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Bigas Luna – Las edades de Lulú aka The Ages Of Lulu (1990)
Quote: Bristling with potent erotic imagery, this exquisite film from Spanish director Bigas Luna tells the tale of a young girl’s sexual enlightenment. When fifteen-year-old Lulu succumbs to the...
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Michael Haneke – 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls (1994)
Quote: 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (German: 71 Fragmente einer Chronologie des Zufalls) is a 1994 Austrian drama film directed by Michael Haneke. It has a fragmented storyline as the title...
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Yuri Ilyenko – Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala AKA The Eve of Ivan Kupala (1968)
Banned by the Soviet authorities, Vecher nakanune Ivana Kupala (The Eve of Ivan Kupalo) is widely held to be one of the masterpieces of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema. Adapted from a short story of Gogol,...
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Mel Stuart – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
A poor boy wins the opportunity to tour the most eccentric and wonderful candy factory of all. https://www.oboom.com/NNTSPQF4/Willy%20Wonka%20and%20The%20Chocolate%20Factory.avi...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Na srebrnym globie aka On The Silver Globe (1987)
Quote: A group of space researchers leaves earth to find freedom. Their spaceship crashes on the dark side of the moon. Shortly afterwards, all are dead save for the children and one adult. They...
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – Trilogia II: I skoni tou hronou AKA The dust of time...
Synopsis (Written by Theo Angelopoulos): A, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the story of his parents. It is a tale that unfolds in Italy,...
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Laurent Cantet – L’emploi du temps AKA Timeout (2001)
REVIEW Film festivals are by their nature notoriously cut off, isolated in such a manner they rarely function as the best place to fully appreciate or accurately evaluate the merit of new works....
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Orson Welles – Histoire immortelle (1968)
synopsis Immortal Story was directed by Orson Welles, who also stars as a fabulously wealthy, but bitter and dictatorial, European merchant. Soured on life, Mr. Clay (Welles) decides to play games...
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Arnaud Desplechin – Un conte de Noël aka A Christmas Tale (2008)
Criterion wrote: In Arnaud Desplechin’s beguiling A Christmas Tale (Un conte de Noël), Catherine Deneuve brings her legendary poise to the role of Junon, matriarch of the troubled Vuillard family, who...
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Siegrid Alnoy – Elle est des nôtres AKA She’s One of Us (2003)
Quote: While the official jury opted for a long German joke, the deliberation for the FIPRESCI award in Stockholm transpired in, literally, a matter of seconds; the choice was that clear. As our...
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Jean-Luc Godard –Éloge de l’amour AKA In Praise of Love (2001)
Quote: Having trodden the path towards ever-increasing obscurity in the 1990s, the eternal maverick of French cinema, Jean-Luc Godard made a surprising come-back with Éloge de l’amour, his first major...
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Alain Resnais – Les herbes folles AKA Wild Grass (2009)
Alain Resnais demonstrates he still has plenty to say in this drama based on a novel by Christian Gailly. Marguerite (Sabine Azéma) is a successful dentist with a busy practice and an offbeat hobby,...
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Lav Diaz – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Quote: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. A variant of...
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Francois Dupeyron – La Chambre des officiers AKA The Officers’ Ward (2001)
Quote: A man who thinks he’s found an easy ride through the Army during World War I has his world turned upside down when facial injuries render him unrecognizable in this wartime drama. In the summer...
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Shuji Terayama & Shuntaro Tanikawa – Video Letters 1982-1983 (1982)
Shuji Terayama (December 10, 1935—May 4, 1983) was an avant-garde Japanese dramatist, writer, director, and photographer, noted for such films as Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Fruits of Passion. In 1967,...
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Jean Renoir – La grande illusion (1937)
One of the very first prison escape movies, Grand Illusion is hailed as one of the greatest films ever made. Jean Renoir’s antiwar masterpiece stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers...
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Josiane Balasko – Cliente AKA A French Gigolo AKA Client (2008)
AMG: Gallic actress-turned-director Josiane Balasko – a Euro cinema mainstay best known for her unconventional romantic lead in Bertrand Blier’s 1989 Trop belle pour toi – helms and co-stars in...
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Tinto Brass – Salon Kitty [+Extras] (1976)
Synopsis Tinto Brass scored his first major international success with this shocking but stylish tale of decadence in the Third Reich, inspired by a true story. Madame Kitty (Ingrid Thulin) is the...
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Various – Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
Kaige Chen “100 Flowers Hidden Deep” Víctor Erice “Lifeline” Werner Herzog “Ten Thousand Years Older” Jim Jarmusch “Int. Trailer Night” Aki Kaurismäki “Dogs Have No Hell” Spike Lee “We Wuz Robbed” Wim...
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Various – Ten Minutes Older: The Cello [+ Extras] (2002)
Synopsis: Histoire d’eaux (Bernardo Bertolucci) – A whimsical, cross-cultural melding of east meets west romantic comedy presented in highly fractured (if unremarkable) ellipses that chronicle the...
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