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Frank Henenlotter – That’s Sexploitation! (2013)
Before the advent of modern-day pornography, a vast and rapidly-paced world of smut peddling was the norm, complete with its own secret history. This documentary reveals the untold story of American...
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Chan-wook Park – Ah-ga-ssi aka The Handmaiden (2016)
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her...
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Mauro Bolognini – Madamigella di Maupin AKA Mademoiselle de Maupin (1966)
Maddalena (the radiant Catherine Spaak) is obliged to dress as a young cleric to escape an invading army, which gets her into hot water as she is forcibly drafted to fight on the other side under the...
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Juraj Jakubisko – Vtáckovia, siroty a blázni AKA Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969)
Quote: Slovak director Juraj Jakubisko is often described as the Fellini of Eastern Europe. After the 1968 film The Deserter and the Nomads, he was put in exile in Czechoslovakia after the soviet...
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Federico Fellini – La città delle donne AKA City of Women (1980)
Marcello is in the compartment of an Italian train, facing forward when the mineral water of the woman seated across from him starts to fall toward him. He catches the bottle and makes eye contact and...
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Peter Greenaway – The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Quote: An American architect arrives in Italy, supervising an expedition for a French architect, Boullée, who is famous for his oval structures. Through the course of 9 months he becomes obsessed with...
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Robert Altman – Secret Honor (1984)
Robert Altman’s electric 1984 filmed version of the play by Donald Freed and Arnold M. Stone, starring the inimitable Philip Baker Hall as Tricky Dick, in a one-man show. From Time Out London: Alone...
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Henri Desfontaines – Belphégor (1927)
Restored by “La Cinémathèque Française” in 1988 Plot : A ghost has been seen during the night in the Louvre Museum (Paris), and a guard is found dying near the statue of Belphégor, a god of Moabites...
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Raoul Ruiz – Poetics of Cinema 2 (2007)
Quote: “Eleven years separate these lines from the first part of my Poetics of Cinema. Meanwhile the world has changed and cinema with it. Poetics of Cinema, 1 had much of a call to arms about it....
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Jonathan Demme – Last Embrace (1979)
Plot Synopsis: When his wife is killed in a restaurant shoot-out, intelligence man Harry Hannan has a breakdown and finds that his department don’t want him back. Someone’s trying to kill him and it...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker [Artificial Eye] (1979)
Quote: Twenty years ago, a meteorite fell to Earth, and decimated a provincial Russian town. Villagers traveled through this curious area, now known as The Zone, and disappeared. Stories purport that...
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Elio Petri – L’assassino AKA The Ladykiller of Rome (1961)
Quote: The film is a frequently clever examination of a cynical social climber who finds himself in trouble. Arrested at his home and complete with a phoney alibi to cover his infidelity, our...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt AKA I Only...
Quote: A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them a...
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Basu Chatterjee – Sara Akash AKA The Whole Sky (1969)
from IMDb: Agra-based collegian Samar Thakur, lives in a joint family consisting of his dad, mom; brother Amar and his wife; as well as a married sister, Munni, who has been estranged from her...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Krótki film o milosci AKA A Short Film About Love (1988)
Quote: An obscured thief breaks into a school gymnasium at night to steal a portable telescope from the science lab. On the following morning, the thief, Tomek (Olaf Lubaszenko) sets up the telescope...
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Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Quote: Following Jack Nicholson’s breakout supporting turn in Easy Rider, director Bob Rafelson devised a powerful leading role for the new star in the searing character study Fve Easy Pieces....
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Hans Richter – Dadascope (1961)
Dadascope is a comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement with its specific techniques of sound and visual clash, word puns, chess, dice and other games of chance. Richter stated, “There is no story,...
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Yilmaz Güney – Seyyit Han: Topragin Gelini AKA Bride of the Earth (1968)
Synopsis: Seyyit Han is a man with many foes. One day he falls in love with Mürsit’s sister, Keje. Mürsit is fine with them marrying, only on one condition: Seyyit Han has to get rid of his enemies to...
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Oldrich Lipský – Happy End (1967)
Quote: Delightfully witty and with a Kafkaesque spin, Oldřich Lipský‘s brilliant film Happy End (1967) is a quirky little gem from the archives of cinematic history. Crafted with unrelenting precision...
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Jytte Rex – Silkevejen AKA Silk Road (2004)
Quote: What follows Buddha’s quote is a mesmerizing portrait of a terminally ill paintings restorer, Christine (Ellen Hillingsø), whose harrowing reality, lucid dreams and memories of a lover long...
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