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John Korty – The People (1972)
Shy, introverted eager-beaver young school teacher Melodye Amerson (sweetly played by the adorable Kim Darby of Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark fame) takes a job at a remote, quiet rural farming community...
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Aleksandr Zarkhi – Dvadtsat shest dney iz zhizni Dostoevskogo AKA 26 Days in...
Twenty-Six Days in the Life of Dostoyevsky was entered on February 16th at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Dostoyevsky’s death on February 9th, 1881, and won a...
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Luigi Scattini – Il corpo (1974)
Plot : Director Luigi Scattini had previously worked with the beautiful model-turned-actress Zeudi Araya in “The Sinner” (1972) and in a previous film that I have not had the pleasure of viewing. Even...
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Ruben Östlund – De Ofrivilliga aka Involuntary (2008)
Synopsis wrote: It’s almost summer in Sweden and minor indiscretions and misbehavior abound. Leffe likes to show off for his friends and play salacious pranks, especially when he’s drinking....
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Nikos Panayotopoulos – Melodrama? (1980)
Synopsis A 30-year-old man (Lefteris Vogiatzis) returns from America suffering an existential crisis. He goes to Corfu to see his sick mother and tries to find happiness through a desperate love...
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Nobuhiro Yamashita – Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Story: A music group of girls need to learn to play a song before the school festival. Quote: What distinguishes Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda from the crowd is a refreshing modesty. Rather...
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René Cardona Jr. – Cyclone (1978)
What starts out as a beautiful peaceful afternoon in the Caribbean quickly turns ugly when a Cyclone takes down a Jet plane killing most of its passengers. Out at sea about the same time is a group of...
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Aleksandr Medvedkin – Schastye aka Happiness [+Extras] (1932)
Aleksandr Medvedkin’s Happiness, as rowdy as any Soviet silent movie, is a comic parable composed of equal parts of Tex Avery and Luis Buñuel. It satirizes the plight of a Soviet farmer who finds...
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Tinto Brass – Nerosubianco AKA Black on White (1968)
IMDB: Before directing “Salon Kitty” and moving into the erotic style of film making that he is more known for director Tinto Brass made a series of movies that can only be called “pop art” (these...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Vrai faux passeport (2006)
Vrai faux passeport was produced by Godard as part of the Pompidou Center retrospective and the Voyages en Utopie exhibition held in Paris in 2006. The film opened the film retrospective -one of the...
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Eric Rohmer – Le signe du lion AKA The Sign of Leo (1959)
Le Signe du lion (The Sign of Leo) is a 1959 French film directed by Éric Rohmer, his feature debut. Along with Le Beau Serge, directed by Claude Chabrol (who produced The Sign of Leo), it was one of...
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Billy Wilder – Double Indemnity (1944)
In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to...
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Ricardo Silva – Navajazo (2014)
The imagined apocalypse presented to us through portraits of characters struggling to survive in a hostile environment, where all they have is each other, and the only thing they posses in common is...
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Louis Malle – Le souffle au coeur AKA Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Synopsis: Laurent Chevalier, a 14-year-old boy, saw his mother as the closest friend. The two of them went to a mountain resort. Clara Chevalier flirted with one of the hotel guests, her son met girls...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Tôkyô sensô sengo hiwa AKA The Man Who Left His Will on Film...
Quote: Aesthetic and political rebel, Oshima is one of the most original directors now working in Japan. This is a metaphysical tale of a radical student filmmaker who succumbs to the illusion that he...
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Thom Andersen & Noël Burch – Red Hollywood (1996)
Thom Andersen and Noël Burch’s provocative documentary looks with fresh eyes at “Red” Hollywood—films by screenwriters and directors who were communists, ex-communists, or sympathizers and who were in...
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Ester Martin Bergsmark – Pojktanten AKA She Male Snails (2012)
In She Male Snails intimate bathtub conversation between Ester Martin Bergsmark and the author Eli Levén, is woven together the story of the She Male Snails – a fairy tale, which revolves around a...
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Tinto Brass – Action (1980)
Description: Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a...
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Jean Renoir – Une partie de campagne AKA A Day in the Country (1936)
Quote: This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Tráiler para amantes de lo prohibido (1985)
Synopsis: A Woman abadoned by the husband, suffer and pass for differents adventures until she finds the love. The film was never shoted in cinemas, only in TV -1985...
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