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Joel Potrykus – Buzzard (2014)
Quote:Marty is a caustic, small-time con artist drifting from one scam to the next. When his latest ruse goes awry, mounting paranoia forces him from his lousy small town temp job to the desolate...
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Paolo Sorrentino – Loro (2018)
Steamy sex, exotic dancers, cocaine sniffing and raucous poolside parties – the life and times of Italy’s scandal-tainted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi would appear to be natural material...
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Arby Ovanessian – Cheshme AKA The Spring (1972)
A man falls in love with a stranger woman. The woman has her young lover whom she secretly dates in an uninhabited house. The man discovers that the subject of his affection is in fact his friend’s...
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Lav Diaz – Heremias aka Heremias, Book One (2006)
Review:Ox-driven carts full of native crafts line up at a concrete road. We painfully await each and every one of the caravans to finish their diagonal descent and disappear from Lav Diaz’s immobile...
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Stole Popov – Tetoviranje AKA Tattoo (1991)
Quote:After a quarrel with his wife, a man leaves their apartment with one suitcase only. Having slept in a train station, the police legitimates him and found him suspicious. Soon he’ll find himself...
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Ilias Giannakakis – Alemaya (2004)
Synopsis:In the Greek community of Ethiopia in the 1960s, a rich Greek disrupts the relationship between his well-bred daughter and a young man. Three decades later they meet again…Cast:Ivonni...
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Josef von Sternberg – An American Tragedy (1931)
Synopsis:Having just reached adulthood, Clyde Griffiths has always lamented his lot in life, he the only son of poor missionaries. He has gotten a peripheral view of society life, to which he aspires,...
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Pema Tseden – Tharlo (2015)
Synopsis:High in the desolate, windswept mountains of Tibet lives a shepherd named Tharlo. He tends his sheep and rides his motorcycle, passing his days in familiar and traditional routines far from...
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Larry Clark – Marfa Girl 2 (2018)
A family living in Marfa, Texas attempts to pull themselves back together after a horrific tragedy. The provocative sequel to Larry Clark’s film Marfa Girl shows us a group of people ready to escape...
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Mikhail Kalatozov – Neotpravlennoye pismo aka The Letter Never Sent (1959)
Неотправленное письмо This film is based on the eponymous book by Valery Osipov. Four geologists are searching for diamonds in the wilderness of Siberia. After a long and tiresome journey they manage...
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Akihiko Shiota – Gaichû AKA Harmful Insect (2001)
Eiga Wiki wrote:Harmful Insect follows a girl named Sachiko after her father dies, her mother attempts suicide, and her entire class is gossiping about her possibly having an affair with her sixth...
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Sophie Fillières – Arrête ou je continue (2014)
Their grown-up son has left home, the draw in her office desk is full of ants, and her husband runs off after the bus leaving her standing on the street. Pomme’s life has become a series of...
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Claude Sautet – Un coeur en hiver AKA A Heart in Winter [+Extra] (1992)
Quote:Beautiful violin virtuoso Camille has two obsessions: the music of Ravel, and a friend of her husband’s who crafts violins. But his heart seems to be as cold as her playing is passionate. Roger...
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Vera Storozheva – Puteshestvie s domashnimi zhivotnymi AKA Travelling with...
Quote:Natalie was 16, living in a foster home, when she was bought by a rough and unstable man. They lived at a remote station, and their loveless marriage lasted 19 years, until he died. Now free,...
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Makoto Shinozaki – Sharing (2014)
Two girls experience anxieties of their own in a story set in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and subsequent nuclear disaster in Japan. One girl is a professor studying the dreams related to the...
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Mika Kaurismäki – Paperitähti AKA Paper Star (1989)
Synopsis:Anna, a former top model, is relegated to second-rate modeling jobs. Her lover, Ulf, a drug dealer and pimp, leaves her to settle in Stockholm. Anna gets involved with Ilja, a middle-aged...
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Veit Harlan – Opfergang AKA The Great Sacrifice (1944)
Quote:Albrecht Froben, though married to Octavia, falls in love with his neighbor, Äls Flodéen. She, however, is slowly dying from a debilitating disease. During an epidemic, Albrecht goes to bring...
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Philip Gröning – Die Frau des Polizisten AKA The Police Officer’s Wife (2013)
Quote:The pursuit of truth is a demand that cannot be fulfilled through seeing alone. An encounter with cinema resides through a locale of turbulent openings that allow a mental space for future...
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Ming Zhang – Ming wang xing shi ke AKA The Pluto Moment (2018)
Quote:Tracking an independent film crew on a difficult field research trip in Southwest China, Sixth Generation writer-director Zhang Ming’s “The Pluto Moment” ponders the relationship between life...
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Götz Spielmann – Revanche (2008)
Roger Ebert Review :“Revanche” involves a rare coming together of a male’s criminal nature and a female’s deep needs, entwined with a first-rate thriller. It is also perceptive in observing...
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