Various – Swissmade (1968)
In 1968, the Popular Swiss Bank asked to three directors to give their vision about the future of Switzerland. This is their answer....
View ArticleTodd Rohal – The Guatemalan Handshake [+Commentary] (2006)
Quote: In the confusion following a massive power outage, an awkward demolition derby driver vanishes, setting in motion a series of events affecting his pregnant girlfriend, his helplessly car-less...
View ArticleVirginie Despentes & Coralie – Baise-moi AKA Fuck Me (2000)
Quote: Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men – and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. Baise-moi...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Made in U.S.A (1966)
Quote: With its giddily complex noir plot and color-drenched widescreen images, Made in U.S.A was a final burst of exuberance from Jean-Luc Godard’s early sixties barrage of delirious movie-movies....
View ArticleAnna Karina – Vivre ensemble (1973)
Quote: A history teacher mets a hippy girl in Paris, he drops his job and starts a relation with her. So they start live together (vivre ensemble). A some point they do a trip to NY. Then they come...
View ArticleAndrey Zvyagintsev – Nelyubov (2017)
Loveless (winner of the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) is a Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev – acclaimed director of Leviathan, and The Return. The story concerns two...
View ArticleAlejandro González Iñárritu – Biutiful (2010)
Quote: This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move. Quote: It’s a real testament to a filmmaker’s abilities when one of his pieces...
View ArticlePedro Costa – O Sangue AKA Blood (1989)
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don’t seem to remember their mother, and are very much...
View ArticleJean Godard – Pour un soir..! (1931)
Summary In a chic nightclub, a navel officer admires his new love, the singer Stella Maria. A fellow officer warns him not to get involved with this woman and tells the tragic story of a sailor who...
View ArticleEmma Rozanski – Papagajka (2016)
Quote: Béla Tarr has taken no time to rest in mentoring two of the most promising filmmakers in Eastern Europe. Having previously mentored László Nemes in his Oscar-winning directorial debut, “Son of...
View ArticleDan Pita & Mircea Veroiu – Nunta de piatra AKA The Stone Wedding (1973)
Stone Wedding (Nunta de piatra) is made of two distinct segments directed by two different directors. The first part (M. Veroiu) depicts the miserable life of a widow in Romania at the beginning of...
View ArticleMichael Haneke – Happy End (2017)
From theguardian.com It hardly needs saying that the adjective in the title is about as accurate as the one in Haneke’s Funny Games. Happy End is a satirical nightmare of haute-bourgeois European...
View ArticlePeter Jaitz – Rimini (2009)
Quote: The young, successful employee Alex knows finally, what he wants from life – actually, what he doesn’t want: Its life. It bores him to death. Each day the same, which is subjected to the...
View ArticleSerdar Akar – Gemide AKA On Board (1998)
Quote: A sequel to Laleli’de Bir Azize, and with the collaboration of practically the same team, Gemide is the story of four sailors who sit around the ship and spend their time smoking pot. Their...
View ArticleSang-soo Hong – Geu-hu AKA The Day After (2017)
Quote: The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan’s wife finds a love note, bursts into the...
View ArticleElia Kazan – Wild River (1960)
Quote: DESPITE a tempestuous title, “Wild River,” which came to both the Victoria and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouse yesterday, emerges as an interesting but strangely disturbing drama rather than a...
View ArticleHelene Hegemann – Torpedo (2008)
After her mother’s death, 15-year old Mia moves in with her aunt, the actress Cleo, who lives with her son Fritzi in a shared apartment in Berlin. Mia lingers for stability and attention but in...
View ArticleRoberto Gervitz – Jogo Subterraneo aka Underground Game (2005)
from IMDB: In São Paulo, the weird and romantic piano player Martin (Felipe Camargo) believes in serendipity and invents a game to find the woman of his dreams. He previously selects a route in the...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Lili Marleen (1981)
Late Fassbinder melodrama. In Switzerland German singer ‘Willie’ falls in love with Jewish composer ‘Robert’ who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that ‘Willie’...
View ArticleAngela Schanelec – Der traumhafte Weg (2016)
Quote: Angela Schanelec’s first feature since 2010 is the much-anticipated Der traumhafte Weg, a serious work that is deliberately constructed image upon image and allows the viewer to read a...
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