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Volker Schlöndorff – Return to Montauk (2017)
Quote: The author Max Zorn, now in his early 60s, is on a promotional book tour in New York when he meets up again with the woman he could never forget. They spend a weekend together. 17 years have...
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Peter Tscherkassky – Ji.hlava IDFF Presents: Masterclass – Peter Tscherkassky...
Quote: Master Class of Peter Tscherkassky starts with the screening of Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine, premiered at Cannes IFF as part of the independent section, Quinzaine des...
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Charles Vidor – A Song to Remember (1945)
Quote: A Song to Remember is a 1945 Columbia Pictures biographical film which tells a ficitonalised life story of pianist and composer Frédéric Chopin. The film starred Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel...
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Bob Rafelson – Porn.com (2002)
Veteran film director Matty Bonkers (Bob Rafelson), a Hollywood legend, arrives in Berlin or an honorary retrospective tribute. While introducing his film MOCKERY, he receives a phone call from his...
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Sue Williams – Death by Design (2016)
Synopsis: Consumers love – and live on – their smartphones, tablets and laptops. A cascade of new devices pours endlessly into the market, promising even better communication, non-stop entertainment...
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Yolanda Garcia Serrano & Juan Luis Iborra – Km. 0 aka Kilometer Zero (2000)
The title refers to Madrid’s central square (from which all distances within Spain are measured). Zero may also describe the state of the lives of 14 strangers. The stories of these fourteen collide...
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Béla Tarr &Ágnes Hranitzky – A londoni férfi AKA The Man from London (2007)
Quote: After 7 years Bela Tarr makes his return with an adaptation of a Georges Simenon’s story. That Tarr has chosen to make an adaptation of a noir novel means that he has chosen to make his own,...
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Terrence Malick – Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey (2016)
Synopsis: An exploration into our planetary past and a search for humanity’s place in the future. With narration by Cate Blanchett. Review: In the six years since it was made, Terrence Malick’s poetic...
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Yasujirô Ozu – Tokkan kozô AKA A Straightforward Boy (1929)
Strictly Film School wrote: A purely fun, entertaining, and lighthearted short film, A Straightforward Boy follows the (mis) adventures of a kidnapper (Tatsuo Saito) who, on an idyllic, sunny day...
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Elisabeta Bostan – Ma-ma AKA Rock’n Roll Wolf (1976)
IMDB: An enchanting film combining beautiful costumes, fun music and excellent ballet performance 5 March 2005 | by (natalivogue@yahoo.com) (United Kingdom) I saw this film as a child in a small town...
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Gerald Fox – Bill Viola: The Road to St Paul’s (2017)
Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video installations for London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Martyrs and Mary, the...
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Jean-Luc Godard & D.A. Pennebaker – One P.M. (1972)
From Time Out Film Guide: In 1968, Godard began work on a film in America (One AM or One American Movie) dealing with aspects of resistance and revolution. Dissatisfied with what he had shot, he...
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Sylvain George – Paris est une fête – Un film en 18 vagues (2017)
Un film poème en 18 vagues, comme autant de scènes pour décrire Paris et ses paysages urbains traversés par un “jeune mineur étranger isolé”, les attentats, les roses blanches, l’état d’urgence, le...
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Mahmoud Sabbagh – Barakah yoqabil Barakah AKA Barakah Meets Barakah (2016)
A guy from the middle class meets a girl from a wealthy family and they start a romance in a country that frowns upon it. This film was the official submission of Saudi Arabia for the ‘Best Foreign...
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Harun Farocki – White Christmas (1968)
Quote: One of the many films drawing a connection between Christmas and war. It is unclear whether the longing for a white Christmas is being taken seriously, or whether it is intended as a...
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Rakhshan Bani Etemad – Nargess (1992)
Quote: A sharp-edged look at people who live outside the constraints of Islamic law. In her fourth feature, director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad tells the tragic story of a love triangle. Afagh, an aging...
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Johan Renck – Downloading Nancy (2008)
Film is based on real events: link By Kam Williams News Blaze.com If you were contemplating suicide, but couldn’t quite summon up the nerve to do yourself in, where would you turn for help? In the...
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Keith Maitland – Tower (2016)
Nearly fifty years ago, a gunman rode the elevator to the twenty-seventh floor of the University of Texas Tower and opened fire. TOWER, an animated and action-packed documentary, shares the untold...
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Josef von Sternberg – Der blaue Engel aka The Blue Angel (1930)
Article: from ~ by James Steffen Immanuel Rath is a stuffy, disciplinarian professor who is shocked to discover his students passing around a postcard of Lola-Lola, a singer at The Blue Angel cabaret....
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Luchino Visconti – La Caduta Degli Dei (Götterdämmerung) aka The Damned (1969)
The Damned has often been regarded as the first of Visconti’s films described as “The German Trilogy”, followed by Death in Venice (1971) and Ludwig (1973). Henry Bacon (1998) specifically categorizes...
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