Annekatrin Hendel / Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Acht Stunden sind kein Tag AKA...
The extras from the new DVD set: “Fassbinder”, a feature-length 2015 documentary on the director featuring interviews with Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla, Volker Schlöndorff and...
View ArticleRaoul Peck – Le jeune Karl Marx AKA The Young Karl Marx (2017)
The early years of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and Jenny Marx, between Paris, Brussels and London. http://nitroflare.com/view/B044259CE0DAE70/Le.jeune.Karl.Marx.2017.DVDRip.x264-Pedotriba.mkv...
View ArticleSang-soo Hong – Bamui haebyun-eoseo honja AKA On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
Quote: An actress wanders around a seaside town, pondering her relationship with a married man. http://nitroflare.com/view/386DFCA6C25375D/Sang-soo_Hong_-_%282017%29_On_the_Beach_at_Night_Alone.mkv...
View ArticleYuan Zhang – Mama (1991)
Synopsis: The young mother, who had been abandoned by her husband, had to support her son named Dongdong, and had a terrible epilepsy when he was six years old, causing brain damage, and the...
View ArticleChantal Akerman – Golden Eighties AKA Window Shopping (1986)
Synopsis: Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he’s appealing to Lili, the salon’s manager,...
View ArticleCarl Theodor Dreyer – Du skal ære din hustru AKA Master of the House (1925)
Quote: Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida has to work as a slave for him and the rest of the family. She rises early to prepare everything for the day, she toils all day long, and she...
View ArticleSenkichi Taniguchi – Akatsuki no dasso AKA Desertion at Dawn (1950)
Synopsis: Mikami, a Japanese soldier serving in China, is captured by the Chinese. Although he is able to escape, his troubles are far from over. He returns to his unit but is treated with contempt...
View ArticleLino Brocka – Macho Dancer (1988)
Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed Lino Brocka, which explores the harsh realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to make a...
View ArticleLeonid Gayday – 12 Stulyev AKA Twelve Chairs (1971)
Synopsis From Taste of Cinema This film serves as an adaptation of the classic novel. Unlike so many films listed, it didn’t have a revolutionary effect in the film industry, nor did it criticize the...
View ArticleCarl Theodor Dreyer – Glomdalsbruden (1926)
Birgit Granhøj, CarlThDreyer.dk wrote: Quote: Tore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgården on the other side of the...
View ArticleAla Eddine Slim – Akher Wahed Fina AKA The Last of Us (2016)
With no dialogue, The Last of Us tracks a Sub-Saharan man through the desert to North Africa where he steals a boat. When it breaks down in the middle of the sea, he begins an imaginary surrealistic...
View ArticleManuel Mur Oti – Cielo negro AKA Black Sky (1951)
Quote: Emilia, a modest employee of a fashion house, is in love and does not hesitate to steal your business suit to accompany her boyfriend to the festival. But everything goes wrong, discovered the...
View ArticleJean Delannoy – Notre-Dame de Paris AKA The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Synopsis: ‘Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy,...
View ArticleHiroshi Shimizu – Kodomo no shiki aka Four Seasons of Children (1939)
Quote: A follow-up to Children in the Wind, Four Seasons of Children is also based on a Tsubota Joji novel. The film is divided into two chapters, following the young protagonists’ minor adventures...
View ArticleSherad Anthony Sanchez – Imburnal (2008)
Quote: The history of cinema is the history of the tyranny of narrative films. The right of first refusal to anything worth committing to film belongs to the province of narrative films. Narrative...
View ArticleHiroshi Shimizu – Kaze no naka no kodomo AKA Children in the Wind (1937)
Quote: The best way to describe this film would be “bright”. The story is simple, two young boys are usurped from being the head of their gang of children by the son of the man who indicts their...
View ArticleBen Rivers & Ben Russell – A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Synopsis: A Spell follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian...
View ArticleKonstantin Lopushansky – Pisma myortvogo cheloveka AKA Letters from a Dead...
Quote: Letters from a Dead Man is another film that deals with the theme of the nuclear nightmare. It falls into a mini-genre of nuclear holocaust film along with others such as On the Beach (1959),...
View ArticleAnocha Suwichakornpong – Dao khanong AKA By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
By the Time it Gets Dark encompasses multiple stories of Thailand whose connections are as spiritual as they are incidental. We meet a pair of actors whose paths take them in very different...
View ArticleShinji Sômai – Shonben Rider AKA P.P. Rider (1983)
Quote: P. P. Rider is a Japanese film dealing with three teenagers who set out to recover a kidnapped schoolmate. This capsule description, while accurate enough, makes the film sound rather like...
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