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Fred Kelemen – Krisana AKA Fallen (2005)
From Time Out London Slow, portentous, absolutely bloody miserable, the fiercely independent Fred Kelemen’s earlier work was the veritable essence of arthouse gloom, so much so that it often prompted...
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Jacques Deray – Un homme est mort aka The Outside Man [English version] (1972)
Quote: Jean-Louis Tritignant stars as Lucien, a hit man who goes to Los Angeles to end the life of an important local mobster. The mobster’s heirs, who hired Lucien, had already hired yet another hit...
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Luchino Visconti – Bellissima (1951)
Maddalena (Anna Magnani) is a screenstruck mother convinced of her daughter Maria’s (Tina Apicella) star potential. Dreaming of a better life for her family – as a means of escape from the struggles...
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Otakar Vávra – Kladivo na carodejnice AKA Witches’ Hammer (1970)
REVIEW by Susan Doll (from facets.org): The Czech New Wave rode the tide of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia that lasted throughout the 1960s, which accounted for their ability to make...
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Albert Brooks – Defending Your Life (1991)
Enchanting, always funny, sometimes hilarious, and featuring a surprisingly light comic performance from the ever adaptable Meryl Streep, this is the most likeable and endearing comedy to date for...
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Jack Arnold – Games Girls Play AKA The Bunny Caper AKA Sex Play (1974)
Quote: Sultry ’70s B-movie bombshell Christina Hart (THE STEWARDESSES, HELTER SKELTER) stars as Bunny O’Hara, the underage man-eating daughter of a wealthy American businessman. After sleeping her way...
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Albert Brooks – Modern Romance (1981)
from IMDB “Robert Cole, a film editor, is constantly breaking up with and reconciling with long-suffering girl friend Mary Harvard, who works at a bank. He is irrationally jealous and self-centered,...
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Eric Rohmer – Pauline à la plage AKA Pauline at the Beach [+Extras] (1983)
Quote: Marion is about to divorce from her husband and takes her 15-year-old niece Pauline on a vacation to Granville. She meets an old love… ERICH ROHMER, ‘PAULINE AT THE BEACH’ IT is late summer on...
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Michel Ocelot – Kirikou et la sorcière (1998)
In a little village somewhere in Africa, a boy named Kirikou is born. But he’s not a normal boy, because he knows what he wants very well. Also he already can speak and walk. His mother tells him how...
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Patrice Leconte – La veuve de Saint-Pierre AKA The Widow of St. Pierre (2000)
Though set in the French colony of St Pierre and Miquelon, the movie was filmed on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The French title La Veuve de Saint-Pierre contains wordplay. “Veuve” translates to...
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Eric Rohmer – Conte d’ete AKA A Summer’s Tale (1996)
Reviewed by Tom Dawson 21 July 2005 Made nearly a decade ago when Rohmer was already in his mid-seventies, A Summer’s Tale is a beautiful and bittersweet romantic comedy from the evergreen French...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Diplomatie (2014)
As the Allies march toward Paris in the summer of 1944, Hitler gives orders that the French capital should not fall into enemy hands, or if it does, then ‘only as a field of rubble’. The person...
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Patricio Guzmán – Nostalgia de la luz (2010)
In Chile, at three thousand metres altitude, astronomers from all over the world gather together in the Atacama desert to observe the stars. The desert sky is so translucent that it allows them to see...
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Andres Veiel – Black Box BRD (2001)
This documentary is highly recommended, as it somewhat manages to keep a neutral point of view on this most controversial issue of post war german history. Quote: This documentary by German filmmaker...
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Tinto Brass – Paprika (1991)
from imdb.com: Plot Outline: A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. “Paprika” is the name given to her by the...
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Vera Chytilova – Kopytem sem, kopytem tam AKA A Hoof Here, a Hoof There (1988)
A cautionary tale about the dangers of unprotected promiscuity among heterosexuals, this story chronicles the exploits of three good friends. Pepe is the playboy of the bunch: despite having a lovely...
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Hisayasu Sato – Shisenjiyou no Aria aka The Bedroom (1992)
Hisayasu Sato’s THE BEDROOM is a bold, yet flawed film which manages to create an utter sense of depersonalization and loneliness, while still telling a great story. The visuals are great; blue and...
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Doris Wishman – Indecent Desires (1967)
Description: Blonde (wigged) and beautiful New York City model Sharon Kent (who was also a favorite of Barry Mahon) stars as Ann, a lovely secretary whose life is perfect. Her best friend Babs...
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Oldrich Lipský – Tajemství hradu v Karpatech AKA The Mysterious Castle In The...
Synopsis: In the 1800s, a baron, who is the owner of a castle known as The Devil’s Castle and who is also an obsessed opera fan, keeps the body of his favorite diva preserved in a crypt in the castle....
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Eric Rohmer – Les rendez-vous de Paris (1995)
Les Rendez-vous de Paris [Rendez-vous in Paris] is a 1995 portmanteau French film directed by Éric Rohmer. Three loosely connected variations on the theme of the lover’s rendezvous in Paris. The three...
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