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Don Askarian – Komitas (1989)
The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental...
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Peter Strickland – The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Synopsis: A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover. Quote: “This is voyeurism of a brilliant, deeply refined order. If the MPAA had a shot at...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Ordet AKA The Word [+extra] (1955)
Plot: A farmer’s family is torn apart by faith, sanctity, and love—one child believes he’s Jesus Christ, a second proclaims himself agnostic, and the third falls in love with a fundamentalist’s...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Hei yan quan aka I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (2006)
Plot Synopsis by Jason Buchanan (allmovie.com) A homeless Chinese itinerant is attacked by thugs in Kuala Lampur, only to fall in with a group of kind but curious Bangladeshi men and other fascinating...
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Jennie Livingston – Paris Is Burning (1990)
Documentary about the Harlem drag balls thrown by predominantly inner city black and Latino gay men in the mid-1980s. The film features footage of the actual “drag” pageants, as well … Full...
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Hilla Medalia – The Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films (2014)
The Inside Story of Cannon Films is a documentary about two Israeli-born cousins, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, who in pursuit of the American Dream turned the Hollywood power structure upside down,...
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Orlando von Einsiedel – Virunga (2014)
Synopsis: A group of brave individuals risk their lives to save the last of the world’s mountain gorillas; in the midst of renewed civil war and a scramble for Congo’s natural resources. Quote:...
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Domingo Solano – Africa, Religion and Women (2015)
Ethiopia is a Christian island surrounded by Muslim countries and Harar is other island within that island: a difficult city for sorting, the fourth holiest city of Islam with almost a hundred mosques...
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Vicente Aranda – Canciones de amor en Lolita’s Club (2007)
Plot : Canciones de amor en Lolita’s Club (2007) is an erotic thriller, in which sex and brutality are mixed in a story of twin brothers, one a violent police officer the other mentally challenged,...
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Hans Petter Moland – Kraftidioten AKA In Order of Disappearance (2014)
Nils snow ploughs the wild winter mountains of Norway, and is recently awarded Citizen of the Year. When his son is murdered for something he did not do, Nils wants revenge. And justice. His actions...
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Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi – The New York Review of Books: A 50 Year...
The 50 Year Argument is Martin Scorsese’s latest film, co-directed with his longtime documentary collaborator David Tedeschi. It charts literary, political and cultural history as per the New York...
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Patricio Guzmán – The Battle of Chile (1): The Insurrection of the...
Synopsis of Part 1: THE BATTLE OF CHILE: The Insurrection of the Bourgeoisie (1975) examines the escalation of rightist opposition following the left’s unexpected victory in Congressional elections...
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Patricio Guzmán – The Battle of Chile (2): The Coup d’Etat (1976)
Synopsis of Part 2: THE BATTLE OF CHILE (2): The Coup d’Etat (1976) opens with the attempted military coup of June, 1973 which is put down by troops loyal to the government. It serves as a useful dry...
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Patricio Guzmán – The Battle of Chile (3): The Power of the People (1978)
Synopsis of Part 3: THE BATTLE OF CHILE (3): The Power of the People (1978) deals with the creation by ordinary workers and peasants of thousands of local groups of “popular power” to distribute food,...
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Patricio Guzmán – Chile, la memoria obstinada AKA Chile, the Obstinate Memory...
(Chicago reader capsule ) : “Released in three parts, Patricio Guzman’s epic documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-’79) captured such critical events as the bombing of the presidential palace during...
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Peter Greenaway – The Pillow Book (1996)
Review Nagiko’s father was a calligrapher, and when she was a little girl he would write his birthday greetings on her face. Her mother would read aloud from a 1,000-year-old manuscript, (italics) The...
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Antonio Naharro &Álvaro Pastor – Yo, también aka Me Too (2009)
Quote: Thirty-four-year-old Daniel is the first European with Down syndrome to have graduated from university. He starts a social services job in Seville, where he meets free-spirited co-worker Laura....
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Lav Diaz – Mula sa kung ano ang noon AKA From What Is Before (2014)
Synopsis: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and...
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Yevgeni Bauer – Umirayushchii Lebed aka The Dying Swan (1917)
Mike Pinsky, DVDVerdict wrote: Russian film poet Evgeni Bauer combined the technical virtuosity of D.W. Griffith with the haunting terror of Edgar Allan Poe and the artist’s eye of Johannes Vermeer....
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Jacques Richard – Le Fantôme d’Henri Langlois AKA Henri Langlois: The Phantom...
“For the first decades of their existence, movies were seen not as works of art deserving preservation but as disposable commodities. The notion that they might be preserved, collected and studied was...
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