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Jean-Luc Godard – Une Femme Est Une Femme AKA A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
“Director Jean-Luc Godard’s deceptively blithe tribute to the musical comedy features Anna Karina as an exotic dancer who decides that it is time for her to have a child. When her lover refuses to...
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Stéphane Brizé – Une vie AKA A Woman’s Life (2016)
Quote: A fragmented account of the life of Jeanne as she sets out on the path of adult life and gradually experiences the harsh realities of a woman’s life in the 19th-century....
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Alain Gomis – Félicité (2017)
Synopsis Félicité, free and proud, is a singer in the evenings in a bar in Kinshasa. Her life changes when her 14-year-old son is the victim of a motorcycle accident. To save him, she begins a frantic...
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Mila Turajlic – Druga strana svega AKA The Other Side of Everything (2017)
Mila Turajlic’s documentary won top honors at the giant Dutch showcase of non-fiction cinema. The personal and political interweave to quietly rewarding effect in Mila Turajlic’s The Other Side of...
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Werner Schroeter – Eika Katappa (1969)
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Une femme mariée AKA A Married Woman (1964)
Quote: With A Married Woman, Jean-Luc Godard leeches a story of a bored, attractive, unfaithful housewife of much of its escapist luridness, favoring ennui over sex, symbols and signifiers over...
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Bill Morrison – Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016)
Synopsis: Dawson City: Frozen Time, pieces together the bizarre true history of a collection of some 500 films dating from 1910s – 1920s, which were lost for over 50 years until being discovered...
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Marcel Carné – Trois chambres à Manhattan AKA Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
Quote: When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar. She is...
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Anne Pick & William Spahic – Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking (2007)
In July 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army, which already controlled a large section of northeastern China, launched an undeclared war against the Republic of China. Five months later, on December 13,...
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Jan Speckenbach – Die Vermissten (2012)
All of a sudden, 16-year-old Martha vanishes. Her father Lothar, who for years has had no contact with her or his ex-wife, sets off unwilling to find her. He soon realises other young people are also...
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W.S. Van Dyke – Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931)
Plot/Description: from IMDB Dan works for Pritchard and Pritchard out of San Francisco and is in love with Maisie, referred to as “the icebox” by his news reporter friend. As one of his ships returns...
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George Cukor – The Women (1939)
Synopsis Mrs. Stephen Haines, or Mary (Norma Shearer) finds out from her wicked grapevine of friends that her husband Steven is leaving her for a vicious salesgirl turned golddigger, Crystal Allen...
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Shakti Samanta – Singapore (1960)
Synopsis: Ramesh is responsible for looking after rubber exports in Singapore on behalf of his employer, Shyam, based in India. When Ramesh suddenly disappears, Shyam travels to Singapore to unravel...
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Leslie Arliss – A Man About the House (1947)
Storyline Agnes and Ellen Isit, two poor English sisters, unexpectedly inherit from their uncle a rich estate near Naples, complete with big villa and manly Italian majordomo. The latter, Salvatore,...
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Ursula Meier – L’enfant d’en haut (2012)
Every day, twelve-year-old Simon takes the cable car up to the mountains where the slopes bristle with the hustle and bustle of winter season tourists. He pokes about in hotel wardrobes and changing...
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Andrei Konchalovsky – Pervyy Uchitel AKA The First Teacher (1966)
From imdb: Soviet Union, near the Chinese border, 1923. A stranger has just come in this little country village. He is a teacher, sent by the Communist Party to teach the ignorant masses. But the...
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Slavoj Žižek – Moebius Strip, Crosscap, Klein Bottle: The Twisted Space of...
A talk given at the “LACK II Conference on Psychoanalysis and Politics NOW” at Colorado College on Friday October 20th, 2017....
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Lucien Deroisy – Les gommes (1969)
Les Gommes is an adaptation of the book written by Alain Robbe-Grillet in 1953 and published by Les Editions de Minuit. http://nitroflare.com/view/C7F669208FD33C3/LESGOMMES.mkv...
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Hy Averback – Chamber of Horrors (1966)
A one-handed madman (he lost the hand while escaping a hanging) uses various detachable devices as murder weapons to gain revenge on those he believes have wronged him. Psychotic Jason Cravette...
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Émilie Brisavoine – Pauline s’arrache AKA Oh La La Pauline! (2015)
Synopsis: It starts out like a fairy tale: there’s a queen, a king and their beautiful children, Pauline, Anaïs and Guillaume. But it’s a bit more complicated, a little more funky than that. Review:...
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