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Ming-liang Tsai – Jiao You AKA Stray Dogs [+Extra] (2013)
Synopsis: A single father makes his meager living holding up an advertising placard on a traffic island in the middle of a busy highway. His children wait out their days in supermarkets before they...
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Robert Dhery and Pierre Tchernia – La belle Americaine AKA The American...
Synopsis: ‘The life of an ordinary factory worker Marcel is completely transformed when he manages to acquire an expensive new American car, a Cadillac convertible, for the price of a second-hand...
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Sebastián Schindel – El patron, radiografia de un crimen AKA The Boss,...
A humble peon find a job in a big city butcher shop. His boss, a sinister character, introduces him to the meat business while subject him, by means of pressure and extortion to slavery. The boss...
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Edward Yang – Du li shi dai AKA A Confucian Confusion (1994)
Nominated for the Golden Palm in Cannes 1994. Quote: I’ve just seen a marvelous film. Edward Yang’s little-seen and under-distributed A Confucian Confusion is that screwball comedy I long to see that...
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Eric Rohmer – Bérénice (1954)
Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s...
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David Cronenberg – From The Drain (1967)
Quote: The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict but revealed that they are currently in a mental institution. The first man is paranoid...
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Kinji Fukasaku – Kuro bara no yakata AKA Black Rose Mansion (1969)
Synopsis: A feverishly perverse 1969 film noir oddity starring female impersonator Akihiro Maruyama. When wealthy Kyohei hires singer “Black Rose” to perform in his exclusive men’s club, he gets more...
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Antouanetta Angelidi – Oi ores: Mia tetragoni tainia AKA The Hours: A Square...
The painful passage from being imprisoned in the extortionate dilemmas of familial and sexual relationships to accepting a personal point of view. A narrative constructed on the associative structure...
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Carlos Saura – Peppermint Frappé (1967)
Synopsis: ‘Julian, a middle-aged single doctor, meets his childhood friend Pablo again. The latter is back from Africa and has just married a beautiful young blonde, Elena. Julian falls in love with...
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Kelly Reichardt – Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Synopsis (Sensesofcinema) Traversing the West in search of work in Alaska, Wendy (Michelle Williams) and her dog, Lucy, are separated when Wendy’s car breaks down in a nameless, borderline decrepit...
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Eric Rohmer – Le rayon vert (1986)
From Notebook Reviews: Crystallizing various facets of his Comédies et Proverbes cycle while radically departing from others, the diaristic 1986 beauty Le rayon vert is one of Éric Rohmer’s greatest...
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Naji Abu Nowar – Theeb (2014)
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Nassereddin Shah, Actor-e Cinema AKA Once Upon a Time,...
In this meditation on the history of cinema, contemporary scenes blend with clips from the silent era. A cinematographer (Mehdi Hashemi) consults with the shah of Iran (Ezzatollah Entezami) in an...
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Vittorio De Sica – Matrimonio all’italiana aka Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Synopsis : Sophia Loren stars in this comedy about a successful businessman (Marcello Mastroianni) who kept a woman as his mistress for several years and now plans to marry another woman until his...
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Mercedes Álvarez – Mercado de futuros (2011)
Quote: The abandonment and demolition of an old house, with all its furniture, its plentiful library and its full load of personal memories, becomes the starting point for this film, which tries to...
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Michele Lupo – Concerto per pistola solista aka The Weekend Murders (1970)
The atmosphere is ripe for murder at the estate of the recently dead Henry Carter. His heirs are a typically suspicious lot. There’s daughter Isabelle (Evelyn Stewart aka Ida Galli, CASE OF THE...
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Calum Waddell – 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most...
Quote: The story behind the rise and fall of New York`s 42nd Street. The cinemas, the films, the people, the crime and the rebirth of the block as “New 42nd Street“ – this is the document of the...
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Patrick Brice – The Overnight (2015)
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as...
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Carlos Saura – Stress-es tres-tres AKA Stress Is Three (1968)
Synopsis: ‘Fernando, with his wife and life-long friend, Antonio, set out on a weekend together. Fernando begins to suspect his wife and Antonio of being in love, and his jealousy grows as he observes...
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Kristin Thompson & David Bordwell – Film Art – An Introduction (8th ed) (2006)
Quote: To quote Martin Scorsese, “Cinema is a matter of what’s in the frame and what’s out.” David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson have turned Scorsese’s maxim into a career. The husband-wife team of...
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