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Alain Cavalier – Le paradis (2014)
The experience of living through two periods of depression and the quiet expectation of a third has endowed a filmmaker with the capacity to perceive the true beauty of life and to capture it on film....
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Albert Maysles – Iris (2014)
“IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion...
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Robert Mullan – We Will Sing aka Mes Dainuosime (2015)
A group of people -students, an elderly couple, a violinist searching for her husband (taken by the KGB), anxious parents, a priest and others- find themselves in the same place, on the evening of...
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Ira Cohen – The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda [+Extras] (1968)
Quote: J. Hoberman in the Mar. 16, 2006 Village Voice: “Part ‘Dr. Strange,’ part ‘Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome,’ [‘The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda’ is] so High ’60s that you emerge from its...
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Ingmar Bergman – Aus dem Leben der Marionetten AKA From the Life of the...
From “Wiki” From the Life of the Marionettes (German: Aus dem Leben der Marionetten) is a 1980 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film was produced in West Germany with a German language screenplay...
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François Truffaut – La femme d’à côté AKA The Woman Next Door (1981)
Quote: MUCH in the way that a writer of precise, clean, seemingly effortlessly flowing prose can capture one’s attention in an opening paragraph of essential but banal information, Francois Truffaut...
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Aco Petrovski – Dervishi (1955)
Movie from 1955, in duration of 11 minutes. The movie is created in standard technique, with sound, in black and white Content: The film describes the religious rites of the dervishes, from the Moslem...
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Joan Wilson – How To Remain Single (2015)
Quote: A simple guide on how to end relationships before they begin. http://keep2s.cc/file/9445df12bce79/How_To_Remain_Single.mkv...
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Calum Waddell – Parasite Memories: The Making of ‘Shivers’ (2014)
Quote: Barbara Steele and others share anecdotes including how Cronenberg slapped an actress (at her own request) to help her cry, how makeup artist Joe Blasco invented the bladder effect and what...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Ariel (1988)
From Eye For Film: Aki Kaurismäki’s first feature, Crime And Punishment (1983), updated and transplanted Dostoyevsky’s novel to present day Finland. Since then, the deadpan auteur has written,...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre – Le train AKA The Last Train (1973)
Synopsis: May 1940. Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. In France, Julien, a radio repairman, boards a train with his wife and child. As the men are placed in...
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Lars von Trier – Dogville (2003)
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been...
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Joseph Pevney – It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
from TCM: One morning in New York City, newspaper reporter Bob MacAvoy finishes his nighttime shift and stumbles into bed just as his very pregnant wife Jane rises. Jane cares for their young son...
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Stanley Kwan – Hong meigui, bai meigui aka Red Rose, White Rose (1994)
Plot Synopsis This sensitive Asian melodrama chronicles the two major loves in the life of a man who cannot change. The story is divided into two parts; each part focused upon one woman. The story...
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Sam Peckinpah – Straw Dogs [+Extras] (1971)
Synopsis: Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David...
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Anthony Mann – The Great Flamarion (1945)
Synopsis (All Movie Guide) — This ambitious independent production was packaged by producer W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder, and distributed by Republic. The title character, played with relish...
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Aryan Kaganof – Shabondama Elegy AKA Tokyo Elegy (1999)
Synopsis: Virtuoso application of digital techniques in a feature combining the genres of film noir, art film and porn. Man condemned to death and on the run (Thom Hoffman) has a last intense sexual...
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Jonas Mekas – Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
Lost Lost Lost Walden may have been Mekas’ first diary film, but the film that incorporated Mekas’ earliest footage was the one that told the story of his postwar arrival in America, Lost Lost Lost....
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Tomu Uchida – Kiga kaikyo aka The Straight of Hunger (1965)
IMDb user chaosrampant wrote: We’re beating a dead horse if we begin to lament another lost treasure, another overlooked Japanese director who’s yet to receive his dues. Uchida will have to queue up...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Mutter Kusters’ Fahrt zum Himmel aka Mother...
Mother Küsters’ Trip to Heaven (German: Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel) is a 1975 German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm...
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