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Agnieszka Holland – Europa Europa (1990)
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a ‘war hero’ and eventually becomes a Hitler Youth. Although...
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John Carpenter – Masters of Horror: John Carpenter’s Cigarette Burns (2005)
“I know what you want, you want to see the movie.” John Carpenter directs this unsettling installment of the “Masters of Horror” series, following one man’s search for the holy grail of horror cinema....
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Xavier Gens – Frontière(s) AKA Frontiers (2007)
allmovie wrote: The banlieues of Paris are burning, and as a young girl from the slums attempts to elude police by hiding out at a sprawling inn near the Luxembourg border she becomes locked in a...
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Elmo Nüganen – Nimed marmortahvlil AKA Names Engraved in Marble (2002)
A friend lent me this film a number of years ago and I remembered liking it very much, but as years went by I was never sure if I liked it because it was a good film or because of fond memories of the...
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Carlos Conceição – Versailles (2013)
Quote: An elderly woman in a wheelchair and a hormone driven teenage boy arrive to a beach cabin where, through rare moments of lucidity, she will persuade him to kill her. Biography Carlos Conceição...
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Aleksey German – Pod elektricheskimi oblakami AKA Under Electric Clouds (2015)
Quote: Aleksey German Jr., son of famed Russian auteur Aleksey German, comes into his own prominence with his third feature Under Electric Clouds, which took home a cinematography award following its...
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Claude Nuridsany – Microcosmos: Le peuple de l’herbe (1996)
“A documentary of insect life in meadows and ponds, using incredible close-ups, slow motion, and time-lapse photography…” http://nitroflare.com/view/71C547BBAB1F65A/Mircrocosmos.avi...
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – Los Siete locos aka The Seven Madmen (1973)
“The Seven Madmen” draws on two novels by Roberto Arlt to show us the opulent and seedy words of Buenos Aires in the 1920s. Erdosain (Alfredo Alcon) is a failed inventor who allows himself be...
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Jirí Krejcík – Vyssi princip AKA Higher Principle (1960)
SYNOPSIS from kviff.com: Jiří Krejčík’s A Higher Principle, together with Weiss’s film Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1959), was one of those Czechoslovak films at the forefront of what is characterised...
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Lav Diaz – The Day Before the End (2016)
Synopsis: In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets wander the streets. Quote: Lav Diaz,...
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Ben Russell – Greetings to the Ancestors (2015)
Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, Greetings to the Ancestors documents the dream lives of the territory’s...
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Ginette Vincendeau – Encyclopedia of European Cinema (1995)
On December 28, 1895, the Lumiere brothers demonstrated their cinematograph to 33 people in Paris. Despite Louis Lumiere’s notorious declaration that “the cinema is an invention without a future, ”...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Baal (1970)
Plot: Baal explores the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality. Quote: Screening as part of the Masters &...
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Ben Rivers – Things (2014)
Things is a travelogue in which the filmmaker leads himself and the viewer through a tour of the four seasons, without ever once setting foot across his doorstep – focusing on unexplored things inside...
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Fons Rademakers – Because of the Cats AKA The Rape (1973)
From IMDB: A gang of six wealthy, well-dressed and well-spoken hoodlums break into a married couple’s house and rape the wife while forcing the husband to watch. Thus begins a dogged investigation by...
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Willi Forst – Maskerade AKA Masquerade in Vienna (1934)
Review: “Maskerade” is the second film directed by Willi Forst. While the ‘Vienna film’ had been popular since the early 1930s not least due to Forst’s work as an actor and singer, it was “Maskerade”...
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Claude Lelouch – Le chat et la souris AKA Cat and Mouse (1975)
Synopsis: A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his...
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Michael Obert – Song from the Forest (2014)
SYNOPSIS “In my memory, I retained such a dream-like impression of my stay in New York that I sometimes wondered if I had really been there.” Louis Sarno As a young man, US-born Louis Sarno heard a...
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Nicolas Klotz – Low Life (2011)
Synopsis A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each...
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Toshio Masuda – Kanzenna yugi AKA Perfect game (1958)
In recent years, director Toshio Masuda has worked on the international stage with action-oriented movies such as Tora! Tora! Tora! and the Space Cruiser Yamato films. But he began his career in the...
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