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Wolfgang Becker – Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Quote: If not as dense as Godard’s Masculin Féminin, Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! is an equally playful look at the effects of American globalization abroad. Christiane Kerner (Katrin Saß) is a...
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Richard Fleischer – See No Evil AKA Blind Terror (1971)
A young blind woman is pursued by a maniac while staying with family in their country manor. Storyline: Sarah is a blind girl who has returned to her home, a country manor in which all of the...
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Marcel Carné – Les visiteurs du soir AKA The Devil’s Envoys (1942)
Synopsis Two wandering minstrels, Gilles and Dominique, arrive at the castle of the Baron Hugh just as he announces the engagement of his daughter Anne to the knight Renaud. However Gilles and...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Kaigenrei AKA Coup D’Etat (1973)
Quote: Ikka Kita is a revolutionary, who suffers when he is brought his younger brother’s clothes, still smeared with his blood. Ikka’s brother followed the revoltionary’s precept and acted,...
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Marcel Carné – Le Jour se lève aka Daybreak (1939)
Le Jour se lève (or Daybreak) is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot. It is considered one of the principal examples of the...
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Christopher Hampton – Carrington (1995)
Quote: Frail, intellectual Bloomsburyan Lytton Strachey is the unlikely hero for a movie, but congratulations to writer-director Christopher Hampton for making the essayist an elitist everyone can...
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Jim Jarmusch – Paterson (2016)
Quote: The new movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch is a total fantasy. This in spite of being shot on the streets of the New Jersey city in which it is set, and for which the movie itself and...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Ivanovo detstvo AKA Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Quote: The debut feature from the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of one boy’s war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Solyaris (1972)
Quote: One of the most frequent charges against science-fiction is that it replaces emotion with intellect. Its characters are people who live by and for the mind, and their personal relationships are...
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Ingmar Bergman – Såsom i en spegel AKA Through a Glass Darkly [+Extras] (1961)
A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate...
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Larry Clark – The Smell of Us (2014) (HD)
Math, JP, Pacman and Marie belong to the same crew of skate kids in Paris. Every day they meet up at The Dome – behind the Museum of Modern Art, opposite the Eiffel Tower – skateboarding, goofing off...
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Hans Weingartner – Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei aka The Edukators [+extras]...
The Edukators (German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film...
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Jorge Mautner – O Demiurgo AKA The Demiurge (1972)
A colorful feature film that mixes exile with the figure of the poet Rimbaud and the feminist revolution. “It’s super-intellectual. A fable-musical-philosophical-chanchada”, Mautner says. He also...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – La notte (1961)
Quote: One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, Michelangelo Antonioni — even as it solidified...
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Marlen Khutsiyev – Mne dvadtsat let AKA I Am Twenty [+Extras] (1965)
Synopsis: I am Twenty is notable for its often dramatic camera movements, handheld camerawork and heavy use of location shooting, often incorporating non-actors (including a group of foreign exchange...
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Youssef Chahine – Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman AKA Alexandria Again and...
The last film in Youssef Chahine’s autobiographical Alexandria Trilogy stars Chahine himself as his cinematic alter ego, Yehia Mourad, completing his merging of fiction with real life and drama with...
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Yannis Sakaridis – Wild Duck (2013)
Synopsis A bankrupt telecoms engineer, employed by his ex-boss to investigate a phone-hacking operation, gets trapped into paying off either his economic or his moral debts. ———————– “Wild Duck” is...
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Marjorie Keller – Objection (1974)
Begun as a document for insurance purposes, OBJECTION catalogues the contents of a house with ever-increasing horror. The soundtrack carries the voices and sounds of the family unseen....
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James L. Brooks – Broadcast News (1987)
Review (Sarah Goodman, DVD Bits) Writer, director and producer James L. Brooks, notably best known as a producer of The Simpsons, provides a satirical look at the world of television news, coupled...
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Jun Ichikawa – Tony Takitani (2004)
Alone and self-sufficient since childhood, Tony shuns emotions as illogical and immature. After finding his true vocation as a technical illustrator, he becomes fascinated with Eiko, whom he marries....
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