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Bob Quinn – Poitín AKA Poteen (1978)
Poitin is widely regarded as a classic of Irish cinema. It tells the story of a Conamara moonshiner, his daughter and two cheating agents who they outwit and bring to a tragic end. The story has a de...
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Michel Brault – Les Ordres AKA Orders (1974)
Les ordres has been rated by critics as one of the best Canadian films ever made. It subtly blends fiction and documentary realism in a chilling portrait of what can happen to a liberal democracy when...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Dekalog AKA The Decalogue (1989)
Quote: The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part epic masterpiece, Decalogue,...
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Tadeusz Konwicki – Ostatni dzien lata AKA The Last Day of Summer (1958)
Quote: There is something vaguely mythical to the manner in which Konwicki introduces his characters, both to us and to each other, lapped as much by the ethereal eeriness of the score as by the...
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José Luis Guerín – Le Saphir de Saint-Louis AKA The Sapphire of St. Louis (2015)
In 1741, a ship called the Saphir sets sail from a port in La Rochelle, France on its way to the New World. On board are thirty crewmembers and two hundred seventy-one slaves. Somewhere off the coast...
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Paul Verhoeven – Elle (2016)
Quote: Who else but Isabelle Huppert could have played Michèle Leblanc, the eponymous heroine of Paul Verhoeven’s Elle? The exuberant gravitas, the unapologetic condescension, the classily managed...
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John Dower – My Scientology Movie (2015)
Louis documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous church of scientology. http://nitroflare.com/view/330F1DCE77997D4/Louis_Theroux__My_Scientology_Movie.mkv...
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Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin – Tout va bien AKA Everything’s All Right...
Synopsis: Jean-Luc Godard dissects the structure of society, movies, love and revolution. He asks compelling questions: Can love survive a relationship? Can ideology survive revolution? He also looks...
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Jean-Guy Noël – Tu brûles… tu brûles… (1973)
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village. The film transcends anecdote by diving into a wacky and unusual universe, full of...
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Michael Crichton – Pursuit (1972)
A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him....
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James Benning – 74.78 (2005)
Quote: The 16mm test roll for James Benning’s feature-length film TEN SKIES. 74.78 is part of Mike Plante’s Lunchfilm series of commissioned shorts (made for the cost of a lunch between Plante and...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Iluminacja AKA Illumination (1973)
Quote: Unanimous winner of all three main prizes at the 1973 Locarno International Film Festival, Zanussi’s landmark film is a dazzling kaleidoscope of ideas and images. Illumination explores the life...
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Max Ophüls – De Mayerling à Sarajevo AKA From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940)
Synopsis: In the late 1800’s, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He’s already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Walkower AKA Walkover (1965)
Quote: Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature (and first full-length narrative) cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the rhythms of his films influenced as much by jazz and (his own)...
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Étienne Faure – Bizarre (2015)
Quote: If there was one feature that lived up to its title in Berlin this year, it’s Bizarre, French director Etienne Faure’s squiggle of a film about a directionless and taciturn French teenager —...
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Eloy de la Iglesia – El techo de cristal aka The Glass Ceiling (1971)
“This is the second Eloy de la Iglesia film I have seen (the first being CANNIBAL MAN) and I found it to be an excellent thriller. Lonely housewife Carmen Sevilla begins to let her imagination get the...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Pociag AKA Night Train (1959)
Quote: Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. While...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst vor der Angst aka Fear of Fear (1975)
For a long, in-depth review; see Jim’s Reviews link From Bill’s Movie Emporium: The story presented in Angst Vor Der Angst isn’t original by any means, although in 1975 I’m sure it had some...
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Wayne Ewing – When I Die – The Gonzo Monument (2005)
IMDB: “When I Die” is about the making of the Gonzo Monument to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and the blasting of his ashes into the heavens. The infamous outlaw journalist described his funeral plans in a...
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Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women (2016)
Three strong-willed women (Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams) strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending...
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