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David Oelhoffen – Loin des hommes AKA Far from Men (2014)
Quote: The existential questions Albert Camus raises in his short story “The Guest” translate exceptionally well to the Western genre in “Far From Men,” which stars Viggo Mortensen as a colonial...
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Nikolai Gubenko – Podranki aka The Orphans (1977)
Synopsis The original Russian title Podranki can be translated as War Orphans. The protagonist is an adult writer who undergoes a flashback at the drop of a hat. He recalls how he was orphaned when...
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Aleksandr Ptushko – Skazka o poteryannom vremeni aka A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
Quote: One day, four sorcerers appeared out of the blue in the streets of a small town. These evil old people had long been dreaming of getting back their former vigor and youth. But to do that, they...
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Abderrahmane Sissako – Timbuktu (2014)
Cannes 2014: Timbuktu review – searing fundamentalist drama By Peter Bradshaw Abderrahmane Sissako’s passionate and visually beautiful film Timbuktu is a cry from the heart – with all the more moral...
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Sabu AKA Hiroyuki Tanaka – Miss Zombie (2013)
Quote: A doctor and his family receive an unexpected delivery from an old friend at their remote country home – a large wooden crate containing a gun, a female zombie and an instruction sheet telling...
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Thomas Vinterberg – Festen [+Extras] (1998)
The Father turns 60. His family, which is a big one of the kind, gathers to celebrate him on a castle. Everybody likes and respects the father deeply…or do they? The Youngest Son is trying to live up...
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Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey – Chelsea Girls (1966)
Review from allmovie.com. Viewed in the cold light of the 21st century, The Chelsea Girls, Andy Warhol’s epic exploration of the many sordid eccentricities of his circle of “superstar” acquaintances,...
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Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves (1996)
Quote: For those who aren’t aware of it, Lars von Trier is obsessed with Carl Dreyer. He views him as a father figure, his role model, his favorite film is “Ordet”, he used Henning Bendtsen as...
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Fatih Akin – Auf der anderen Seite aka The Edge of Heaven (2007)
Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali’s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. But he grows fond of her when he discovers she sends money home to Turkey for her...
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Susanne Bier – Elsker dig for evigt AKA Open Hearts (2002)
Quote: Cecilie is devastated when her fiance Joachim is seriously injured in a car accident and is paralysed from the waist down. She begins an affair with Niels, a doctor at the hospital where...
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Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard – 20,000 Days on Earth (2014)
Drama and reality combine in a fictitious 24 hours in the life of musician and international cultural icon Nick Cave. With startlingly frank insights and an intimate portrayal of the artistic process,...
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Baltasar Kormákur – Mýrin aka Jar City (2006)
Mýrin is based on a best-selling novel by Arnaldur Indriðason. While a desperate, young father tries to find out what led to the death of his five year old girl, Inspector Erlendur investigates the...
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Various – Loin Du Vietnam AKA Far From Vietnam (1967)
Synopsis by Dan Pavlides Six directors combined efforts for this 1967 documentary, a searing anti-American indictment of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnes...
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Lynn Shelton – Humpday (2009)
College buddies Ben (Mark Duplass) and Andrew (Justin Leonard) are reunited in Seattle when the latter comes crashing into his pal’s marital bliss, in more ways than one. As a kind of bet – Andrew is...
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Kentucker Audley – Open Five (2010)
A blend of reality and fiction, “Open Five” follows the story of Jake, a struggling musician and his sidekick, Kentucker, a maker of “poor” films and what happens when two girls (Lucy and Rose)...
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Ry Russo-Young – You Won’t Miss Me (2009)
Synopsis A woman struggling with a number of emotional demons tries to make sense of her life in this independent drama from writer and director Ry Russo-Young. Shelly Brown (Stella Schnabel) is the...
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Orson Welles – The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice (1952)
Quote: Want to be daring? Try watching Othello without the sound. The assembly of magnificent compositions that Welles has put together for his Othello is nothing short of astounding. Welles finds...
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Bruce Conner – Cosmic Ray (1962)
Amos Vogel said about Cosmic Ray in Film as a Transgressive Art : Eight images per second flash by at the brink of retinal perception in this extraordinary pop art collage of a nude dancing girl...
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Jack Smith – Normal Love [Full Cut] (1963)
Quote: By 1965, Jack Smith was exhibiting versions of Normal Love, mixing his soundtracks live and often re-editing the film as it was being shown. After Smith’s death, Jerry Tartaglia prepared this...
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Zemlya AKA Earth (1930)
Quote: Dovzhenko was commissioned to make what was intended to be a minor propaganda film to encourage the establishment of farming collectives. Under Dovzhenko’s lyrical montage and photography what...
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