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Ken Loach – I, Daniel Blake (2016)
Quote: Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, the latest from legendary director Ken Loach is a gripping, human tale about the impact one man can make. Gruff but goodhearted,...
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François Ozon – Le temps qui reste AKA Time to Leave (2005)
Quote: Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final journey in the second of three films in a trilogy about death and...
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Frédéric Choffat & Julie Gilbert – Mangrove (2011)
Quote: A young woman travels with her child to a remote coast on the Pacific in southern Mexico where she grew up. She had lived with her father in a house on the beach until her beloved, a young...
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Benoît Jacquot & Marguerite Duras – La mort du jeune aviateur anglais AKA The...
La mort du jeune aviateur anglais tells the story of a British airman whose grave Marguerite Duras discovered near Deauville. Although we don’t know where fiction begins, Duras’ narrative has a...
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Terence Davies – A Quiet Passion (2016)
A Quiet Passion is Terence Davies’ biographical drama detailing the life of Emily Dickinson her loves, her struggles and her magnificent poetry. Shot in Belgium and Massachusetts, A Quiet Passion...
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Marguerite Duras – India Song (1975)
Quote: Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she had married a French colonial administrator and went with him on posting to Savannakhet,...
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Yuliya Solntseva & Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Poema o more AKA The Poem of the Sea...
Summary: This is a movie-poem with philosophic and lyric contemplations about the construction of Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station, closure of the Dnieper, creation of Kakhovskoye Sea and also...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – La fille inconnue AKA The Unknown Girl...
Quote: In Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s very best films, you know exactly what you’re getting — until the quiet dramatic pivot that gently ensures you don’t. In “The Unknown Girl,” only the first...
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Zach Clark – Little Sister (2016)
Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, returning to her childhood home in Asheville NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal...
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Wes Anderson – The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Quote: Wes Anderson, like so many now-New Yorkers (myself included), grew up far away from the city, and so came to an idealized vision of the metropolis and its sophisticated, complicated residents...
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Marguerite Duras – Nathalie Granger [+Extras] (1972)
The most insidious thing about the nouveau movie, which is a polite way of describing Marguerite Duras’s newest, most minimal film, “Nathalie Granger,” is that it traps you in its own time, unlike the...
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François Ozon – Frantz (2016)
Quote: Screwball comedy master Ernst Lubitsch took a rare stab at straight drama with 1932’s “Broken Lullaby,” the tense story of a soldier who attempts to make amends with the family of a man he...
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Hideo Sekigawa – Hiroshima (1953)
“Hiroshima” is a feature film directed by Hideo Sekigawa and was independently produced outside of major studio system in 1953. In fact the film was supported by the Teacher’s Union of Hiroshima who...
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Marguerite Duras – Les mains négatives (1978)
Marguerite Duras (1914 – 1996) was one of France’s most famous writers of the twentieth century. Her talents ranged across fiction, film, playwriting, andjournalism, and all through her long career,...
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Kostas Manoussakis – O fovos AKA The fear (1966)
Plot: A socially isolated young man (Anestis Vlachos) attacks the family’s deaf-mute adopted daughter, whom he abuses sexually and then kills. His parents, even though they discover his crime and are...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Turumba (1981)
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice: Set in a tiny Philippine village, the inimitable Kidlat Tahimik’s film focuses on a family that makes papier-mache animals to sell during the traditional Turumba...
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Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah – Black (2015)
A 15-year-old girl in a black gang in Brussels must choose between loyalty and love when she falls for a Moroccan boy from a rival gang. The city of Brussels, plagued by high rates of youth...
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Franco Zeffirelli – Hamlet (1990)
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge. http://nitroflare.com/view/7AC70449487EF2A/Hamlet.avi...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Dong dong de jiàqi AKA A Summer at Grandpa’s (1984)
Synopsis wrote: A young boy and his sister spend a summer at their grandparents’ house in the country while their mother recuperates from an illness. They while away the hours climbing trees, swimming...
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Marguerite Duras – Agatha et les lectures illimitées AKA Agatha and the...
Quote: One of Duras’ most fascinating treatments of the dialectical relationship between sound & image, what is spoken & what is left unsaid, is an evocative “adaptation” of her then...
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