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Shirley Clarke – The Cool World (1964)
Quote: “The Cool World”, a 1963 independent film directed by Shirley Clarke is probably the most shocking, interesting, and realistic film I have ever seen. The films follows the character of Duke...
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Vilgot Sjöman – Taboo (1977)
Imdb user : Halvar Björks acting in this film must be one of the best ever performed in Swedish film. The film is still very interesting to see. People who can´t appreciate films about persons who are...
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Christophe Honoré – La belle personne AKA The Beautiful Person (2008)
Junie (Lea Seydoux) is a beautiful 16 year-old girl who arrives at a new school after the death of her mother. Introduced by her cousin to a band of his close friends, Junie finds herself the subject...
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Roberto Rossellini – Stromboli [Italian version + Extras] (1950)
Quote: The first collaboration between Roberto Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman is a devastating portrait of a woman’s existential crisis, set against the beautiful and forbidding backdrop of a volcanic...
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Mikhail Segal – Kino pro Alekseeva AKA A Film About Alekseev (2014)
Quote: Sometimes we know less about the past than about the future. Alekseev, a lonely old man, unexpectedly discovers that he has not lived the life he thought he had, and finds himself to be a...
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Daisuke Miyao – The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema (2014)
The reality of transnational innovation and dissemination of new technologies, including digital media, has yet to make a dent in the deep-seated culturalism that insists on reinscribing a divide...
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Danis Tanovic – Cirkus Columbia (2010)
A story set in the former Yugoslavia and centered on a guy who returns to Herzegovina from Germany with plenty of cash and hopes for a good new life. (IMDb)...
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Robert J. Flaherty & Richard Lyford & Curt Oertel – The Titan: Story of...
The life and works of the great artist Michelangelo Buonarroti are shown against the historical background of his time. It begins with his earliest artworks, and follows his life and career as he...
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Russ Meyer – Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! [+ Extras] (1965)
Review: It’s been 26 years since I last reviewed a Russ Meyer movie (“Vixen”). In 1969, I wrote the screenplay for Meyer’s “Beyond the Valley of the Dolls” (“simultaneously the best and worst movie...
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Alfredo B. Crevenna – El poder negro (Black power) (1975)
Rare wrestling movie, a crossover between the lucha and blaxploitation genres. The story involves black dockworker Pedro getting mixed up with a gang of arms smugglers and falsely imprisoned on a...
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Budd Boetticher – Escape in the Fog (1945)
In 1945, Dutch-born actress Nina Foch had the good fortune to star in a pair of economical, satisfying thrillers. She was a damsel in distress in Joseph H. Lewis’ My Name Is Julia Ross, an updated...
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Alain Cavalier – Le combat dans l’île AKA Fire and Ice (1962)
Quote: A hidden gem of the French New Wave, Alain Cavalier’s thrilling black-and-white noir is as sleek and cool as it is gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, daring shoot-outs and stormy...
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Danis Tanovic – No Man’s Land (2001)
Quote: Three soldiers one Serb and two Bosnians are caught up in a countryside trench in no man’s land between Serbian and Croatian lines, while the UN unwillingly gets involved in the situation...
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Sergei Loznitsa – Maidan (2014)
Synopsis: MAIDAN chronicles the civil uprising against the regime of president Yanukovych that took place in Kiev (Ukraine) in the winter of 2013/14. The film follows the progress of the revolution:...
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Barbet Schroeder – Barfly (1987)
Plot Mickey Rourke plays Henry Chinaski, a poet and alcoholic. He spends his life in bars in Los Angeles, drinking every night. One day he meets Wanda, also a alcoholic and falls in love with her....
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Claire Denis – Nenette et Boni (1996)
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents’ divorce. Their mother, who doted on her son Boni, has died. He works for an interesting couple as a pizza baker, and...
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Juliusz Machulski – Seksmisja AKA Sexmission (1984)
Synopsis: Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, the World War...
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Yoshihiro Nakamura – Shirayuki hime satsujin jiken AKA The Snow White Murder...
Plot: Yuji Akahoshi (Gou Ayano) for a television show. He receives a phone call from an old high school friend, Risako Kano (Misako Renbutsu). She tells him that her co-worker at a cosmetics compay...
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Jason Barker – Marx Reloaded (2011)
“Marx Reloaded” a film by Jason Barker Produced by Medea Film – Irene Höfer in coproduction with Films Noirs for ZDF TV premiere: 11 April 2011, 11.20 pm, arte “Marx Reloaded” is a cultural...
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Asli Özge – Köprüdekiler AKA Men on the Bridge (2009)
The stories of three men working at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul are told by the original characters, in this mosaic depicting real persons exposing their lives and aspirations. (IMDb)...
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