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Bertrand Bonello – L’Apollonide (Souvenirs de la maison close) aka House of...
The dawn of the XXth century: L’Apollonide, a house of tolerance, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the girls share their...
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Wayne Wang – While the Women Are Sleeping (2016)
Seduction, betrayal, murder, insomnia and apparitions are the elements at play in Wayne Wang’s tense and masterful version of the eponymous short story by Spanish writer Javier Marías, which takes a...
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? – The Thieving Hand (1908)
THE THIEVING HAND is one of the cleverest combinations of silent comedy and vaudeville-style talent Savant has seen. It’s the simple tale of a magic ‘artificial’ arm that, once in place in a host...
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Jim Casey – Stanley Kubrick : The Lost Tapes (2016)
Quote: A short documentary about the early life and feature films of the great Stanley Kubrick, as narrated by himself. The narration was pulled from interviews that took place in 1966 with Jeremy...
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Woody Allen – Café Society (2016)
In the 1930s, a young Bronx native moves to Hollywood, where he falls in love with the secretary of his powerful uncle, an agent to the stars. After returning to New York, he is swept up in the...
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Gabriel Mascaro – Boi neon AKA Neon Bull (2015)
Iremar works at the “Vaquejadas”, a rodeo in the North East of Brazil where two men on horseback try bring down a bull by grabbing its tail. It’s dusty and back-breaking work, but Iremar is a natural...
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Thom Andersen – A Train Arrives At The Station (2016)
Quote: This film was a gift to me. I make no claims for it, nor do I offer any apologies. It comes from work on The Thoughts That Once We Had. There was one shot we had to cut whose loss I...
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Toshiya Fujita – Shurayukihime aka Lady Snowblood (1973)
Quote: Out of all the films director Quentin Tarantino pays homage to in his interpretation of the revenge flick, “Kill Bill”, the 1973 classic film “Lady Snowblood” takes credit for probably being...
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Josef von Sternberg – Macao [+Extras] (1952)
Synopsis: A sultry night club singer, a man who has also traveled to many exotic ports and a salesman meet aboard ship on the 45-mile trip from Hong Kong to Macao. The singer is quickly hired by an...
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Tadeusz Konwicki – Salto (1965)
Quote: In this rich and subtle dream-play, a man arrives in a small country town and demands sanctuary from an unspecified threat. But who is he, why do people remember him differently, and can he...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Constans AKA The Constant Factor (1980)
Quote: Apart from the conscience provoking “A Short Film About Killing” I have always found Western European audiences’ adulation of the Polish director, Krzysztof Kieslowski, rather excessive, all...
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Andrzej Wajda – Czlowiek z zelaza AKA Man of Iron (1981)
Quote: Wajda’s remarkable sequel to Man of Marble welds newsreel footage of the Solidarity strike to fiction in a strong investigative drama. A disillusioned, vodka-sodden radio producer is bundled...
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Claude Sautet – L’arme à gauche AKA The Dictator’s Guns (1965)
Synopsis: Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a...
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Anucha Boonyawatana – Onthakan AKA The Blue Hour (2015)
Quote: Tam, a timid loner, is bullied regularly by his fellow pupils at school. He is met with similar rejection and suspicion within the narrow confines of his parents’ dingy home, where his father...
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Herman Shumlin – Confidential Agent (1945)
Synopsis: In pre-World War II London, Spanish agent Denard struggles to close a high-level business deal that will strike a blow against fascists in his native country. But industrialists not yet...
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Srdjan Karanovic – Virdzina AKA Virgina (1991)
Synopsis: 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...
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René Clair – Tout l’Or du Monde AKA All the Gold in the World (1961)
Synopsis: The small village of Cabosse is renowned for one thing: the people who live there can enjoy a long and healthy life, thanks to the pure country air. Seeing a chance to make some easy money,...
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Roberto Rossellini – Dov’è la libertà…? AKA Where is Freedom? (1954)
Synopsis: A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocracy of his own relatives and decides to return...
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Lav Diaz – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Quote: With its depiction of cruelty and woe, Florentina Hubaldo, CTE is one of Diaz’s darkest films, the third of a trilogy about trauma and its aftermath (after Death in the Land of Encantos and...
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Jonas Mekas – Diaries Notes and Sketches AKA Walden (1969) (HD)
Quote: Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny, touch-and-go Bolex camera before assembling his first “diary film” and screening...
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