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Lucrecia Martel – La mujer sin cabeza AKA The Headless Woman (2008)
Quote: “I feel a little … I don’t feel good.” So says Veronica, the middle-aged upper-middle-class Argentinean woman who suffers a nasty bump on the noggin early on in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless...
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László Nemes – Saul fia AKA Son of Saul (2015)
Quote: Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son,...
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Carlos Saura – Cría cuervos AKA Raise Ravens (1976)
Quote: An inquisitive, cherubic girl named Ana (Ana Torrent) overhears a tender exchange between her father, a military officer named Anselmo (Héctor Alterio) and his mistress, Amelia (Mirta Miller),...
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Jacques Rivette – Duelle (une quarantaine) AKA Twilight (A Quarantine) (1976)
Quote: Duelle seems to have been instantly cursed just by being the follow-up to Celine and Julie Go Boating, to this day the only Rivette film that the average buff concerns himself with ( and oh,...
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Omar Amiralay – A Flood in Baath Country aka Al Toufan (2005)
A highly controversial and beautifully crafted film on Syria’s dictatorship. Omar Amiralay’s film about the dictatorship in Syria highlights the devastating effects of 35 years of autocratic Baath...
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Giuseppe Patroni Griffi – Il mare (1963)
Quote: Tourist season has not yet begun. Capri is deserted and the sky is sadly grey. An actor arrives. He’s waiting for a woman who won’t come. In the meanwhile he’s having a strange relationship...
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Rudolf van den Berg – Tirza (2010)
Quote: Jörgen Hofmeester is desperately looking for his missing daughter Tirza and heading towards a brutal confrontation with the man who has been the undoing of his favorite child....
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Vitali Kanevsky – Zamri, umri, voskresni! AKA Freeze Die Come to Life (1990)
Quote: “Freeze-Die-Come to Life,” a first film by Vitaly Kanevski, offers a stark look at growing up in the frozen wastes of the Soviet Union at the end of World War II. A largely autobiographical...
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Marijke de Valck – Cinephilia: Movies, Love and Memory (Film Culture in...
Quote: Publisher description for Cinephilia : movies, love and memory / edited by Marijke de Valck and Malte Hagener. They obsess over the nuances of a Douglas Sirk or Ingmar Bergman film; they revel...
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Douglas Brode – Fantastic Planets, Forbidden Zones and Lost Continents (2015)
Whether you judge by box office receipts, industry awards, or critical accolades, science fiction films are the most popular movies now being produced and distributed around the world. Nor is this...
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Howard Hughes – Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer’s Guide to Great...
British author Howard Hughes charts the development of the modern Western movie in this insightful, informative volume published in 2008 by Tauris & Company. By examining 27 movies he views as...
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Evgeny Dobrenko – Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of...
Quote: ‘This is essential reading for all those interested in Soviet film. Dobrenko with his fresh approach and non-standard mix of examples confounds many of the clichés about the subject.’ –...
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Moumen Smihi – Chroniques marocaines AKA Moroccan Chronicles (1999)
In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has emigrated to Europe, tells three tales to her just-circumcised ten-year-old son. In the...
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Martin Scorsese – It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
Synopsis: Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy and highly influential. Through it he talks about how much of his success...
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Moumen Smihi – Si Moh, pas de chance AKA Simoh, the Unlucky Man (1971)
Shot in Paris after Smihi completed film school, Si Moh is an investigation of the life of migrant workers in France. Connected back to the Maghreb by postcards and to his fellow migrants by shared...
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Govindan Aravindan – Uttarayanam (1974)
Quote: Aravindan’s debut extended a 60s Calicut modernism into cinema, drawing on the work of the writer Pattathiruvila Karunakaran, who produced the film, and the satirical playwright Thikkodiyan,...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Homo Faber AKA Voyager (1991)
Synopsis: A man who has spent his life running away from his past. He is forced to finally deal things that he has left unresolved. When fate puts him on a collision course with the life that he...
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Takeshi Kitano – Ryûzô to 7 nin no kobun tachi AKA Ryuzo and His Seven...
From hollywoodreporter.com To the many ways in which the career of Japanese auteur and action star Takeshi Kitano resembles that of Clint Eastwood, we can now add another: Both have made the...
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Anqi Ju – Shi ren chu chai le AKA Poet on a Business Trip (2015)
Quote: In all its simplicity, a completely unique film, shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A poet sets off on a ‘business trip’ through inhospitable Xinjiang. The physically exhausting...
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Edward Yang – Yi yi (2000)
Quote: Master Taiwanese director Edward Yang spins this intricate and complex yarn about life’s everyday crises. The film focuses on N.J. Jian (Wu Nien-jen), a noted writer/director in his own right),...
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