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François Ozon – Action vérité aka Truth or Dare (1994)
nnocence gives way to experience. Two girls and two boys, probably about 14 or 15 years old, play a game of truth or dare. The questions and the challenges deal with sex; it’s innocent and harmless,...
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Joseph Kane – Hoodlum Empire (1952)
Quote: John Russell plays Joe Gray, a gangster who learned the truth about The American Way from his buddies during WW2 and, after distinguished service, decided to go straight. But his former...
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Jerry Schatzberg – Honeysuckle Rose (1980)
After displaying his easygoing charm in a number of television appearances and a showy supporting role in The Electric Horseman, Willie Nelson scored his first leading role in this romantic...
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François Ozon – Sitcom (1998)
When an unsuspecting businessman brings home a pet white mouse – which had been used for “lab experiments” – every member of his family, and visitor, who’s bitten by the rodent begins acting out their...
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Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi – Karagoez catalogo 9,5 (1981)
Quote: This was the first long catalogue Yervant and Angela compiled from an archive found in 1977, composed of films with russian actor legend Ivan Muzzhukin and underwater films from around the...
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Joseph Losey – The Servant (1963)
Synopsis: ‘James Fox plays Tony, a wealthy, pampered, borderline-alcoholic young man with what appears to be a private income, sufficient for the purchase and redecoration of a townhouse in London’s...
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Luchino Visconti – Morte a Venezia AKA Death in Venice (1971)
from imdb: In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period...
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Claude Chabrol – Une affaire de femmes AKA A Story of Women (1988)
During World War II, in occupied France, a woman of limited schooling raises two children in a ratty flat. She is Marie Latour. In 1941, her husband Paul returns from the front, too weak to hold a...
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François Ozon – Regarde La Mer AKA See the Sea (1997)
A young mother of a ten month old baby (Sacha Hails) spends much time on her own, with her husband away on the mainland for an unspecified period of time. When a backpacker knocks at her door, asking...
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Jean Grémillon – L’Étrange Monsieur Victor AKA Strange M. Victor (1938)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote this : In his finest work, including this masterful 1938 noir, the remarkable French filmmaker Jean Gremillon (1901-1959), trained as a composer and musician, used mise en...
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François Ozon – Une robe d’été AKA A Summer Dress (1996)
It’s summer. Sébastien loves the singer Sheila. Lucia loves boys. And all Frédéric wants, is to get a nice tan…...
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Torben Bech & Otto Rosing – Nuummioq (2009)
Plot Summary If there is a Greenlander “type” (and if not, take a moment come up with one) Malik would be it: he is taciturn, bearish and mildly hedonistic bachelor. He’s a carpenter, good with his...
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Aleksandr Sokurov – Tikhiye stranitsy aka Whispering Pages (1994)
Quote: ‘Whispering Pages’ may be the most dimly lit film ever made. Set to the strains of Mahler, this 1993 film takes place in a city whose streets are rarely penetrated by sunlight. Look hard enough...
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John Frankenheimer – Seven Days in May [+Extra] (1964)
From Wikipedia: Seven Days in May is an American political thriller motion picture directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, and released...
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Pablo Trapero – Leonera aka Lion’s Den (2008)
Quote: We will never know if the young university student that one day wakes up surrounded by two men covered in blood, one dead, the other wounded, is the perpetrator. Julia is pregnant with the...
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Sang-soo Hong – Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon AKA Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (2013)
Quote: Is she tired of life or love? Why else is Haewon falling asleep in a restaurant? Haewon, a student, feels abandoned. Her mother is about to emigrate to Canada and Haewon has decided to end her...
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James Benning – North on Evers (1992)
from link - In NORTH ON EVERS (1991) James Benning takes the road movie seriously, making his circular trip across the U.S. a marvelously photographed, intensely felt, and disturbing portrait of...
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Muzaffer Özdemir – Yurt aka Home (2011)
The first feature to be written and directed by actor Muzaffer Ozdemir, best known for his roles in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Small Town, Clouds Of May and Distant (for which he won the Cannes Best...
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Giuseppe Tornatore – La migliore offerta aka The Best Offer (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A story about an art expert who has some issues (he doesn’t seem to like people much, he doesn’t have a cell phone, he always wears gloves not to touch other people) and on top of that he...
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Émile Cohl – Le Ratelier de la belle-mère (1909)
Very curious old movie. The quality is not that great, of course, but it’s interesting to see things flow and some animation appearing on an 1909 film....
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