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John Pilger & Alan Lowery – Utopia (2013)
The newest documentary from, probably, the world’s greatest living journalist- John Pilger- looks at the “dysfunctional relationship” that Australians have developed with the indigenous Aborigines. He...
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Férid Boughedir – Un été à La Goulette AKA A Summer in La Goulette (1996)
Synopsis In La Goulette, a small harbour town in the Tunis suburbs, Youssef, the Muslim, Jojo, the Tunisian Jew, and Giuseppe, the Sicilian Catholic, are as inseparable as their three 16-year-old...
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Alfred L. Werker – Walk East On Beacon (1952)
Louis de Rochemont, former March of Time producer whose docudrama films proved so popular in the 1940s, offers more of the same in Walk East on Beacon. Based on an article written – or ghostwritten –...
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Pawel Pawlikowski – Ida (2013)
Quote: Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love), this story of faith and despair is gracefully told, its simple, uncluttered spaces and luminous black-and-white photography harking back to...
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Yakov Protazanov – Belyy oryol AKA The White Eagle (1928)
Synopsis: Lash of the Czar was one of several English-language titles for the Russian film Belyi Orel. The film was based on The Governor, a play by Leonid Andreyev. V.I. Kachalov plays the governor...
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Yakov Protazanov – Sorok pervyy AKA The Forty-First (1927)
The Forty-First, Boris Lavrenyev’s novella, written in only two days, has proven enduringly popular. It tells the story of a young woman snarpshooter fighting with the Reds in Turkestan. She misses...
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Yakov Protazanov – Chiny i lyudi AKA Ranks and People (1929)
Quote: From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with “Chiny I Lyudi” ( Ranks...
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Andrea Arnold – Fish Tank (2009)
Quote: A young girl’s life is turned upside down when her mother brings home a new boyfriend Quote: From the start, I knew the British director Andrea Arnold had captured something volatile and...
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Alan Parker – Pink Floyd: The Wall [Extras] (1982)
The movie tells the story of rock singer “Pink” who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on...
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Ousmane Sembene – Xala (1975)
Quote: A successful, middle-aged businessman named El Hadj Abdoukader Beye (Thierno Leye) has reached the pinnacle of the economic elite by participating in a native revolt against colonialist...
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Alain Resnais – La vie est un roman AKA Life Is a Bed of Roses [+Extra] (1983)
SYNOPSIS On the eve of the First World War, a wealthy count, Forbek, builds a rocco pleasure dome in the French countryside. He invites his wife and his friends to live a life of idyllic seclusion...
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James Benning – BNSF (2013)
James Benning’s latest is a three hour+ shot featuring light, clouds and the much anticipated return of a BNSF train. Only info about this on the net is that a recent intended screening was cancelled....
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Lucio Fulci – La Pretora aka My Sister In Law (1976)
Quote: Lucio Fulci and Edwige Fenech? Yep, that’s right. Like so many other Italian directors of the time Fulci did a lot of sex comedies so perhaps it was inevitable that at some point he would have...
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Gary Troy – Teenage Bride (1970)
Plot synopsis: Dennis, a collega dropout, arrives to stay with his unemployed Coors drinking stepbrother Charlie. Charlie has athleitc sex all over a house with his mistress (top billed redhead Sharon...
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Otar Iosseliani – Adieu, plancher des vaches! aka In Vino Veritas aka...
Review by Scott Tobias: A giant pet stork, with scanning eyes that quietly observe the human folly surrounding it, lends sanity and stability to Otar Ioseliani’s cracked comic roundelay Farewell, Home...
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Nikita Mikhalkov – Urga AKA Territory of Love AKA Close to Eden [+Extras] (1991)
Plot Synopsis by Michael Betzold Veteran Russian writer-director Nikita Mikhalkov’s film about the impact of modern civilization on an idyllic part of Mongolia won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film...
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Sirri Sureyya Onder & Muharrem Gulmez – Beynelmilel AKA The International (2006)
Beynelmilel / International: Co-directed by Muharrem Gülmez and scriptwriter Sirri Süreyya Önder, Beynelmilel / International takes movie-goers to the days in the aftermath of the coup d’etat of...
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Ounie Lecomte – Yeo-haeng-ja AKA A Brand New Life (2009)
Quote: Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father...
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Nikita Mikhalkov – 12 aka 12 razgnevannyh muzhchin (2007)
Quote: A loose remake of 12 Angry Men (1957), set in a Russian school in the war-torn republic of Chechnya. 12 jurors are struggling to decide the fate of a Chechen teenager (Apti Magamaev) who...
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Alexandros Avranas – Miss Violence (2013)
On her birthday, 11-year-old Angeliki jumps off the balcony to her death with a smile on her face. An investigation is started as to the reason for this apparent suicide, but the family keeps...
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