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Werner Herzog – Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes AKA Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)...
Quote: For much of the time, the location consisted of three differently-sized rafts slowly gliding down the head-waters of the mighty Amazon river: one for the action proper, a second to set up the...
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Marguerite Duras – Marguerite Duras: Worn out with Desire…to Write (1985)
Quote: She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker...
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Kianoush Ayari – Boodan yaa naboodan AKA To be or Not to be (1998)
Imdb review Life is Precious, 21 August 2000 Author: Martin Kohler (mkohler@geoscience.org.za) from Pretoria, South Africa Having known someone who needed a kidney transplant, I was aware of the...
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Kurîpî: Itsuwari no rinjin AKA Creepy (2016)
Takakura is a former detective. He receives a request from his ex-colleague, Nogami, to examine a missing family case that occurred 6 years earlier. Takakura follows Saki’s memory. She is the only...
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Nacho Vigalondo – Los cronocrímenes aka Timecrimes (2007)
Plot Outline : Hector (Karra Elejalde) is spending a few days in the countryside with his girlfriend, Clara (Candela Fernández), when he sees something that catches his attention while playing with...
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Don Askarian – Paradzhanov (1998)
One of the several documentaries dedicated to the great master Sergei Paradjanov, died in 1990. On this occasion, who is behind the camera is the acclaimed director of Armenian origin Don Askarian....
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Maurice Pialat – Le garçu (1995)
Synopsis wrote: A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy’s mother (Géraldine Pailhas). Janet Maslin @ Nytimes...
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Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – Das Leben der Anderen AKA The Lives of...
Quote: “I’m your audience,” Ulrich Mühe confesses to an actress in a bar somewhere in the middle of The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), and he means it in two ways: one, he has seen her...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Erosu purasu Gyakusatsu AKA Eros Plus Massacre (1969)
Synopsis: In the 20’s, the anarchist revolutionary Sakae Osugi is financially supported by his wife, journalist Itsuko Masaoka. He spends his time doing nothing but philosophizing about political...
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Takashi Miike – Dead or Alive: Hanzaisha (1999)
Quote: Handed a tedious script about a turf war in Shinjuku’s Kabuki-cho entertainment district (a maverick Chinese gang pulls a robbery which upsets organised crime; a care-worn cop lumbers towards a...
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Akio Jissôji – Asaki yumemishi AKA Living in a Dream (1974)
Quote: After a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire....
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Frank Tashlin – Artists and Models (1955)
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book. Ignatiy Vishnevetsky wrote: There’s a meaty essay to be written about the lengths to which modern-day...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Rengoku eroica AKA Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Quote: Little exists, critically speaking, on the subject of Yoshishige Yoshida’s “Heroic Purgatory”. It is a singular experience in that it has never been the subject of much acclaim or criticism....
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Nigel Williams – Arena: George Orwell [5 Parts] (1984)
Part One: Such Such Were the Joys ‘From a very early age, perhaps the age of 5 or 6, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer …One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on...
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Emir Baigazin – Ranenyy angel AKA The Wounded Angel (2016)
A godforsaken Kazakh village in the mid-1990s where four youths are trying to find their way in life. Zharas suffers because his father, an ex-con, cannot find a job. To help make ends meet the boy...
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David Cronenberg – Dead Ringers (1988) (HD)
In Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg tells the chilling story of identical twin gynecologists—suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality—who share the same practice, the same...
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Dennis Gansel – Die Welle aka The Wave (2008) (HD)
Quote: When Rainer Wegner, a popular high school teacher, finds himself relegated to teaching autocracy as part of the schools project week, hes less than enthusiastic. So are his students, who greet...
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Marco Bechis – Garage Olimpo (1999)
Quote: Chili-born Italian director Marco Bechis’s second feature is a political drama based on his experiences with the military regime of Argentina (1976-1980) when he lived there. Maria (Antonella...
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Vera Stroyeva – Boris Godunov (1954)
quote from Amazon user: A complement I say, as this not being complete (well, I’d better say severely truncated) it cannot be your sole Boris in a collection; necessary I add, because it preserved a...
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John Duigan – The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Danny Embling (Noah Taylor) must face the bittersweet aches and sometimes harsh consequences of growing up when his childhood love (Loene Carmen) falls for a troubled older boy (Ben Mendelsohn) and...
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