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Manuel Pradal – A Crime (2006)
Quote: The devastated life of a man haunted by the unsolved murder of his beloved wife is strangely complicated by the mysterious neighbor who loves him from afar in a dark noir thriller directed by...
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Jem Cohen – Chain (2004)
“Jem Cohen’s Chain is a hypnotic, highly original piece about what it’s like to live in the new global corporate landscape.” Daily Telegraph “Dreamlike… transforms a mundane world into something...
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Christopher Maclaine – The End (1953)
Description from Beat Cinema The End is in six numbered sections, each separated by long stretches of darkness during which Maclaine speaks directly to the audience. Each of the sections is a tale of...
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Christopher Maclaine – The Man Who Invented Gold (1957)
The Man Who Invented Gold, very different from The End, is fully as masterful. It focuses on a modern-day alchemist whose zombielike neighbors think of him as “madman” while he aspires to become...
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Christopher Maclaine – Scotch Hop (1959)
The wonderful Scotch Hop (1959) [ imdb says 1953] is something of a letdown only after seeing his first two staggering, shattering masterpieces. In that film Maclaine intercuts a small band of...
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Christopher Larkin – A Very Natural Thing (1974)
Quote: A poignant romantic drama examines the life of gay 26 year old, ex-monk, school teacher living in Manhattan. When he meets a man at a gay bar, they connect and are soon living together....
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Alfred Hitchcock – Under Capricorn (1949)
Quote: Although John Colton’s and Margaret Linden’s onscreen credit reads “by”, they had actually written an unproduced and unpublished play based on Helen Simpson’s novel. The novel was adapted for...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – The Gardener (2012)
Synopsis: The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they...
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Händl Klaus – Kater AKA Tomcat (2016)
Quote: Andreas and Stefan lead a happy and passionate life: Together with their beloved tomcat Moses, they live in a beautiful old house in Vienna’s vineyards. They work as a musician and as a...
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Manuela de Laborde – As Without So Within (2016)
Conceptually informed by the artist’s active filmgoing, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN takes as its point of departure prop sculptures which are transformed both through hybrid techniques of framing, lighting,...
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José Antonio Nieves Conde – Surcos AKA Furrows (1951)
Quote: At the end of the Spanish Civil War, a working-class family that migrates from rural Spain to Madrid in the hopes of finding a better life, and their hopes are thwarted by Don Roque, the...
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Frederick Wiseman – In Jackson Heights (2015)
Quote: Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old...
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Kurt Hoffmann – Das fliegende Klassenzimmer AKA The Flying Classroom (1954)
Synopsis: All is not really well between the boys of Gymnasium and the boys of the six-form High School: sparks fly when they get within 100m of each other! The continuous feud between the pupils is...
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Claude Jutra – Wow (1970)
Quote: Three girls and six boys from the Montreal middle class give of the universe of a certain youth a true, different image from the one we might have imagined. Drugs, love, sex, freedom,...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker [The Criterion Collection] (1979)
Quote: Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide—the...
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Clément Perron – Taureau (1973)
Quote: The population of a small Beauce town in Quebec dogs a mother and her daughter who are believed to trade on their charms. The film shows the brutal reality of the village inhabitants’ behaviour...
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Dziga Vertov – Chelovek s kino-apparatom aka Man with a movie camera (1929)
Quote: This playful film is at once a documentary of a day in the life of the Soviet Union, a documentary of the filming of said documentary, and a depiction of an audience watching the film. Even the...
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Evangelia Kranioti – Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (2015)
Quote: ” Sailors are like terrorists. They arrive in ports with a bomb called love and throw it. And do you know what happens? The bomb explodes when they go away and they never come back, destroying...
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Eduardo Williams – El auge del humano AKA The Human Surge (2016)
Quote: A 3-country observation of the millenials in Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines. Leo Goldsmith for Cinema Scope wrote: Williams’ cinema is one of vectors: across borders, networks, and...
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José Antonio Nieves Conde – Surcos AKA Furrows (1951)
Quote: At the end of the Spanish Civil War, a working-class family that migrates from rural Spain to Madrid in the hopes of finding a better life, and their hopes are thwarted by Don Roque, the...
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