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Manoel de Oliveira – Francisca (1981)
Quote: Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira made this amazing film in 1981, at the age of 72; as powerful as it is stark, it suggests a blending of the modernist, minimalist techniques of Jean-Marie...
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Ettore Scola – C’eravamo tanto amati AKA We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Quote: C’eravamo tanto amati, a tribute to Vittorio De Sica, is not only about the difficult, frustrating post-World War II years of three men whose class differences overwhelm the close bond they...
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Jean-Claude Biette – Loin de Manhattan (1982)
A journalist tries to find out the mistery of the 8 years silent period of René Dimanche, a fictional painter. The art critic and the city of Paris will create and environment of decadence, but the...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Grabbes letzter Sommer AKA Grabbe’s Last Summer (1980)
Quote: Talented Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project — the life and times of a German literary figure — and making it interesting. Christian Dietrich...
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Wojciech Has – Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany AKA...
Synopsis: In the 18th century, a recently deceased young man is exhumed by a gravedigger, suddenly revives, and then launches into the story of his highly eventful life. Brought up in a puritanical...
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Alain Tanner – Jonas et Lila, à demain (1999)
Jonas et Lila: A Demain by Paul Kalina March 2000 Senses of Cinema So far at least, new millennium events appear to have produced little of lasting value, apart from early retirement packages for...
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Gaston Biraben – Cautiva aka Captive (2003)
Quote: “Cautiva” features a solid performance by 23-year-old Barbara Lombardo that goes a long way in making up for the telenovela script. Lombardo, who had small role in “The Motorcycle Diaries,” is...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – Le amiche AKA The Girlfriends (1955)
Quote: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche opens with an aerial shot of Turin, Italy that, in the moment, could easily be mistaken as simply a cheery, picturesque backdrop for the credits sequence....
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Jean-Denis Bonan – La femme bourreau AKA A Woman Kills (1968)
Synopsis: ‘Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed...
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Jeremy Geltzer – Dirty Words & Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment...
Dirty Words & Filthy Pictures: Film and the First Amendment by Jeremy Geltzer Foreword by Alex Kozinski Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: University of Texas Press (January 4, 2016) Language:...
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Hector Babenco – At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
PLOT SYNOPSIS In a remote branch of the Brazilian Amazon, Americans Lewis (Tom Berenger) and Wolf (Tom Waits) are stranded when their plane runs out of gas. They are kept company by an evangelist...
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Raoul Ruiz – Trois vies & une seule mort AKA Three Lives and Only One Death...
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars as man who shares four names and four personalities (which is the real one?). This mysterious figure is the link between four different, yet strangely similar,...
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Srdjan Karanovic – Virdzina aka Virgina (1991)
The story takes place in Yugoslavia at the end of the 19th century, in an isolated village near the Adriatic sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families...
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Lucian Pintilie – Reconstituirea aka Reconstruction (1968)
Synopsis: After two friends drunkenly injure a waiter, the police force them to recreate their crime for an “educational” film—with disastrous results. Immediately banned in communist Romania,...
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D.W. Griffith – The Painted Lady (1912)
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a...
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Franz Novotny – Exit… nur keine Panik AKA Exit… But No Panic (1980)
Quote: The Year is 1980 and it’s Summer in Vienna Most people outside of Austria will rarely get a chance to see this movie, but if you get a chance like this, don’t let it pass as you as you’re on...
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Bing Wang – He Fengming aka Fengming: A Chinese Memoir (2007)
Robert Koehler wrote: With virtually a single-camera set-up and absolute attention paid to a woman who survived the horrors of Mao’s China, Wang Bing continues his run as one of the world’s supreme...
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Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Quote: Kiss Of The Spider Woman takes place in an un-named, fascist country in South America. It is, essentially, a two-actor drama featuring two men, of vastly different demeanors and ideologies, who...
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Carlos Saura – El jardín de las delicias AKA The Garden of Delights (1970)
Review Summary Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars as a millionaire industrialist who is involved in an auto accident. When he comes to, Vasquez has completely forgotten who he is and how much money he has....
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Artour Aristakisian – Mesto na zemle AKA A Place on Earth (2001)
Quote: “This is a very powerful film. Admittedly parts of it are hard to watch, but it is an outstanding piece. In a nutshell, it is about a hippie commune that has been set up by someone who believes...
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