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Jean Renoir – La chienne AKA The Bitch (1931)
Maurice (Michel Simon) is a married cashier who meets Lulu (Janie Marèze), a streetwalker. Their chance meeting results in Maurice falling in love with Lulu. She, however, is in love with her...
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Robert Drew – Primary (1960)
It’s the tail end of winter in 1960. U.S. Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Kennedy seek the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. Wisconsin’s primary – one of the few direct primaries at the...
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Louis Feuillade – Pierrot, Pierrette (1924)
Pierrot et Pierrette, brother and sister, live in a caravan with their grandfather, the former ringmaster of a circus. To earn a living, they sing in the streets, and their lives are happy. But a...
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Werner Herzog – Werner Herzog Masterclass (2016)
Capture the spectacular When the legendary director Werner Herzog was 19, he stole a camera and made his first movie. 70 films and 50 awards later, Werner is teaching documentary and feature...
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Glauber Rocha – Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças AKA The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970)
ın a African country, the people decides to take arms for the revolution, but the white, defended by mercenaries and commanded by a American agent, will defend the interests of capitalists and of...
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Jean Negulesco – Alice in Movieland (1940)
Synopsis: In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her...
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Kamal Selim – El azima AKA The Will (1939)
Plot: A young couple, Muhammad and Fatima, fall in love and get married. However, their bliss is cut short when Muhammad loses his job and is forced to work as fabric salesman, without telling his...
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Ingmar Bergman – Vargtimmen AKA Hour of the Wolf [+Extras] (1968)
Quote: Madness and demonism, present in many of Bergman’s films, are made the explicit themes of Hour of the Wolf. Here they are associated with artistic creativity. Alma (Liv Ullmann) tells of her...
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Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt – Havana Motor Club (2015)
Reforms have offered opportunity in Cuba but the children of the Revolution are unsure of the best route forward. For a half-dozen drag racers, this means last-minute changes to their beloved American...
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Helmut Käutner – Der Apfel ist ab AKA The Original Sin AKA The Apple Fell (1948)
Lubitsch wrote: Time again to raise more interest in post war German cinema before the Heimatfilm wave and Käutner’s witty and inventive comedy is just a fine example to do that. Again it’s in the end...
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Yûji Makiguchi – Onna gokumon-chô: Hikisakareta nisô AKA Nuns That Bite AKA...
Synopsis: By Yûji ‘Shogun’s Sadism’ Makiguchi. Another medieval tale of barbarism amidst civilized Japan. A girl urinates right in front of two horny travelling strangers in the forest and is...
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Raoul Ruiz – Colloque de chiens AKA Dog’s Dialogue (1977)
Synopsis: A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills. Review: Dogs’ Dialogue opens to a shot of an abandoned dog...
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Joan Braderman – Joan Does Dynasty (1986)
Quote: “Long before the advent of Slavoj Zizek, U.S. academic Joan Braderman in 1986 offered a bracing exercise in standup theory and comic deconstruction in this half-hour unpacking on video of the...
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Govindan Aravindan – Kummatty AKA The Bogeyman (1979)
Kummatty is adapted from a Central Kerala folk tale about a partly mythic and partly real magician called Kummatty. Kummatty travels from place to place and entertain children with dancing, singing...
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Ingmar Bergman – Ingmar Bergman Bris Soap Commercials (1951)
In 1951 there was a conflict in the Swedish film industry. The production companies had declared a ban on filming in protest against the high rate of tax on entertainment. Recently remarried, Ingmar...
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Ivo van Hove & La Comédie-Française – Les Damnés AKA The Damned (2016)
Ivo van Hove’s first staging with the Troupe marks the entry into the repertoire of the scenario of The Damned. In two decades, the artistic director of the Toneelgroep in Amsterdam, whose field of...
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Jean-Pierre Lajournade – Les Souffrances du jeune Werther (1968)
Free adaptation of Goethe. 68’s spleen and rebellion with Garrel Brothers… Adaptation libre du roman épistolaire éponyme et premier roman de Goethe qui fut publié anonymement et parut en 1774. Il met...
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Luis Buñuel – Un chien andalou (1929)
In a dream-like sequence, a woman’s eye is slit open–juxtaposed with a similarly shaped cloud obsucuring the moon moving in the same direction as the knife through the eye–to grab the audience’s...
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Philippe Lesage – Les démons AKA The Demons (2015)
A young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence. A daring, exquisite study of agitated child psychology that marks Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage as a name to watch....
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Werner Schroeter – Nuit de chien AKA This Night (2008)
Quote: Werner Schroeter is one of the German new wave’s prophets without honour. He was too confrontationally weird to take his place alongside Fassbinder, Wenders and Herzog in the international...
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