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Shirô Toyoda – Jigokuhen AKA Portrait of Hell (1969)
Synopsis: A rebellious Korean artist tests the limits of his sadistic patron, an omnipotent feudal Japanese lord. Yoshihide demands a commission to paint screens of the Hell which he sees the...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 1a) AKA Crude Oil (pt. 1a) (2008)
Quote: In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 1b) AKA Crude Oil (pt. 1b) (2008)
Quote: “In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Ken Jacobs – Star Spangled to Death (2004)
Quote: STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! combining found-films with my own more-or-less staged filming, it pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America,...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 2a) (2008)
Quote: In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Bing Wang – Caiyou riji (pt. 2b) (2008)
Quote: In the film-festival catalogues of Rotterdam and Hong Kong, it says that Wang Bing was filming on a plateau in the Gobi Desert, but in reality he had to move to a different mountainous region...
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Parviz Kimiavi – Mogholha AKA The mongols (coloured version) (1973)
From IMDB: A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a...
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Katherine Gilday – The Famine Within (1990)
Quote: Katherine Gilday’s impressive documentary debut The Famine Within focuses on the debilitating and unattainable ideal of a woman, and its devastating effects on the health and morale of women,...
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Kôzaburô Yoshimura – Itsuwareru seiso AKA Clothes of Deception (1951)
Quote: In 1951 Yoshimura had approached Daiei in order to realise – again from Shindo’s script – his outstanding study of women in Kyoto’s Gion district, Clothes of Deception (Itsuwareru seiso). Once...
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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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Zeynep Kececiler – Uzak Renk Ahenk AKA Harmony of Color in Far (2004) (DVD)
Programme which aims to inform people on Kars and Ardahan region that has always played a role as a bridge in history between Anatolia and Caucasia, is composed of two serials each of them last 28...
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Raoul Peck – I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, “Remember This House.” The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of...
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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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Peter Monsaert – Le Ciel Flamand AKA Flemish Heaven (2016)
Together with her mother, Sylvie runs a brothel near the Flemish-French border. Eline, Sylvie’s daughter, is intrigued by her mother’s peculiar working place....
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Kevin Burke – 24X36: A Movie About Movie Posters (2016)
Quote: A documentary exploring the birth, death, and resurrection of the illustrated movie poster....
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Andrzej Wajda – Powidoki AKA Afterimage (2016)
Quote: While he’s exercising filmmaking muscles that are mighty spry for a 90-year-old, no one will mistake Andrzej Wajda’s latest feature for an expression of joie de vivre: “Afterimage” is a somber...
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Robert Jan Westdijk – Waterboys (2016)
Crime novelist Victor and his twenty-year-old cello playing son Zack both have become single. During a trip to Scotland they are forced to confront themselves and finally get to know each other. A...
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Kirill Serebrennikov – (M)uchenik AKA The Student (2016)
Contemporary Russia. A high school student becomes convinced that the world has been lost to evil, and begins to challenge the morals and beliefs of the adults around him....
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Yesim Ustaoglu – Tereddut AKA Clair Obscur (2016)
Synopsis “Clair Obscur” is the psychological dance of two women who are deprived of and distanced from their natural right to mature and discover themselves, to love and be loved, and to sustain a...
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Harun Farocki – Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges AKA Images of the...
Quote: The vanishing point of is the conceptual image of the ‘blind spot’ of the evaluators of aerial footage of the IG Farben industrial plant taken by the Americans in 1944. Commentaries and notes...
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