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Peter Whitehead – The Fall (1969)
“I ran upstairs to the top floor and took the film out of my cine-camera, put it into a tin and sealed it with tape before dropping it from a window into the bushes below, unseen by the ranks of armed...
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Grigori Kozintsev – Korol Lir AKA King Lear (1969)
From IMDB user comments: Black and white cinematography of Gritsius, the music of Shostakovich and the enigmatic face of Jarvet, makes all other versions of King Lear smaller in stature. Lord Olivier...
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Bill Plympton – Hitler’s Folly (2016)
“Hitler’s Folly” explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler’s art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt...
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Bryony Dixon, Jane Giles, Becci Jones – Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film...
From King John in 1899, film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays proved popular with early filmmakers and audiences. By the end of the silent era, around 300 films had been produced. This...
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Phillip Baribeau – Unbranded (2015)
Sixteen mustangs, four men, one dream: to ride border to border, Mexico to Canada, up the spine of the American West. The documentary tracks four fresh-out-of-college buddies as they take on wild...
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Momoko Andô – 0.5 miri AKA 0.5 mm (2014)
From japansociety.org Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on...
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Andrei Stefanescu – #Beings (2015)
Beings is the second feature film of Stefanescu Andrei, after Sleep Awake in 2012, is also a micro-budget film, this time shot in Berlin with a small magical crew in the autumn of 2014. It is a...
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Masaru Konuma – Tsuma-tachi no seitaiken: Otto no me no maede, ima… AKA...
I just love Japanese pinku eiga:the genre filled with rape,misogyny and erotic submission. Masaru Konuma is among the most prominent directors of Japanese erotic cinema.”Wife’s Sexual Fantasy:Before...
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Tim Hunter – The Saint of Fort Washington (1993)
PLOT: Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by...
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Wim Wenders – In weiter Ferne, so nah! AKA Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Quote: In Faraway, So Close! angels watch over the people of Berlin. The world weighs heavily upon these men and women. Their attachment to things diminishes their desire for the invisible. As one...
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Yang Zhang – Kang rinpoche AKA Paths of the Soul (2015)
Quote: Docu-drama follows the journey of a group of Tibetans on a pilgrimage to Lasa, the holy capital of Tibet. The journey covers 1,200 km on foot, in a continuous repetition of prostrating one’s...
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Jan Troell – Nybyggarna AKA The New Land (1972)
Quote: For many, The New Land will be where Jan Troell’s two-part Swedish immigrant story set in 19th-century America really starts to take off. In many ways, The Emigrants [review] was merely...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Tôkyô boshokuAKA Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Synopsis: Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her...
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Lina Wertmüller – Notte d’Estate Con Profilo Greco, Occhi a Mandorla, e Odore...
Synopsis: Fulvia is a wealthy industrialist whose made her money as part of a rich conglomerate that supposedly supports the environment. She and her cohorts are sick and tired of a boorish Sicilian...
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Petr Kazda & Tomás Weinreb – Já, Olga Hepnarová AKA I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
Olga Hepnarova was a young, lonely lesbian outsider from a coldhearted family who couldn’t play the part society had chosen for her. Her paranoid self-examination and inability to connect with other...
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Manoel de Oliveira – Aniki Bóbó (1942)
Quote: The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has “played it tough” by...
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Jafar Panahi – Ayneh AKA The Mirror (1997)
Synopsis: A girl in traditional female clothing, with her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. She decides to travel home herself though she doesn’t...
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Andrés Duque – Oleg y las raras artes AKA Oleg and the Rare Arts (2016)
Several biographical facts: Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk (1927) played the piano for Stalin as a child prodigy, attended the Leningrad Conservatory and in the course of his career primarily wrote...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Faraon (1966)
Quote: The Walter Reade Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City’s retrospective – History Lessons: The Films of Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 30 January to 12 February 2004, screened the major work of this...
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Agnieszka Holland – Aktorzy prowincjonalni AKA Provincial Actors (1979)
Quote: Talented Polish director Agnieszka Holland who would be better known in later years because of her films like Europa, Europa (1991) or some of her American works like Washington Square (1997),...
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