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Eskil Vogt – Blind (2014)
Quote: Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home – a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. But Ingrid’s real problems lie...
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Christian Frei – War Photographer (2001)
Witnessing the Witness: Looking Over a Shoulder at War’s Deprivation Even if you have never heard of James Nachtwey, the award-winning photojournalist who is the subject of Christian Frei’s new...
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Jacques Rivette – Paris nous appartient aka Paris is Ours (1960)
Plot: Anne, a student in Paris, becomes involved with a group of her brother’s arty friends and gets sucked into a mystery involving Philip, an expatriate American escaping McCarthyism; Terry, a...
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Annemarie Jacir – Lamma shoftak AKA When I Saw You (2012)
Synopsis The follow up to Annemarie Jacir’s award-winning feature debut Salt of the Sea, When I Saw You tells the tale of a young Palestinian boy and his mother as they struggle to maintain their...
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Shonenki AKA Boyhood (1951)
Quote: When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community. About the director: One of Japan’s most popular filmmakers after World War II, Keisuke Kinoshita...
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Wojciech Has – Rekopis znaleziony w Saragossie aka The Saragossa Manuscript...
Quote: During the Napoleonic Wars a young French officer seeks shelter in an abandoned building in the town of Saragossa. In this building he discovers a rather odd book, and when an enemy officer...
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Man-dae Bong – Masitneun sex geurigo sarang AKA Sweet Sex And Love (2003)
A girl, bored with her current relationship, dumps her boyfriend and starts a new relationship. The new relationship goes well and they move in together, but things start to go downhill. Comments from...
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Burak Cevik – Beklerken (2010)
Set in a village in Kastamonu, “Waiting” is the story of a father who is lying in his sickbed awaiting death, and a mother who is awaiting the arrival of her son to see his father, perhaps for the...
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Satoshi Miki – Ore ore (2013)
Hitoshi Nagano (Kazuya Kamenashi), who works at an electronics store, picks up a cellphone left behind by a customer and goes about a scam. He calls the person’s mother and pretends to be her son. He...
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Robert Lepage & Pedro Pires – Triptyque (2013)
Triptych is a contemporary urban saga that tells the story of Michelle, a schizophrenic bookseller, her sister Marie, a singer and actress, and Thomas, a German neurologist and Maries future husband....
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David Lynch – Idem Paris (2013)
Quote: Filmed at the eponymous Idem Paris, a fine art printing studio in Paris, France, and “virtually wordless”, the film documents the lithographic process. It was edited by Noriko Miyakawa and...
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Amos Gitai – Ana Arabia (2013)
Plot Filmed in one sequence-shot of 1:25, Ana Arabia is a moment in the life of a small community of outcasts, Jews and Arabs, who live together in a forgotten enclave at the “border” between Jaffa...
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Carlos Saura – Carmen (1983)
synopsis Director Carlos Saura’s Carmen develops a fictional story revolving around the rehearsals of Georges Bizet’s opera about the brash and colorful cigarette factory woman and her dalliance with...
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Jean-Claude Lauzon – Léolo (1992)
Quote: Jean-Claude Lauzon’s highly praised film tells the strange story of Léolo, a young boy from Montréal. Told from Léolo’s point-of-view, the film depicts his family of lunatics and Léolo’s...
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Hongqi Li – Han jia AKA Winter Vacation (2010)
An ordinary village in Northern China, the last day of the winter vacation. Four idle, aimless adolescents gather at Zhou Zhixin’s home, a friend who lives with his father, brother and nephew. Like...
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Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr – Superman (1948)
allmovie wrote: This adventure is the first live-action Superman serial and was one of the most successful multi-chapter films ever made. Superman is played by B-movie hero Kirk Alyn. The story...
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Ben Rivers – Two Years at Sea (2011)
Two Years at Sea (88min, 16mm anamorphic , b/w, blown-up to 35mm, 2011) A man called Jake lives in the middle of the forest. He goes for walks in whatever the weather, and takes naps in the misty...
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Ziad Doueiri – The Attack (2012)
Quote: Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Israeli Palestinian surgeon, fully assimilated into Tel Aviv society. He has a loving wife, an exemplary career, and many Jewish friends. But his picture-perfect life is...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – La danza de la realidad AKA The Dance of Reality (2013)
Quote: After a 23-year hiatus, The Dance of Reality marks the triumphant return of Alejandro Jodorowsky, the visionary Chilean filmmaker behind cult classics El Topo and The Holy Mountain. In the...
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Pascal Laugier – Martyrs (2008)
Reviewed by Tim Merrill To say that fans of modern genre cinema are a discerning lot is like saying Platinum Dunes puts out sub-par films. There’s no doubt that cinephiles in North America have been...
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