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Otto Preminger – Such Good Friends (1971)
Synopsis from allmovie.com: Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by Dyan Cannon), a...
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Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub – Paul Cézanne im Gespräch mit Joachim...
Description: In 1989 Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet realized a film project that was commissioned by Virginie Herbin, director of the audiovisual department of the Musée d’Orsay. The film is...
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? – 1925 Studio Tour (1925)
Untitled and without any crew credits, this 32-minute silent documentary takes you on a tour of MGM in 1925, meeting the people who create the movies, and watching some of them do it. I found it...
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Claude Chabrol – Alice ou la dernière fugue aka Alice or The Last Escapade...
Alice, fleeing her boring boyfriend, arrives at a mysterious house which turns out very difficult to leave. A dreamlike cross between Alice in Wonderland and a Borges story – a veritable garden of...
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Frederick Wiseman – La danse – Le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris (2009)
Description: In “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet,” his 36th documentary in more than 40 years, Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into the stately and elegant Palais Garnier in Paris, observing...
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Steve Connelly – Americana (1992)
Imdb User Review Fat, Dumb and Rich 23 May 2007 | by mar9 (Newcastle, Australia) The three nouns above were the episode titles for this 3-part documentary about the USA. “Fat” is naturally about food,...
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Takashi Miike – Gokudô kuroshakai AKA Rainy Dog (1997)
“The quietest and, in some ways, most impressive film of the trilogy tells the story of Yuji, an exiled Yakuza, now living in Taiwan. In one of the film’s many similarities to Luc Besson’s Leon, Yuji...
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Anthony Asquith – French Without Tears (1940)
IMDB review: This amiable Ratigan Farce is based on Ratigans’ own experiences in a French tuition school in Normandy.It was brought to the stage in London featuring Rex Harrison,Trevor Howard,Kay...
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Kiumars Poorahmad – Sharm AKA Shame (1992)
Majid makes an 8-mm film with some poorly-lit sequences. To repeat the shots, Majid needs highly sensitive negatives and, therefore, some money. He comes up with the money by working as a coolie, but...
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Zhangke Jia – Zhantai AKA Platform (2000)
Quote: Platform opens to an appropriately temporally indeterminate sight of a bustling, crowded backstage of a provincial theater as a group of itinerant performers await the commencement of their...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Kaseki no mori AKA The Petrified Forest (1973)
Synopsis: Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Haruo spends his time working in a university hospital when he meets a...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Le départ AKA The Departure [+Extras] (1967)
Synopsis: A fast-paced comedy about a young Belgian car nut and hairdresser’s apprentice, his girlfriend, and their legal and illegal attempts to get a Porsche under him for his nearing debut race. —...
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Nima Javidi – Melbourne (2014)
The film recounts the story of a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in...
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Marianne Lambert – I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (2015)
Synopsis: I DON’T BELONG ANYWHERE: THE CINEMA OF CHANTAL AKERMAN explores some of the Belgian filmmaker’s 40 plus films, and from Brussels to Tel Aviv, from Paris to New York, it charts the sites of...
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Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)
“Insiang” is Lino Brocka’s tale of one girl’s coming of age in the slums of Manila. The title character, played by Hilda Koronel, is a young girl who lives in a small crowded shanty with her mother,...
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Max Ophüls – Divine (1935)
Synopsis: Ludivine Jarisse is a young woman who lives a contented but unexciting life in the country. One day, she is visited by Roberte, an old friend who has made a career for herself as an actress...
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Albert Lamorisse – Le ballon rouge AKA The Red Balloon (1956)
Quote: The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual “purity,” but not enough is said about the movie’s delightful manipulation. A quasi-silent comedy...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Nema-ye Nazdik AKA Close-Up (1990)
Quote: In 1989 in Tehran, a movie mad unemployed printer named Ali Sabzian was arrested for impersonating the famous film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The family he had fooled was deep in rehearsals...
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Mu Fei – Xiao cheng zhi chun AKA Spring in a Small Town (1948)
Taking place in a ruined family compound after the war, the film tells the story of the once prosperous Dai family. The husband and patriarch, Dai Liyan is an invalid, and spends his days in the...
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Hector Babenco – My Hindu Friend (2015)
Quote: His father has died, he doesn’t speak for his brother for about 10 years and he has a serious cancer. Diego is a talented film director with difficulty to deal with his sickness, which is...
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