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Safi Yazdanian – Dar donya ye to saat chand ast? AKA What’s the Time in Your...
On a sudden whim Goli decides to return to Iran after 20 years of living in France. She lands in Rasht, her home town, located in the north of the country. Farhad, a frame maker by trade, comes to...
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Raoul Walsh – Me and My Gal (1932)
Synopsis: Young New York cop Dan falls in love with waterfront waitress Helen. Helen’s sister Kate falls for gangster Duke. Dan must do in Duke....
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William Wyler – Ben-Hur (1959)
Synopsis by Hal Erickson This 1959 version of Lew Wallace’s best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a...
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Yorgos Lanthimos – The Lobster (2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into...
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Benoît Jacquot – Journal d’une femme de chambre AKA Diary of a Chambermaid...
Quote: It is an odd film: the central relationship between Joseph and Célestine is not entirely plausible, even as a desperate amour fou. But it is well acted and confidently performed. The...
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Pedro Almodóvar – La mala educación AKA Bad Education (2004)
Quote: The wag who first suggested running the trailer for Bad Education before screenings of The Passion of the Christ in southern France deserves a rosette for provocation beyond the call of duty....
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Marcell Jankovics – Az ember tragédiája AKA The Tragedy of Man (2011)
Quote: Based on the 1861 masterpiece by Hungarian playwright and poet Imre Madách, Az ember tragédiája (The Tragedy of Man) is a powerful drama in 15 acts that guide us through the past and the future...
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Ken Loach – Poor Cow (1967)
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. She marries and has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone she takes up with his mate (another...
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Satyajit Ray – Ghare-Baire aka The Home and the World (1984)
Quote: Both a romantic-triangle tale and a philosophical take on violence in times of revolution, The Home and the World, set in early twentieth-century Bengal, concerns an aristocratic but...
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Peter Bogdanovich – Saint Jack [+Extras] (1979)
Quote: After a couple of major studio flops, Peter Bogdanovich returned to his 1960s filmmaking roots with this Roger Corman-produced low budget film. Easygoing expatriate Jack Flowers (Ben Gazzara)...
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Igor Voloshin – Ya AKA I Am (2009)
Quote: With three full feature films in two years under his belt, Igor Voloshin has both received critical acclaim and provoked public debates. Nirvana (2008), a “gothic cyber-punk” about drug...
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Talkhon Hamzavi – Parvaneh (2012)
About the Film A 25 minute Swiss short film; which was nominated for an Academy Award, for Best Live Action Short Film, at the 87th Academy Awards. The short is about an Afghan immigrant, living in...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Carne trémula AKA Live Flesh (1997)
Quote: Curious, seeing this after the smash hits of “Todo Sobre Mi Madre” and “Hable con Ella”, because this movie sort of prepared the viewers to what was coming. Grabbing a solid and original story,...
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Benoît Jacquot – Les enfants du placard AKA Closet Children (1977)
Nicola (Lou Castel) bears the psychological scars of unbearable guilt. As a boy, he was given the job of looking after his mentally unstable mother and protecting her from herself. One day, he and his...
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Arne Mattsson – Vaxdockan aka The Doll (1962)
summary A night watchman (Per Oscarsson) in Stockholm interrupts a burglary and finds a mannequin that he takes home; in his mind, it’s a beautiful and very much alive woman. Director Arne Mattsson...
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René Clément – Plein soleil AKA Purple Noon [+Extras] (1960)
Synopsis: ‘Tom Ripley and Philippe Greenleaf are lately inseparable friends. They’re both idling in Europe, but on papa Greenleaf’s dime. Philippe’s fiancee Marge feels sorry for Tom but resents his...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Trzecia czesc nocy aka The Third Part of The Night (1971)
“Andrzej Żuławski is one of the true mavericks of European cinema and his wild, imaginative and unique films have won awards at many international film festivals over the years. A nightmarish and...
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Yimou Zhang – Hong gao liang AKA Red Sorghum (1987)
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized...
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Kevin Allen – Under Milk Wood (2015)
Quote: Concluding the 100th anniversary celebrations of Dylan Thomas’s birth, here is a ramshackle visualisation of the poet’s 1954 radio drama. Thomas’s Under Milk Wood has spawned diverse...
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Ester Amrami – Anderswo AKA Anywhere Else (2014)
You left your home to move far away. You were struck by a wind of change and were unfaithful to yourself. You reinvented yourself and you are now feeling free. But suddenly pressure arises in you....
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