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Mark Rappaport – Our Stars (2015)
Stars of the 1940s and 1950s, were they cast for their mutual affinities or for their commercial appeal? If and when they were re-starred years later, did the magic still work? Did sparks still fly?...
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Nancy Savoca – True Love (1989)
Synopsis: Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears...
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Nino Oxilia – Rapsodia satanica aka Satan’s Rhapsody (1915)
Quote: Rapsodia Satanica (1915) was the last film directed by Nino Oxilia and is undoubtedly one of the finest achievements of the early Italian cinema. In it, Oxilia spins a variation on the Faust...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Sud pralad AKA Tropical Malady (2004)
Plot — The story of a blossoming romance between a soldier and a country boy, crossed with a Thai folk legend about a shaman with shapeshifting abilities. Review — Love is the drug, a game for two...
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Kirby Dick – This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006)
Synopisis from RopeofSilicon.com IFC Original Documentary This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the breakthrough film from Oscar-nominated director Kirby Dick (Twist of Faith) is an unprecedented investigation...
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Serge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime moi non plus AKA I Love You, I Don’t (1976)
IMDB: The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she’s lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns...
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Claire Denis – Beau Travail AKA Good Work (1999)
Synopsis This film focuses on ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but...
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John Boorman – Hell in the Pacific (1968)
A shot-down American pilot finds his way to a small, unpopulated island where he hopes to find provisions. He soon discovers that he is not alone; there is a Japanese officer marooned on the island...
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T. Minh-ha Trinh – Reassemblage (1983)
From Allmovie: Director Trinh T. Minh-ha’s first film is an ethnographic portrait of rural Senegalese women, but its provocative editing and self-conscious narration question the very activities of...
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Hsiao-hsien Hou – Qian Xi Man Po AKA Millenium Mambo (2001)
Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Prix Technique at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao Hsien’s MILLENNIUM MAMBO is a strikingly beautiful film set in Taipei’s hot nightclub scene. The remarkable Shu...
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Jacques Doillon – Ponette (1996)
An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother’s death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her...
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Servando González – El escapulario AKA The Scapular (1968)
Synopsis: A woman who is about to die calls the town’s priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead. In the times...
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Vicente Aranda – Celos AKA Jealousy (1999)
Quote: A month before he’s to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman’s friend Cinta, and his...
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Gia Coppola – Palo Alto (2013)
Quote: Palo Alto is a 2013 American drama film based on James Franco’s short story collection Palo Alto (2010). Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter Gia Coppola directed the film and wrote the...
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Lindsay Anderson – If…. (1968)
“A modern classic in which Anderson minutely captures both the particular ethos of a public school and the general flavour of any structured community, thus achieving a clear allegorical force without...
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Edgar G. Ulmer – Detour (1945)
Review “Detour” is a movie so filled with imperfections that it would not earn the director a passing grade in film school. This movie from Hollywood’s poverty row, shot in six days, filled with...
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Claude Chabrol – Les cousins (1959)
In Les cousins, Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a...
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Ken Jacobs – Canopy (2014)
Quote: Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round. In his most recent stroboscopic work, Canopy, Ken...
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Jacques Rivette – Céline et Julie vont en bateau aka Celine and Julie Go...
Quote: Jacques Rivette continues with his improvisatory tactics, allowing lead players to invent quite freely and also collab on the script. He mixes a modernized takeoff on Alice in Wonderland and a...
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Bob Kelljan – Black Oak Conspiracy (1977)
Quote: Black Oak Conspiracy stars Jesse Vint (Forbidden World) as Jingo Johnson, a struggling Hollywood stunt man who comes back home after hearing his mother is sick. He is greeted by his friend...
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