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Walerian Borowczyk – La marge aka The Margin (1976)
IMDb comments: Walerian Borowczyk’s Most Underrated Film Borowczyk remains one of the least appreciated filmmakers of his era, inarguably an auteur, but one so erratic and unusual that he remains...
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Walerian Borowczyk – Docteur Jekyll et les femmes aka Blood of Dr Jekyll (1981)
Quote: Touted as having been based on a hitherto lost manuscript by Robert Louis Stevenson, writer/director Walerian Borowczyk’s take on the Strange Tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde reworks the material...
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Michael Curtiz – White Christmas [+Extras] (1954)
The Charge Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye in a song and dance extravaganza. Opening Statement The 1954 musical White Christmas had the advantage of the biggest selling song of the time for its title, and...
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George Seaton – Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Doris Walker a no-nonsense Macy’s executive, desperately searches for a new store Santa. She hires Kris Kringle who insists that he’s the real Santa Claus. But, he has many skeptics like Doris and her...
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Vincente Minnelli – Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
synopsis – AMG: Sally Benson’s short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to find a throughline to connect the...
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Eric Khoo – Mee Pok Man (1996)
IMDb Description: A painfully shy noodle-shop owner and a prostitute have a chance encounter when destiny arrives in the form of a car accident. Variety Review: In terms of raw power, the new...
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Danny Peary – Cult Crime Movies (2014)
Cult Crime Movies: Discover the 35 Best Dark, Dangerous, Thrilling and Noir Cinema Classics by Danny Peary Print Length: 451 pages Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (December 2, 2014) Language:...
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Robert Frank – Cocksucker Blues [+Extras] (1972)
Plot Outline : With Cocksucker Blues, Frank bids a final adieu to the utopia of the Beat generation. What did the Rolling Stones expect when they hired him to make a film about their 1972 North...
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Hans-Jürgen Syberberg – Hitler – ein Film aus Deutschland AKA Hitler: A Film...
Quote: The third and longest part of Syberberg’s extraordinary trilogy on German culture, history and nationalism (the two earlier films were Ludwig – Requiem for a Virgin King and Karl May), best...
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Don Hertzfeldt – It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
Quote: Bill struggles to put together his shattered psyche, in this new feature film version of Don Hertzfeldt’s animated short film trilogy. Review from imdb: This film is amazing. It’s a beautiful,...
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Yuriy Bykov – Durak AKA The Fool (2014)
Synopsis: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. He is an honest man that is up against an entire system of corrupt bureaucrats. The lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dormitory that is at risk...
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Anna Brownfield – The Band (2009)
When lead singer Jimmy Taranto dumps his girlfriend Candy then his rock band Gutter Filth, Candy decides to take his place in the band. Together with anal bass player GB, cross-dressing drummer Dee...
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Michael Curtiz – We’re No Angels (1955)
synopsis Samuel and Bella Spewack’s English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson’s morbidly humorous stage piece My Three Angels was brought to the screen as the heavily laundered but still...
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Júlio Bressane – O Anjo Nasceu (1969)
Santamaria and Urtigo are two bandits on the run, one is white, the other black. Santamaria is a mystical visionary and believes in the imminent coming of a purifying angel. Urtiga, his inseparable...
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Brian Desmond Hurst – Scrooge AKA A Christmas Carol [+Commentary] (1951)
Scrooge is a 1951 film adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. It starred Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. It was...
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Walerian Borowczyk – Goto, l’île d’amour aka Goto, The Isle Of Love [+Extras]...
Synopsis: Walerian Borowczyk’s second feature was just as original as his first. Almost entirely live action this time, it is situated on the archipelago of Goto, which has been cut off from the rest...
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Julien Temple – Never Mind the Baubles Xmas ’77 With The Sex Pistols (2013)
The Sex Pistols’ last UK gig – a benefit for the children of striking firefighters at Ivanhoe’s nightclub in Huddersfield on Christmas Day 1977 – remains their most implausible. “It’s footage I filmed...
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Sydney Pollack – The Slender Thread (1965)
Plot Synopsis by Paul Brenner Sidney Pollack marked his feature film directing debut with this taut suspense drama, based upon an actual incident reported in Time Magazine. Sidney Poitier stars as...
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Ruben Östlund – Force Majeure (2014)
synopsis A Swedish family visit the Alps on a skiing vacation, but when an avalanche strikes, the father of the clan will make a shocking choice that will reverberate through his clan forever....
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Anders Walter – Helium (2014)
A young boy Alfred is dying, but through the stories about HELIUM – a magical fantasy world, told by the hospital’s eccentric janitor Enzo, Alfred regain the joy and happiness of his life, and finds a...
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