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Raymond Depardon & Claudine Nougaret – Au bonheur des maths (2011)
` Quote: This film is based on the simplest staging principle: 9 high-level mathematicians have each less than 4 minutes to tell, in front of the camera, what fascinates or moves them, brings them...
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Jean Epstein – Chanson d’Armor (1934)
Synopsis: Ballad-type drama-documentary spoken in the Breton language and set in a Breton fishing community, telling of the impossible love between a fisherman and the lady of the manor. IMDb-review:...
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Mauro Herce – Dead Slow Ahead (2015)
Quote: For over two months, Mauro Herce and his crew travelled aboard the freighter My Fair Lady, shooting 14-16 hours a day as it made it laborious journey from Ukraine to New Orleans. Blurring the...
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Raymond Depardon – Chasseurs et chamans (2003)
Quote: During his stay in the Yanomami village of Watoriki with the anthropologist Bruce Albert, the French documentary filmmaker and photographer Raymond Depardon filmed in parallel a group of...
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Raymond Depardon – 8e étage (2014)
Quote: On the eighth floor, Raymond Depardon filmed a minute of silence with eight personalities who worked for the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art: David Lynch, Patti Smith, William...
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Tomas Alfredson – Torsk på tallin – A small movie about loneliness (1999)
Percy Nilegaard collects Swedish single men and embarks on a bus trip to Tallinn with a so-called “highly-experienced driver”. http://nitroflare.com/view/4C29BF2499F77A2/torsk.pa.tallin.widd.avi...
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Michael Winterbottom – Welcome to Sarajevo (1997)
A British war film released in 1997. It is directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is by Frank Cottrell Boyce and is based on the book Natasha’s Story by Michael Nicholson. The film made its...
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Hanna Sköld – Granny’s Dancing on the Table (2015)
Eini grows up isolated from society in the woods together with her controlling and abusive father. Stories about her granny and Eini’s invincible fantasy enables her to create a world within, from...
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Gust Van den Berghe – Lucifer (2014)
On his downfall from Heaven to Hell, Lucifer passes through the earthly paradise, a village in Mexico, where elderly Lupita and her granddaughter Maria live. Lupita’s brother Emanuel pretends he’s...
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Barbara Sternberg – Transitions (1982)
“Transitions” is a film of inner life and speaks of time, reality, power. It depicts the disquieting sensations of being between – between falling asleep and being awake, between here and there,...
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Lütfi Akad – Hudutlarin Kanunu AKA The Law of the Border (1966)
Quote: Set along the Turkish-Syrian frontier, this terse, elemental tale of smugglers contending with a changing social landscape brought together two giants of Turkish cinema. Director Lütfi Ö. Akad...
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Lewis Seiler – You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939)
Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays mobster Frank Wilson, the heavy headlining this crime thriller that sprung from the pen of Sing-Sing’s warden himself! Based on the play “Chalked Out” by Warden Lewis...
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Mario Peixoto – Limite AKA Limit (1931)
Quote: An astonishing creation, Limite is the only feature by the Brazilian director and author Mário Peixoto, made when he was just twenty-two years old. Inspired by a haunting André Kertész...
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Nicholas Ray – They Live by Night (1948)
John Greco wrote: Three men escape from prison, two seasoned bank robbers T-Dub (Jay C. Flippen) and Chickamaw (Howard Da Silva) along with young Bowie (Farley Granger) who was innocently convicted of...
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Ingmar Bergman – Larmar och gör sig till AKA In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
Inventor Carl Åkerblom is a rosy-cheeked 54 year-old admirer of Franz Schubert – and a patient in the psychiatric ward of Akademiska Hospital in Uppsala, after having attempted to beat to death his...
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Aleksandr Mitta & Kenji Yoshida – Moskva, lyubov moya AKA Moscow, My Love (1974)
A Japanese girl came to Moscow to learn the art of dance. The love of a Moscow sculptor, the victory in the final-year students competition brought a lot of happiness to Yuriko. However a sudden...
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Yermek Shinarbayev – Mest AKA Revenge (1989)
Quote: A child is raised in Korea to avenge the death of his father’s first child in this decades-spanning tale of obsession and violence, the third collaboration between director Ermek Shinarbaev and...
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Barbara Sternberg – Like a Dream That Vanishes (1999)
“Like a Dream That Vanishes” continues Sternberg’s work in film both thematically and formally: the ephemerality of life echoed in the temporal nature of film, as the stuff of life echoed on the...
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Maureen Blackwood – Perfect Image? (1989)
Quote: Bright and imaginative in its approach to its subject, PERFECT IMAGE? exposes stereotypical images of Black women and explores women’s own ideas of self worth. Using two actresses who...
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Bill Viola – The Passing (1992)
A man between daydreaming and nightmaring, between the call of life and the call of death; his night in mid-water, apnea, perfored by a succession of visions… Or/and an autobiographical essay whose...
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