Wallace Worsley – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Wikipedia wrote: The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1923 American film directed by Wallace Worsley and produced by Carl Laemmle and Irving Thalberg. It stars Lon Chaney, Sr., Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman...
View ArticleEldar Ryazanov – Vokzal dlya dvoikh aka A Railway Station for Two (1982)
Synopsis Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He...
View ArticleEmre Sahin – 40 (2009)
IMDB: A bag full of money lands in front of you. Is it luck? The answer to your prayers? Part of a predetermined plan? Or all of the above? Set in the chaotic streets of Istanbul, 40 is a story of...
View ArticleBBC – Signs of Vigorous Life New German Cinema (1976)
Pithy half-hour documentary concerning New German Cinema (when it was on fire), focusing on and featuring interviews with “the big five”: Werner Herzog, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, Volker...
View ArticleAli Aydin – Küf aka Mold (2012)
SYNOPSIS Basri is a lonely man who seems to be floating in his own life. He watches over the railroads, walking the endless tracks through the abundant landscape of Anatolia. His only son, Seyfi, has...
View ArticleNicolas Boukhrief – Gardiens de l’ordre aka Off Limits (2010)
During a patrol, Julie (Cécile De France) and Simon (Fred Testot), two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the...
View ArticleBoris Frumin – Black and White (1992)
Laurence Kardish, Sundance Film Festival wrote: “Edge and emotionally complex, Black & White is a very unusual film… [It] is a nocturnal love story suffused with the melancholy and anxiety of not...
View ArticlePhilip W. Sauber – Der einsame Wanderer (1968)
quote: This is a pretty little student’s film with a peculiar background story. It was shot in spring 1968, produced by the Film- & Television Academy (dffb) of West-Berlin, which at that time was...
View ArticleSven Taddicken – Mein Bruder, der Vampir aka My Brother the Vampire (2001)
A fifteen year-old girl experiencing the first pangs of womanhood accompanies her mentally retarded brother as he begins to experience his sexual awakening in this effort from German director Sven...
View ArticleAndrew Brotzman – Nor’easter (2012)
Andrew Brotzmans Maine-set drama Nor’easter is perhaps too glacial for its own good, with the pleasingly wintry photography matching the deliberate pacing. It has secrets buried under its icy surface...
View ArticleLeo C. Popkin – The Well (1951)
The Well is a modest but generally effective plea for racial tolerance. Based loosely on a real incident, the film tells of the disappearance of a little African-American girl in a small, segregated...
View ArticleJeong Geun-Seop – Mong-ta-joo aka Montage (2013)
It’s been fifteen years since the apparent murder of a young child. Detective Chang-Ho (played by Kim Sang-kyeong) discovers something astonishing at an emotionally charged location- a place only...
View ArticlePascal-Alex Vincent – Donne-moi la main AKA Give Me Your Hand (2008)
Twin 18-year-olds hitchhike to their mother’s funeral in Spain. The journey changes their lives forever. http://keep2share.cc/file/52aae6adfd222/Donne.Moi.La.Main.avi...
View ArticleDick Clement – A Severed Head (1970)
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want...
View ArticleGyörgy Pálfi – Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012)
Quote: A film where anything can happen – the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: the LOVE between man and woman… in an archetypical love story...
View ArticleVadim Glowna – Haus der schlafenden Schönen AKA House of the Sleeping...
IMDB: Edmond, a man in his sixties whose wife has recently passed away, is told about a secret establishment where men can spend an entire night in bed alongside beautiful, sleeping young women, who...
View ArticleMadhushree Dutta – Scribbles on Akka (2000)
In this short film on the life and work of the 12th century saint-poet, Mahadevi Akka, her radical poems, written with the female body as a metaphor, have been composed and picturised in contemporary...
View ArticleIram Haq – Jeg er din aka I Am Yours (2013)
Mina is a young single mother livingin Oslo with her 6 year old son Felix. She is an Norwegian Pakistani with a troublesome relationship with her family. Mina is constantly looking for love and has...
View ArticleFrançois Ozon – Jeune et jolie aka Young and pretty (2013)
Isabelle is on summer holidays with her family in the in the south of France. She decides to lose her virginity to a German boy called Felix, but the experience leaves her cold. By autumn she is...
View ArticleAlex van Warmerdam – Borgman (2013)
Synopsis One of the Netherlands’s most adventurous filmmakers, Alex van Warmerdam specializes in creepy, fractured riffs on folk tales, and acerbic, surreal analyses of contemporary European society....
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