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Harun Farocki – Parallel 2 – 4 (2014)
The four‐part cycle Parallel deals with the image genre of computer animation. The series focuses on the construction, visual landscape and inherent rules of computer-animated worlds. Quote: Cinema’s...
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Régis Wargnier – Le temps des aveux AKA The Gate (2014)
Synopsis Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against...
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Jeff Frost – Circle of Abstract Ritual (2014)
Quote: This film took 300,000 photos, riots, wildfires, paintings in abandoned houses, two years and zero graphics to make. It changed my entire life. Quote: Circle of Abstract Ritual began as an...
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Carlos Lascano – Lila (2014)
Quote: Lila is a dreamy girl who can’t resign to accept reality as flat as she perceives it, hence she uses her imagination and her skills to modify it....
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Sacha Guitry – Le Roman d’un Tricheur AKA Confessions of a Cheat (1936)
Synopsis The story of the cheat begins and ends with personal misfortune. When he was a young boy, our hero was caught stealing money from the family shop. As a punishment, he was not allowed to join...
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Kenneth Glenaan – Summer (2008)
Quote: Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is their friendship and for Shaun his first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is...
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Stan Brakhage – Dog Star Man (1962-1964)
Quote: Finally reunited, Stan Brakhage’s masterpiece Dog Star Man is an experimental movie without sound. A creation myth realized in light, patterns, images superimposed, rapid cutting, and silence....
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Stanley Kubrick – Day of the Fight (1951)
Based on Kubrick’s pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled “Prizefighter,” “Day Of The Fight” tells of a day in the life of a middleweight Irish boxer named Walter Cartier,...
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Jacques Rivette – Duelle (une quarantaine) AKA Twilight (A Quarantine) (1976)
It all began (as things Rivettian tend to do) auspiciously enough. There were to be four films in a series originally entitled Les Filles du Feu (after Gerard de Nerval) before the more expansive...
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Stan Brakhage – by Brakhage: an anthology (1954 – 2001)
Working completely outside the mainstream, Stan Brakhage has made nearly 400 films over the past half century. Challenging all taboos in his exploration of “birth, sex, death, and the search for God,”...
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Pil-Sung Yim – Hansel & Gretel (2007)
A reckless youngster Eun-soo drives to his mother’s and has a car accident. When Eun-soo wakes up, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale-like house in the middle of the forest. There,...
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Vittorio De Sica – Teresa Venerdì (1941)
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com Doctor Beware was the U.S.-released title of Vittorio DeSica’s 1941 effort Teresa Venerdi. DeSica not only directed, but played the leading role of orphanage official...
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Alfred L. Werker – A-Haunting We Will Go (1942)
Plot: The boys are recruited by a gang of thugs to get a coffin containing one of their far from dead colleagues to Dayton to try and get at an inheritance. After the coffin gets switched with the one...
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Sophie Fiennes – Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (2012)
Short Synopsis The makers of THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO CINEMA return with THE PERVERT’S GUIDE TO IDEOLOGY. Philosopher Slavoj Zizek and filmmaker Sophie Fiennes use their interpretation of moving...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Tanin no kao AKA The Face of Another (1966)
Acquarello @ Strictly Film School wrote: An off-camera psychiatrist (Mikijiro Hira) overseeing a processed batch of prosthetic appendages describes his fragile role of diplomatically treating – not a...
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Gustav Wiklund – Exponerad aka Exposed aka The Depraved (1971)
Quote: With periodic flashbacks and fantasy sequences, Exposed, in terms of its narrative structure at least, is a bit more complicated than your average sexploitation picture. While on the surface...
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Jesus Franco – Eugenie AKA Eugenie Sex Happening (1974)
the IMDB wrote: Eugenie, a beautiful but shy young girl, lives with her stepfather, a famous writer specializing in stories of erotica. One day she happens to read one of his “erotic” books and its...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Pociag AKA Night Train (1959)
Quote: Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. While...
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Arthur Maria Rabenalt – Martina (1949)
Synopsis: The young Martina gets towards the end of the war of World War II to a pimp and so she goes first to the juvenile court and then in the care. Here she meets her older sister Irene, who...
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Charles Burnett – Killer of Sheep [+Extra] (1979)
The first feature film from acclaimed independent African American filmmaker Charles Burnett, this intensely emotional drama concerns a man who makes his living at a slaughterhouse as he struggles for...
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