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Sylvia Chang – Nian Nian AKA Murmur of the Hearts (2015)
Synopsis (by Giovanna Fulvi @ tiff.net) Legendary Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang directs this magical story of estranged siblings whose shared memories of their mother’s fairy tales...
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Kon Ichikawa – Hakai AKA The Broken Commandment (1962)
Keiko I. McDonald: Kon Ichikawa’s Hakai (The Broken Commandment) began in 1961 as a televised dramatisation of Toson Shimazaki’s novel of the same title first published in 1906. Toson’s pioneering...
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Savi Gavison – Ha-Asonot Shel Nina aka Nina’s Tragedies (2003)
On the day of his father’s funeral, the curious and meddlesome adolescent Nadav (Aviv Elkabeth) peeps in through the window of the funeral home where the rabbi is making last minute preparations for...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Chinesisches Roulette AKA Chinese Roulette (1976)
Quote: Like most Fassbinder films, it’s seemingly simple, but there’s a lot too it when you walk a bit closer. This one sets up a great tragicomic situation: a disabled teenager manipulates her...
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Franco Zeffirelli – Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Emulating Renato Castellani, who had previously in 1960 filmed Romeo and Juliet on location in an Italian hill city, Franco Zeffirelli, veteran stage and opera director, combined the neo-realism of...
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Andrew Birkin – The Cement Garden (1993)
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the...
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Nicolae Margineanu – Poarta Alba AKA White Gate (2014)
Adrian and Ninel are among the inmates crammed into the freight cars that have just arrived in one of the forced labor camps of the Danube-Black Sea Canal. Among those convicted, there are teachers,...
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Nancy Meckler – Sister My Sister (1994)
Such Devoted Sisters The true story behind “Sister My Sister” has intrigued artists for 50 years, and who can blame them? It is an irresistible dark tale of murder, incest and class struggle, an event...
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Leos Carax – Pola X [+Commentary] (1999)
Plot: Pierre, a young man of privilege, whose anonymously-published novel is a hit and who’s about to marry his blond cousin, Lucie, abandons all when a dark-haired vagrant tells him her secret late...
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Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos – Obchod na korze AKA The Shop on Main Street (1965)
Synopsis: In 1942, in a small town in Czechoslovakia, the poor carpenter Tony Brtko is assigned “Aryanizator” of a small shop on the main street by his fascist brother-in-law Mark Kolkotsky. His...
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Vittorio De Sica – Il giardino dei Finzi Contini AKA The Garden of the...
(May contain spoilers) In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and...
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Elmo Nüganen – 1944 (2015)
Wiki: 1944 is a 2015 Estonian action war drama film directed by Elmo Nüganen. The film first premiered in February 2015 in Berlin, Germany before its release in Estonia [4] and other Northern European...
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Tom Kalin – Savage Grace (2007)
Synopsis: “Savage Grace,” based on the award winning book, is the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune....
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Goran Markovic – Sabirni centar AKA The Meeting Point (1989)
Quote: From the Screenwriter of “Who’s Singin’ Over There”,”The Marathon Family”,”Balkanski Spijun” (flicks that are Serbian Cinematography at its best) comes (Writing Credits) this brilliant movie...
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David O. Russell – Spanking the Monkey (1994)
Synopsis The debut feature from writer-director David O. Russell tells the darkly comic story of a young pre-med student’s nearly unbearable summer vacation. When Ray Aibelli’s promiscuous father...
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César Charlone & Enrique Fernández – El Baño del Papa AKA The Pope’s Toilet...
Quote: It’s 1988, and Melo, an Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope John Paul II. 50,000 people are expected to attend, and the most humble locals believe that selling food...
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Bernardo Bertolucci – Partner [+Extras] (1968)
Quote: In PARTNER, Bernardo Bertolucci conflated his interests in psychoanalysis, nonlinear narrative, and Godard to create a uniquely avant-garde work unlike anything in his ouevre. The film is...
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Nicolas Roeg – Walkabout (1971)
Quote: A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to cope in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece from Nicolas...
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Kon Ichikawa – Yukinojô henge AKA An Actor’s Revenge (1963)
Synopsis: Master Director Kon Ichikawa’s 1963 classic is considered by many to be one of the finest films ever made in Japan.Kasuo Hasegawa stars as Yukinojo, a talented kabuki actor who specializes...
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Stina Werenfels – Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern AKA Dora or...
Dora,a young girl becomes pregnant which is strange for her mother who would like to have a second child.This event causes tremendous upheaval in their lives....
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