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Vera Chytilová – Pasti, pasti, pasticky AKA Traps (1998)
From starburstmagazine For anyone feeling a little squeamish, of vegetarian inclination or just full from a hearty meal, the graphic opening scenes of Traps (or Pasti, Pasti, Pasticky to give its...
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Horst E. Brandt & Heinz Thiel – Heroin (1968)
This East German movie was co-produced with studios in Hungary and Yugoslavia, with many interesting location shots (border checkpoint to West Berlin, the Gellert bath in Budapest, and more). The plot...
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Philippe Garrel – La cicatrice intérieure AKA The Inner Scar (1972)
Synopsis: This is a highly experimental French film consisting of no more than 23 camera shots, total. It resembles nothing so much as one of Warhol’s earlier films, except that it is more episodic....
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Maurice Pialat – La gueule ouverte AKA The Mouth Agape (1974) (HD)
Monique Mélinand portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness. Her son Philippe (Philippe Léotard), Philippe’s wife Nathalie (Nathalie Baye), and her husband Roger (Hubert Deschamps)...
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Sepideh Farsi – Le voyage de Maryam AKA The Journey of Maryam (2003)
A poignant and poetic piece exploring the nature of memory, longing, loss, and the people and places that make us who we are. Shot entirely from the vantage point of Maryam, the invisible heroine in...
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Aage Wiltrup – Lyntoget AKA Bullet Train (1951)
Synopsis: ‘A dangerous prison escapee, a young Jutland woman and a bank clerk, who has just deprived his employer of some cash and is now headed abroad, meet on a lyntog (literally “lightning train”)...
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Douglas McGrath – Becoming Mike Nichols (2016)
Anyone who ever spent any time alone with Mike Nichols will tell you he was one of the most charming men who ever lived. I had that experience once, long ago, over a four-hour lunch. Thanks to HBO’s...
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Cecile B. Evans – Hyperlinks or it didn’t happen (2014)
Hyperlinks or it Didn’t Happen questions the identity of the mediated subject. “PHIL,” a “bad copy” of recently deceased actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, narrates a procession of bodies generated or...
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Nicolas Provost – L’envahisseur AKA The Invader (2011)
Quote: Belgium short filmmaker and visual artist Nicolas Provost brings his compelling and assured 2011 debut The Invader (L’envahisseur) to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Acting as a...
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Frederick Wiseman – Juvenile Court (1973)
PLOT SYNOPSIS From Allmovie by Bhob Stewart This 1973 Frederick Wiseman documentary, filmed at the Juvenile Court in Memphis, Tennessee, won the Columbia University School of Journalism’s 1974 Dupont...
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Periklis Hoursoglou – O diaheiristis AKA The Building Manager (2009)
The story of 50-something Pavlos unfolds in an unspecified modern-day Greek city, portraying the man’s midlife crisis with a light and gently ironic tone. Pavlos takes over custodial duties from his...
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António da Cunha Telles – O Cerco AKA Besieged AKA The Circle (1970)
Quote: A young woman leaves her abusive husband to become the mistress of a married American living in Lisbon. He pays for her apartment, and she becomes a model. After an affair with a photographer...
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João Botelho – Quem És Tu? AKA Who Are You? (2001)
Quote: Aged 13, Maria Noronha is an estremely pale and fragil girl, sick with tubercolosis. In order to alleviate her suffering, she gathers poppies from her garden, and at night puts them on the...
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Campbell X – Stud Life (2012)
Stud Life takes the viewer into a slice of life of an urban gay scene where casual sex, and drug taking is not treated as deviant behaviour. Where gender is up for grabs but desire follows very strict...
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Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis – Il solengo (2015)
Synopsis: Winner of DocLisboa’s 2015 Best International Film Award, Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’s documentary explores the life of Mario de Marcella, a man who lived alone in a cave for...
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Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón – Sin Dios ni Santa María AKA Neither God Nor...
“Part ethnography, part mystic cinematic mirage, this beautiful and evocative portrait of Yé, a remote village on the island of Lanzarote, is a paradoxically opaque work of tactile pleasures. Shot on...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Thirdworld (1997)
Quote: A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island. http://nitroflare.com/view/5600227036C2EFF/Apichatpong_Weerasethakul_-_%281997%29_Thirdworld.mkv...
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Louis Delluc – L’inondation (1924)
Synopsis : Dans un village paisible en bord du Rhône, Alban, jeune et honnête fermier, s’apprête à épouser la coquette et frivole Margot. Monsieur Broc, employé de mairie solitaire, retrouve sa fille...
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Virpi Suutari – Eleganssi AKA Elegance (2016)
Elegance is a short film about a group of Finnish men, and the style and elegance of hunting partridge and pheasant. The film’s protagonists are all wealthy men, for whom hunting is a treasured hobby,...
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Christy Cabanne – Reggie Mixes In (1916)
Very early, rare Doug Fairbanks. Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love, 28 January 2008 Author: drednm Douglas Fairbanks started his film career in breezy little comedies that stressed his athleticism....
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