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David Bradbury – My Asian Heart (2009)
Despite today’s cynical and fast world turnaround of images and headlines where traditional photojournalism has become swamped by a torrent of lifestyle reporting and celebrity paparazzi photography,...
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Eloy de la Iglesia – Una Gota de sangre para morir amando AKA Murder In A...
Words from the net: Often described as “the Spanish A Clockwork Orange”, this controversial shocker is set in a violent near-future world. Honest citizens live in terror as gangs of leather clad,...
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Federico Fellini – La Strada AKA The Road (1954)
Quote: La Strada is Federico Fellini’s moving masterpiece that explores the soul’s eternal conflict between the heart and mind. Zampano (Anthony Quinn) is a cruel, traveling carnival strongman who...
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Jean-Claude Rousseau – La vallée close AKA The Enclosed Valley (1995)
Quote: My films are like that: in a room, but looking out onto an open sky. I can’t really say it except to repeat that Bresson note, ‘that without a thing changing, everything is different.’ The film...
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Julie N. Books – What is Film? (2016)
In What Is Film?, Julie N. Books critically evaluates three philosophical doctrines of film realism (transparency, illusionism, and perceptual realism) and defends her view that films are creative...
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Louis Feuillade – L’Intruse (1913)
A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street. http://nitroflare.com/view/683A5C30152484E/L_Intruse_%28Louis_Feuillade%2C_1913%29.mkv...
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Juan Miguel del Castillo – Techo y comida (2015)
A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son. http://nitroflare.com/view/36F51E9126EE1E6/Techo_Y_Comida.avi...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Innocence (2004)
Quote: Is this a horror movie or a grim fairy tale? Dedicated to her colleague, confrontationalist director Gaspar Noé, and sourced from a work by dark expressionist Frank Wedekind, Lucile...
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Adam Curtis – HyperNormalisation (2016)
HyperNormalisation tells the extraordinary story of how we got to this strange time of great uncertainty and confusion – where those who are supposed to be in power are paralysed – and have no idea...
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Stephen Dunn – Closet Monster (2015)
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood. As seen at: 35th Istanbul Film Festival (2016) 40th Toronto International Film...
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Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Steno, Pino Zac,...
Synopsis: The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events. Review: Italian PORTMANTEAU film, a bit uneven....
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Satyajit Ray – Aranyer Din Ratri AKA Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Quote: Widely regarded as one of Satyajit Ray’s most magnificent films, “Days and Nights in the Forest” is a beautiful and touching story about four young middle class men who leave Calcutta to spend...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot – L’assassin habite… au 21 aka The Murderer Lives at 21...
Eureka, Masters of Cinema wrote: One of the most revered names in world cinema, Henri – Georges Clouzot, made a remarkably self – assured debut in 1942 with the deliciously droll thriller The Murderer...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Qing shao nian nuo zha AKA Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Quote: On a raining evening at a nondescript telephone booth in Taipei, two petty criminals, Ah-tze (Chen Chao-jung) and his friend Ah-ping (Jen Chang-bin) drill through the lock of the public...
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Athina Rachel Tsangari – Chevalier (2015)
Quote: Manhood-measuring contests — in every imaginable sense of the phrase — are taken to brazenly literal extremes in “Chevalier,” the long-awaited third feature from Greek multi-tasker Athina...
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Takeshi Kitano – Hana-bi AKA Fireworks (1997)
Quote: “Hana-bi” is the highly acclaimed drama from and with Takeshi Kitano. In this film Kitano In a very honest way, also works up and reflects about his own inner life after his motorcycle accident...
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Werner Schroeter – Goldflocken (1976)
Werner Schroeter’s rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican...
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Raphaël Siboni – Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel AKA There is no sexual...
Quote: A rambling, amusing and occasionally poignant examination of one man’s career as a director/performer of pornography. This behind-the-scenes look at the skin flick trade and its prominent...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Rikyu (1989)
Acclaimed director and headmaster of the Sogestsu school of flower arranging Hiroshi Teshigahara helms this elegant historical drama about tea master Sen no Rikyu. A Buddhist priest who talks of the...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Sakura no mori no mankai no shita AKA Under the Blossoming...
Plot: When a mountain man (Lone Wolf and Cub’s Tomisaburo Wakayama) kills a man and steals his wife (Shima Iwashita), he bites off more than he can chew. Rather than being a submissive victim, the...
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