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Joshua Oppenheimer – Early Works – A Collection of 12 Films (1995 – 2003)
Quote: Joshua Oppenheimer is one of the world’s most renowned documentary filmmakers. His multi award-winning films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) have challenged and...
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Arthur Penn – Night Moves (1975)
Synopsis wrote: When Los Angeles private detective, Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter, he stumbles upon a case of murder and artifact smuggling. Vincent Canby...
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F.W. Murnau – Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
Roger Ebert wrote: The camera’s freedom to move is taken for granted in these days of the Steadicam, the lightweight digital camera, and even special effects that reproduce camera movement. A single...
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Mitl Valdez – Los confines (1987)
Quote: Mitl Valdez’s film Los confines (1987) is an adaptation of several works of fiction by the Mexican author Juan Rulfo. The director chose to adapt two short stories (“Talpa” and “¡Diles que no...
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Houda Benyamina – Divines (2016)
Quote: A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down. Quote: The film that came out of nowhere at Cannes this...
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Xiong zaixia – Yi Ge Ren De Zi Mu aka Zen for Subtitle (2017)
Synopsis What does subtitle translation mean in my eyes? I have devoted my youth and effort of 4 years of campus life and 2 years of work life. When I have given up translating subtitle, I want to...
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Akio Jissoji – D-Zaka no satsujin jiken AKA The D-Slope Murder Case (1998)
1998 was the peak of his “Big Bang” years, in terms of the number of works released and his explosive beauty. In addition to 4 movies and a few TV dramas, he also played Hamlet with Ninagawa....
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Atom Egoyan – Krapp’s Last Tape (2000)
Atom Egoyan’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s famous play, as part of the Irish project Beckett on Film. Starring John Hurt. It is Krapp’s 69th birthday and he hauls out his old tape recorder, reviews...
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Terence Davies – The Neon Bible (1996)
While on a train, a teenage boy thinks about his life and the flamboyant aunt whose friendship acted as an emotional shield from his troubled family. This film evokes the haunting quality of memory...
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John Ford & Otto Brower – Sex Hygiene (1941)
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride wrote: Shot quickly at Fox and ready for use by March 1941, the black and white Sex Hygiene is suitably horrifying but also somewhat tongue in cheek. Coing...
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Ishirô Honda – Gasu ningen dai ichigo AKA The Human Vapor (1960)
Plot: The police are after a mysterious bank robber who disappeared “into thin air.”...
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Rebecca Baron – Detour de Force (2014)
Detour de Force presents the world of thoughtographer Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the mid-1960’s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. Constructed from 16mm...
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Philippe Grandrieux – Malgré la nuit AKA Despite The Night (2015)
Synopsis wrote: Lenz leaves England and returns to Paris in search of Madeleine who disappeared in uncertain circumstances. He meets Helena, a nurse still struggling with the loss of her infant son....
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Zhangke Jia – Xiao Wu AKA Pickpocket (1997)
Quote: Little pocket thief Wu never got away from the streets like his friends did. He realises that he is alone, as his old buddy doesn’t invite him for his wedding. When he falls in love with a...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Bakit dilaw ang gitna ng bahag-hari? AKA Why Is Yellow the...
`An entry in the Encyclopedia of Philippine Art published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, offers a clue as to the genesis of this monumental movie. Two movies are mentioned: the first, I am...
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Tadashi Imai – Mata au hi made AKA Till We Meet Again (1950)
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of the war separates them. Review: It’s a scene that would be cherished and preserved in the cinema’s pantheon of moments were it known; a...
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Eric Steel – Kiss the Water (2013)
Quote/ “I read the obituaries in The New York Times first thing every day. I know I am not alone in this. It is a melancholy devotion, and slightly occult, and allows me to wander outside my own skin,...
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Károly Makk – Macskajáték AKA Cat’s Play (1974)
Quote: Karoly Makk’s contemplative film about two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, yet still believe in hope and love. Told in the form of an epistolary novel, and...
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Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Q-bec My Love, ou Un succès commercial (1970)
Quote: This film, a kind of sketch, is directed with total freedom, without any concession to any kind of censorship. It seeks to remind the viewer that voyeurism stems from the way we look at things...
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Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort AKA The Old Country...
Quote: Forty-year old Abel travels to France from Quebec on a pilgrimage to explore the mother country and the land of his ancestors. As he travels around and does all the things tourists are supposed...
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