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Dan Sallitt – The Unspeakable Act (2012)
Quote: Set on a quiet tree-lined street in Brooklyn, The Unspeakable Act is an acclaimed, darkly funny film about a young girl’s unusual coming of age. Jackie Kimball is a normal 17-year-old girl –...
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Hal Hartley – Fay Grim (2006)
Hal Hartley’s dark comedy “Henry Fool” was an indie masterpiece that effectively and accessibly meshed Hartley’s literary influences with his specific minimalist style and some of the most memorable...
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Charles Lamont – Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
They don`t really go to Mars, they go to Venus, but first they go to New Orleans. While working at a missile base, Bud Abbott and Lou Costello inadvertently launch a rocket ship with themselves...
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Hal Hartley – Ned Rifle (2014)
NED RIFLE is the third and final chapter of Hal Hartley’s tragicomic epic begun with HENRY FOOL (1997, TIFF) and continued with FAY GRIM (2007). At once a saga concerning the Grim family of Queens and...
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Julie Dash – Daughters of the Dust [+Extras] (1991)
A film of spellbinding visual beauty and brilliant resonant performances, Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust has become a landmark of independent film. With great lyricism, Daughters tells the story...
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Kanji Nakajima – Hako aka Box (2003)
Quote: The scene of the story is laid in a tranquil village in some future world, where high technology is integrated with its nostalgic scenery. Under “the exhausted tree”, a machine is built, which...
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Ermanno Olmi – Torneranno i prati AKA Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
The winter of 1917, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. An Italian stronghold situated at 1800 metres above sea level, on the Asiago plateau, described in the novels of Mario...
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Angela Schanelec – Mein langsames Leben AKA Passing Summer (2001)
An attempt to observe life from the outside – to gain distance, to not interfere, to just observe. Two young women sitting in a café on a summer day, a family arriving at the airport, an older woman...
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István Gaál – Sodrásban AKA The Current (1964)
Quote: Director Istvan Gaal’s feature film debut was well received in the international community as well as his native country, Hungary. Sodrasban/Current is about a group of young people who have...
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Tinto Brass – Monamour (2005)
from xploitedcinema : Tinto Brass’ latest film MONAMOUR is the love-story of a Venetian girl, Marta, and a Frenchman, Leon. The story takes place in Mantua, a city rich in cultural evocativeness and...
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Tinto Brass – Miranda [+Extra] (1985)
In late World War II and shortly thereafter, the husband of Miranda Rostogni (Serena Grandi) is missing and presumed dead. She takes a string of lovers representing the seasons of the year: the...
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Adam Curtis – Bitter Lake (2015)
Quote: Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis –...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2015 Rolling (2015)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul new shortfilm distributed in Youtube. No synopsis or more information available. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/DE6A86AB782CFD3/2015_Rolling_%28480p%29.mkv...
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Robert J. Flaherty & Richard Lyford & Curt Oertel – The Titan: Story of...
Imdb says: 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...
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Philippe de Broca – Psy (1981)
Synopsis The cartoonist Gerard Lauzier wrote this satire of psychologists, their practice, and the whole idea of group therapy, around Marc (Patrick Dewaere), a psychologist who may need more help...
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Sergei M. Eisenstein – Aleksandr Nevskiy [+Extras] (1938)
From Criterion Collection: Eisenstein drew on history, Russian folk narratives, and the techniques of Walt Disney to create this broadly painted epic of Russian resilience. This story of Teutonic...
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Mikio Naruse – Tsuma yo bara no yô ni AKA Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935)
The effervescent and charming Chiba Sachiko (Naruse’s wife at the time) plays Kimiko, the bold daughter who travels to the countryside to find her estranged father to seek his consent for her...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Heitai yakuza AKA Hoodlum Soldier (1965)
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train....
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Yûzô Kawashima – Shitoyakana kedamono AKA The Graceful Brute (1962)
Quote: The original story of amazingly greedy people with cheat, embezzle and corruption, is an original, written by Kaneto Shindo. It’s all set in this little apartment of the Maeda family. The son’s...
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Zaza Urushadze – Mandariinid AKA Tangerines (2013)
Plot Autumn in the 1990s. An Estonian village in Abkhazia. Forest-covered hills, the sea, tangerine orchards. The Abkhazian War in Georgia. Two villagers – an old man Ivo and his neighbour Markus –...
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