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Thorold Dickinson – The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
IMDb user: There are several reasons to relish this curio. It was an apprentice work by Thorold Dickinson, the Hitchcock assistant and cutter who would shoot “Gaslight” and “The Queen of Spades”...
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Henri Verneuil – Le Casse aka The Burglars (1971)
Quote: Comments : Henri Verneuil’s The Burglars has a bit of a cult reputation for an infamous car chase through Greece – fully deserved for that lone, incredible sequence – but more than thirty years...
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Tolga Karaçelik – Sarmasik AKA Ivy (2015)
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: When the ship’s owner goes bankrupt, the crew learns there is a lien on the ship and that key crew members must stay on board. Six men trapped aboard a ship sailing to Egypt....
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Errol Morris – Demon in the Freezer (2016)
Smallpox was always present, filling the churchyard with corpses, tormenting with constant fear all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its...
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Frederick Wiseman – La Comedie-Francaise ou L’amour joue (1996)
From Allmovie.com Frederick Wiseman was allowed to make the first documentary about La Comedie-Francaise, the French national theater and the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded...
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Luchino Visconti – Il gattopardo AKA The Leopard (1963)
Luchino Visconti’s “Il Gattopardo” is an epic on the grandest possible scale. The film recreates, with nostalgia, drama, and opulence, the tumultuous years of Italy’s Risorgimento, when the...
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Abel Gance – Bonaparte et la révolution (1972)
The last film made by legendary French director Abel Gance, Bonaparte et la révolution (1971) was also his final attempt to release the Napoleonic biopic he had begun in the 1920s. Napoléon, vu par...
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Leopoldo Torre Nilsson – La casa del ángel AKA The House of the Angel (1957)
Ana lives with the idealistic way of life of a religious family and avoid most subjects related to sex and other tabú themes. But love and rape came to her life and make her sink in a promicuos world...
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Frederick Wiseman – Deaf (1986)
Synopsis “Zipporah” wrote: The School for the Deaf at the Alabama Institute is organized around a theory of total communication i.e. the use of signs and finger spelling in conjunction with speech,...
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Will Pascoe – Noam Chomsky on the World: The Chomsky Sessions (2008)
Quote: One of the most respected intellectuals of the 20th century, Noam Chomsky has had a long and prolific career as a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. Undoubtedly, though, he is best...
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Agnès Varda – Documenteur (1981)
Documenteur, Agnès Varda’s companion piece and follow-up to her documentary Mur murs, shares with it a filming location and a similarly punning title (a menteur is a liar, in French). But the...
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Frank Perry – Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Review by Michael Costello Frank Perry’s bleak study of the lot of a beleaguered Manhattan housewife features three excellent performances. Carrie Snodgress stars as the wife of a lawyer (Richard...
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Richard Dinter – Snow AKA Snö (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Some memories exist in a borderland. They fill your thoughts; you’re gripped by a sensation of the unreal — “did that really happen?” Snow is about a mother and her son, driving a short...
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Michael Mann – The Jericho Mile (1979)
by Hal Erickson Director Michael Mann co-wrote the teleplay for The Jericho Mile with Patrick J. Nolan. Peter Strauss stars as “Rain” Murphy, serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for first-degree...
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Raoul Ruiz – El realismo socialista AKA Socialist Realism (1973)
Quote: A people’s court dictates that a laborer kept some tools for himself and thus deserves derision. “But, can’t we improve?” he asks, without blushing, at the moment they decide his expulsion. The...
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Ben Rivers – There Is a Happy Land Further Awaay (2015)
A hesitant female voice reads a poem by Henri Michaux, recounting a life lived in a distant land, full of faltering and mistakes. Island imagery of active volcanoes, underwater WW2 debris, children...
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Shûe Matsubayashi & Hugo Grimaldi – Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no...
Synopsis: On December 1, 1941, a Japanese fleet of 30 warships sails for Hawaii; when diplomatic negotiations in Washington fail, the task force commander, Adm. Isoroku Yamaguchi, receives orders to...
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Miguel Gomes – Cántico das criaturas AKA Canticle of all Creatures (2006) (HD)
Synopsis Assis 2005: a troubadour walks the streets of St. Francis of Assisi hometown, singing and playing the Song of Brother Sun or Song of the Creatures, written by St. Francis back in the winter...
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Nicolas Rey – Les soviets plus l’électricité (2002) (DVD)
This art-film is an imaginary documentary film about a man who sets off from Paris to Siberia in search of his father’s past: His father was a communist who had voluntarily gone from France to the...
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Marin Karmitz – Coup pour coup AKA Blow for Blow (1972)
The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory. The title translates as, “Blow for Blow”, as in a fight. “A movie which must have scared lots of...
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