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Nicholas Ray – Johnny Guitar (1954)
Synopsis: from Olive Films This one-of-a-kind western stars Joan Crawford as a saloon owner battling the local townspeople headed by Emma (Mercedes McCambridge), the local sexually repressed,...
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Howard Zieff – Slither (1973)
Plot Synopsis - by Hal Erickson In Slither, James Caan plays Dick Kanipsia, a recently paroled car thief whose plans to go straight are interrupted when his best pal Harry Moss (Richard B. Schull) is...
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Oliver Stone – South of the Border [+Extras] (2009)
synopsis Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is a hero in Latin America for his willingness to stand up to the United States (both the government and the private sector) and his desire to use the...
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Goran Markovic – Sabirni Centar AKA The Meeting Point (1989)
During the excavation of ancient Roman ruins, an old archaeology professor accidentally opens the gate between our world and the world of the dead. Awards 1989: Mostra of Valencia: Palme d´Or (Golden...
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Jean-Pierre Melville – L’Armée des ombres AKA Army of Shadows [+Extras] (1969)
Review: The defiantly independent French director Jean-Pierre Melville was an outsider by choice. He financed his films outside of the studio system and built his own studio for maximum independence....
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Ming-liang Tsai – Qing shao nian nuo zha AKA Rebels of the Neon (1992)
Defying by his parents, Hsiao Kang drops out of the local crammer to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in with Ah Tze, a pretty hood and their relationships is a confused mixture...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Warnung Vor Einer Heiligen Nutte AKA Beware of a...
from allmovie: “Movies about making movies are usually concerned with the frantic desperation of a shoot, with crises popping up by the minute and everyone rushing about madly. Not so in Rainer Werner...
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Seijun Suzuki – Nikutai no mon AKA Gate of Flesh (1964)
Quote: In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of...
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Philippe de Broca – Le diable par la queue AKA The Devil by the Tail (1969)
Synopsis: ‘A family of aristocrats have fallen on hard times. To pay for repairs to their crumbling country chateau they are forced to use their home as a hotel. The local garage mechanic, Charlie,...
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Alan J. Pakula – Sterile Cukoo (1969)
Synopsis: Eccentric Pookie Adams (Liza Minnelli) pursues a quiet entymology student named Jerry (Wendell Burton), who she meets on the bus while travelling to college. Review: Alan J. Pakula’s debut...
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Olivier Assayas – HHH: Un portrait de Hou Hsiao-Hsien (1997)
Synopsis A documentary on the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien that explores the complexities of political and social life in Asia and how it affects his films. Hou returns to the setting of his...
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Harry Lachman – Dante’s Inferno (1935)
Synopsis: A ruthless carnival barker, blinded by ambition, keeps a fair open — despite warnings from an inspector that the fair is unsafe — leading to a fatal disaster. Starring Spencer Tracy and...
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Delmer Daves – The Red House (1947)
PLOT SYNOPSIS Pete and Ellen have reared Meg as their own, ever since she was a baby and her parents took off. Now a teen, Meg convinces her friend Nath to come help with chores on the farm: Pete...
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Bruno Mattei – Sexual aberration – sesso perverso (1979)
IMDB user review: Mattei’s trashy sexual “pseudomentary” 9 July 2006 | by Scott-from-Modesto (United States) Libidomania is great for what it is, an ambitious and exploitive attempt to categorize and...
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D.W. Griffith – Way Down East (1920)
Way Down East (1920) is a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. It is one of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play Way Down East by Lottie Blair...
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Hsiao-hsien Hou – Beiqing chengshi aka City Of Sadness (1989)
Seen through the prism of the Lin family, this complex family drama from Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao Hsien details a brief but crucial moment in Taiwanese history between 1945, when 50 years of...
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Dave Kellett & Frederick Schroeder – Stripped (2014)
Quote: STRIPPED is the ultimate love-letter to comic strips. It brings together the world’s best cartoonists to talk about the art form they love, and what happens to it as newspapers die. STRIPPED...
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Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Groß – Grzeli nateli dgeebi AKA In bloom (2013)
A thrilling, moving and engrossing drama, boasting powerfully affecting performances from its two young leads, In Bloom is a striking and mesmeric work of independent cinema from one of the world’s...
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Terry Gilliam – The Zero Theorem (2013)
Quote: The Zero Theorem casts Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an egghead data processor who is given a mission to make order out of chaos. This being a production by Terry Gilliam – the rambling mad...
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Walerian Borowczyk – La Marge AKA Emmanuelle ’77 (1976)
Art House Erotica, 23 September 1998 10/10 Author: Stefan Kahrs from Canterbury, England La Marge is the kind of film conventional film critics hate to review, because it does not quite fit into these...
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