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Elio Petri – La classe operaia va in paradiso AKA The Working Class Goes to...
Quote: “Lulu the Tool” is no more descriptive a title for Elio Petri’s Italian social drama that opened yesterday at the D. W. Griffith Cinema than “La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso” (“The Working...
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Sergey Loznitsa – Peyzazh (2003)
Quote: It begins with slow, 360 grade pans of a camera showing snowy countryside somewhere in Russia. The soundtrack has some natural voices. The camera then is set at a bus stop in a Russian village....
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Marcin Wrona – Demon (2015)
A bridegroom is possessed by an unquiet spirit in the midst of his own wedding celebration, in this clever take on the Jewish legend of the dybbuk....
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Flora Gomes – Po di Sangui aka l’arbre aux armes AKA Tree of blood (1996)
In the colorful forest village of Amanha Lundju, tradition demands that when a child is born a tree be planted. As the tree grows, it becomes the twin of the growing human being. At the same time,...
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Risto Jarva – Työmiehen päiväkirja aka The Diary of a Worker (1967)
Following passages selectively translated from Risto Jarva Society’s website: Risto Jarva was a central director in the Finnish New Wave. His career is one of the most extensive and important in the...
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Ciro Guerra – El abrazo de la serpiente AKA Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Quote: “You are nothing but a white!” So shouts indigenous Amazonian shaman Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) to the seemingly on-the-level but still suspicious German scientist/explorer Theodor (Jan...
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Emin Alper – Abluka AKA Frenzy (2015)
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: Amid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist...
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Patrick Bokanowski – Patrick Bokanowski Short Films (1972-2008)
Quote: Patrick Bokanowski, the ‘artist-alchemist of celluloid’, employs an extraordinary range of technical invention – combining live-action with optical experiments, drawing, performance, painting,...
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Jean-Gabriel Périot – Une jeunesse allemande (2015)
La Fraction Armée Rouge (RAF), organisation terroriste d’extrême gauche, également surnommée « la bande à Baader » ou « groupe Baader-Meinhof », opère en Allemagne dans les années 70. Ses membres, qui...
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Vitali Kanevsky – Samostoyatelnaya zhizn aka An Independent Life (1992)
on the road again… This is the second instalment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director’s life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic –Évolution aka Evolution (2015)
The only residents of young Nicholas’s seaside town are women and boys. When he sees a dead body in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the...
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Shôhei Imamura – Karayuki-san AKA The Making of a Prostitute (1975)
Quote: A film about another kind of “unreturned soldier” than Shohei Imamura has profiled elsewhere, KARAYUKI-SAN finds the filmmaker traveling to Malaysia to interview Kikuyo Zendo, one of the...
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Jayro Bustamante – Ixcanul (2015)
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm’s foreman. But María longs to discover the...
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Mauro Bolognini – Per le antiche scale AKA Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Quote: A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is ruled over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate and benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to...
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Frederick Wiseman – Sinai Field Mission (1978)
SINAI FIELD MISSION shows the routine activities of the diplomats and electronics technicians who operate the U.S. Sinai Field Mission, the early warning system established in 1976 to help facilitate...
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Gianfranco Rosi – Fuocoammare (2016)
Storyline Situated some 200km off Italy’s southern coast, Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern migrants...
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Sergei M. Eisenstein – Sergei M. Eisenstein : Notes for a General History of...
Sergei M. Eisenstein : notes for general history of cinema Author: Sergei Eisenstein; N I Kleĭman; Antonio Somaini; Margo Shohl Rosen; Brinton Tench Coxe; All authors Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam...
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France Culture – A History Of French Cinema (2000)
Quote: 5 Radio show (France Culture) discusses the history of French cinema over a century (1895-1995): DETAIL OF EMISSIONS: Track Listing ———————- 1st Issue: Period 1895 to 1928 (1:55). 2nd Issue:...
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Eiichi Yamamoto – Kanashimi no Beradonna AKA Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Belladonna of Sadness was the third and final animated feature film produced by Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Pro studio. The studio went bankrupt two months after the film came out. The film is loosely based...
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Bo Widerberg – Elvira Madigan (1967)
“Exquisite” is only the first word that surges in my mind as an appropriate description of Elvira Madigan, a Swedish film by Bo Widerberg that was put on at the late show in Philharmonic Hall last...
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