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Stavros Tsiolis – O panikos AKA Panic (1969)
Synopsis: Returning from a business trip to Rhodes, Markos finds out that his son has been kidnapped by a ruthless gang.The situation begins to get out of control as the child is sick and must receive...
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Daniel Schmid – Hécate (1982)
Daniel Schmid sets this amour fou in exquisite interiors against the glittering backdrop of a clash of cultures: European colonialism on the one hand and the dark, secretive labyrinth of the Arab...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Adieu au langage AKA Goodbye to Language (2014)
The only film to get a round of applause mid-screening at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Prix du Jury, the 3D marvel “Goodbye to Language” alights on doubt and despair with the...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Adieu au langage (2014) (DVD)
The idea is simple: A married woman and a single man meet. They love, they argue, fists fly. A dog strays between town and country. The seasons pass. The man and woman meet again. The dog finds itself...
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David Butler – My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his true love...
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Karel Kachyna – Láska (1973)
Quote: Své milostné okouzlení prožívají nejen mladičtí hrdinové filmu šestnáctiletý Petr a stejně stará dívka Andrea, ale i jejich rodiče, kteří se po letech znovu setkali. Rádoby poetické ladění je...
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Ilmar Raag – Ya ne vernus AKA I Won’t Come Back (2014)
A young woman who grew up in orphanage is longing to be loved, but does not have it in her to love others. Her teenage looks help her while falsely accused of committing a crime to hide in a orphanage...
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Paul Schrader – Dying of the Light (2014)
Veteran CIA agent Evan Lake has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake’s nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous,...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kış uykusu AKA Winter Sleep (2014) (DVD)
STORYLINE: Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce....
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Denis Héroux – Born For Hell (1976)
IMDB quote – “In My time as a sucker for obscure exploitation and trash movies, I have seen quite a bunch of vile and disturbing stuff. Yet it is rare that I am shocked about anything. After all its...
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Marguerite Duras – India Song (1975)
AMG Review: When Anne-Marie (Delphine Seyrig), the wife of the French vice-consul, grows weary of her oppressive life in 1930s India, she compulsively makes love so as to forget her situation. Her...
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Mark Hartley – Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
A one-of-a-kind story about two-of-a-kind men who (for better or worse) changed film forever....
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Eriprando Visconti – Strogoff (1970)
A captain in the Czar’s army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19th-century Russia....
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John Brahm – Hot Rods to Hell aka 52 Miles to Terror (1967)
This revolutionary masterpiece was, at first, misunderstood as a mere exploitation film. However, the subversive genius shown in its subtext and plot construction was eventually recognized. It now...
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Jean-Luc Godard – For Ever Mozart [+commentary] (1996) (HD)
Quote: Jean-Luc Godard’s densely packed rumination on the need to create order and beauty in a world ruled by chaos is divided into four distinct but tangentially related stories, including the...
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Julien Duvivier – Black Jack (1950)
IMDb comment by niathan: I saw this film when it was released to the minor cinemas in the UK some 50 years ago; and the memory remains of a great musical score, and the tragedy of the storyline. I saw...
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John G. Blystone – Change of Heart (1934)
Quote: Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas, things don’t go so well for the foursome when they return to earth...
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Yi’nan Diao – Bai ri yan huo AKA Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Northern China, 1999. The grisly discovery of several corpses is made in a small town. A bloody incident during the attempt to capture the alleged murderer leaves two police officers dead and another...
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Georges Lautner – La route de Salina AKA Road to Salina (1970)
From IMDb: Jonas (Walker Jr) is on the road to Salina. He stops at a gas station/restaurant and its owner, Mara (Hayworth), is struck by his resemblance to her dead son, Rocky (Porel). He decides to...
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Vincente Minnelli – The Band Wagon (1953)
“In Sight and Sound’s 2002 poll of the ten best films ever made, one musical made the list: Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Without denying that film’s considerable charm, a...
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