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Jean-Julien Chervier & Agnès Obadia – Du poil sous les roses AKA Hair Under...
Synopsis : A sexually-troubled young man runs away from home, while a girl wakes up one morning with a single cyclops breast… ____________________ A quatorze ans, l’amour et le sexe intriguent. Entre...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kis uykusu AKA Winter Sleep (2014)
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. In winter...
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Alain Cavalier – Thérèse (1986)
Review from the New York Times website, by Vincent Canby : “Thérèse”, Alain Cavalier’s cool, unsentimental, astonishingly handsome consideration of the life of St. Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), is a...
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Vincente Minnelli – Some Came Running (1958)
Plot : Dave Hirsch, a writer and army veteran, returns to 1948 Parkman, Indiana, his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French, a local teacher. But the more flamboyant Ginny has...
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Nancy D. Kates – Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)
NY Times website: “Regarding Susan Sontag,” a documentary Monday night on HBO, will fill you in on a lot of the details of its subject’s life: her precocity, her travels, her illnesses, her lovers....
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Olivier Assayas – Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Quote: At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an...
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Ingmar Bergman – En passion AKA The Passion of Anna [+Extras] (1969)
The Passion of Anna is a 1969 Swedish drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Its original Swedish title is En passion, which means “A passion”. Bergman was awarded Best Director at the...
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Krzysztof Skonieczny – Hardkor Disko (2014)
A contemporary, multi-faceted metropolis. Nouveau-riche parents and their hedonist, live-in-the-moment children, surrounded by a reality where anger and tension pulsate almost to the brink of...
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Miroslav Krobot – Díra u Hanusovic (2014)
When she’s not serving regulars in a pub in a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with indecisive mayor Jura, soft-hearted outsider Olin and philandering roofer Kódl....
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Cristi Puiu – Un cartus de kent si un pachet de cafea AKA Cigarettes and...
Quote: In Jim Jarmush’s Coffee and Cigarettes, friends meet to romanticize about their love for two savory customs. Cristi Puiu’s Cigarettes and Coffee turns Jarmush’s film around. Neither Fiul (Mimi...
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Sergei Loznitsa, Cristi Puiu, Neil Young – Focus Sergei Loznitsa (panel...
The 2014 Astra Film Festival’s Focus Loznitsa now presents his latest documentary Maidan, alongside three of his earlier works—The Train stop(2000), Landscape (2003) and Blockade (2005)—as well as a...
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Vincente Minnelli – The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film’s industry’s most interesting glimpses at itself....
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Jean-Luc Godard – Bande à part AKA Band of Outsiders (1964) (HD)
Criterion Synopsis: Two restless young men (Sami Frey and Claude Brasseur) enlist the object of their desire (Anna Karina) to help them commit a robbery––in her own home. French New Wave pioneer...
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Eric Baudelaire – The Ugly One (2013)
Winter, Beirut. On a beach littered with cans washed up from the sea, Lili and Michel meet. Perhaps they know each other from before. As they struggle to piece together the fragments of an uncertain...
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Mikhail Lukachevsky – Urun kun AKA A White Day (2013)
On a frozen dark night in remote Siberia, a group of strangers travel home together in a van. When the driver refuses to stop for an elder, a darkening shadow looms over what could possibly be the...
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Moshé Mizrahi – Ani Ohev Otach Rosa aka I love you Rosa (1972)
Here are some reviews: from N.Y. times: Although it is inspired by Old Testament law, “I Love You Rosa,” the Israeli-made nominee for an Oscar that arrived at the Little Carnegie yesterday, happily...
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Ramon Zürcher – Das merkwürdige Kätzchen AKA The strange little cat (2013)
Synopsis: Siblings Karin and Simon are visiting their parents and their little sister Clara. That evening, other relatives will be joining them for dinner. Over the course of the day, the washing...
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Joaquim Pinto – E Agora? Lembra-me AKA What Now? Remind Me (2013)
Synopsis: Joaquim Pinto has been an instrumental figure in Portuguese cinema for over 30 years, whether directing his own films, as producer or sound designer for renowned filmmakers such as Raul...
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John Huston – The Dead (1987)
IMDB Summary: John Huston’s last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston’s favorite authors,...
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Isao Takahata – Kaguyahime no monogatari AKA The Tale of The Princess Kaguya...
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her – but...
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