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Baltasar Kormákur – Eiðurinn AKA The Oath (2016)
From cinemaperspective.com When filmmakers possess a signature style that can be identified across their body of work, they are sometimes referred to as an auteur of cinema. It’s a term that might get...
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Robin Campillo – 120 battements par minute AKA 120 Beats Per Minute (2017)
Quote: Early 1990s. With AIDS having already claimed countless lives for nearly ten years, Act up-Paris activists multiply actions to fight general indifference. Nathan, a newcomer to the group, has...
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Marianna Palka – Bitch (2017)
Quote: The provocative tale of a woman (Marianna Palka) who snaps under crushing life pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog. Her philandering, absentee husband (Jason Ritter) is forced to...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma (1986)
Quote: The director Gaspard Bazin is preparing a new feature film. For now, he is still in the casting and financing stages. He’s asking the help of Jean Almereyda, a producer once fashionable but now...
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Johan van der Keuken – Amsterdam Global Village + Amsterdam afterbeat (1996)
From an interview about this film, conducted by Serge Toubiana, Is Amsterdam Global Village intended to be the portrait of a city? Can one in fact portray a city? – I don’t think you can portray...
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Constantin Wulff – Ulrich Seidl und die bösen Buben AKA Ulrich Seidl: A...
Quote: The film portrait Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work depicts the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a vivid picture of the much-debated “Seidl...
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Léa Mysius – Ava (2017)
Synopsis A young woman finds out she is condemned to gradually lose her sight while spending her summer vacation at a beach resort. While her mother Maud has vowed to make Ava’s month of holidays an...
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Ken Burns & Lynn Novick – The Vietnam War (2017)
Quote: The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ten-part 18-hour documentary series THE VIETNAM WAR tells the epic story of one of the most consequential...
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Alfred Hitchcock – The Ring (1927)
A 1927 British silent sports film directed and written by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis and Ian Hunter. It is one of Hitchcock’s nine surviving silent films. The Ring...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Soigne ta droite AKA Keep Your Right Up (1987)
Quote: Jean-Luc Godard wrote, directed, and edited this mind-boggling comedy. “The Idiot” (also known as “the Prince” and played by Godard himself) has been guaranteed financing for a film, if he can...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Nie yin niang AKA The Assassin (2015)
An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in seventh-century China. J. Hoberman wrote: “The Assassin” is extraordinarily beautiful. The film’s editing and narrative...
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Paco Plaza – Verónica (2017)
Quote: Madrid, 1991. A teen girl finds herself besieged by an evil supernatural force after she played Ouija with two classmates....
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Cam Archer – Shit Year (2010)
A renowned actress (Ellen Barkin) abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But before long, she begins to fear she has only lived through the characters she has played. Reality...
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A.E. Coleby – Mysteries of London (1915)
Quote: After her father is falsely jailed for embezzlement and her mother dies of grief, Louise is adopted by a kindly stockbroker. 15 years later, she falls in love with his dissolute son Frank, a...
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Alfred Hitchcock – The Pleasure Garden [+Extras] (1925)
Quote: The Pleasure Garden is the first film that Alfred Hitchcock directed to completion. It’s a nice look into the earliest directorial thoughts and techniques of the master. Even in this earliest...
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Harmony Korine – Gummo [+extras] (1997)
Quote: Lonely residents of a tornado-stricken Ohio town wander the deserted landscape trying to fulfill their boring, nihilistic lives....
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Nagisa Oshima – Amakusa shiro tokisada aka The Rebel (1962)
In 1637, the Tokugawa Shogunate mandated religious orders to severely restrict and contain the spread of Christianity. In Kyushu, Shimabara and Amakusa, the Christian population was particularly...
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Steve Cutts – Happiness (2017)
A brilliant analogy to life on Earth, Happiness tells the story of a rodent’s unrelenting quest for happiness and fulfillment....
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Vera Chytilová – Ovoce stromu rajskych jime aka Fruit of Paradise [+Extras]...
Quote: “The Fruit of Paradise” is a breathtaking experimental film from Vera Chytilova. Well known for her surreal feminist comedy “Daisies” (1966), Chytlova uses many of the same hallucinatory camera...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution AKA...
Quote: Jean-Luc Godard, the unabashed enfant terrible of French cinema, creates a lighthearted, bizarre and atmospheric utopia in Alphaville. Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine), an Outland agent,...
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