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Garson Kanin – Bachelor Mother (1939)
Synopsis: Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin’s Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly’s unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Volver (2006)
Quote: There is no director alive more connected to the hearts, minds and mysteries of women than Spain’s Pedro Almodovar. With a string of masterworks stretching from Women on the Verge of a Nervous...
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Kaige Chen – Jing Ke ci Qin Wang AKA The Emperor and the Assassin [+extra]...
Synopsis: Set in 221 BC, The Emperor and the Assassin tells of Ying Zheng (Li Xuejian) and his obsession to unite seven Chinese kingdoms and become the first Emperor of China. The film mixes...
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Abbas Fahdel – Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) (2015)
Quote: What would you do if the world’s most fearsome military presence threatened to invade where you live? How does one even begin to prepare for that kind of assault? In “Homeland (Iraq Year...
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Robert Greene – Kate Plays Christine (2016)
Actress Kate Lyn Sheil prepares to portray the role of Christine Chubbuck, a real-life news reporter who took her own life on national television in 1974. rogerebert.com wrote: Movie publicity is...
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Leyla Bouzid –À peine j’ouvre les yeux AKA As I Open My Eyes (2015)
Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn’t think the same way. She sings in a...
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Julius Schultheiß – Lotte (2016)
Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man and flat to flat. One night in her local bar she bumps into Marcel, an almost...
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Jonathan Kahana – The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism (2016)
History, Theory, Criticism Edited by Jonathan Kahana and Foreword by Charles Musser Provides the most comprehensive overview of documentary film assembled to date, with over 100 articles on myriad...
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Roberto Minervini – The Other Side (2015)
Quote: In an invisible territory at the margins of society, at the border between anarchy and illegality, lives a wounded community that is trying to respond to a threat: of being forgotten by...
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Urszula Antoniak – Nude Area (2014)
Quote: Love doesn’t unfold like a story. Only the first and the last chapter are known. Love starts from Love and ends in letting go. In between there is tenderness and cruelty, waiting and...
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Richard Brooks – The Catered Affair (1956)
Synopsis: At breakfast, Jane announces that she and Ralph are getting married the next week. All Jane and Ralph want is a small wedding with the immediate family and no reception. This is because...
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Joe Francis – La revue des revues AKA Parisian Pleasures (1927)
Gabrielle, an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only...
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Flávio Moreira, Leon Hirszman, Rubens Maia & Luiz Rosemberg Filho – América...
Quote: Film in four segments: “Colagem”, “Balanço”, “Bandeira Zero” and “Sexta-Feira da Paixão, Sábado de Aleluia”, having in common a strongly allegorical and gross protest tone in the approach of...
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Eric Rohmer – La femme de l’aviateur (1981) (HD)
Quote: François (Philippe Merlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivière), but he has doubts whether she loves him in return. His job, working nights at the post office, means he can’t see her as often as he’d...
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William Friedkin – The Exorcist [Director’s Cut] (1973)
Plot summary A movie actress taking up temporary residence in Washington D.C. has her troubles. The script for the movie she’s filming seems inadequate. Her ex, who is also the father of her...
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Michael Dudok de Wit – La tortue rouge AKA The Red Turtle (2016)
Quote: As the lights dimmed a hand-drawn Totoro flashed up on screen. The friendly furry beast adorns Studio Ghibli’s familiar logo. Normally it has a sky-blue wash behind it. But in honour of Dutch...
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Xavier Dolan – Juste la fin du monde AKA It’s Only the End of the World (2016)
Quote: Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) is a successful writer returning home after an absence of twelve years. The purpose of his visit is to announce his imminent death, though this being context-light we’re...
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Knud Leif Thomsen – Gift AKA Venom (1966)
Synopsis: An outsider with libertarian ideas invades and corrupts a bourgeois family. http://nitroflare.com/view/B5AA90A4ADA657C/Gift.1966.DVDRip.x264.AC3.mkv...
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Lucian Pintilie – Un été inoubliable AKA An Unforgettable Summer (1994)
Quote: In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband’s commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak...
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Ben Hopkins – The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000)
Quote: A sadly neglected gem of British Cinema, this stunningly inventive film takes in German Expressionism, the pop promo, the docudrama and film noir. And that’s just for starters. The story of a...
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