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Catherine Binet – Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz (1981)
Plot In Paris, a young woman, Louise Haines Pearson, visits her disturbed friend Nena who tells her that she has just written a book on the history of a little girl troubled by her senses, perhaps...
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Paul Newman – Rachel, Rachel (1968)
Paul Newman made his directorial debut and Newman’s wife, Joanne Woodward, stars as Rachel Cameron, a 35-year-old unmarried schoolteacher who feels as though she’s wasted her life. Rachel’s best...
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Billy Wilder – Fedora (1978)
Synopsis: ‘The former successful and famous Polish actress Fedora commits suicide at the Mortcerf Station, jumping off in front of a train. The broken Hollywood producer Barry ‘Dutch’ Detweiler...
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Carlo Lizzani – Esterina (1959)
Plot Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing...
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Robert Altman – The Company [+Extras] (2003)
From wiki: The Company is composed of stories gathered from the actual dancers, choreographers, and office staff of the Joffrey Ballet. Most of the roles are played by real-life company members. While...
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Wolfgang Liebeneiner – Liebe ’47 (1949)
from German Postwar Films: Life and Love in the Ruins by Wilfried Wilms & William Rasch Quote: (…) By the time Liebeneiner’s film appeared in theaters, the genre of the “returnee film”...
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Kenji Mizoguchi – Meito bijomaru AKA The Famous Sword Bijomaru (1945)
Synopsis: synopsis Kiyone Sakurai, an apprentice swordmaker makes a sword for his guardian, Kozaemon Onoda. Onoda breaks the sword while defending his lord which eventually leads to his death at the...
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Steven de Jong – Stuk! (2014)
Quote: Elizabeth, a voluptuous, shy and unpopular girl, is the object of ridicule at school by the cool in-crowd. Her life spirals downward after the death of her only friend, her grandmother. But she...
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Mario Martone – Noi credevamo AKA We Believed (2010)
In the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign of the 1828 uprisings, three Southern Italian young people whose families are involved decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini’s Young Italy...
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Eric Rohmer – Ma nuit chez Maud AKA My Night at Maud’s (1969)
Synopsis: The “my” in My Night At Maud’s belongs to the protagonist played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, a Catholic engineer whose struggle with his faith is renewed when he falls instantly in love with...
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Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Liebe ist kälter als der Tod AKA Love Is Colder...
Quote: Love is Colder Than Death was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first feature-length film (he had directed two shorts three years earlier: The Little Tramp and The Little Chaos), the story of a...
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Claude Lelouch – Un homme et une femme AKA A Man and a Woman (1966)
Quote: A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens’ boarding school. Slowly they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow/widower. Each is slow to...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst essen Seele auf AKA Ali: Fear Eats the Soul...
Quote: Ali (Salem), is a young Moroccan Gastarbeiter (guest worker) in his late thirties, and Emmi (Mira), a 60-year-old widowed cleaning woman. They meet when Emmi ducks inside a bar, driven by the...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – L’Eclisse (1962)
Synopsis : Leaving her lover of four years, Vittoria starts an affair with a stockbroker. But as the film progresses, her emptiness becomes more obvious, echoed in the buildings and the landscape, and...
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Liliana Cavani – Il portiere di notte AKA The Night Porter (1974)
Quote: In Liliana Cavani’s scintillating drama, a concentration camp survivor (Charlotte Rampling) discovers her ex-torturer/lover (Dirk Bogarde) working as a night porter at a hotel in postwar...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – Professione: reporter (1975)
Synopsis A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he’s been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance. IMDb.com...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Katzelmacher (1969)
Quote: Katzelmacher was a revelation. One of only a handful of Fassbinder films which I had not seen before, it seems among his best, and most challenging, works. Fassbinder’s second feature film,...
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Kaneto Shindô – Sanka AKA Hymn (1972)
Quote: Shindo’s “Hymn” is one of many adaptions of Tanizaki’s classical novella ‘Shunkinsho’ (‘A Portrait of Shunkin’,1933). The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind...
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Paolo Sorrentino – Youth (2015)
A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s...
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