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Sergey Loznitsa – Austerlitz (2016)
Quote: There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past – factories where humans were turned into ash. These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public and...
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Frank Lloyd & Josef von Sternberg – Children of Divorce (1927)
Synopsis wrote: A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn’t marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents’....
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Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Le rapport Darty (1989)
“French companies never seemed to learn that Godard would never make anything like a traditional advertisement, so when the Darty appliance chain commissioned a pub from the mischievous director, they...
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz – The Quiet American (1958)
Plot: In this adaptation of Graham Greene’s prophetic novel about U.S. foreign policy failure in pre-war Indochina, Audie Murphy plays an innocent Young American opposite the older, cynical Brit...
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Stanley Kubrick & Steven Soderbergh – The Return of W. de Rijk (2014)
Quote: sometimes you have to cross the line to know where the line is. just ask any two-year-old. maybe this is what happens when you spend too much time with a movie: you start thinking about it when...
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Luigi Zampa – Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
Plot synopsis: Cencio, a Roman pilferer, is periodically in prison. He’s a genius at scams. He loves his childhood sweetheart Cesira, who, in order to get herself out of the slum’s life, soon becomes...
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Carlos Saura – Goya en Burdeos AKA Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
Plot: Francisco Goya (1746-1828), deaf and ill, lives the last years of his life in voluntary exile in Bordeaux, a Liberal protesting the oppressive rule of Ferdinand VII. He’s living with his much...
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Veit Helmer – Tuvalu (1999)
Silent movies require a unique visual storytelling grammar, a rhythm of clear, economical medium shots, punctuated by close-ups of pertinent objects and human faces reacting. Veit Helmer’s debut...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – Poesía sin fin AKA Endless Poetry (2016)
Quote: Through Alejandro Jodorowsky’s autobiographical lens, Endless Poetry narrates the years of the Chilean artist’s youth during which he liberated himself from all of his former limitations, from...
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Esen Isik – Köpek AKA Koepek (2015)
Quote: Esen Isik, who already won the prestigious “Quartz” in 2012 for Du&Ich, presented her debut feature film, Köpek, a glimpse at an Istanbul held prisoner by its own contradictions, at this...
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Peter Brosens & Dorjkhandyn Turmunkh – State of Dogs (1998)
A cinematic poem based on the Mongolian belief that when dogs die, they are reborn as humans. At least, that’s what humans say. What do dogs think? The film introduces us to Baasar, a stray dog,...
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Béla Tarr – A Torinói ló AKA The Turin Horse (2011) (HD)
SYNOPSIS: 1889. German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche witnessed the whipping of a horse while travelling in Turin, Italy. He tossed his arms around the horse’s neck to protect it then collapsed to...
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Seijun Suzuki – Tantei jimusho 23: Kutabare akuto-domo aka Detective bureau...
Japanese director Seijun Suzuki solidified his growing cult following with this offbeat adaptation of Haruhiko Ooyabu’s crime novel. Jo Shishido stars as Det. Tajima, a smug investigator who nabs a...
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Michael Curtiz – The Matrimonial Bed (1930)
Plot: It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Adolphe Noblet who died in a train wreck. His servant and friends still worship him but don’t care much for his wife Sylvaine’s second husband Gustave...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Mababangong bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
Quote: Upon first glance, Perfumed Nightmare looks amateurish and raw. It is, too, I suppose, but this works to the film’s advantage. This is the semiautobiographical story of a young Filipino man...
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Senem Tüzen – Ana Yurdu (2015)
Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. When her conservative mother turns up uninvited...
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Marguerite Duras – Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert (1976)
Quote: When the film Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert was initially shown in 1976, many viewers found it hauntingly beautiful but deeply perplexing. Some, seeing it as a sign of Duras’ inability...
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Travis Wilkerson – An Injury to One (2002)
AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor history: the rise and fall of Butte, Montana....
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Jane Campion – An Exercise in Discipline – Peel (1982)
Review (Geraldine Bloustien, ‘Jane Campion: memory, motif and music’. Continuum) Peel explores the dynamics of family relationships and the way patterns of power can be learnt and repeated. It also...
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Kor AKA Ember (2016)
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery. She takes a job as a needle worker at a garment workshop where she comes across Ziya,...
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