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Alfred Hitchcock – Murder! (1930)
An actress in a travelling theatre group is murdered and Diana Baring, another member of the group is found suffering from amnesia standing by the body. Diana is tried and convicted of the murder, but...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Rio das Mortes (1971)
From Celluloid Breakfast: In the opening scene of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Rio Das Mortes, Hanna Schygulla repeats to herself a passage from a childcare book about achievement, indirectly teasing...
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Christopher Petit – Content (2010)
Quote: At one point in Chris Petit’s haunting new film Content, we drive through Felixstowe container port. It was an uncanny moment for me, since Felixstowe is only a couple of miles from where I...
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David Lynch – The Elephant Man (1980)
Quote: John Hurt stars as John Merrick, the hideously deformed 19th century Londoner known as “The Elephant Man”. Treated as a sideshow freak, Merrick is assumed to be retarded as well as misshapen...
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Klaus Lemke – Rocker (1972)
Synopsis The most authentic movie about Hamburg in 1970’s – Rock’n’roll, sex, drugs, 1970’s lifestyle, 1970’s hairstyle, murder, prostitution, Santana, bikers, Reeperbahn, and St. Pauli provide the...
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Sam Peckinpah – Convoy [+Extras] (1978)
SYNOPSIS: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider...
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Josef von Sternberg – Blonde Venus (1932)
Quote: American chemist Ned Faraday marries a German entertainer and starts a family. However, he becomes poisoned with Radium and needs an expensive treatment in Germany to have any chance at being...
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Lisandro Alonso – Fantasma [+Extras] (2006)
In this commentary on cinematic rituals, the star of Alonso’s earlier film, Los Muertos (Vargas), wanders through the Argentine cinématheque in Buenos Aires, Teatro San Martin, searching for the film...
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Jon Jost – Frameup (1993)
synopsis Made on short ends of film left over from The Bed You Sleep In, Frameup is a freewheeling road comedy about a pair of dimwitted lovers on the run. Ricky-Lee (Howard Swain), a two-bit criminal...
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Ishirô Honda – Gojira AKA Godzilla (1954)
Quote: One of the longest-running series in film history began with Ishiro Honda’s grim, black-and-white allegory for the devastation wrought on Japan by the atomic bomb. As his visual metaphor, Honda...
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Ken Loach – The Wind That Shakes the Barley [+ Commentary] (2006)
The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a 2006 British-Irish war drama film directed by Ken Loach, set during the Irish War of Independence (1919-1922) and the Irish Civil War (1922-1923). Written by...
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Roman Polanski – Che? AKA What? [+ Extras] (1972)
Synopsis: One of Roman Polanski’s lesser-known films, Che? (also known as What?) stars Sydne Rome as an attractive young hitchhiker who, as the film opens, accepts a ride from three men in a car, who...
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Various – X Femmes (Various)
X Femmes (English: X Women) is a French television series of short films shown on Canal+ in 2008–2009. They were shot by female directors with the goal of producing erotica and soft-core pornography...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Rikos ja rangaistus aka Crime and Punishment (1983)
SYNOPSIS: Kaurismäki’s first feature follows the descent into crime of Rahikainen, a slaughterhouse worker and former lawstudent, who murders a businessman and then begins a tense game of cat and...
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Alfonso Cuarón – Y tu mamá también AKA And Your Mother Too [+Extras] (2001)
Quote: Abandoned by their girlfriends for the summer, teenagers Tenoch and Julio meet the older Luisa at a wedding. Trying to be impressive, the friends tell Luisa they are headed on a road trip to a...
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Ben Russell – ATLANTIS (2014)
We Utopians are happy / This will last forever” Loosely framed by Plato’s invocation of the lost continent of Atlantis in 360 BC and its re-re-resurrection via a 1970s science fiction pulp novel,...
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Guillermo Moncayo – Echo Chamber (2014)
A radio, a warning repeated in a loop, intuition of a catastrophe that slowly approaches through the ruins and houses of a tropical rainforest. A natural disaster is coming, a natural disaster is...
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July Jung – Dohee-ya AKA A Girl at my Door (2014)
Synopsis: Young-nam was a promising graduate of the police academy before she was transferred to the small seaside village, which was caused by her misconduct. On her first day to the village, she...
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Oksana Bychkova – Eshche odin god AKA Another Year (2014)
A young married couple in today’s Moscow: He’s an unemployed guy who gets some money by giving rides to strangers at nights (the illegal taxi driving so common in Russia). She’s a young graphic...
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Raúl Perrone – Favula (2014)
Quote: “Hypnotic” is the best word to describe Favula, the latest work from director Raúl Perrone, which comes with a recommendation from none other than Apichatpong Weerasethakul – though he used the...
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