Gus Van Sant – Last Days (2005)
Synopsis Last Days is filmmaker Gus Van Sant’s fictional meditation on the inner turmoil that engulfs a brilliant, but troubled musician in the final hours of his life. Michael Pitt (The Dreamers,...
View ArticleMichael Dudok de Wit – La tortue rouge AKA Red turtle (2016)
Quote: The dialogue-less film follows the major life stages of a castaway on a deserted tropical island populated by turtles, crabs and birds....
View ArticleWiktor Grodecki – Telo bez duse AKA Body Without Soul (1996)
Quote: An unflinching portrait of life on the post-Communist streets of Prague where young men find it all too easy to pick up extra money as porno models and hustlers. Their clients consist largely...
View ArticleRené Clément – La baby-sitter aka Jeune fille libre le soir (1975)
Quote: Whatever one says about the plot of this film is going to be a spoiler. Let’s just say that a girl takes a baby-sitting job for one night and in the morning finds that things are not what they...
View ArticleJaco Van Dormael – Toto le héros aka Toto The Hero (1991)
Synopsis: Thomas and Alfred were born around the same time; a fire in the nursery had nurses scrambling to save the newborns. Because he felt that he deserved Alfred’s good fortune at being born into...
View ArticleJan Troell – Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd AKA The Flight of the Eagle (1982)
Quote: Based on the novel by Per Olaf Sundman, Ingenjör Andrées Luftfärd (Flight of the Eagle) tells the real-life story of a Swedish engineer’s attempted expedition to the North Pole in a balloon....
View ArticleVarious – This Is Cinerama (1952)
On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama. This unique widescreen process was launched when television was deemed as a major...
View ArticleJoão Nuno Pinto – América (2010)
Quote: America a tragic story told in a burlesque and ironic way, within a love triangle. Liza, a beautiful young Russian woman, is married to Victor, a small-time crook who lives on scheming and...
View ArticleLisa Aschan – Det vita folket (2015)
Variety wrote: Swedish director Lisa Aschan decided to follow up her critically acclaimed film “She Monkeys” with “White People,” which she describes as “a space odyssey inspired by ‘The Shining.’”...
View ArticleRadley Metzger – Barbara Broadcast (1977) (HD)
In an elegant restaurant where gourmet food and gourmet sex are both on the menu, former high-class prostitute and acclaimed author Barbara Broadcast (played by stunning Annette Haven) transforms...
View ArticleChristian Braad Thomsen – Fassbinder: at elske uden at kræve AKA Fassbinder:...
Thomsen presents previously unseen interview footage recorded with Fassbinder throughout their fifteen-year friendship, which spans exactly the length of his career – their first encounter was at the...
View ArticleÇetin Inanç – Demir pençe (korsan adam) AKA Iron Claw the Pirate (1969)
With his operations in Istanbul being continually upset by the masked patriot-cum-vigilante Iron Claw the Pirate (Demir Karahan) and his female sidekick Mine (Nebahat Cehre), the legendary super...
View ArticleShun’ya Itô – Hanazono no meikyu AKA Labyrinth Romanesque (1988)
Based on Edogawa Ranpo Award winner “Hanazono no Meikyu” by Yoko Yamazaki. A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel....
View ArticleKirdy Stevens – Taboo (1980) (HD)
Synopsis: A woman who’s husband leaves her is sexually frustrated by the absence of a lover in her life. Avoiding the lecherous advances of the men she meets, she that finds her son’s interest in her...
View ArticleVeiko Õunpuu – Püha Tõnu kiusamine AKA The Temptation of St. Tony (2009)
Quote: There’s no better cinematic praise than to be evocative of Béla Tarr’s tour de force Werckmeister Harmonies. And The Temptation of St. Tony is just that. Veiko Õunpuu has weaved an existential...
View ArticleMarcel L’Herbier – Eldorado (1921)
Synopsis wrote: The tale of a dancer rejected by her lover and forced to endure other indignities in order to support her child is shown in avant garde style and traditional narrative techniques, with...
View ArticleRanjan Palit – In Camera (2010)
In this meditative and strident overview of the career of Ranjan Palit, award-winning documentary cameraman, the filmmaker himself shows us the images and questions that have haunted him throughout...
View ArticleBernard Queysanne – Un homme qui dort AKA The Man Asleep (1974)
Quote: In this French tour-de-force a young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like...
View ArticleJacques Demy – Lola (1961)
Quote: Jacques Demy was arguably the greatest romantic of the French New Wave, and Lola was one film in which he proved how vital both sides of that equation were to his vision. While Lola exists...
View ArticleYilmaz Güney & Atif Yilmaz – Zavallilar AKA The Poor AKA The Wretched Ones...
Synopsis: The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent to on various offenses. These three friends do not want to get out when they are...
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