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Alante Kavaite – Sangailes vasara AKA The Summer of Sangaile (2015)
17 years old Sangaile is fascinated by stunt planes. She meets a girl her age at a summer aeronautical show. Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret and in the process finds the...
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Pál Zolnay – Fotográfia AKA Photography (1973)
Quote: This strange Hungarian film is a cross between a “candid camera” documentary and a surreal fantasy. The film’s two actors impersonate traveling portrait photographers visiting a small Hungarian...
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Manoel de Oliveira – O Velho do Restelo AKA The Old Man of Belem (2014)
Quote: Glory is often met with opposition, and whether victorious or defeated, we always hold fate responsible. Don Quixote de La Mancha came along sixteen years after the defeat of the Invincible...
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Sergei Solovyov – Assa (1988)
Quote: The film is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician falls for mobster’s young mistress. The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot. “The...
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Michael Ritchie – Prime Cut (1972)
Quote: Michael Ritchie, better known for his gentle satires of American social institutions, enters Don Siegel territory in the unusual crime thriller Prime Cut. Lee Marvin is surly collection agent...
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Atom Egoyan – Next of Kin (1984)
Quote: Marking Atom Egoyan’s first feature film, Next of Kin a visually assured, lucid, and thoughtful exposition on alienation, displacement, and the amorphous nature of home and family....
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Fred Kelemen – Verhängnis AKA Fate (1994)
“The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. They speak different languages, but they are fatefully bound together by the solitary quest for happiness and...
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Erotikkuna kankei aka Les Liaisons Erotiques [+Extra] (1992)
Synopsis: Set in Paris, the plot (despite the title, not even dangerously close to Laclos as has been suggested elsewhere) concerns a low-key private detective agency run by Rie and her buffoonish...
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Michael Haneke – Die Rebellion (1993)
Quote: Die Rebellion (The Rebellion). 1993. Austria. Directed by Michael Haneke. With its silent-era aesthetic of sepia tones and muted color tints, and its interweaving of realism and fantasy,...
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – Ni d’Ève, ni d’Adam AKA Neither Eve Nor Adam (1996)
Quote: Gabrielle is 14. She struggles to love Gilles but he ceaselessly wrecks his own life along with other people’s. He steals money from Gabrielle and humiliates her so much that she doesn’t want...
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – Les solitaires AKA The Lonely (2000)
Quote: Civeyrac moved to making films in Digital Video in 1999, with Les Solitaires, a small, almost theatrical chamber piece that was well suited to the medium, making the use of one main location...
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João Botelho – Tempos Difíceis AKA Hard Times (1988)
Quote: Even if adapted from Dickens’ Hard Times, the writer’s world fits perfectly in the Portuguese reality of these times. In a hamlet, that functions as a social microcosms, great wealth &...
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Julien Duvivier – Panique (1947)
Summary Recently released from prison, an attractive young woman Alice meets up with her lover Alfred. The latter, a vicious crook, has murdered an old woman at a fairground. The only witness was a...
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Amir Naderi – Manhattan by Numbers (1993)
In the course of a single day, George Murphy, a youngish out-of-work newspaper reporter, desperately crisscrosses Manhattan in a futile hunt for the $1,200 needed to pay the back rent on his...
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Boris Sagal – The Omega Man (1971)
Quote: Sure, this sci-fi action drama has its cheesy moments but it remains one of the most beloved genre flicks of the 1970s. Your humble editor (at the tender age of 9) saw this on the big screen...
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Gene Saks – The Odd Couple [+Extras] (1968)
by Bill Gibron: There was a time, a little less than four decades ago, when Neil Simon was the literary benchmark of both Broadway and the Silver Screen. After a successful stint as a TV scribe on Sid...
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Robin Pront – D’Ardennen AKA The Ardennes (2015)
SYNOPSIS A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much...
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Isiah Medina – 88:88 (2015)
Quote: The first feature by Canadian experimental filmmaker Isiah Medina is an explosive digital diary dealing with ideas about time, love, philosophy, poverty, and poetry, all erupting within a...
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José Luis Guerín – La academia de las musas AKA The Academy of Muses (2015)
After his classes, a teacher is questioned by his wife, who mistrusted the academic project is plotting her husband. The teacher’s intention is to create a “school of the Muses” inspired by the...
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Andrey Nekrasov – Bunt. Delo Litvinenko aka Poisoned by Polonium (2007)
“If anything should happen to me, I beg you to show this tape to the whole world.” On November 23rd, 2006, these words, spoken on camera by exiled former KGB and FSB (post communist Russia’s dreaded...
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