Clik here to view.
William A. Kirkley – Orange Sunshine (2016)
Orange Sunshine is the never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group of surfers and hippies in California, which became the largest suppliers of LSD during the 60’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nacer Khemir – Les baliseurs du desert AKA The Wanderers (1986)
Synopsis: A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert. Review: Quote: A traveling writer and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marco Bellocchio – Marcia trionfale AKA Victory March (1976)
Synopsis: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Carl Theodor Dreyer – Der var engang AKA Once Upon a Time (1922)
Quote: Once upon a Time (a.k.a. Der var engang) is an atypical film for the Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, a departure from his more usual realistic dramas into the realm of fantasy and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nacer Khemir – Tawk al Hamama al Mafkoud AKA Le collier perdu de la colombe...
Synopsis: The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, Hassan goes in search of the missing pieces, believing that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bent Hamer – Eggs (1995)
Quote: Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Carl Theodor Dreyer – Præsidenten AKA The President (1919)
Quote: It perhaps comes as no surprise, given Carl Theodor Dreyer’s lifelong, idealized melancholy over his own unresolved parentage, that the scenario selected for his first film, The President would...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst vor der Angst AKA Fear of Fear (1975)
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stina Werenfels – Nachbeben AKA Going Private (2006)
Quote: Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, on a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP’s Danish au pair girl threatens to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Claire Denis – Les salauds AKA Bastards (2013)
Quote: The world of Claire Denis’s Bastards is one of nightmarish inversion, where compassion has no place and connection only breeds despair. Structured around the fracturing of two family units, one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jean Cocteau & René Clément – La belle et la bête AKA Beauty and the Beast...
Quote: While some other mid-20th-century directors were pursuing the chimera of “total cinema,” Jean Cocteau was chasing down the dream of a “total art.” But if “total cinema” meant capturing on...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Satyajit Ray – Charulata AKA The Lonely Wife (1964)
Quote: The opening shots of Satyajit Ray’s Charulata bypass melodrama for the feel of a fairy tale, with bored housewife Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee) flitting about her spacious Victorian home like...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ken Loach – Family Life (1971)
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life, and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Renato Castellani – Due soldi di speranza AKA Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952)
Synopsis: The story concerns the romance between Carmela and Antonio. Faced with the hostility of their parents, they symbolically shed themselves of all responsibilities to others in a climactic act...
View ArticleClik here to view.
John Hayes – Hot Lunch (1978) (HD)
Andrew’s life has hit rock bottom. After being fired from his job and discovering that his girlfriend is having an affair, he hits the streets looking for work only to discover a non-stop series of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Marco Ferreri – L’udienza aka The Audience (1972) (HD)
Quote: Amedeo (E. Jannacci), a mild officer on leave, comes to Rome from a town in the North to speak eye to eye with the Pope, “also in his interest.” He tries unsuccessfully for months until one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hannes Böck – New Hefei (2008)
Quote: New Hefei was done in the winter of 2007/2008 during a stay in China for several months through a series of photographs and prepared in the spring of 2008 in the provincial capital Hefei in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kôji Wakamatsu – Amai wana AKA Sweet Trap (1963)
An office worker who dreams of a peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by yakuza… http://nitroflare.com/view/6F7C9F0C1C0627F/1963_Sweet_Trap_-_Wakamatsu.mkv...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Henri-Georges Clouzot – Manon (1949)
Quote: Henri-Georges Clouzot (“The Raven”/”The Wages of Fear”/”“Diabolique”) directs one of his lesser efforts and co-writes with Jean Ferry an adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s 18th century lusty classic...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gerd Oswald – A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
Quote: In Gerd Oswald’s A Kiss Before Dying (1956) Bud Corliss (Robert Wagner) is a psychopath with one singular desire: He wants to become rich by marrying the daughter of a man who owns a copper...
View Article