Woody Allen – Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
There’s a real murder and a real mystery in Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery, but these plot pegs are used mainly to allow Allen to explore modern urban relationships. Allen plays a book editor,...
View ArticleTomás Gutiérrez Alea – Memorias del subdesarrollo AKA Memories of...
Plot Synopsis Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba, from the Castro...
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Filepost, which We use for a long while, closed their premium account sale. We used them past, despite they close our account to upload because of Quota. I guest Filepost will close soon totally. I...
View ArticleJohn Ford – The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
Plot: John Ford’s remake of his 1934 Will Rogers vehicle, Judge Priest, combines three Irvin S. Cobb stories about the kindly Kentucky magistrate William Priest (Charles Winninger). Set in 1905...
View ArticleNami Iguchi – Inuneko AKA Dogs & Cats AKA The Cat Leaves Home (2004)
Quote: This is the first feature by Iguchi Nami, who more recently made the film Don’t Laugh at My Romance. Inuneko is also known as The Cat Leaves Home and as (more literally) Dogs & Cats or even...
View ArticlePeter Brosens & Jessica Hope Woodworth – Khadak (2006)
Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, Khadak tells the epic story of Bagi, a young nomad confronted with his destiny to become a shaman. A plague strikes the animals and the nomads are forcibly...
View ArticleBéla Tarr – Werckmeister harmóniák AKA Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
Synopsis: This story takes place in a small town on the Hungarian Plain. In a provincial town, which is surrounded with nothing else but frost. It is bitterly cold weather – without snow. It is twenty...
View ArticleDerek Jarman – Caravaggio (1986)
Quote: When experimental director Derek Jarman was serving as production designer on 1973’s The Devils, that film’s director, Ken Russell, was already established as a radical master of the biopic,...
View ArticleMichael Haneke – Benny’s Video (1992)
Quote: The second part of Haneke’s “glaciation trilogy” begins with a buzz and a bang: the white noise of a television screen snow shower and then the bang of a pig being shot on the subsequent home...
View ArticleDoris Wishman – Hideout in the Sun (1960)
Synopsis: Two brothers rob a bank and take a young girl hostage. They find out that the girl is a nudist, so they force her to take them to a nudist colony so they can hide out....
View ArticleJohn Ford – The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath tells the powerful story of the Joad family’s trek from the dust bowl of Oklahoma to the fertile but futile fields of California in the early 1930s. Driven by the live rhythms of...
View ArticleBéla Tarr – Panelkapcsolat aka The Prefab People (1982)
“It’s the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.” Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz A heavy going realistic slice of life domestic drama that is filmed in black...
View ArticleAkio Jissoji – Uta AKA Poem (1972)
Quote: This is the last film of the ATG trilogy of the director Akio Jissoji, who sought the roots of inner psychology and eroticism. It’s a story of a young man who turns his back on the modern...
View ArticleTerry Gilliam – Tideland [+Extras] (2005)
Quote: After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had...
View ArticleblackANDwhite – Lynch (2007)
Quote: Compiled from over two years of footage, the film is an intimate portrait of Lynch’s creative process as he completes his latest film, INLAND EMPIRE. We follow Lynch as he discovers beauty in...
View ArticleStéphane Paoli – Paul Virilio: Penser la vitesse aka Paul Virilio:Thinker of...
A film on & with Paul Virilio about Virilio Quote: Paul Virilio is one of the most significant French cultural theorists writing today.1 Increasingly hailed as the inventor of concepts such as...
View ArticleRuben Östlund – Turist AKA Force Majeure (2014) (HD)
Quote: A family on a ski holiday in the French Alps find themselves staring down an avalanche during lunch one day; in the aftermath, their dynamic has been shaken to its core, with a question mark...
View ArticleAkio Jissoji – Mandara (1971)
Quote: An often-overlooked confederate of Oshima Nagisa (1932-) and Yoshida Yoshishige (1933-), Jissoji Akio (1937-) was one of the avant-garde cinema directors of the early 1970s to focus on issues...
View ArticleJim Cinque – The Night Of The Cat (1973)
When her sister is murdered by a group of goons working for a local mobster, Beth goes on the fritz, donning a wig, taking martial arts lessons, and using a cane to help take on opponents. Soon, she...
View ArticleIngmar Bergman – Musik i mörker AKA Music in Darkness (1948)
Bergman writing on the genesis of the film in Images: My Life in Film: ‘In spite of all that happened, Lorens Marmstedt did not throw me out. With great diplomacy he pointed out that now would be the...
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