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Stellan Olsson – Sven Klangs kvintett AKA Sven Klang’s Combo (1976)
Sweden 1958. In a small provincial town there is a band who plays dance music twice every week. All decisions are made by Sven Klang, the undisputed leader of the band. A new member joins them,...
View ArticleStuart Rosenberg – The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
New Beverly Cinema writes:Charlie (Mickey Rourke) is a restaurant manager and small-time hustler aspiring for more. Paulie (Eric Roberts) is his desperate, hotheaded cousin who thinks he may have just...
View ArticleKazimierz Kutz – Ludzie z pociagu (1961) (HD)
Quote:One has to just think of a great film featuring a war and a train would automatically come to mind. While Czech cinema gave its immortal classic, ‘Closely watched trains’ directed by the...
View ArticleKathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery – The Loveless (1981)
Willem Dafoe’s first credited screen role.A group of leather-clad bikers en route to some blistering racing action in Daytona, Fla., makes a pit stop in a backwater Georgia town. While waiting for one...
View ArticleOgnjen Glavonic – Teret AKA The Load (2018)
Vlada works as a truck driver during the NATO bombing of Serbia in 1999. Tasked with transporting a mysterious load from Kosovo to Belgrade, he drives through unfamiliar territory, surrounded by the...
View ArticleJohn Huston – Fat City (1972)
Berkeley Art Museum / Pacific Film Archive writes:Hailed as John Huston’s “comeback” film in 1972, Fat City is a film that deserves to come back more often. Based on a novel by Leonard Gardner, who...
View ArticleToshiaki Toyoda – I’m Flash! (2012)
Quote:Religious con-men have probably been around as long as religion itself, though we have no way of knowing what scams fake shamans were running in the caves. For every Jesus, who had a low opinion...
View ArticleJean-Claude Brisseau – Noce blanche AKA White Wedding (1989) (HD)
IMDB wrote:A teacher of philosophy encounters a complicated pupil; a seventeen year old girl who possesses quite a cynical view of the world. He attempts to help her focus on her studies, but soon...
View ArticleJean Dréville – La cage aux rossignols AKA A Cage of Nightingales (1945)
Clement Mathieu has written a book, La cage aux rossignols, which recounts his recent experiences as a teacher in a typical French boys’ school. Having tried, in vain, to get the book published...
View ArticleRaoul Ruiz – Le temps retrouvé, d’après l’oeuvre de Marcel Proust AKA Time...
SynopsisAn ambitious project of Chile-born, Paris-based Raul Ruiz, this psychological drama brings to the screen the famous classic of Marcel Proust with fidelity to its interior monologues and...
View ArticleRaffaello Matarazzo – La risaia (1956)
In this heartwarming drama, the life of an Italian rice farmer involved in an unhappy marriage is chronicled. One day, he notices a familiar looking migrant in his field. Upon following the girl, he...
View ArticleAlix Delaporte – Le dernier coup de marteau AKA The Last Hammer Blow (2014)
A 13-year old boy who lives with his single sick mom in a trailer near the beach, comes in contact with the father he never knew when the man performs as a conductor at the local music theater. 1.37GB...
View ArticlePaul Schrader – Blue Collar (1978)
Quote:Paul Schrader’s directorial debut examines the trials of Detroit autoworkers living at the mercy of a heartless corporation and a corrupt union. Surviving from paycheck to paycheck, Checker Cab...
View ArticleMads Brügger – St. Bernard Syndicate AKA The Saint Bernard Syndicate (2018) (HD)
Subversive satirist Mads Brugger’s latest is an odd-couple comedy about the pitfalls of striking out into the economic frontier; it charts two hapless Danes’ scheme to sell Saint Bernards to China’s...
View ArticleDavid Reynolds – The Beiderbecke Affair (1985)
Some of IMDb reviews: Splendily entertaining and disturbingly prescient. This was not the first outing for Alan Plater’s schoolteacher detectives, who in 1981’s Get Lost had been played admirably by...
View ArticleJim O’Brien & Christopher Morahan – The Jewel in the Crown (1984)
The Jewel in the Crown (1984) is a British television serial about the final days of the British Raj in India during World War II, based upon the Raj Quartet novels by Paul Scott.Granada Television...
View ArticleVincent Gallo – Buffalo ’66 (1998)
Quote:After being released from prison, Billy is set to visit his parents with his wife, whom he does not actually have. This provokes Billy to act out, as he kidnaps a girl and forces her to act as...
View ArticleFrançois Truffaut – L’argent de poche AKA Pocket Money AKA Small Change (1976)
Synopsis:In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention. A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr. Right, another...
View ArticleSun-Woo Jang – Gyeongmajang ganeun kil AKA The Road to the Racetrack (1991)
Synopsis:R (MUN Seong-geun) returns from studying in France and reunites with J (GANG Su-yeon), whom he used to live with in Paris. For some reason, however, J refuses to have sex with R. Angered by...
View ArticleNikias Chryssos – Der Bunker (2015)
A young student seeks quiet and solitude to focus on an important work but ends up as the teacher of a peculiar boy who is home-schooled by his parents in an isolated bunker mansion. THE BUNKER is a...
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