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Shion Sono – The Virgin Psychics AKA Eiga: minna! Esupâ da yo! (2015)
From Busan International Film Festival: High school student Kamogawa Yoshiro wakes up one day to discover that he has psychic superpowers. He also soon discovers that others in the city have the gift,...
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Lyne Charlebois – Borderline (2008)
An erotic drama about a woman facing her 30th birthday who looks back at her life growing-up with her grandmother, crazy mother and her over-indulgence with men, sex and alcohol. Borderline, a film...
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – La Vie Selon Luc AKA Life According To Luc (1991)
Review “dvdtimes.co.uk” wrote: Few of the characteristics that can be associated with Jean Paul Civyrac can be seen in his first film, a 14 minute short feature. Inevitably, considering its short...
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Piero Messina – L’attesa AKA The Wait (2015)
Quote: In the vast rooms of an ancient villa marked by the passing of time, Anna, following an unexpected bereavement, spends her days in solitude. The rugged and beautiful Sicilian countryside...
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Daniel Duval – La dérobade AKA Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)
Quote: Marie (Miou-Miou) is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard (Daniel Duval) before she discovers he is a vicious, sadistic pimp. She is degraded, abused, and beaten...
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Louis Feuillade – Le Gamin de Paris AKA Paris Urchin (1923)
Two war orphans, Joseph, apprentice printer, and Lisette, typist, live with their grandmother in Belleville. Lisette loves his next door neighbor, the painter Amedee, but this one does not offer him a...
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Kiskanmak AKA Envy (2009)
Quote: It’s the 1930s. The Republic Day Ball is in progress in Zonguldak, a coal mining town in Turkey. Among the invited guests are the newcomers to this small and boring town: Halit, an engineer;...
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Jenni Olson – The Royal Road (2015)
A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up a primer on Junipero Serra’s Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on...
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Anne Émond – Les êtres chers AKA Our Loved Ones (2015)
Guy’s tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is kept hidden from some members of the family, including his son David. The latter in turn starts his...
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Jon Tuska – The Detective In Hollywood (1978)
The Detective In Hollywood: The Movie Careers Of The Great Fictional Private Eyes And Their Creators is a fascinating study of classic Hollywood detective movies (and some of the nearly forgotten...
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Gaspar Noé – Irréversible (2002)
Quote: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass....
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François Girard – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Synopsis: As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of...
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Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa – Muna Moto (1975)
Quote: Ngando and Ndomé share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for Ndomé’s hand that Ngando, an orphan, cannot afford. Forced to ask his uncle for assistance, Ngando finds...
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Patricio Guzmán – El Botón de Nácar AKA The Pearl Button (2015)
Synopsis The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those that come from outer space. Water receives impetus from the stars and transmits it to...
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Manoel de Oliveira – A Caça AKA The Hunt (1964)
Quote: “A caça” is one Oliveira’s most distressing and mysterious films. Two boys, Roberto and José, enter a hunting ground, flooded with marshes. José falls into a quagmire and Roberto runs to the...
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Isabel Coixet – Nadie Quiere La Noche AKA Nobody Wants the Night (2015)
Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS Greenland, 1909. Josephine Peary is a mature, proud, determined and naive woman, in love with celebrated Arctic adventurer Robert Peary, a man who prefers glory and...
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Fernando Fernán Gómez – La vida por delante (1958)
Review “La Vida por Delante” is the second film of Fernan Gomez, one of the most complete Spanish Cinema artists. After his debut in “Manicomio” (1954) as co-director, the turbulent career as a...
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Claire Denis – S’en fout la mort AKA No Fear, No Die (1990)
Quote: On desolate road near the Spanish-French border, a pensive African immigrant from Benin, Dah (Isaach De Bankolé), waits in the darkness for a poultry truck to arrive for an appointed evening...
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Bulanti AKA Nausea (2015)
Quote: Ahmet, a prominent intellectual, lost his wife and daughter in a traffic accident which happened while he was spending the night with his lover. As a person who cares about nothing and bows to...
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Louis Delluc – La femme de nulle part [full version 68 min] (1922)
Synopsis: “Like his fiery study of a popular milieu in Fièvre, Louis Delluc’s early masterpiece of impressionist cinema, La Femme de Nulle Part, is almost impossible to see outside of rare archival...
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