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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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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Bolwieser aka The Stationmaster’s Wife (1977)
Jim’s Reviews/Fassbinder From Slant: By Fernando F. Croce October 4, 2005 The Stationmaster’s Wife’s first image sets up the template for Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s magnificently excruciating study of...
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Yasuzô Masumura – Manji (1964)
Synopsis : A dutiful, unhappy lawyer’s wife falls in love with a young, mysterious woman she encounters at an art class. Soon their affair involves her husband and the young woman’s impotent lover and...
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Jan Svankmajer – Kyvadlo, jáma a nadeje AKA the pendulum, the pit and hope...
Based on Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum http://www.nitroflare.com/view/3498303D12081DD/05_-_The_pendulum%2C_the_Pit_and_Hope_1983.mkv...
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Jean Valère – Mont-Dragon (1970)
Quote: For the sake of completeness with regard to the Jacques Brel (feature films) filmography as an actor, I’m uploading this movie though it is a poor quality rip, presumably from a vhs....
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Alejandro González Iñárritu – Birdman (2014)
synopsis A fading actor (Michael Keaton) best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to...
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Erden Kiral – Hakkâri’de bir mevsim AKA Eine Saison in Hakkari (1983)
The movie tells the story of a teacher who spends one winter in a mountain village of Hakkari, a city in the farest South-eastern vorner of the Turkey. Erden Kıral depicts his struggle for teaching...
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Gus Van Sant – Paranoid Park (2007)
synopsis A teenage skateboarder has a run-in with a security guard that results in the man’s death. Confused, fearful, and evasive, the teen wanders the streets of Portland as his life takes a turn...
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Tim Blake Nelson – The Grey Zone (2001)
At once brutally realistic and highly theatrical, Tim Blake Nelson’s screen version of his play “The Grey Zone” may well evoke the mechanized horror in the bowels of the Nazi death camps more vividly...
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Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson – Puberty (2014)
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and...
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Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson – Elms (2014)
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and...
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Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson – Colours (2014)
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and...
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Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson – Cold (2014)
Maddin’s frequent collaborator Evan Johnson (who is co-director on The Forbidden Room) presents four visuals essays, ranging from one and a half to four minutes in length: Puberty, Colours, Elms, and...
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Sergei M. Eisenstein – Stachka AKA Strike (1925)
Russia, 1912. Sick of the conditions under which they have to toil for a meagre salary, the workers at a factory are on the brink of rebellion. The flashpoint comes when one of their number hangs...
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Mélanie Laurent – Respire (2014)
Plot: It is tale of two teenage girls who develop an intense and dangerous friendship. Charlie is a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, disillusionment and solitude. When the beautiful and...
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Hsiao-hsien Hou – Nanguo Zaijan, Nanguo AKA Goodbye South, Goodbye (1996)
After spending much of the decade making films about Taiwan’s complex and troubled history, Hou Hsiao Hsien turns his attention to its money-obsessed present with this gangster drama. Tattooed...
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Aleksandr Sokurov – Odinokiy golos cheloveka aka The Lonely Voice Of Man (1987)
Made in 1977, and only finally released in 1987, this is Sokurov’s first feature-length film. Extraordinarily beautiful, utilising an array of unusual stylistic devices, it seems as if Sokurov’s style...
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Daniel Gordon – North Korea World Cup 1966 (2014)
Eusebio scores four goals to help Portugal come back from 3-0 down to defeat underdogs North Korea 5-3 at Everton’s Goodison Park in the 1966 World Cup quarter-finals. The football legend has died at...
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Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq & Claire Burger & Samuel Theis – Party Girl (2014)
Angelique is a 60-year-old bar hostess. She still likes to party, she still likes men. At night, she makes them drink, in a cabaret by the French-German border. As time goes by, clients become rare....
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Mario Gariazzo – Schiave bianche: violenza in Amazzonia aka White Slave (1985)
From IMDB: A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters....
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