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Tom Tykwer – Lola rennt AKA Run Lola Run (1999)
Pieces of the Action A low-budget no-brainer, Run Lola Run is a lot more fun than Speed, a big-budget no-brainer from five years ago. It’s just as fast moving, the music is better, and though the...
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Jean-Pierre Mocky – Les vierges aka The Virgins (1962)
The story of five girls who are looking for their first love and first lovemaking. Some will get their heart’s desire, and some will get their hearts broken… at least for a while....
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Mark Rappaport – John Garfield (2002)
Synopsis: Documentary essay about actor John Garfield. A rebel, but also sexy and Jewish. Discusses his work in film and theater, as well as his appearance before the House Un-American Activities...
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Andrei Konchalovsky – Maria’s Lovers (1984)
One reason to want to watch this movie is to see perform one of the most talented actresses of her generation, Nastassja Kinski. Others: Her traumatized husband coming back from WWII, a perfectly...
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Inan Temelkuran – Bornova Bornova (2009)
The movie takes place in a time when dreams are reduced to almost nothing and when it’s difficult to remain sane. Ordinary life becomes a one greater expectation. Salih and Hakan who spend their...
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Tengiz Abuladze – Vedreba AKA The Plea (1967)
comment from imdb A masterpiece that demands detailed study It’s like Bergman and Kurosawa went to Georgia and decided to do Shakespeare together in the mountains. I’ve seen this film several times...
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Jay Rosenblatt – King of the Jews (2000)
Grand Prize, USA Film Festival “A highly emotional personal essay on Christian anti-Semitism that weaves together history, autobiography and snippets of Hollywood films depicting the life of Jesus.”...
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Mikhail Karzhukov & Aleksandr Kosyr – Nebo zovyot AKA The Sky Calls (1959)
Quote: A Soviet scientific expedition is being prepared as the world’s first mission to planet Mars. Their space ship Homeland has been built at a space station, where the expedition awaits the...
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Yakov Protazanov – Aelita (Аэлита) AKA Revolt of the Robots (1924)
Directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov made on Mezhrabpom-Rus film studio and released in 1924. It was based on Alexei Tolstoy’s novel of the same name. AllMovie wrote: The Marxist struggle...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Zemlya – versions of 1930 & 1971 (The Cultural Heritage...
Earh (1930) 59 min. Poetic cinema story about events related to collectivization in Ukraine at the end of 20th years of the last century, about creation of the first of a collective farm communes,...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – The Cultural Heritage [Disc 1] (1926 – 1928)
Love’s Berries 1926 The mistress of hairdresser Jean Kovbasyuk throws a baby up to him. Jean decides in any method to be delivered from a “natural” child…Getting a call to the judicial investigator,...
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Vladimir Motyl – Beloe solntse pustyni AKA White Sun of the Desert (1970)
One of classics of the Soviet cinema and the most popular film of the Soviet era. A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Arsenal (The Cultural Heritage) [Disc 2] (1928)
In Arsenal, Alexander Dovzhenko, perhaps the most radical of the Soviet directors of the silent period, altered the already extended conventions of cinematic structure to a degree greater than had...
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James Bidgood – Pink Narcissus (1971)
Before the art duo Pierre et Gilles, before fashion photographer David LaChapelle, before the artist Jeff Koons, and before the neo-Pop movement broke, there was director James Bidgood and his film...
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Vilgot Sjöman – Jag är nyfiken – en film i gult AKA I Am Curious (Yellow)...
Seized by customs upon entry to the United States, subject of a heated court battle, and banned in numerous cities, Vilgot Sjöman’s I Am Curious–Yellow is one of the most controversial films of all...
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Vilgot Sjöman – Jag är nyfiken – en film i blått AKA I am Curious (Blue)...
Quote: A parallel film to Vilgot Sjöman’s controversial I Am Curious-Yellow, I Am Curious–Blue also follows young Lena on her journey of self-discovery. In Blue, Lena confronts issues of religion,...
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Alain Robbe-Grillet & Dimitri de Clercq – Un bruit qui rend fou aka Blue...
Plot summary A sailor who was accused of killing a teenage girl and who was presumed to have drowned while making his escape, returns to the Mediterranean island where the alleged crime took place....
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Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky – Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma aka The cigarette girl of...
Review Though many casual film fans are of the opinion that the Russian silent cinema began and ended with Montage and Propaganda, several charming romantic comedies and dramas emanated from the...
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Morten Tyldum – Hodejegerne aka Headhunters (2011)
Plot / Synopsis Roger Brown is Norway’s most successful headhunter. The unscrupulous Brown leads a life of excess and finances his extravagance by way of dangerous art thefts. When he meets the...
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Martin Zandvliet – Dirch (2011)
< A biography of the Danish actor and comedian, Dirch Passer http://keep2s.cc/file/3e6f939d0a2c9/Dirch.avi http://keep2s.cc/file/b54b6d4506da9/Dirch.DK.srt...
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