Hirokazu Koreeda – Soshite chichi ni naru AKA Like Father, Like Son (2013)
Quote: The Japanese melodrama “Like Father, Like Son” turns on the kind of cruel twist — children switched at birth — that’s the stuff of tear-wringing headlines and fiction. It begins with the...
View ArticleCarlo Mazzacurati – La passione AKA The Passion (2010)
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town. The film was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice...
View ArticleDusan Makavejev – Covek nije tica AKA Man Is Not A Bird (1965)
Dušan Makavejev’s debut feature, establishing his freewheeling, exploratory, and often childlike style. From the Chicago Reader: [One of the best Chicago releases of 1974.] ”His first, seen here...
View ArticleFerdinand Khittl – Auf geht’s AKA Off we go! (1955)
Auf geht’s – West Germany 1955, 11 min. Directed by: Ferdinand Khittl Written by: Just Scheu Cinematography by: Gerd von Bonin Edited by: Hans Dieter Schiller Produced by: Olympia-Film, München One of...
View ArticleKlaus Härö –Äideistä parhain AKA Mother of Mine (2005)
Quote: The film highlights a significant event in Finnish history — that during WWII, around 70,000 Finnish children were sent to Sweden among other countries to be temporarily hosted as their real...
View ArticleDusan Makavejev – Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)
A Russian Expatriate Adrift in Berlin The most striking image in “Gorilla Bathes at Noon,” Dusan Makavejev’s whimsical cinematic collage set in present-day Berlin, is a gigantic statue of Lenin that...
View ArticleVarious – Alternativni Filmovi u Beogradu [Experimental Shorts] (1950-1990)
This is collection of 20 Serbian Experimental/Alternative short movies/animations.It’s released on DVD,but it’s hard to find . Triptih O Materiji I Smrti-TRYPTICH ABOUT SUBSTANCE AND DEATH (1960) –...
View ArticlePhilippe Garrel – La jalousie (2013)
An impoverished actor tries to make his girl-friend a big star. But in spite of all his efforts he cannot get her proper roles. Eventually she falls in love with another man and cheats on him....
View ArticleAleksei German – Trudno byti bogom aka Hard to be a God (2013)
Based on the novel of the same name, Trydno byt bogom (AKA Hard to be a God) has been transferred to film at least once before. Frustrated explorers from Earth observe the chaotic and oppressive lives...
View ArticleSergio Martino – Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave...
Synopsis: There are three key ingredients that make an excellent giallo production. First, you need a drop-dead-gorgeous starlet that will readily take at least two showers in front of the camera,...
View ArticleYinan Diao – Ye che aka Night Train (2007)
From DVD distributor trigon-film: Wu Hongyan, woman executioner in her thirties, works at the court in the province of Shaanxi in China, where she executes women condemned to death only. In spite of...
View ArticleVittorio De Sica – I girasoli AKA Sunflower (1970)
Sunflower, or as it is known in Italian I Girasoli, is a movie about how time continues to march on after war whether or not a person’s life does. Casualties on the battlefield is one way in which we...
View ArticleAlain Escalle – Le Conte Du Monde Flottant AKA The Tale of the Floating World...
IMDB user Review: Artifacts Don’t Move The idea of this, and the ideas of how we might watch it, are more engaging than the thing itself. Japan is a collection of notions about what it was, perhaps...
View ArticleHarmony Korine – Trash Humpers (2009)
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely...
View ArticlePaolo Virzì – Il capitale umano AKA Human Capital (2013)
Synopsis The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve. IMDb.com...
View ArticleJill Sprecher – Clockwatchers (1997)
Synopsis: ‘Iris can best be described as a wallflower. She begins her first day as a temp for the nondescript Global Credit Association by waiting in a chair for two hours. This sets the scene for her...
View ArticleDario Argento – Dracula (2012)
A young librarian, Jonathan Harker, is welcomed at Castle Dracula by the Count and a young woman named Tania, who seems intent on seducing Harker. The Count prevents Tania from biting the young man,...
View ArticleSam Peckinpah – The Getaway (1972)
Allmovie synopsis: In Sam Peckinpah’s version of Walter Hill’s script, from Jim Thompson’s novel, an ex-con and his wife go on the lam after a Texas bank heist. Denied parole after four well-behaved...
View ArticleSam Peckinpah – The Killer Elite (1975)
Overview: As steady hands carefully wire a bomb and meticulously set the timer to the eerie sounds of children singing in the background, and as the deadly device explodes, rupturing a building into...
View ArticleAlain Delon – Pour la peau d’un flic AKA For a Cop’s Hide (1981)
FROM IMDB Author: Lalit Rao from Paris, France French cinema of nineteen eighties was known for its numerous popular films which gave a new dimension to box office collections.”Pour La Peau D’Un Flic”...
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