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Hito Steyerl – November (2004)
Quote: My best friend when I was 17, was a girl called Andrea Wolf. She died in 1998, when she was shot as a Kurdish terrorist in Eastern Anatolia. There was a warrant out for her in Germany, as she...
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W.S. Van Dyke – I Love You Again (1940)
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson Those popular MGM co-stars William Powell and Myrna Loy take a break from their usual Thin Man duties to star in the zany comedy I Love You Again. The film opens with Loy...
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Zivko Nikolic – Bestije AKA Beasts (1977)
Synopsis: A Pasolini-esque mythical tale that is probably a metaphor for Serbian-Croatian Yugoslavia of old and its politics. On an island that floats, the leader is an old captain constantly awaiting...
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Manoel de Oliveira – Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo AKA Voyage to the Beginning...
Quote: One of the most beautiful films ever made about aging. Voyage To The Beginning Of The World brings together 90-year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira and Italian icon Marcello...
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Eric Rohmer – La collectionneuse aka The Collector[+Extra] (1967)
Synopsis A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the...
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Cyril Collard – Alger la blanche (1986)
Quote: The story of a passion between Jean and Farid, thwarted by uncomprehension, opposite cultures, and impossible departures. link Cyril Collard dedicated this movie to Maurice Pialat (he worked...
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Jules Dassin – Pote tin Kyriaki aka Never on Sunday (1960)
Illia is Piraeus’s most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an open house with food,...
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Bertrand Tavernier – L.627 (1992)
Quote: After recently watching Bertrand Tavernier’s “In the Electric Mist”, that film made me miss “L.627” all the more. While “In the Electric Mist” isn’t a complete failure, it’s mixture of Southern...
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Marie Rivière & Eric Rohmer – Le Canapé Rouge (2005)
Synopsis: How to stay at your lover’s side (who’s married to another woman) all day long without anyone noticing… Cast: Marie Rivière Charlotte Véry...
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Pierfrancesco Campanella – Bugie rosse aka The Final Scoop (1993)
Pierfrancesco Campanella’s first giallo (also his directorial debut). The plot is about a series of murders among homosexuals, but the erotic element is mostly represented in heterosexual couplings,...
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Alain Resnais – Aimer, boire et chanter AKA Life of Riley (2014)
Quote: In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live....
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Peter Chan – Tian mi mi (aka “Comrades, Almost a Love Story”) (1996)
Multi award-winning film, starring Maggie Cheung, Leon Lai and Eric Tsang. The film also features a role by renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle (who has shot many of Wong Karwai’s films, and...
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Robert Altman – The Player (1992)
The Player is a 1992 satirical film directed by Robert Altman from a screenplay by Michael Tolkin based on his own novel of the same name. It is the story of Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), a Hollywood...
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David Gregory – Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of...
Synopsis Behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous 1996 remake of The Island...
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David Cronenberg – Crimes of the Future (1970)
Quote: A journalist, intriguingly named Adrian Tripod, investigates the deaths of nearly all adult women on Earth … Tripod discovers the deaths may be caused by poisonous cosmetics manufactured by a...
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Noboru Tanaka – Hard scandal: sei no hyoryu-sha AKA Hard Scandal – Sex...
Synopsis: Junior High School Student Yudo spends his nights hanging out at the disco; his parents are more interested in dealing with their swapping partners than taking care of their son. One...
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Claudio Guerín & Juan Antonio Bardem – La campana del infierno AKA A Bell...
A young man is released from an asylum and returns home for revenge on his aunt and her three daughters, who had him declared insane in order to steal his inheritance....
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John Ford – The Quiet Man (1952)
The Quiet Man is a 1952 American Technicolor romantic comedy-drama film. It was directed by John Ford and starred John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, Victor McLaglen and Barry Fitzgerald. It was based on a...
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Giuliano Carnimeo – Perché quelle strane gocce di sangue sul corpo di...
(May contain spoilers) An attractive young woman is slashed to death in the lift of an apartment block. An exotic dancer, Mizar, discovers the body and is soon a victim herself (she is tied up and...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Varjoja paratiisissa aka Shadows In Paradise (1986)
Shadows in Paradise (Finnish: Varjoja paratiisissa) is a 1986 Finnish art house comedy-drama film written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki. The film stars Kati Outinen as Ilona and Matti Pellonpää as...
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