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Rudolph Maté – The Rawhide Years (1955)
Synopsis : In this western, an adventurous gambler goes on the lam when he is falsely accused of a riverboat killing. He hides out for three years before returning to prove his innocence and find the...
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Bent Hamer – Factotum (2005)
Centres on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of “Factotum” author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don’t interfere with his primary interest,...
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Seijun Suzuki – Hishu monogatari aka A Story of Sorrow And Sadness (1977)
Quote: After Suzuki was fired for making ‘incomprehensible’ movies his first effort back after a long period of industry suppression was “Story Of Sorrow And Sadness”. In this corporate-victimization...
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Luis Buñuel – Los Olvidados AKA The Young and the Damned [+Extras] (1950)
Quote: Luis Bunuel classic from 1950. It is a tale of savage acts committed by impoverished youths in Mexico City. It is a film that has been kept fresh by its spirit and its style. Far from being...
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Hal Ashby – Harold and Maude (1971)
Synopsis In his second feature as a director after his Oscar-winning success as an editor, Hal Ashby complements Colin Higgins’ script (adapted by Higgins from his own student short) with an...
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Marcel Carné – Juliette ou La clef des songes AKA Juliette, or Key of Dreams...
Synopsis Having been caught stealing money from his employer to pay for a holiday with his girlfriend Juliette, Michel finds himself in a prison cell. He falls into a deep sleep and awakes to find the...
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Giuseppe Tornatore – Stanno tutti bene AKA Everybody’s fine (1990)
Plot summary Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat (responsible mainly for the writing of birth certificates), a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold...
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Pier Paolo Pasolini – Il Vangelo secondo Matteo AKA The Gospel According to...
from imdb: Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he’s stern, brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says....
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Bruno Rolland – Léa (2011)
Synospis : Léa lives in France, she’s studient at university, she takes care of her grandmother and for money she work as a waitress in a nightclub. But Léa dreams of an other life…....
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Wim Wenders – In weiter Ferne, so nah! AKA Faraway, So Close! (1993)
In all the publicity material for all the season’s films, this is surely the most peculiar and deadpan star’s bio: ” ‘Faraway, So Close’ marks Mikhail Gorbachev’s feature film debut.” The former...
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Youssef Chahine – Bab el hadid AKA Cairo Station (1958)
Quote: Universally panned by Egypt’s cinema audiences when it was first released in 1958, Youssef Chahine’s “Cairo Station” disappeared from view for two decades until it was rediscovered and hailed...
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Laurent Bouhnik – Q (2011)
Review from thefilmdb.co.uk Q’ opens with a heavy dose of nudity – a shower scene shot from the neck down as multiple naked women engage in conversation. We don’t see their faces, just their bodies....
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Susan Buice & Arin Crumley – Four Eyed Monsters (2005)
AMG: One couple’s rocky road toward togetherness is mapped in this comedy drama which melds elements of documentary and fiction. Arin (Arin Crumley) is a struggling independent filmmaker who pays the...
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Henry Hathaway – Kiss of Death [+Extras] (1947)
Quote: Based in part on a true story, Kiss of Death is given a veneer of reality by being filmed on location in New York, with a bare minimum of studio work. In one of his best performances, Victor...
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Marco Ferreri – La Dernière femme AKA The Last Woman (1976)
Gérard (26 year-old G.Depardieu in a star-making, César-nominated performance) is the he-man single father of a little baby boy who meets carefree, sensuous Valérie (ravishingly beautiful 21 year-old...
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Charles Chaplin – The Gold Rush [+Extras] (1925)
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader wrote: Charles Chaplin’s best-loved film, with the tramp down-and-out (as usual) in Alaska, where he looks for gold, falls in love with a dance-hall girl (Georgia Hale), eats...
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Alicia Duffy – All Good Children [+Extras] (2010)
After the death of their mother, Irish youngsters Dara and Eoin are moved to France to stay with their aunt. There, the boys befriend a local English family and the impressionable Dara falls under the...
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Georgi Kropachyov & Konstantin Yershov – Viy AKA Viy or Spirit of Evil (1967)
This Russian film adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s story was for a long time the only horror film made in the Soviet Union. Khoma (Leonid Kuravlev), a young novice, travels across the countryside and...
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Yasujiro Ozu – Ohayô aka Good Morning (1959)
Quote: “Sooner or later, everyone who loves movies comes to Ozu. He is the quietest and gentlest of directors, the most humanistic, the most serene.” — Roger Ebert It took long enough, but I sampled...
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Valerie Buhagiar – Tell Us the Truth Josephine (2006)
DVD box wrote: Tell Us The Truth Josephine is an experimental drama about a Maltese immigrant woman walking across Canada on stilts in search for home. Her journey, however, is haunted by stories of...
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