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Paul Morrissey – Flesh (1968)
Quote: Flesh was filmmaker Paul Morrissey’s first production for Andy Warhol. The story concerns a bisexual hustler (Joe Dallesandro) who does tricks so that he can pay for his wife’s lover’s...
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Jackie Raynal – Deux fois (1968)
Synopsis: “The film is an intentionally elementary meditation on certain primary functions of film, that could be said to be at the roots of film editing as such – expectations, exploring the picture,...
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Gregory Ratoff – Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
20th Century-Fox evidently adored “triangle” comedies like Wife, Husband and Friend; apparently so did Loretta Young, who appeared in most of these films. Young plays the wife of businessman Warner...
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Seijun Suzuki – Kemono no nemuri AKA The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)
けものの眠り A man never returns from an office party, sending his wife and daughter in to a frenzied search for clues. They acquire the help of a journalist friend, who goes on a chase down the seedy...
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Fritz Lang – While the City Sleeps (1956)
Quote: While the City Sleeps (1954) was Fritz Lang’s last fully successful film, one of a pair of movies that he made with independent producer Bert E. Friedlob (the other was Beyond a Reasonable...
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Apostolos C. Doxiadis – Terirem (1987)
Τεριρέμ The mute wife (Olia Lazaridou) of a shadow-theater player (Antonis Kafetzopoulos) is suffering from cancer. An old woman, guided by her visions, discovers a Byzantine religious icon buried in...
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Serge Bard – Ici et maintenant aka Here and now (1968)
“I had the idea to call my film ICI ET MAINTENANT, because the cinema is exactly the contrary of the here and now. The cinema is always elsewhere and before…It seemed important to rediscover the magic...
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Manuelle Blanc – Persona, le film qui a sauvé Ingmar Bergman AKA Persona –...
In 1965, Ingmar Bergman directed “Persona”, a cult film that sums up all the obsessions of the Swedish master, born a hundred years ago. This Arte TV documentary explores the film, based on interviews...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Trzecia czesc nocy AKA The Third Part of The Night (1971)
Quote: Like a lot of cult movie fans my first exposure to the work of Andrzej Zulawski came in the shape of his marvellous Possession. It is a film which mixes genius with the obscene and the...
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Cannes Film Festival – Jean-Luc Godard Press Conference Cannes 2018 (2018)
Press conference at the Cannes Film Festival, with the virtual participation of Jean-Luc Godard via FaceTime. It took place on May 12, 2018. [Dual audio, original french in the first track, english...
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Teuvo Tulio – Sensuela (1973)
Quote: A mix of sexploitation, Lappish folk dress, and soap opera that still finds room for Nazis and reindeer castration – a movie so inept and bizarre that I have to limit any mention of it to this...
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Joseph H. Lewis – A Lady Without Passport (1950)
Synopsis: There is a problem with foreign nationals using Cuba as a convenient jumping off point for illegal entry into the United States. So U.S. Immigration Service Agent Peter Karczag (John Hodiak)...
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Syllas Tzoumerkas – A Manifesto for the Un-communal (2017)
Synopsis wrote: A MANIFESTO FOR THE UN-COMMUNAL is a poem, a documentary, a video diary and a propaganda piece in praise of the outlandishly living. Shot in Germany, Israel, Greece and Denmark, A...
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Cãlin Peter Netzer – Ana, mon amour (2017)
Toma and Ana meet as students in the literature faculty, and quickly fall in love. The story of Ana and Toma and the thread of Ana’s mental illness, which runs through their relationship – their...
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Milos Forman – Valmont (1989)
Quote: “Valmont,” Milos Forman’s spin on “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” is sumptuous suds, a broadly played trivialization of de Laclos’s 18th-century novel of boudoir intrigue. With its callow cast and...
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Miklós Jancsó – A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon AKA The...
Quote: It is the 15th c. in Hungary. And young prince Gaspar (Laszlo Galffy) was sent off to Italy when he was just two years old, and now he has come back to his father’s castle as a grown man, with...
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Fredi M. Murer – Höhenfeuer aka Alpine Fire (1985)
Alpine Fire is as heady and intoxicating as the thin mountain air of the Alps in which it takes place. The entire film is set far above the rest of the world, and the isolated location influences both...
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Claude Autant-Lara – Sylvie et le fantôme AKA Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)
Quote: With this film, conceived during the occupation and released after the war, Claude Autant-Lara entered the realm of pure fantasy. Odette Joyeux stars as Sylvie, in love with a long-dead...
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Júlio Bressane – Miramar (1997)
qUOTE: Story with some autobiographical touches taken from director’s life. Miramar is a teenager raised by his parents to be an artist. But a tragedy occurs in his life: both his parents commit...
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Helmut Herbst – John Heartfield, Fotomonteur (1979)
A documentary which looks at Heartfield primarily as a political activist working in a specific historical context. It demonstrates this relationship by the use of documentary material, such as...
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