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Claire Denis – Un beau soleil intérieur AKA Let the Sunshine In (2017)
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love at last. The film is an adaptation of Roland Barthes’s 1977 text A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (French: Fragments d’un...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Family Plot (1976)
Synopsis: ‘Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the whereabouts of her nephew, who’d been given up for adoption years earlier and...
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Ted Fendt – Short Stay (2016)
The Only Luxury: An Interview with Ted Fendt By Dan Sullivan For the past few years, Ted Fendt has been one of the busiest under-the-radar figures in film exhibition in New York: a projectionist at...
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Joseph Losey – The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
Synopsis: After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with the politics. Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jacson. Jacson...
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Herrmann Zschoche – Sieben Sommersprossen AKA Seven Freckles (1978)
SYNOPSIS: Having once lived in the same house as young children, Caroline and Robby meet again at summer camp years later. Now 15-years-old, a relationship begins to build between the two old friends,...
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Wojciech Has – Szyfry AKA The Codes (1966)
Tadeusz (Jan Kreczmar) is a Polish veteran of World War II who fled to London at the end of the war, leaving behind his wife Zofia (Irena Eichlerówna) and son, Maciek (Zbigniew Cybulski), who...
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Daisy Asquith – Queerama (2017)
Synopsis: Compilation of archive footage from 1919 to the present, from both documentary and fictional sources, set to music, illustrating the huge changes in LGBTQ life in Britain (mainly England)...
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Ewald André Dupont – Moulin Rouge (1928)
No relation to the 1952 Toulouse Lautrec biopic of the same name, Moulin Rouge was produced, directed and written by German-filmmaker E. A. Dupont. Olga Tschechowa plays the star dancer of Paris’...
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Ricky D’Ambrose – Spiral Jetty (2017)
An applauded New York intellectual hires a young archivist to whitewash her late psychologist father’s reputation by eliminating a forbidding, potentially incriminating paper trail....
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Hsin-yao Huang – The Great Buddha + (2017)
Quote: Pickle is a night security guard at a bronze statue factory. His colleague, Belly Bottom, works as a recycling collector during the day, and Pickle’s biggest pleasure in life is flicking...
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Ken Burns – Jazz (2001)
Quote: A worthy documentary on the first 60 years of jazz with an emphasis on Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and swing. Episodes 1. Gumbo – Beginnings to 1917 2. The Gift 1917-1924 3. Our Language...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Taiyô no hakaba AKA The Sun’s Burial (1960)
In Osaka’s slum, youth without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi,...
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Samuel Fuller – White Dog (1982)
Quote: Samuel Fuller’s throat-grabbing exposé on American racism was misunderstood and withheld from release when it was made in the early eighties; today, the notorious film is lauded for its daring...
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Manoel de Oliveira – Le soulier de satin AKA The Satin Slipper (1985)
Quote: The Satin Slipper is a near seven hour metafictional trans-continental theatrical epic, realised by Manoel de Oliveira from the staged period drama of Paul Claudel. It is weighty, inspiring,...
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Kenji Misumi – Goyôkiba aka Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques....
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Philip Kaufman – The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN. Quote: In 1876, the Missouri legislature issues a pardon and amnesty to the James and Younger...
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Alfred Hitchcock – The Birds (1963)
Quote: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack...
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Sam Peckinpah – Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia [+2 Commentaries] (1974)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 American cult action film directed by Sam Peckinpah and featuring Warren Oates. Made in Mexico on a low...
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Robert Altman – Images (1972)
Quote: Altman shot “Images” (1972) in Ireland during the wet autumn months of 1971, and premiered it the following May at Cannes. It won Susannah York the award for best actress (it’s the role she’s...
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Pedro Costa – Ne change rien (2009)
In Ne change rien, we see the French actress/singer Jeanne Balibar rehearsing, recording, performing and practicing with a singing coach for an opera bouffe by Jacques Offenbach. The Portuguese...
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