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Ari Folman – The Congress AKA Kenes Ha-Atidanim (2013)
Quote: Robin Wright plays an aging actress with a reputation for being fickle and unreliable, so much so that nobody is willing to offer her any roles anymore. She agrees to sell the movie rights to...
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François Villiers – Le puits aux trois vérités AKA Three Faces of Sin (1961)
Synopsis Midnight in Paris, Faubourg St Honoré. In one house, a woman suddenly screams and the sound of a gunshot is heard. A short time later, Laurent Lénaud, a young painter, is running away with a...
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Amit Dutta – Aadmi Ki Aurat Aur Anya Kahaniya (2009)
One of the most exciting films of 2009: Amit Duttas first feature is based on three short stories by Vinod Kumar Shukla and Saadat Hasan Manto. Maybe it indeed is about the problems of masculinity in...
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Chad Freidrichs – The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The...
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Zoltán Fábri – Körhinta AKA Merry-Go-Round (1956)
The story concerns a young couple who “meet cute” at a fairground. As they dance the night away, the boy expresses his love for the girl, resulting in a startling reaction. The film is unabashedly...
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Jean-Marc Lamoure – Tarr Béla: I Used to Be a Filmmaker (2013)
Synopsis: An illuminating – and extremely rare – documentary profile of one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, Béla Tarr. Filmed during the production of his final masterpiece, The Turin Horse,...
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Júlio Bressane – A Agonia (1976)
A murder and a future teller meet in a desert road. He, driving his chevrolet, a short-cut hair, a rosemary leaf held behind his ear, a yellow shirt of shiny satin. She, walking on the paved road,...
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Kristina Humle – Krama mig (2005)
Minna, 19, lives in a small dusty town. She and her friend Simone roam the streets, have tedious jobs, and try to entertain themselves by falling in love with the wrong men. Minna is still affected by...
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Tizuka Yamasaki – Gaijin – Os Caminhos da Liberdade AKA Gaijin: Roads to...
The first film of Tizuka Yamasaki, a young Brazilian woman of Japanese ancestry, Gaijin: Roads to Freedom is based on the experiences of Yamasaki’s own grandmother in coming to Brazil in the wave of...
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Curtis Harrington – Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Shelly Winters is great at playing unhinged characters. In WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HELEN?, she teams up with Debbie Reynolds in a tale about two mothers of convicted killers who move to california in...
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Herbert Ross – Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Quote: Herbert Ross directed this adaptation of Woody Allen’s hit Broadway play concerning a shy film critic who has trouble with women. Woody Allen plays Allan Felix, a writer for Film Quarterly...
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Maurice Cammage – Le Coq Du Regiment (1933)
Imdb user comment: *light spoilers ahead* Except for Fernandel, critics were negative when the movie came out. “Le Coq du Régiment” belongs to the barracks room humor, and usually I also don’t like...
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Bénédicte Liénard – Une part du ciel AKA A Piece of Sky (2002)
Every day Claudine toils on the production line in a food-processing factory, but as a union leader, she works even harder to get better pay and working conditions for her fellow employees. The days...
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Dana Plays – Nuclear Family (2001)
NUCLEAR FAMILY explores institutional and personal representations of memory and behavior through a complex interweaving of scientific documentation, animal behavior experiments and vintage pre-school...
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Kultur Films – Artists of the 20th Century – Salvador Dali (2004)
Artists of the 20th Century – Salvador Dali movie was released Apr 13, 2004 by the Kultur Films Inc. studio. An enlightening view of the greatest artists of the 20th century. Artists of the 20th...
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Penny Panayotopoulou – Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou AKA Hard...
Synopsis In 1969 Athens, a 10 year old boy struggles to come to terms with the sudden death of his father. IMDb.com Reviews …Panayotopoulou brings a rewarding psychological acuity to the way she...
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Alexandre Astruc – Le rideau cramoisi (1953)
Plot: A young second lieutenant in the hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, recalls a strange adventure. While staying with an old couple he meets Albertine, his hosts’ daughter, falls in love with...
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Claude Chabrol – Jours tranquilles à Clichy AKA Quiet Days in Clichy (1990)
SYNOPSIS: Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris. From an IMDb reviewer: This one is, by far, the most...
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Pat Collins – Silence (2012)
Eoghan is a sound recordist who is returning to Ireland for the first time in 15 years. His reason for returning is a job offer: to find and record places free from man-made sound. His quest takes him...
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Wendell B. Harris Jr. – Chameleon Street (1989)
Chameleon Street is poignant black film without the gimmick By Omar Green If you are of the noxious notion that every film produced by a contemporary African-American filmmaker must center around...
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