Faouzi Bensaïdi – Mille mois aka A thousand months (2003)
Review : ———————————————– A Thousand Months, the first full-length feature from Moroccan writer-director Faouzi Bensaïdi, sets out as if to offer us a winsome child’s-eye view of life in an Atlas...
View ArticleJoel Potrykus – Buzzard (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s 2012 Best Emerging Director award for his debut feature Ape, Joel Potrykus makes a brazen leap forward with his sophomore effort, Buzzard, a darkly...
View ArticleHenry Hathaway – Johnny Apollo (1940)
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father’s release. synopsis Tyrone Power plays the college-grad son of jailed-embezzler Edward Arnold. Power tries to find work,...
View ArticleHal Hartley – Trust [+Extras] (1990)
Synopsis The unlikely relationship between a pregnant high school student and a brooding electronics repairman lies at the center of this droll comedy from writer-director Hal Hartley. Intelligent but...
View ArticleFederico Fellini – La Dolce Vita (1960)
Quote: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial...
View ArticleAleksandr Sokurov – Vostochnaya elegiya AKA Oriental Elegy (1996)
Quote: Oriental Elegy (1996). Visually impressionistic, atmospherically dense, and narratively opaque, Oriental Elegy is the surreal journey of a displaced spirit (Aleksandr Sokurov) as he wanders in...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Fox and His Friends aka Faustrecht der Freiheit...
The original German title, Faustrecht der Freiheit, which roughly translates as “Might Makes Right,” describes rather bluntly the crux of this compelling drama, one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most...
View ArticleJim Jarmusch – The Limits of Control [+Extras] (2009)
The Limits of Control is the new movie from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down by Law). The film is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain (both urban and...
View ArticleFrancesco Barilli – Il profumo della signora in nero AKA The Perfume of the...
SYNOPSIS Silvia Hacherman (Mimsy Farmer) is an industrial scientist who is completely devoted to her job. She has been going out with the handsome Roberto (Maurizio Bonuglia) for a little over four...
View ArticleLaïla Marrakchi – Marock (2005)
Marock is the 2005 Moroccan film by the female Muslim director Laila Marrakchi. The movie was very controversial as it deals with a Muslim/Jewish love between two high school mates, Rita and Youri....
View ArticleCharles Frank – Uncle Silas (1947)
Plot Synopsis “Victorian gothic melodrama based on the novel by Sheridan Le Fanu from a screenplay adapted by Aldwych farceur Ben Travers. This creepy chiller is saved from the doldrums by Robert...
View ArticleSu Friedrich – Sink or Swim (1990)
from Imdb, written by Su Friederich herself Through a series of twenty six short stories, a girl describes the childhood events that shaped her ideas about fatherhood, family relations, work and play....
View ArticleMarco Ferreri – La Carne aka The Flesh (1991)
Plot summary A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable...
View ArticleGregg Araki – Mysterious Skin (2004)
Description: Mysterious Skin is a 2004 film concerning the effect of childhood sexual abuse on two boys from Hutchinson, Kansas. The film received extensive critical acclaim. The film is California...
View ArticleHayao Miyazaki – Tonari no Totoro AKA My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Quote: No number of superlatives that I could laud upon Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro could convey the amount of joy that it brings me, but I’ll throw out a few anyway. It’s Miyazaki’s finest...
View ArticleRichard Brooks – Crisis (1950)
Plot: Dr Ferguson is a brain surgeon, on vacation with his wife in a small Spanish-speaking country. This is actually a dictatorship ruled by tyrant Raoul Farrago....
View ArticleJan Svankmajer – Flora (1989)
The last moments of a creature made out of fruits and vegetables. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/B3B703DC8B99E10/010-flora.mkv http://keep2s.cc/file/5270dafa5eb77/010_-_Flora.mkv Language(s):Czech...
View ArticleJan Svankmajer – Tma/Svetlo/Tma AKA Darkness Light Darkness (1990)
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where....
View ArticleJan Svankmajer – Meat Love (1989)
Two pieces of meat fall in love. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/C7269F426B7BB79/08-meat-love.mkv http://keep2s.cc/file/526eef83ee756/08_-_Meat_Love.mkv Language(s):language of love Subtitles:none If...
View ArticlePolidor – Polidor e la parrucca (1917)
Plot: The little Agenore (Ferdinande Guillaume) combines a lot of trouble to family friend Ilario Mentecatti (Natale Guillaume).(European Film Gateway)...
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