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Miwa Nishikawa – Nagai iiwake AKA The Long Excuse (2016)
Quote: Based on a book by writer – director Miwa Nishikawa, a recently widowed writer ( Masahiro Motoki,Departures)whose wife died in a bus crash comes to terms with his grief,or lack of it, in caring...
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Lino Brocka – Orapronobis AKA Fight for Us (1989)
Quote: Lino Brocka’s “Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa” (Three, Two, One, 1974) shows the filmmaker’s versatility in the short form, working with various writers. The first segment, Tony Perez’s “Mga Hugis ng...
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Jean Rouch – Jaguar (1967)
“Plot Synopsis by Dan Pavlides Three people from the country travel to the big city to seek employment in this documentary that contrasts primitive and modern life in Nigeria. After they have money,...
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Lav Diaz – Ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang Pilipino AKA Evolution of a Filipino...
An intimate epic made with uncompromising and austere seriousness, Lav Diaz’s “Evolution of a Filipino Family” patiently and methodically observes the collapse and hopeful revival of a poor farming...
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Noboru Tanaka – Tenshi no harawata: Nami aka Angel Guts: Nami (1979)
The series really hits its stride by the third film, Nami, which is both the artistic pinnacle of the Angel Guts cycle and a roaring good time for devotees of outrageous cinema. A spate of sexual...
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Gabriel Axel – Den røde kappe AKA Hagbard and Signe AKA The Red Mantle (1967)
Hagbard and Signe / The Red Mantle By Roger Ebert / October 30, 1968 Prentoulis films presents an ASA Film Movie Art Europe co-production, directed by Gabriel Axel from a screenplay by himself and...
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Philip Kaufman – The White Dawn (1974)
Plot Synopsis by Paul Brenner (from AMG) Director Philip Kaufman took his production of Eskimo life to actual locations in the Arctic Circle, making it only the third film in history (after Nanook of...
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Ben Young – Hounds of Love (2016)
Quote: Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she...
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François Ozon – L’amant double AKA The Double Lover (2017)
Quote: Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover is concealing a part of his identity....
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Raoul Ruiz – Les divisions de la nature AKA The Divisions of Nature (1981)
Synopsis: ‘Les divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a ‘realist’,...
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Agnès Varda – Mur murs AKA Mural Murals (1981)
Quote: After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur...
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Alex Rotaru – Shakespeare High (2011)
Executive produced by Kevin Spacey, Shakespeare High is an inspiring documentary that follows a diverse group of California high school students as they compete in a Shakespeare Festival unlike any...
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Teuvo Tulio – Sellaisena kuin sinä minut halusit AKA The Way You Wanted Me...
Quote: Latvian-born Teuvo Tulio came to Finland as a young boy, and started his film career as a teenager acting in movies directed by his friend Valentin Vaala. His oriental looks (there was at least...
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Bernardo Bertolucci – L’assedio AKA Besieged (1998)
Quote: Shandurai (Newton), an African refugee in Rome, pays her way through medical school as a live-in cleaner for English pianist and composer Kinsky (Thewlis). Shy and timid, he woos her with gifts...
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Teuvo Tulio – Unelma karjamajalla AKA In the Fields of Dreams (1940)
This rural melodrama, based on the play “Hälsingar” by Swedish playwright Henning Ohlson, tells a story of two brothers, one a honest, hard-working man and the other a womanizing gambler who threatens...
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Nikos Grammatikos – O Vasilias AKA The King [+Extras] (2002)
Synopsis wrote: Trying to turn his back on a dark past, a thirty-year-old man returns to his hometown in the Peloponnese with the hope of making a fresh start. The local society treats him with...
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Roberto Faenza – Escalation (1968)
Synopsis: ‘1968, London. Luca, the son of an Italian rich owner, is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business...
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Zbynek Brynych – Die Weibchen AKA Femmine carnivore AKA The Females (1970)
Synopsis: ‘Eve is an overworked secretary who has been sent to take a cure in the institution of Doctor Barbara in the remote town of Bad Marein. Upon her arrival and during the following days Eve...
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Alan Rudolph – Remember My Name (1978)
Quote: Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to “start a new life”, but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and...
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Teuvo Tulio – Intohimon vallassa AKA In the Grip of Passion (1947)
Quote: This is based on a short story by neo-romanticist writer Johannes Linnankoski, and is a remake of Tulio’s now-lost debut film Taistelu Heikkilä Talosta (Battle for the House of Heikkilä). I...
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