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Vitaliy Manskiy – V paprscích slunce AKA Under the Sun (2015)
Deckert Distribution: Quote: This is a film about the ideal life in an ideal country – North Korea. We see a girl in an ideal school, the daughter of ideal parents, working at ideal factories, living...
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Theodor Boder – Strasek, der Vampir (1982)
Serbia, in the year 1910: Milena Strasek has lived with her 12-year-old son Stefan in a small village since the father abandoned the family shortly after Stefan was born. Many years of uncertainty...
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Sean Martin – New Waves in Cinema (2013)
The term New Wave conjures up images of Paris in the early 1960s from the films of French filmmakers Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. The impact of the French New Wave continues to be felt, and...
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Ben Rivers – The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are...
Shooting against the staggering beauty of the Moroccan landscape, from the rugged terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark and surreal emptiness of the desert, with its encroaching sands and...
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Aleksey Fedorchenko – Angely revolyutsii AKA Angels of Revolution (2014)
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet...
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Robert Bresson – Pickpocket (1959)
Quote: Michel is an inscrutable young man – neatly dressed, mild mannered, intelligent – hardly the type whom one would suspect to be a pickpocket. And perhaps, that is reason that he does it. Robert...
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Richard Pottier – Le Monde tremblera aka The World Will Shake AKA The Revolt...
Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot… Review: With...
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Jeppe Rønde – Bridgend (2015)
Sara and her dad Dave move to a small village, which is haunted by suicides among its young inhabitants. Sara falls dangerously in love with one of the teenagers, Jamie, while Dave, as the town’s new...
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Jonas Mekas – Walden – Diaries Notes and Sketches (1969)
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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Jonas Mekas – Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
Quote: These six reels of my film diaries come from the years 1949-1963. They begin with my arrival in New York in November 1949. The first and second reels deal with my life as a Young Poet and a...
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Ian Samplin – Hunter (2013)
Quote: Two friends return to their apartment after a night out to find a stranger passed out on their stoop. Intrigued, they vie for his attention over the rest of the weekend....
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Yuxin Zhuang – Ai qing de ya chi AKA Teeth of Love (2007)
Synopsis: An experienced TV drama screenwriter and a professor at the Beijing Film Academy, Zhuang Yuxin makes his debut feature Love Teeth in 2006, winning much applause from critics. Praised as the...
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Will Tremper – Die endlose Nacht AKA The Endless Night (1963)
esther-ofarim.de wrote: Film about people, who come to the airport and no airplane is flying.They are waiting and nothing happens. It’s a kind of criminal film with drama and comedy. Sandra Brennan...
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Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow – De Palma (2015)
Storyline In the annals of Hollywood film since the artistic glories of the New Hollywood era, few have a better reputation and body of work in the field of the suspense film exploring the...
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Todd Solondz – Babysitter (1984)
A student film with no synced sound, Babysitter is a humorous nine-minute short made as Todd Solondz’ graduate film for NYU film school in 1984. Eric Schwartzman narrates and plays the lead role of a...
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Jean Epstein – Coeur fidèle AKA The Faithful Heart (1923)
Quote: In Coeur Fidèle’s accompanying 44-page booklet, Jean Epstein, at a 1924 address, argues his film as “romantic” rather than”realist”, the label with which Italian poet Ricciotto Canudo assigned...
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Anne Bogart & Holly Morris – The Babushkas of Chernobyl (2015)
An affectionate portrait of a group of women who, after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and evacuation, returned to the exclusion zone surrounding the nuclear power plant and have resided there –...
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Les Blank & Skip Gerson – A Well Spent Life (1972)
Quote: Many people consider Texas bluesman Mance Lipscomb to be the greatest blues guitarist and songster of all time. This glowing portrait of the legendary musician (also life-long husband and...
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John Waters – Mondo Trasho (1969)
Mondo Trasho is a 1969 16mm mondo black comedy film by John Waters. The film stars Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary and Mink Stole. It contains very little dialogue, the story being told...
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Anne Fontaine – Les innocentes AKA The Innocents (2016)
Quote: It was only three years ago that Ida diligently aestheticized the blackness of religious habits against the whiteness of Polish snow, so it’s hard not to expect Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents,...
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