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Ming Zhang – Wu shan yun yu aka Rainclouds over Wushan (1996)
Interlocking episodes and a bemused, deadpan vision shape the Chinese film ”Rain Clouds Over Wushan,” which is directed with quirky promise and dry precision by Zhang Ming. Mr. Zhang echoes Jim...
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Michael Haneke – Code inconnu AKA Code Unknown (2000)
Quote: …even after a number of viewings, I’m still not sure if what I have seen is a kind of high Euro-modernist masterpiece about race, culture, urban rage and alienated identity – or a perversely...
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Pascale Ferran – Bird People (2014)
In an airport hotel on the outskirts of Paris, a Silicon Valley engineer abruptly chucks his job, breaks things off with his wife, and holes up in his room. Soon, fate draws him and a young French...
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Pavel Jurácek & Jan Schmidt – Postava k podpirani Aka Joseph Kilian (1965)
Quote: A year after Franz Kafka’s work had been translated from German into his native Czech, this experimental feature was full of Kafka’s tone and style. The story is about Harold, an isolated...
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Doris Dörrie – Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)
Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about...
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Jan Nemec – Die Verwandlung AKA Metamorphosis (1975)
Jan Němec’s original proposal in 1966 to adapt Kafka’s Metamorphosis as a theatrical feature was rejected by the Czech state film board. In 1974, he was forced into exile — first seeking refuge in...
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Nicolás Pereda – El palacio (2013)
Pereda’s films pass through a transitional period; Los mejores temas was probably a conscious farewell to a filmic representation system while Matar extraños turned out to be an enigmatic first test;...
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Ingmar Bergman – Törst AKA Thirst (1949)
Quote: With Thirst (1949), Ingmar Bergman began to display an astonishing technical virtuosity and control over the medium of film. A crosshatched, multilayered narrative, sewn together with...
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Andrzej Wajda – Zly chlopiec AKA The Bad Boy (1950)
Synopsis: First short film by Wajda, based on the story “A Naughty Boy” by A. Chekhov. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/EF12423A77E411F/zly-chlopiec.mkv...
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Alberto Seixas Santos – Brandos Costumes AKA Gentle Costume AKA Gentle Morals...
Synopsis: Portrait of the everyday life of a typical middle-class family in parallel with the fall of the “Estado Novo”, the 48-year dictatorship led by Salazar. The daughters’ conflicts and...
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Jean-François Stévenin – Le Passe-montagne AKA Mountain Pass (1978)
PLOT DESCRIPTION This film marks the directorial debut of actor Jean-François Stevenin. Serge (Stevenin) is a dweller in the French provinces who happens upon Georges (Jacques Villeret), a Parisian...
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Jean-François Stévenin – Double messieurs AKA Double gentlemen (1986)
Quote: In a routine look at what it means to finally leave adolescence behind — even in one’s mature years — this series of mood swings and sequences focuses on two grown men. Francois (Jean Francois...
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Lars von Trier – Nymphomaniac : Vol. I (2013)
CUT VERSION Quote: A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual...
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Lars von Trier – Nymphomaniac: Vol. II (2013)
CUT VERSION Quote: A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Histoire(s) du cinéma [+Extras] (1988 – 1998)
Synopsis Undeniably a work of enormous scope, Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoires du cinéma eludes easy definition. An extended essay on cinema by means of cinema. A history of the cinema, and history...
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Bill Tangeman – Starbucking (2006)
Most of us have been in the situation where we’ve had one too many cups of coffee, there are the jittery side effects, the quickened speech, the racing heartbeat—but that’s all in a day’s work for...
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Giorgos Lanthimos & Lakis Lazopoulos – O kalyteros mou filos AKA My Best...
Description: When Konstadinos misses a flight and returns home unexpectedly, he finds his wife in bed with his best friend. Shocked, he leaves the house without letting them know what he saw and...
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Aleksei German – Khrustalyov, mashinu! AKA Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998)
Quote: Winter is never-ending in Aleksei Guerman’s impenetrable film ”Khroustaliov, My Car!,” a nearly two-and-a-half hour absurdist nightmare of life in the Soviet Union during the final days of...
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Gregg Araki – Totally F***ed Up (1993)
from all movie: Quote: A group of gay and lesbian teen characters addresses the camera directly in this pseudo-documentary about the travails of queer adolescence in early-’90s Los Angeles. Andy...
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Mike Leigh – Career Girls (1997)
from allmovie: Mike Leigh’s first film after his international success Secrets and Lies was this comedy-drama about two former college roommates spending a weekend together — the first time they’ve...
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