Jannicke Systad Jacobsen – Få meg på, for faen AKA Turn Me On, Dammit! (2011)
Quote: TURN ME ON, DAMMIT! is a whimsical and refreshingly honest coming of age story about the blossoming sexuality of a teenage girl. The feature debut of Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, the film won the...
View ArticleAkira Kurosawa – Dodesukaden [+Extras] (1970)
Quote: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their...
View ArticleAlain Tanner – Les hommes du port (1995)
After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers,...
View ArticleAlain Resnais – Providence (1977)
The first English-language film from Alain Resnais, this drama about a spiteful, alcoholic novelist contains the French director’s typically playful surrealist touches and recurring use of characters...
View ArticleClaude Chabrol – Les Bonnes Femmes aka The Good Time Girls (1960)
inette, Rita, Jacqueline and Jane try to find fulfillment and love in their lives. Rita has a fiancé whose family is obsessed with social distinction; Jane has a boy-friend in the army, but does not...
View ArticleFrank V. Ross – Tiger Tail in Blue (2012)
Christopher and Melody are a couple in the midst of their first year of marriage. Christopher is a writer by day, but by night serves wine and food to people without discerning tastes. Melody is a...
View ArticleAna Lily Amirpour – A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
“The first Iranian Vampire Western ever made, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut basks in the sheer pleasure of pulp. A joyful mash-up of genre, archetype, and iconography, its prolific influences span...
View ArticleTomu Uchida – Kiga kaikyo aka The Straight of Hunger (1965)
Quote: A very complete article about Tomu Uchida : Here some words coming from it and about this particular film : “Straits of Hunger is a definite attempt on his part to essay the modernist style and...
View ArticleNadav Lapid – Haganenet AKA The Kindergarten Teacher (2014)
Synopsis: A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Amazed and inspired by this young boy, she decides to protect his talent in spite of everyone....
View ArticleAndrea Staka – Cure: The Life of Another (2014)
Quote: 1993, Dubrovnik after the siege. The city is still shaken and wounded by the horrors of war and the traces of that agonizing past-present are still visible on the walls of houses but above all...
View ArticleBenoît Jacquot – 3 coeurs AKA Three Hearts (2014)
A tax inspector (Benoît Poelvoorde), his new bride and her sister become entwined in a love triangle. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/4954BB72610496F/3_coeurs.avi...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Remerciements de Jean-Luc Godard à son Prix d’honneur du...
Jean-Luc Godard to receive Honorary Award The 2015 Swiss Film Honorary Award will go to Jean-Luc Godard, one of cinema’s true visionaries and a virtuoso in the art of film editing, whose avant-garde...
View ArticleJohn Grierson & Edgar Anstey – Granton Trawler (1934)
Quote: Granton Trawler follows the small fishing vessel, Isabella Greig, as it carries out its dragnet fishing along the Viking Bank off the Norwegian coast of the North Sea. Grierson used the film to...
View ArticleJacques Rozier – Maine-Océan (1986)
The Maine Océan spectator’s happiness may come from their witnessing improbable meetings between people whose ordinary lives should have never crossed each other but formally. Identity card Rozier in...
View ArticleChristian Petzold – Phoenix (2014)
Quote: A smoky duet between double-bass and piano at the start of Christian Petzold’s Phoenix promises a dose of film noir. That promise is complicated, if not exactly broken, by what follows. But...
View ArticleDamián Szifrón – Relatos Salvajes AKA Wild Tales (2014)
A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of...
View ArticleFrank Perry – Mommie Dearest (1981)
Based on the book about Joan Crawford, one of the great Hollywood actresses of our time, written by her adopted daughter Christina Crawford. Joan decides to adopt children of her own to fill a void in...
View ArticleErrol Morris – The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S....
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader wrote: In The Fog of War, Errol Morris interviews an 84-year-old Robert S. McNamara, who served as secretary of defense under presidents Kennedy and Johnson and is...
View ArticleOrson Welles – The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Synopsis: The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only...
View ArticleKyu-hwan Jeon – The Weight (2012)
Quote: The Weight, portrays the life of Jung(Cho Jae-Huyn) who grew up as an orphan and was adopted into a family of only a mother and a son. Jung is now a hunchback man due to scoliosis and is a...
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