caillat – Foucault Against Himself [Subbing Copy] (2014)
“Don’t ask me who I am, and don’t tell me to remain the same.” —Michel Foucault From the history of madness, to sexuality and pleasure in classical antiquity, to the law and penal institutions, the...
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Farhang Erfani – Iranian Cinema and Philosophy: Shooting Truth (2012)
In film studies, Iranian films are kept at a distance, as ‘other,’ different, and exotic. In reponse, this book takes these films as philosophically relevant and innovative. Each chapter of this book...
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Philippe Grandrieux – White Epilepsy (2012)
Where do images come from? This disturbing and essential question is posed by Philippe Grandrieux, and he already imposed it on himself the start, via Sombre (1999) up to the portrait recently devoted...
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