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Grzegorz Królikiewicz – Na wylot AKA Through and Through (1973)
Quote: “Through and Through” is a legendary feature focusing on radicalization of cinematic language. The film transgresses traditional methods of narrative construction, which is characteristic of...
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Doris Wishman – Diary of a Nudist (1961)
From Imdb: Quite honestly, this film is crap. It’s laughably written, woodenly acted, badly filmed and dubbed, and contains only a wisp of a plot. It’s also pretty boring. And yet, I couldn’t look...
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Jean Cocteau – Le testament d’Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! AKA...
Synopsis “Criterion” wrote: In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious...
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Jamil Dehlavi – Immaculate Conception (1992)
Immaculate Conception is the story of a young western couple, Jewish-American Hannah and British Alistair who are living in Karachi and desperate for a child. They visit the eunuch shrine of Gulab...
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Robin Spry – Prologue (1970)
One critic described this film as an “immensely appealing and articulate exploration of the world of the drop-out, which makes almost everything else in the recent spate of films about hippydom seem...
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Christian Marquand – Candy (1968)
Candy is a 1968 sex farce film directed by Christian Marquand based on the 1958 novel by Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, from a screenplay by Buck Henry. The film satirizes pornographic stories...
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Yves Yersin – Les Petites Fugues aka Little Escapes (1979)
Synopsis Pipe (Michel Robin) has worked on the same farm for forty of his 66 years of living. Now he is in his “salad” years, and in retirement is free to explore the world in ways he never did...
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Alexandre Volkoff – Kean (141-minute version) (1924)
Quote: This is a biopic of the 19th Century actor, Edmund Kean. You may remember him for his famous last words: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.” Made some 90 years after his death, the film tells of...
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Robert Vas – Refuge England (1959)
The films follows a Hungarian refugee arriving in London, speaking no English and with little money… IMDB: Hungarian refugee Tibor Molnar has arrived in England, picking London as his new place of...
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Thomas Ciulei – Gratian (1994)
The people in Izbuc, a village in the Romanian Carpathian mountains, think thast their fellow villager Gratian Florea is a werewolf. According to an old custom, when a child is born, the midwifes call...
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Sun-Woo Jang – Nappun yeonghwa aka Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie (1997)
A semi-documentary concerning the violent lives of delinquent teenagers in Seoul, Bad Movie (나쁜 영화 – Nappeun yeonghwa) aka Timeless, Bottomless Bad Movie is an award-winning 1997 South Korean film...
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Joe Massot – Wonderwall (1968)
Quote: An eccentric, lovable scientist falls in love with the girl next door – in an unusual way. Set in 1960’s London (aka Swinging London), WONDERWALL tells the story of a reclusive professor who...
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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – Black Narcissus (1947)
Plot: (Gary W. Tooze wrote) “five Protestant missionary nuns embark on the task of establishing a school/health center and residence for their future convent in the desolate Himalayan mountains. The...
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Peter Yates – The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Quote: Throughout Peter Yates’ masterful The Friends of Eddie Coyle, crooks, thieves and the occasional police officer use terms of complacent endearment — friend, nice guy, good man — but the words...
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Yuri Ilyenko – Bilyy ptakh z chornoyu vidznakoyu AKA The White Bird Marked...
Quote: Colourful ‘optimistic tragedy’ of a poor family in Ukraine, living in the Carpathian mountains near the Romanian border, during the Second World War. Five sons of the family make up the village...
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Werner Herzog – Auch Zwerge haben klein angefangen AKA Even Dwarfs Started...
Synopsis: The inhabitants of an institution in a remote country rebel against their keepers. Their acts of rebellion are by turns humorous, boring and alarming. An allegory on the problematic nature...
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Aleksandr Medvedkin – Noch Nad Kitaem AKA Night Over China (1971)
Description: Soviet documentary “defending the Chinese people from their enemies, the Maoists”. NB: The film clearly documents the activities of the Red Guards although it never mentions them by name....
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Nanni Moretti – Mia madre AKA My Mother (2015)
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother....
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Luciano Emmer – Parole dipinte. Il cinema sull’arte di Luciano Emmer...
The art film by Luciano Emmer: the camera explores the figurative worlds of Giotto, Bosch, Carpaccio, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Picasso. First edition on DVD of a valuable asset for art history and...
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Gregg Araki – Three Bewildered People in the Night (1987)
AllMovie Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson The titular trio in Three Bewildered People in the Night is played by Darcy Marta, Mark Howell and John Lacques. Experimental filmmaker Gregg Araki follows the...
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