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Paul Verhoeven – Feest! AKA Let’s Have a Party (1963)
Quote:A shy student falls in love with a girl from another class. After he works up the courage to ask her to the school dance, something unexpected happens.The film, shot by Verhoeven at the same...
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Ana Cristina Barragán – Alba (2016)
Alba is eleven years old and terribly shy. She has great difficulty standing up for herself among the precocious girls in her class, who talk like little adults about relationships but keep making fun...
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Tomu Uchida – Koiya koi nasuna koi AKA The Mad Fox (1962)
At once reserved and utterly unhinged, Tomu Uchida’s The Mad Fox has garnered praise for its fervent theatricality and haywire visuals. But the very structure of the thing possesses a lopsided...
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Serce na dloni aka And A Warm Heart (2008)
AMG: In this moral fable from Poland, Konstanty (Bohdan Stupka) is a wealthy and amoral man who has made his fortune running a chain of supermarkets and has both the bank account and the lack of...
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Joseph Pevney – Istanbul (1957)
Review Summary In this adventure, a remake of Singapore (1947), a hero finds a bracelet containing 13 precious gems while visiting Istanbul. He soon finds himself pursued by covetous crooks who want...
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Alfred E. Green – The Duke of West Point (1938)
Plot: Louis Hayward plays an arrogant Cambridge student who emigrates to America and enrolls at the West Point. Hayward’s cocky attitude earns him the enmity of his fellow students and the derisive...
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George Englund – The Ugly American (1963)
The Ugly American (1963) An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast...
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Mervyn LeRoy – Anthony Adverse (1936)
In late 18th century Italy, a beautiful young woman finds herself married to a rich but cruel older man. However, she is in love with another, younger man. When the husband finds out, he kills the...
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Yavuz Turgul – Muhsin Bey AKA Mr. Muhsin (1987)
Muhsin Bey is frequently quoted as being a turning point in Turkish cinema. With some notable exceptions, much of Turkey’s movie production up to Muhsin Bey consisted of cheap tear-jerkers, juvenile...
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Moussa Touré – Toubab Bi (1991)
Plot Synopsis:Soriba Samb (Oumar Diop Makena) is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. In this story, Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Despair (1978)
Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis’ rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian émigré and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Tacones lejanos aka High Heels (1991)
Pedro Almodovar’s films are an acquired taste, and with “High Heels” I am at last beginning to acquire it. Although the fashionable Spanish director’s most famous film, “Women on the Verge of a...
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George Gittoes – Tailor Story (2011)
“Gittoes’s work often asks two questions: what are the experiences of other artists working and surviving in war zones? Or, what is his moral responsibility as an artist-correspondent? When Gittoes...
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Radu Muntean – Marti, dupa craciun aka Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)
Quote:“Tuesday, After Christmas” (Marti, dupa craciun, 2010) is the latest film from Romania to hit the film festival circuit and cause a stir. I saw it at this year’s Chicago International Film...
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Muriel Box – Subway in the Sky (1959)
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centres on a military doctor falselyaccused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from theMPs and ends up...
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Ki-duk Kim – Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom AKA Spring, Summer, Fall,...
Synopsis:From the award-winning Korean writer/director/editor Kim K-Duk comes this critifcally acclaimed and exquisitely beautiful story of a young Buddhist monk’s evolution from innocence to Love,...
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James Ivory – The Remains of the Day (1993)
Quote:A rule bound head butler’s world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in pre-WWII Britain. The possibility of...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Warum läuft Herr R. Amok? AKA Why Does Herr R. Run...
From Jim’s Reviews:Disclosure: I have written the liner notes for Fantoma’s DVD release of this film. With a few changes, that essay appears below. Image”You hear the one about the guy goes into a...
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Valérie Massadian – Milla (2017)
In her first feature, Nana (2011), Valérie Massadian presented a moving blend of fiction and documentary, erasing the distance between the title character and her part, mining poetry from elliptic...
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Various – Chacun son cinema aka To Each His Cinema (2007)
A collective film of 33 shorts Review:The specter of the death of cinema and the communal movie experience hangs like an ironic shroud over “To Each His Own Cinema,” a mostly engaging compilation of...
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