Jonathan Caouette – Tarnation (2003)
Feature debut of Caouette is an experimental documentary constructed from home movies, photographs, letters, phone messages, and created video footage that Caouette edited on his home computer and...
View ArticleEdouard Niermans – Le retour de Casanova (1992)
IMDB : Earthy humor, subtle irony, high drama, interesting characters, fine script and above everything, Alain Delon’s command of the screen make “Casanova’s Return” one of the underrated gems of the...
View ArticleMontgomery Tully – The Terrornauts (1967)
Plot Summary from imdb: “Residents of a radio telescope laboratory are kidnapped when they answer a mysterious signal from outer space. They are taken to a satellite inhabited only by robots, where...
View ArticleSusanne Bier – Pensionat Oskar (1995)
Synopsis The Runeberg family is an ordinary middle class family, with a house in a suburb, a car and three children. By vacationing in a rented house by the sea, the hope is that the tension and...
View ArticleRob Van Eyck – The Afterman (1985)
Quote: What I have the honor of reviewing here is something totally unique and probably ranks quite high on the worldwide list of obscure Sci-Fi/horror movies. “The Afterman” is a Belgian...
View ArticlePaco R. Baños – Ali (2012)
Quote: In a role reversal that is challenging for any young adult, Ali has become a caretaker to her mother’s delicate mental health. While her mother’s mood alternates between boyfriend-induced...
View ArticleSang-soo Hong – U ri Sunhi aka Our Sunhi (2013)
Sunhi (Jung Yu-Mi) graduated from college, majoring in film. In order to ask about a recommendation letter from Professor Choi (Kim Sang-Jung) to study in the US, she visits her university after a...
View ArticleGuillaume Massart & Julien Meunier – Decouverte d un principe en case 3 AKA...
Twenty comic books creators are gathered for the Pierre Feuille Ciseaux residence, in which they have to comply to precise narrative and graphic constraints, in order to reveal the diversity and the...
View ArticlePeter Greenaway – Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
Set in the year 1590, the story follows Hendrick Goltzius (Ramsey Nasr) and his crew of writers, workers and performers as they arrive in Colmar at the palace of a rich and powerful margrave...
View ArticleMark Cousins – A Story of Children and Film (2013)
Quote: The world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood ? its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness ? as...
View ArticleRebecca Zlotowski – Grand Central (2013)
Synopsis Grand Central is a 2013 French romance film co-written and directed by Rebecca Zlotowski. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the...
View ArticleYamina Bachir – Rachida (2002)
Rachida lives and teaches in a popular neighborhood in Argel. Like most of her countrymen, she thinks the conflict which is bleeding out her country does not affect her, until the day she is...
View ArticleFredrik Horn Akselsen – The Exorcist in the 21st Century (2012)
The Exorcist in the 21st Century takes the viewer into the unknown and sinister world of exorcism in the Catholic Church. We meet one of the few exorcists in Europe, the Vatican approved Jos? Antonio...
View ArticleYilmaz Güney – Piyade Osman (1970)
A young photographer has done his military service in the infantry and lover. And coincidences turn the dirty work of the gang hiding place on the photographer and photographed by her boyfriend...
View ArticleKazim Öz – Fotograf AKA The Photograph (2001)
Turkish short film director and documentarian Kazim Oz presents his first hour-long narrative feature, The Photograph. Opening in Istanbul, a bus travels on its way to eastern Turkey. Relaxed Ali...
View ArticlePepe Danquart – Schwarzfahrer aka Black Rider (1993)
Background/Synopsis wrote: This is the story of a young black man who is verbally harassed by an older woman on a streetcar while the other passengers remain silent. But the schwarzfahrer shall...
View ArticleFerdinand Khittl – Die Parallelstrasse AKA The Parallel Street (1962)
Quote: Die Parallelstraße is one of the most mysterious pioneer films of the New German Cinema. It was produced by GBF, a production company for innovative industrial and promotional films and...
View ArticleJúlio Bressane – Matou a Família e Foi ao Cinema (1969)
Carlos Adriano wrote: This film caused controversy in 1969, not just for its content, but above all for its daring and sparse approach to that content. Today, it is regarded as a classic of Brazilian...
View ArticleHans W. Geissendörfer – Der Zauberberg AKA The Magic Mountain (1982)
Synopsis/Background wrote: Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who...
View ArticleEdgar Reitz – Mahlzeiten AKA Lust for Love (1967)
Synopsis: Lust for Love (“Mahlzeiten”) is the story of Elizabeth (Heidi Stroh), a beautiful and seductive woman who has only one aim: happiness – and as much of it as possible! Like a hungry vampire...
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