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Brillante Mendoza – Kinatay AKA The Execution of P (2009)
“Daniel Kasman” wrote:Dedicate a movie to one thing, respect the singular attention of the camera, and a film should be rich enough to overcome just about anything. Brillante Mendoza gives almost half...
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Khru Marut – Santi-Vina (1954)
Santi, a poor 10- year-old blind boy who lives with his father. Vina takes a pity on him and tries to protect him from the bullying of Krai. Santi’s father send him to stay with Luang Ta, a...
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William A. Seiter – Chance at Heaven (1933)
Plot: Blackstone ‘Blacky’ Gorman, rising service station owner, is blessed with the devotion of supremely sweet and noble Marje Harris, but he meets coquettish and silly debutante Glory Franklyn and,...
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Andrzej Wajda – Popiól i diament aka Ashes and Diamonds [+Extras] (1958)
Quote:On the last day of World War Two in a small town somewhere in Poland, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this...
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W.S. Van Dyke – San Francisco [Colourised] (1936)
San Francisco is a 1936 film directed by W.S. Van Dyke, written by Anita Loos, starring Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy and Jack Holt. It was nominated for six Oscars, of which it won...
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Marcel Hanoun – L’authentique procès de Carl-Emmanuel Jung (1966)
“It’s virtually impossible to think of a major contemporary French filmmaker who has been more independent, hence more consistently marginalized, than Marcel Hanoun (1929–2012). Born in Tunis, he...
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Steph Green – Run & Jump (2013)
After a stroke leaves her husband mentally disabled and fundamentally changed, spirited Irish housewife Vanetia struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy. A research grant from...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Los abrazos rotos AKA Broken Embraces (2009)
Review from DVDTalk THE FILMFor his 17th film, Pedro Almodovar doesn’t exactly break new ground with “Broken Embraces,” instead fine-tuning his gifts and decadent cinematic appetites to a satisfying...
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Ki-duk Kim – Bi-mong aka Dream (2008)
Quote:Dream (or Bi-mong, as is the Korean title) is already Ki-duk’s 15th film. It’s also the 15th Ki-duk film I watched so obviously you can consider me a fan. Ki-duk is a director who’s known to...
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Shinji Sômai – Tonda kappuru AKA The Terrible Couple (1980)
Aspiring to be admitted to a good university and to become a lawyer, Tasiro Yuusuke, a tenth-grader from Kyushu, enrols in a prestigious high school in Tokyo. Plans are made for him to live in his...
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Jacques Becker – Goupi mains rouges aka It happened at the inn (1943)
Quote:Originally Goupi Mains Rouges, this was the first new French feature film to be shown in the US since the end of WW2-though “new” was a relative term, inasmuch as the film was completed in 1943....
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Nagisa Ôshima – Etsuraku AKA Pleasure of the Flesh (1965)
After killing a man that raped one of his students, teacher Wakizaka finds himself embroiled in a plot being blackmailed into looking after a huge amount of cash. With tensions mounting and anxiety...
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Edwin Sherin – King Lear (1974)
Quote:This historic 1974 recording of King Lear brings to audiences today both a great production of Shakespeare’s classic, but also a performance of towering brilliance from the formidable James Earl...
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Dusan Makavejev – Montenegro (1981)
Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children. She tries to “spice up” her existence by surprising...
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Benh Zeitlin – Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) (HD)
Quote:Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink, in the Bathtub, a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of...
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David Lean – Oliver Twist (1948) (HD)
Quote:Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he...
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Maurice Dugowson – Au Revoir à Lundi aka Bye, See You Monday [English Dub]...
Bye, See You Monday is a French Canadian relationship drama based on a novel by Roger Fournier. Miou-Miou and Carole Laure star as a pair of attractive young housemates. Both ladies are involved with...
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Dominga Sotomayor Castillo – Tarde Para Morir Joven (2018)
LEOPARD FOR BEST DIRECTIONLOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2018 Democracy comes back to Chile during the summer of 1990. In an isolated community, Sofía (16), Lucas (16) and Clara (10), face their first loves...
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Romain Goupil – Les mains en l’air aka Hands in the Air (2010)
Quote:This intelligent and current picture about childhood fears and understandings also serves as a damning indictment of French immigration policy under Sarkozy. Narrated retrospectively from the...
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Luis Zorraquin – Guaraní (2016)
Atilio lives with his granddaughter Iara. His great desire is to have a grandson to transmit the Guarani culture. When he discovers that Iara’s mother, Helena, is pregnant, he decides to go to a long...
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