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Nikos Nikolaidis – Evridiki BA 2O37 AKA Euridice BA 2O37 (1975)
Synopsis: ‘Euridice lives imprisoned inside a metaphorical hell-house, in a country ruled by a dictatorship regime. Having already served her time, she is waiting to be transferred “somewhere else”....
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Tom Laughlin – The Babysitter (1969)
A judge is about to sentence members of a motorcycle gang for murder when he gets blackmailed because of an affair with a teenage babysitter. Quote: An assistant DA (George Carey) is prosecuting a...
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Erik Gandini – Videocracy (2009)
Much has been sad about this documentary, before it’s been shown. Europe outside Italy has its view clear. How is Berlusconi possible? You meet this agent with Mussolini songs in his cell phone. You...
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Ritwik Ghatak – Ajantrik aka Pathetic Fallacy (1958)
Synopsis The plot of Ajantrik (Pathetic Fallacy) revolves around Bimal and his battered taxi, an old Chevrolet, he calls Jagaddal. Because he treats his car as a living being, many consider Bimal to...
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Arturo Ripstein – Virgin of Lust aka Virgen de la Lujuria (2002)
Review Highly stylized Noted Mexican filmmaker Arturo Ripstein (Deep Crimson) presents a highly stylized, almost stagebound, erotic melodrama about life in the 1940s in Mexico (filmed in the lush...
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Sasha Lilley & Jai Jai Noire – Theory and Practice [Conversations With Noam...
Two of the most venerable figures on the American Left – Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky – converse with Sasha Lilley about their lives and political philosophies, looking back at eight decades of...
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Kelly Reichardt – Night Moves (2013)
Kelly Reichhardt’s latest is concerned with three eco-activists Josh, Dena and Harmon (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard) who have decided to go further than their documentary-making,...
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Jacques Tati – Play Time [+Extras] (1967)
Synopsis “Criterion” wrote: Jacques Tati’s gloriously choreographed, nearly wordless comedies about confusion in the age of technology reached their creative apex with Playtime. For this monumental...
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Joe Swanberg – Privacy Setting (2013)
Quote: A peeping Tom (Frank V. Ross) stumbles into a mutually beneficial relationship with an exhibitionist. https://www.oboom.com/Z1JIP95J/Privacy.Setting.2011.DVDrip.h264-NoGrp.mkv...
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Fred Zinnemann – Oklahoma! (1955)
Plot Synopsis Rodgers and Hammerstein’s 1943 Broadway music’s 1943 Broadway musical was considered revolutionary for a multitude of reasons, not least of which were the play’s intricate integration of...
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Eli Cohen – Ha-Kayitz Shel Aviya AKA Aviya’s Summer (1988)
A young girl and her mother both carry the scars of their experiences during the holocaust in this drama from Israel. In 1951, Aviya (Kaipo Cohen) is a ten-year-old girl being raised by her single...
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George Herriman – Krazy Kat – Bugologist (1916)
Quote: Krazy Kat and Ignatz set out for the wilds on Krazy’s bike; Krazy’s promises to teach Ignatz about bugology. After crashing the bike into a tree, they come upon a bee (Krazy says it’s sleeping,...
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Robert J. Flaherty – Nanook of the North [+Extras] (1922)
Roger Ebert @ Chicago Sun-Times, September 25, 2005 wrote: There is an astonishing sequence in Robert J. Flaherty’s “Nanook of the North” (1922) in which his hero, the Inuit hunter Nanook, hunts a...
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James Foley – After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
The movie, based on a novel by Jim Thompson, the poet of circa-1950 pulp noir, has a stubborn, sullen truth to it, focusing on its handful of characters during the course of a particularly incompetent...
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Fritz Lang – Harakiri (1919)
Quote: O-Take-San (Lil Dagover) is a beautiful young woman pursued by an evil Buddhist monk (Georg John) who wants to make her one of his many geishas. She has an affair with the Danish officer Niels...
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Catherine Breillat – Tapage nocturne (1979)
Quote: Perhaps the film is more personal for Catherine Breillat. Is it a record of her working methods during this period? Her films have always dealt with sexuality and maybe the filmmaker was simply...
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Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – La promesse AKA The Promise (1996)
SYNOPSIS ‘La Promesse’ is the story of 15 year old Igor, who helps his small time crook father run a scam illegally employing immigrants on building sites. But when one of the workers is fatally...
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Luis Buñuel – Belle de jour (1967)
Catherine Deneuve’s porcelain perfection hides a cracked interior in one of the actress’s most iconic roles: Séverine, a Paris housewife who begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a...
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Giuliano Montaldo – Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
Synopsis In 1920, the anarchist Italian immigrants Niccola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volonté) are sentenced to death, falsely accused of a robbery and murder....
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Youssef Chahine – Al-Massir aka Destiny (1997)
Ideas are imperishable, such is the premise of this powerful, upbeat allegory from one of Egypt’s most esteemed directors, Youssef Chahine. Ostensibly the true tale of revolutionary Muslim philosopher...
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