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Yimou Zhang – Huozhe AKA To Live (1994)
Review (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) To Live is a simple title, but it conceals a universe. The film follows the life of one family in China, from the heady days of gambling dens in the 1940s to...
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Yimou Zhang – Yi ge dou bu neng shao AKA Not One Less (1999)
Plot Summary: “In a remote mountain village, the teacher must leave for a month, and the mayor can find only a 13-year old girl, Wei Minzhi, to substitute. The teacher leaves one stick of chalk for...
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Sebastian Mez – Metamorphosen AKA Métamorphoses (2013)
SYNOPSIS “Suddenly there was a powerful explosion, the earth trembled under my feet and the older people who had already experienced a war, thought this would be the start of a new one.” This is how...
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Kevin Brownlow – It Happened Here (1966)
It is the Second World War. The Nazis have invaded Britain. There is a split between the resistance and those who prefer to collaborate with the invaders for a quiet life. The protagonist, a nurse, is...
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Pelin Esmer – 11′e 10 kala AKA 10 to 11 (2009)
10 to 11 is the story of a passionate collector Mithat and the concierge of the building, Ali. For Mithat Istanbul is as vast as his collections and for Ali is nothing more than a few blocks around...
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Nezih Ünen – Anadolu’nun Kayip Sarkilari AKA Lost Songs of Anatolia (2010)
Synopsis from Offical Site A musical voyage among exotic places and people of Anatolia, unique host of ancient civilizations, empires as well as mythologies and glory of 10 millennia. The fruit of 350...
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Wes Anderson – The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Quote: Typically stylish but deceptively thoughtful, The Grand Budapest Hotel finds Wes Anderson once again using ornate visual environments to explore deeply emotional ideas....
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Icíar Bollaín – También la lluvia AKA Even The Rain (2010)
Quote: The politics of the past and present begin to merge during the making of a motion picture in this drama from director Icíar Bollaín. Spanish movie director Sebastián (Gael García Bernal) and...
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Pascale Ferland – Ressac (2013)
After searching in vain for a job in the small seaside town where he was born, Édouard is forced to head off to the big city. He reluctantly leaves behind his mother-in-law Dorine, his wife Gemma and...
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Yaël André – Quand je serai dictateur aka When I Will Be Dictator (2013)
Once a common medium to record home movies and holiday souvenirs, the memory of Super-8 film is now disappearing fast. Yaël André has recycled a wealth of random Super-8 footage into a fake biography,...
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Eduardo Nunes – Sudoeste aka Southwest (2012)
Quote: In a secluded Brazilian coastal village, where everything seems to stand still, Clarisse watches her life over the course of a day, unlike those around her who live that day just like any...
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Vasili Shukshin – Kalina krasnaya AKA The Red Snowball Tree (1973)
Quote: Drama of a man who tried to live a new life. Yegor Prokudin (Vasili Shukshin) is a child of a street who grew up in a criminal gang. While he was free, he did not lose his innocent, joyful...
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Nacer Khemir – Tawk al-Hamama al-Mafkoud AKA The Dove’s Lost Necklace (1991)
This second feature in Nacer Khemir’s Desert Trilogy is a visually ravishing folktale reminiscent of “The Thousand and One Nights.” The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy...
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Shion Sono – Ore wa Sono Sion da! (1985)
This is the highly experimental first film by the then 22-year-old Sono. The title means “I am Sono Sion!” Shot on 8mm, it is a free-wheeling, intimate, poetic cinematic journal in which the artist...
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Fei Mu – Kong Fuzi AKA Confucius (1940)
Confucius (Chinese: 孔夫子; pinyin: Kǒng Fūzǐ) is a 1940 Chinese film directed by Fei Mu. Produced during the war, the film was released twice in the 1940s before being thought lost. In 2001, the film...
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Alexander Gentelev – Putin’s Games (2014)
As costs for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia spiraled to in excess of $50 billion dollars, Putin’s Games goes behind the scenes to investigate why the first Winter Games to be held in a...
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Shion Sono – Ai no mukidashi AKA Love Exposure (2008)
Plot:Yu is a high school boy who lives with his father who became a priest after Yu’s mother died. But one day, a woman, Kaori, falls for Yu’s father although she knows that he is a priest. Yu is...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Dong AKA The Hole (1998)
(From Allmovie Guide) “At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, this Taiwanese-French drama won a FIPRESCI Award, given by international critics. Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang previously won top awards...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Ai qing wan sui AKA Vive l’amour (1994)
Plot: The film focuses on three city folks who unknowingly share the same apartment: Mei, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-ang, who’s...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Bu san AKA Good bye, Dragon Inn (2003)
From Film Journal International: By Ethan Alter When you spend as much time in movie theatres as film critics and serious movie buffs do, you can’t help but wonder whether those spaces possess an...
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