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Louis Malle – Ascenseur pour l’échafaud AKA Elevator to the Gallows [+extras]...
Synopsis: In his mesmerizing debut feature, twenty-four-year-old director Louis Malle brought together the beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the camerawork of Henri Decaë, and a now legendary score by Miles...
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Michel Deville & Charles Gérard – Une Balle dans le Canon AKA A Bullet in the...
Synopsis The story concerns a couple of ex-servicemen who engineer a robbery, only to run afoul of professional criminals. Dick et Tony, parachutistes rapatriés d’Indochine ont accepté de rendre un...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La piel que habito aka The Skin I Live In (2011)
Quote: Sexuality and the prison house of the self are the themes of Pedro Almodóvar’s fantastically twisted new film, a luxury pulp fiction that breathes the atmosphere of the sick-room. Antonio...
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Wojciech Has – Sanatorium pod klepsydra AKA The Hour-Glass Sanatorium (1973)
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by...
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Marek Koterski – Dzien Swira aka Day of the Wacko (2002)
“It is a bitter story about a middle-aged man, who hates his life and other people, including himself. Adam Miauczynski, the character known from director Marek Koterski’s previous films, is a 44...
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Jacques Baratier – Goha (1958)
synopsis As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia’s first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Amator AKA Camera Buff [+Extras] (1979)
Review:(Noel Megahey, DVD Times) It all starts when Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) buys a little 8mm movie camera to film his new-born baby. Like a true enthusiast, Filip enters into the spirit of his new...
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Joseph Kane – Days of Jesse James (1939)
Roy Rogers has been sent to bring in Jesse James. After Wyatt’s bank is robbed and Jesse is blamed, Roy is able to work himself into Jesse’s gang. Learning that Jesse does not have the banks money,...
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Louis Malle – Les amants AKA The Lovers [+extras] (1958)
Synopsis: Louis Malle unveiled the natural beauty of Jeanne Moreau in his breakthrough, Elevator to the Gallows. With his follow-up, the scandalous smash The Lovers> (Les amants), he made her a...
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Claude Chabrol – Le beau Serge (1958)
Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinéma critics turned filmmakers who transformed French film history, Claude Chabrol was the first to direct his own feature. His absorbing landmark debut, Le beau...
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Robert Rossen – All the King’s Men (1949)
All the King’s Men is a 1949 drama film based on the Robert Penn Warren novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Rossen and starred Broderick Crawford in the role of Willie Stark. Jack Burden...
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Metin Erksan & David E. Durston – Susuz Yaz AKA Dry Summer (1964)
Winner of the prestigious Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival, Metin Erksan’s wallop of a melodrama follows the machinations of an unrepentantly selfish tobacco farmer who...
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Andrzej Wajda – Kanal (1957)
Synopsis : At the end of the Warsaw uprising, the few remaining groups of Polish resistance are collapsing under the German onslaught. After taking heavy casualties, the 43 men and women fighters of...
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Lucio Fulci – All’onorevole piacciono le donne AKA The Eroticist (1972)
Description: “Though today he is revered for his graphic horror films, writer-director Lucio Fulci got his start in comedy. With this in mind, The Eroticist makes perfect sense — it continues the...
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Guillaume Nicloux – L’enlèvement de Michel Houellebecq aka The Kidnapping of...
DIRECTOR‘S STATEMENT September 16th 2011. The TV news networks, newspapers, blogs, websites and radio stations are all reporting on one story: Allegedly – star author Michel Houellebecq, winner of the...
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Motoyoshi Oda – Gojira no gyakushu aka Gigantis the Fire Monster (1955)
Quote: “…Two spotter pilots for a Japanese fish canning plant crash land on a deserted island where both Godzilla and Anguirus are already engaged in mortal combat. During the fight the two titans...
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Frank Cassenti – L’affiche rouge AKA The Red Poster (1976)
“Blood-red posters featuring portraits of wanted ‘terrorists’ decorated every street wall in occupied France during World War II, and this account of how 23 foreigners working for the Resistance were...
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Brian Knappenberger – The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014)
The Internet’s Own Boy follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of...
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Howard Hawks & W.S. Van Dyke – The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Plot: Steve is just a heavy duty bartender when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for the ring. While doing road work, he is almost killed by a speeding car which crashes...
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Luchino Visconti – Rocco e i suoi fratelli aka Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone...
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