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Jordan Belson – Allures (1961)
Originally a widely-exhibited painter, Jordan Belson turned to filmmaking in 1947 with crude animations drawn on cards, which he subsequently destroyed. He returned to painting for four years and in...
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Michael Winterbottom – The Emperor’s New Clothes (2015)
The Emperor’s New Clothes – a film by Michael Winterbottom with Russell Brand Milton Friedman once said that every crisis was an opportunity. The financial crisis of 2008 should have been a chance to...
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Georgi Daneliya – Afonya (1976)
Quote: The 1975 film by Georgi Daneliya “Afonya” was an unexpected commercial hit in USSR. The main character Borshev A.N. is a locksmith who spends his free time, as well as working hours, drinking...
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Marlen Khutsiyev & Feliks Mironer – Vesna na Zarechnoy ulitse AKA Spring on...
A young school teacher Tanya works at a night school for working people. But it’s uneasy to get used to grown-up men, their constant attempts at flirting, their sometimes too manly jokes and comments....
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Juan Taratuto – Papeles en el viento AKA Papers in the Wind (2015)
When Alejandro “Mono” dies, his brother and two closest friends, a tight-knit group since childhood, are left to figure out how to take care of his young daughter, Guadalupe. They want to give her all...
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Brett Morgen – Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)
The documentary is directed by Brett Morgen who began work on it in 2007 when Cobain’s widow, Courtney Love, approached him with the idea,] It is the first documentary about Kurt Cobain to be made...
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Liv Ullmann – Miss Julie (2014)
August Strindberg felt that the entire world had gone crazy. The “norms” of class hierarchies and gender roles were starting to shatter, and he saw chaos pouring into that vacuum. His 1888 play “Miss...
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George C. Stoney – All My Babies (1952)
Quote: One of the first and most important films to treat child birth as a human event and to show it fully. This documentary of a compassionate Black midwife at work in the deep South remained...
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Oleg Frelikh – Prostitutka aka Prostitute (1927)
From Imdb: Prostitution, Statistics And Harangues, 13 November 2009 5/10 Author: FerdinandVonGalitzien “Prostitutka” (1927) is a Bolshevist silent rarity, unusual because of its subject matter, that...
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George Huang – Swimming with Sharks (1994)
from IMDB- “A young Hollywood executive becomes the assistant to a big time movie producer who is the worst boss imaginable: abusive, abrasive and cruel. But soon things turn around when the young...
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Werner Herzog – Fata Morgana (1971)
Info from wiki, Fata Morgana is a film by Werner Herzog, shot in 1969, which captures mirages in the desert. Herzog describes the film as “a documentary shot by extraterrestrials from the Andromeda...
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Pantelis Voulgaris – Nyfes aka Brides (2004)
Summer of 1922. Photographer Norman Harris and Niki are sailing to America aboard the same ship. Norman in first class and Niki in third, together with some 700 other brides. They all carry the...
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Gillian Robespierre – Obvious Child (2014)
quote: Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child managed two great feats in one film: it announced Jenny Slate as a strong actor to watch and, more importantly, turned in a great romantic dramedy...
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Alejandro Fernández Almendras – Matar a un hombre AKA To Kill A Man (2014)
A working class man who, tired of being the victim of criminals, decides to take justice in his own hands. http://www.nitroflare.com/view/FA24213201B33A1/Matar_a_un_hombre_2014.mkv...
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Sophie Fillières – Arrête ou je continue (2014)
Their grown-up son has left home, the draw in her office desk is full of ants, and her husband runs off after the bus leaving her standing on the street. Pomme’s life has become a series of...
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Raoul Ruiz – Treasure Island (1985)
Review from The cinema of Raul Ruiz – Martin, Adrian – Australian Film Institute – 1993 – 10 pages – – bookle Ruiz harboured for many years the dream of filming one of the novels of Robert Louis...
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Mikhail Romm – Obyknovennyy fashizm AKA A Night of Thoughts AKA Triumph Over...
Synopsis: A collage of documentary and chronicle footage from various German and Soviet archives, attempting to reconstruct the experience of the citizens of the Third Reich and to grasp the essence...
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Andy Warhol – Lonesome Cowboys (1968)
An outrageously funny spoof on the Western film, Lonesome Cowboys is a synthesis of Warhol’s sorties into the New York underworld, but much more humorous and with closer adherence to a nonsensical...
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Georgi Daneliya – Osenniy marafon AKA Autumn Marathon (1979)
Synopsis: A gentle, bittersweet tragicomedy, Autumn Marathon is about a middle-aged translator, Andrei Buzykin (Oleg Basilashvili), whose almost pathological niceness has trapped him in a seemingly...
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Menahem Golan – Mivtsa Yonatan aka Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt (1977)
Plot Outline : In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand...
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