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Kazuo Kuroki – Kamiya Etsuko no seishun aka The Youth of Kamiya Etsuko (2006)
“Very sweet, wryly funny in spots, but always haunted by war (described sparingly but never shown). It was based on a stage play and betrays its theatrical roots in some of the pacing and staging....
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Lukas Dhont – Girl (2018)
Quote: Determined 15-year-old Lara is committed to becoming a professional ballerina. With the support of her father, she throws herself into this quest for the absolute at a new school. Lara’s...
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Lav Diaz – Melancholia (2008)
Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008) Lav Diaz’s Melancholia is an eight-hour meditation of sorts on the maddening persistence of sadness in this world, can logically be divided into three parts and an...
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Parviz Kimiavi – Baghé sangui AKA Garden of Stones (1976)
Synopsis:Darvish Khan, a deaf-mute shepherd living in the desert, has a mystical vision in a dream in which he encounters a saint. When he awakens, he finds himself clutching a large stone. Grateful...
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Kaan Müjdeci – Sivas (2014)
Sivas is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Kaan Müjdeci. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 71st Venice International Film Festival[1][2] where it won the Special Jury Prize....
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Julian Schnabel – At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
Synopsis:A look at the life of painter Vincent van Gogh during the time he lived in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. 1.05GB | 1 h 51 min | 720×304 | mkv...
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Larisa Sadilova – S dnyom rozhdeniya aka Happy Birthday (1998)
OMG by by Mark DemingBlending dramatic situations with a documentary -influenced visual style, S Dnyom rozhdenya / Happy Birthday looks in at a typical day in a Russian maternity hospital. The...
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Luigi Di Gianni – Il tempo dell’inizio (1974)
Quote:Distributed by L’Italnoleggio Cinematografico, with Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Claudio Volonte, Jean Martin, Milena VucoticPresented at the Venice Biennale 1974.Segnalazione ufficiale della...
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Natasha Arthy – Se til venstre, der er en Svensker AKA Old, New, Borrowed and...
REVIEW by Anji Milanovic (from plume-noire.com):In Old, New, Borrowed and Blue director Natasha Arthy begins the film with a signed certificate of authenticity from the Dogma school. By the film’s...
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Giovanni Fago – O’Cangaçeiro AKA The Magnificent Bandits (1970)
IMDB:Espidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As “Redeemer” Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel...
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Juan Pinzas – Dias de voda Aka Wedding Days [+Extras] (2002)
from imdb:For starters the audience must be aware of the fact that this is a film that is part of the DOGME 95 Movement, described as follows: ‘the goal of the Dogme collective is to purify...
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Marlen Khutsiev – Posleslovie AKA Epilogue (1984)
Synopsis:This film’s based on Yuri Pakhomov’s short story “Test priyekhal” (Father-in-law Arrived). An elderly man arrives on a visit to his daughter in Moscow. She is away on a business trip, so he...
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Leopoldo Laborde – Memorias de lo que no fue AKA Boy Undone (2017)
Quote:Two young men spend the night together after meeting the previous evening in a notorious gay club. The next day, however, the host wakes to find the boy he picked up bewildered and confused,...
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Sammaria Simanjuntak – Cin(T)a (2009)
Cina was a Chinese-Indonesian Christian young man who got his name ‘Cina’ (China, in English) by misunderstanding in his birth registry and is pursuing his dream to get a scholarship in an...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – The Passion according to Andrei AKA Andrei Rublev (1966)
SynopsisAn expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei Rublev. Drifting from place to place in a tumultuous era, the peace-seeking monk eventually...
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Elia K. Schneider – Tamara (2016)
Teo Almanza, a successful lawyer with a wife and two kids, finally comes to terms with his visceral desire to be a woman. He is determined to follow his heart, even though this will turn his whole...
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Michael Glawogger – Slumming (2006)
Synopsis:Sebastian and Alex are two egocentric yuppies who stockpile underhanded up-skirt shots and bully others for their own amusement. On a night out they come across an inebriated man passed-out...
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Bo Widerberg – Kvarteret Korpen aka Raven’s End (1963)
By Roger Ebert / March 20, 1972The young man looks at the empty lives of the people living on his block, and writes an angry book about the way they’ve been treated. A publisher invites him to...
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Mitsuo Yanagimachi – Kamyu nante shiranai AKA Who’s Camus Anyway? (2005)
Quote:Throws down the gauntlet with the very first shot, in which the camera glides sinuously all over the sprawling exterior of a university campus, caroming from one group to characters to another,...
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Kihachi Okamoto – Burû Kurisumasu AKA UFO Blue Christmas (1978)
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new “blue-bloods” being persecuted by the rest of mankind,...
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