Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Rak ti Khon Kaen aka Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Storyline Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira,...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra – 3x3D (2013)
Quote: Centred in the two thousand year old city of Guimarães, three renowned directors, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway and Edgar Pêra, explore 3D and its evolution in the world of cinema. How does...
View ArticleJakob Lass – Love Steaks (2013)
Quote: If Joaquin Phoenix met Carole Lombard in their twenties by the sea you would get the sizzle we feel in Jakob Lass’ Love Steaks. Clemens (Franz Rogowski) arrives as a trainee at a Northern...
View ArticleManoel de Oliveira – Visita ou Memórias e Confissões AKA Memories and...
Quote: 73-year-old De Oliveira decides to make a personal movie that his audience will only know once heis dead. In 1982, the director takes the decision to make a movie about (and in) his (ex) house,...
View ArticleJosh Mond – James White (2015)
Quote: James, a twenty-something New Yorker, struggles to take control of his self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges....
View ArticleBenjamin Cleary – Stutterer (2015)
Synopsis: Greenwood has a truly debilitating stutter but we hear his inner thoughts through voiceover and his online conversations with his only friend and love of his life, Ellie. Outwardly a mute,...
View ArticleBasil Khalil – Ave Maria (2015)
Synopsis: Nuns of the ‘Sisters of Mercy’ convent in the middle of the West Bank wilderness have their daily routine of silence and prayer disrupted when a family of religious Israeli settlers crash...
View ArticleMika Kaurismäki – The Girl King (2015)
An enigmatic young woman in conflict – torn between reason and passion; between her woman’s body and being raised as a prince; between the ancient and modern worlds and between the brilliance of her...
View ArticleLouis Feuillade – Vendémiaire (1918)
Movie serial “Vendemiaire” depicts a registering nationalist and regionalism concerns about the effects of the First World War. « Réalisé dans les derniers mois de la guerre (sa sortie eut lieu en...
View ArticleElchin Musaoglu – Nabat (2014)
Nabat and her husband Iskender, an old and sick ex-forestry worker, live in a small isolated house far from the village. The war in Nagorno-Karabakh has been raging for some time and their son has...
View ArticleNicholas Ray – A Woman’s Secret (1949)
Synopsis: Susan is laying in the hospital with a bullet near her heart. Marian has told the police that she shot Susan in a rage as Susan was giving up her singing. Marian and Luke found Susan when...
View ArticleAbel Ferrara – Searching for Padre Pio (2015)
A documentary directed by Abel Ferrara for the series ‘BOATS – Based On A True Story’ about the Padre Pio di Pietrelcina. http://nitroflare.com/view/34B4773FC899862/BOATS_-_Searching_for_Padre_Pio.mkv...
View ArticleAmy Berg – An Open Secret (2014)
Plot An Open Secret is an American documentary directed by Amy J. Berg. Berg decided to make the documentary after she was approached by Matthew Valentinas in 2011. Valentinas and Gabe Hoffman wanted...
View ArticleAlain Resnais – Je t’aime je t’aime AKA I Love You, I Love You (1968)
Quote: “Je T’Aime, Je T’Aime,” which opened yesterday at the New Yorker Theater, was shown at the eighth New York Film Festival. The following is from Roger Greenspun’s review, which appeared Sept....
View ArticleSergei Solovyov – Chuzhaya belaya i ryaboy AKA The Stray White and the...
Quote: In a poor provincial town, the ragamuffin boys are frenziedly drilled for combat, and at nights the local elite, gathered in a pool room, boasts of fictitious biographies, while bands of boys...
View ArticleWilliam Dieterle – The Devil And Daniel Webster aka All That Money Can Buy...
Quote: Jabez Stone is a hard-working farmer trying to make an honest living, but a streak of bad luck tempts him to do the unthinkable: bargain with the Devil himself. For seven years of good fortune,...
View ArticleClaire Denis – Beau travail AKA Good Work (1999)
Quote: This film focuses on an ex-Foreign Legion officer as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in Africa....
View ArticleLouis Feuillade – Lagourdette, gentleman cambrioleur (1916)
With the help of Lévesque and Musidora, Feuillade creates a light-hearted meta-fiction, self-parodying his own work. Perdue dans la lecture des « Vampires », le séduisante Mlle Musi rêve de...
View ArticleDerek Jarman – The Last of England (1987)
Quote: Jarman is a tough filmmaker to recommend, but he occasionally rewards. As we’ve seen from practically the first film on, he sets out to make pictures entirely for himself; with each one...
View ArticleGuy Maddin – Keyhole (2011)
Quote: Visionary Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin takes viewers on a surreal journey into the psyche of a desperate gangster backed into a dangerous corner in this surreal, psycho-sexual take on Homer’s...
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