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John Scheinfeld – Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary (2016)
The film explores the global power and impact of the music of John Coltrane and reveals the passions, experiences and forces that shaped his life and revolutionary sounds. filmthreat wrote: As...
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Bruno Dumont – Ma Loute AKA Slack Bay (2016)
Quote: Is there a more extraordinary auteur career than that of Bruno Dumont? Having started as one of Europe’s foremost purveyors of extreme cinema and extreme seriousness, he made a startling move...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Arsenal (1928)
Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having survived a train wreck. His arrival coincides with a...
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Milos Forman – Konkurs AKA Talent Competition (1964)
Quote: Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent competition a young girl gets stage fright, while another lies to her...
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Alan Parker – The Commitments (1991)
Quote: Foul-mouthed, fast-talking and very funny, this is Parker’s best to date. It’s an intentionally ‘small’ movie that treats a familiar subject (kids forming a rock band) with a deft intimacy. But...
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Ulrike Ottinger – Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989)
Asian warriors take a group of Western women hostage and bring them to their all-female village, leading to a culture clash. Women Make Movies wrote: Ulrike Ottinger’s epic adventure traces a...
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Grigoriy Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein – Staroye i novoye aka The Old...
The horseless Marfa Lapkina, together with the local agronomist and other poor peasants, organizes a dairy farm in the village. However, local kulaks are actively resisting the project and any success...
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Terry Gilliam – The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave ship, has been taken over by efficiency-minded corporate types. When they sack...
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Man Ray – Emak-Bakia AKA Leave Me Alone (1927)
Synopsis: Emak-Bakia shows elements of fluid mechanical motion in parts, rotating artifacts showing his ideas of everyday objects being extended and rendered useless. Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin)...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant AKA The...
Quote: One of Fassbinder’s most controversial films, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant is an obsessive, highly stylized look at the shifting power plays in relationships. Petra von Kant is an...
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Alfred Hitchcock – The Farmer’s Wife (129m version) (1928)
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again and he enlists the help of his housekeeper Minta to pick a wife from the local single women....
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Various – Mundo Invisível (2012)
An anthology film following different stories around the theme of invisibility in the modern world. http://nitroflare.com/view/383C866DA892C54/Mundo_Invisivel_2012_HDTV.XviD.avi...
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Nana Dzhordzhadze – The Rainbowmaker [+Extra] (2008)
The Salzlipp twins grow up without their father. The boy and the girl are convinced he is an important superhero secret agent. But when he eventually comes home, it turns out that he is but a puny,...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Klaps AKA Slate (1976)
Quote: A short impression composed of outtakes from Krzysztof Kieślowski’s feature film titled The Scar / Blizna (1976). @culture.pl Quote: Slate (1976, color, 6 min.): While some of these outtakes...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Przeswietlenie AKA X-Ray (1974)
Quote: Made at the sanatorium of Sokolowsko in Lower Silesia, this film looks at individuals suffering from pulmonary disease and is a moving portrait of those living with illness. @culture.pl Quote:...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Szpital AKA Hospital (1976)
Quote: A film made in the emergency room of the traumatic surgery hospital located on Barska Street in Warsaw. Doctors attempt to help the injured in the face of frequent power shortages typical of...
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Gennadi Sidorov – Starukhi aka Old Women (2003)
Quote: This is a 2003 award-winning film about a group of old women living in an forgotten village somewhere in an endless sea of forest. They are living in poverty in these run-down wooden houses —...
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Berthold Viertel – The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)
David Cairns wrote: I’ve now seen the film, and I thought it was excellent. Imperfect, yes, but fascinating and unique. The closest comparison I can come up with is Strange Cargo, Frank Borzage’s...
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Yonggang Wu – Shen nu AKA The Goddess (1934)
Quote: Ruan Lingyu, one of the most famous stars of early Chinese cinema, gives a devastating performance as an unnamed goddess an ironic euphemism for a prostitute in this profoundly moving but...
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Philippe Garrel – L’amant d’un jour AKA Lover for a Day (2017)
Quote: A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman her age....
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