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Stavros Tornes – Addio Anatolia (1976)
Synopsis : Stavros Tornes’ first non-fiction short combines a beautifully poetic text with a series of tracking shots in the streets of Rome, set to music by Charlotte Van Gelder. Somewhere between...
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F.W. Murnau – Der Letzte Mann AKA The Last Laugh (1924)
Jannings’ character, the doorman for a famous hotel, is demoted to washroom (bathroom) attendant, as he is considered too old and infirm to be the image of the hotel. He tries to conceal his demotion...
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Dudley Nichols – Government Girl (1943)
Plot: Washington DC in the war. The machinery of government is a hive of endless if not seamless activity. Arnament production is the name of the game, by fair means or foul. Ed Browne, more used to...
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Sang-soo Hong – Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa AKA Oki’s Movie (2010)
Synopsis “NYFF” wrote: NYFF perennial Hong Sang-soo’s latest may be his wittiest—and his most deeply felt—work to date. Toggling between the present and the past, reality and fiction, and divided into...
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Nicholas Triandafyllidis – Oi aisthimaties AKA The Sentimentalists (2014)
Synopsis An aged, prosperous and above any suspicion, bourgeois by the nickname ‘The Master’, lives isolated in a luxurious beachfront villa with his teenage daughter who he has kept well protected...
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Richard Myers – 37-73 (1974)
“I think 37-73 is an extraordinary work, and the best of [Myers’] long films. I am astonished by his skill in image making, and his power to evoke the crazy pain of being an artist. It is a haunting...
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Ming Zhang – Jieguo AKA Before Born (2006)
From wikipedia : Before Born (simplified Chinese: 结果; traditional Chinese: 結; pinyin: jiégǔo) is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Zhang Ming. Only Zhang’s third film in a decade, Before Born is a...
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Werner Herzog – Herz aus Glas AKA Heart of Glass (1976)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson Heart of Glass (Herz aus Glas) is essentially a treatise by Werner Herzog on the power and importance of art. Director Herzog was known to put his actors through the wringer...
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William A. Graham – Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980)
This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious “colony” of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader...
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Oliver Haffner – Ein Geschenk der Götter AKA A Godsend (2014)
Out of the blue Anna, an actress at a provincial community theater, gets fired. Fresh off the stage, she suddenly finds herself at the local job center. On the urging of her theater-mad case worker,...
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Melisa Önel – Kumun Tadi AKA Seaburners (2014)
A harsh wintery scene on the Turkish Black Sea coast. Denise, a foreign botanist, has ended up here for research purposes. She stoically trudges through water knee-deep to get to the remote site where...
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Amleto Palermi – Cavalleria rusticana (1939)
PLOT & Review: (Contains some spoilers) Quote: This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It’s...
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Lone Scherfig – Italiensk For Begyndere aka Italian for Beginners (2000)
Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner’s course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives....
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Menahem Golan – The Apple (1980)
Review This 1980 attempt to cut in on the “midnight movie” market created by The Rocky Horror Picture Show has become a camp classic for all the wrong reasons. The Apple is fascinating because it...
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Zdenek Viktora – Raluca (2014)
Former cop Filip Marold (Jan Dolanský) doesn’t want to be reminded of some things from his past. But others remind him… He works as a private detective, sleeps with his secretary and spies on people...
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Stephan Geene – Umsonst AKA For Nothing (2014)
Unannounced, Aziza is once again standing in her room – internship, Portugal, everything canceled. But her room is occupied. Her mother, Trixi, has rented it out. Zach lives there now, a...
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Annette K. Olesen – Forbrydelser AKA In Your Hands (2004)
Anna (Ann Eleonora Jørgensen) is a newly graduated theologian who has given up trying to have a baby with her husband Frank (Lars Ranthe). After accepting a temporary post as chaplain in a women’s...
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Georgi Daneliya – Mimino (1977)
Description: (using google translate from russian) Friends name Valiko Mizandari “Mimino” which is translated from the Georgian means “falcon”. Working in his native mountain village, a helicopter...
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Amr Salama – Lamoakhza AKA Excuse My French (2014)
A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he’s a Muslim....
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Derek Jarman – A Journey to Avebury (1971)
Journey to Avebury beautifully reflects Derek Jarman’s fascination with ancient history, paganism, and Celtic traditions. An IMDB review: Derek Jarman is often said to be a painter rather than a movie...
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