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Raoul Ruiz – Mémoire des apparences AKA Life is a dream (1986)
Quote:Memoire des Apparences is a highly unconventional, metafictional adaptation of Calderon de la Barca’s play Life is a Dream. Director Raul Ruiz combines the 17th-century Spanish drama, about a...
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Bruce La Bruce – Ulrike’s Brain (2017)
Doctor Julia Pfeiffer has the brain of the radical leftwing activist Ulrike Meinhof stored away in a box. Her rival, the extreme rightwing ideologist Detlev Schlesinger, is in possession of the...
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Sinan Cetin – Kagit AKA Paper (2011)
“Kağıt” (Paper) stars Öner Erkan as Emrah, a young man with a passion to make movies. As he directs his debut film, he hits bureaucratic roadblocks, first in receiving a certificate of eligibility to...
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Naoko Ogigami – Toiretto AKA Toilet (2010)
Dysfunctional family and culture run amok in Toilet, which had an absolutely packed house last night at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and had many of the cast & crew in...
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Michael Cuesta – L.I.E. [+Extras] (2001)
What could have been just another of the countless coming-of-age tracts churned out on the indie-sector conveyor belt each year becomes a deeply nuanced drama full of original angles in Michael...
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Yen Tan – 1985 (2018)
ReviewA sensitive drama that slowly builds in power, “1985” feels like a missing minor classic from the decade that preceded the rise of the so-called New Queer Cinema, when independent filmmakers had...
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Zhuangzhuang Tian – Lie chang zha sha AKA On The Hunting Ground (1984)
Tian Zhuangzhuang is perhaps the best known of [the Fifth Generation] for reviving and revitalizing a staple of the Chinese film industry — the “national minority” genre. Made to celebrate the...
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Mohammad Rasoulof – Jazireh ahani AKA Iron Island (2005)
Ostensibly a fast-paced tale about poor people in the Persian Gulf living aboard a sinking oil tanker, “Iron Island” is a galloping fable full of offbeat characters and entertaining moments. At the...
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Hans Petter Moland – En ganske snill mann AKA A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing a man for sleeping with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in. 1.09GB |...
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Pablo Trapero – Elefante blanco (2012)
Quote:The “elefante blanco” (white elephant) in Pablo Trapero’s eponymous film is the phantasmagorical structure of what was to be Latin America’s biggest hospital, construction of which was approved...
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Joe Swanberg – Digging for Fire (2015)
Quote:Young married couple Tim and Lee have planted the seeds of a family in their East L.A. duplex. Three years after the birth of their son, they’re still adjusting to the joy and pain of life with...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Kôhî jikô AKA Café Lumière (2003)
Quote:Hou’s latest film continues in a similar vein Cafe Lumiereof hermetic environment and translucently slight narrative that have come to define his later, apolitical (and largely transitional)...
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Yevgeni Chervyakov – Moy syn (1928)
Synopsis: A woman announces her husband that her newborn baby isn’t his. What follows is a simple and powerful sequence of close-ups of a man caught in his mixed emotions and a woman obsessed with the...
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Aktan Arym Kubat – Centaur (2017)
Synopsis:Centaur is a quiet, small and modest man, a loving father of a little boy that has never spoken a word and the husband of young, deaf-mute Maripa. Together they lead a simple life in a small...
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Ken Loach – Ladybird Ladybird (1994)
Ladybird, LadybirdBY ROGER EBERT / January 20, 1995Ladybug, ladybug, Fly away home.Your house is on fire, And your children will burn. Nursery rhyme This is the story of a troublesome woman. A woman...
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Henri Verneuil – La vingt-cinquième heure AKA The 25th Hour (1967)
In WW2, a Romanian Gentile peasant is denounced by the village gendarme and sent to a concentration camp for Jews where, due to an error, he’s drafted into the SS. 1.95GB | 2 h 6 min | 960×400 | mkv...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Lian lian feng chen aka Dust in the wind (1986)
Quote:Dust in the Wind is a remarkable film, and one which will, no doubt, reward multiple viewings. Like most of the films of Hou Hsiao Hsien, viewers will be divided into two, sharply opposed camps....
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Gavin Millar – King of Fridges (2004)
Alan, the assistant manager of the Rocket electrical store, is finally given a chance to provehimself when he is left in charge on a busy bank holiday. What he wasn’t counting on,however, was Frank, a...
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Tevfik Baser – 40 Quadratmeter Deutschland (1986)
The title Forty Square Meters of Germany refers to the shabby apartment where 90% of the film takes place. Ozay Fecht stars in this emotionally-charged drama as an impressionable Turkish girl named...
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Michel Gondry – L’écume des jours AKA Mood Indigo (2013)
Quote:Colin has a very pleasant life: he is rich, he loves the food his cook makes (Nicolas), he loves his pianocktail (contraction of piano and cocktail, a word invented by Vian) and his friend...
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