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Eugène Green – Le fils de Joseph AKA Son of Joseph (2016)
Synopsis: A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts...
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Alan Schneider – Film (1965)
Samuel Beckett, the celebrated author of Waiting for Godot, made a single work for projected cinema. It’s in essence a chase film; the craziest ever committed to celluloid. It’s a chase between camera...
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Byron Haskin – I Walk Alone (1948)
Quote: It’s a mighty low class of people that you will meet in the Paramount’s “I Walk Alone” — and a mighty low grade of melodrama, if you want the honest truth — in spite of a very swanky setting...
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Iván Osnovikoff & Bettina Perut – Surire (2015)
Synopsis While researching locations for their 2009 film Noticias, documentary filmmakers Bettina Perut and Ivan Osnovikoff stumbled upon Salar de Surire, a salt flat in the Chilean Andes at an...
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Maren Ade – Toni Erdmann (2016) (HD)
Maren Ade’s third feature (after The Forest For The Trees and Everyone Else) is an exuberant exploration of the dynamics of relationships which mostly sustains its marathon running time. Under...
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Reha Erdem – Koca Dünya AKA Big Big World (2016)
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes...
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Nikolaus Geyrhalter – Homo sapiens (2016)
Synopsis: Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after...
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Jan Gassmann – Europe, She Loves (2016)
official site wrote: Four couples struggle on the edge of mother Europe. In countries troubled by economic and social crises they stumble through life with charme, sex and plenty of passion. A movie...
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Robert Fischer & Wilfried Reichart – The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques...
Quote: There’s little doubt that, for the serious cinephile, the home video event of this fall will be the the release of Jacques Rivette’s magnum opus OUT 1 (1971) on blu-ray and DVD in three...
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Aleksandr Rou – Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki AKA The Night Before...
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action takes place both in a village of Dikanka in the Ukraine and at...
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Azadeh Navai – Friday Mosque (2014)
A silent meditation on the Islamic prayer ritual through motion (water is the core, but light is the cause) in FRIDAY MOSQUE. Shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film, Navai hand processed the...
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Johan Grimonprez – Shadow World (2016)
Based on the book of The Shadow World, this feature length documentary is an investigation into the multi-billion dollar international arms trade....
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Chan-wook Park – Ah-ga-ssi AKA The Handmaiden (2016)
Quote: Park Chan-wook’s giddy mixture of historical romance and auteur eroticism is spiced with ghosts, horror and S&M. Expectations are fully met in Park Chan-wook’s exquisitely filmed The...
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Manoel de Oliveira – O Pão AKA Bread [Short Version] (1959)
Quote: Each day, a man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth, helping the breeding of the corn, the corn’s recolt, transport to the mills, manipulation...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Ordet (1955)
Quote: Although The Word deals with a miracle, it is through and through a realistic film—about those who are weak in faith. The hoped-for miracle does not occur until one who has faith, the True...
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Ki-duk Kim – Bin-Jip AKA 3-iron (2004)
Plot Summary (Taken from IMDb): A young drifter enters strangers’ houses – and lives – while owners are away. He spends a night or a day squatting in, repaying their unwitting hospitality by doing...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Higanbana AKA Equinox Flower (1958)
Quote: The first color feature film from Yasujiro Ozu, Equinox Flower is a spare, evocative, and compassionate portrait of aging, transition, and change. The title of the film refers to a red...
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Yang Chao – Chang jiang tu AKA Crosscurrent (2016)
Quote: In a daze following his father’s sudden death, cargo ship captain Gao Chun falls under the spell of a mysterious book of poetry found hidden in his ship’s engine room, sending the beleaguered...
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Alexandre Promio – Enfants pêchant des crevettes (1896)
Catalogue Lumière wrote: Vue N° 45 “Des enfants traînent leurs filets sur la plage à mer basse : les fillettes, les jupes relevées, rivalisent d’entrain avec les garçons dans cet exercice.” – Un des...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Daichi no komoriuta AKA Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
Quote: The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her...
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