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Ivet Castelo & Sandra García & Marta Lallana & Iván Alarcón – Ojos Negros AKA...
Quote:“Paula, a thirteen year old girl, starts to experience certain complications in the relationships with her family and friends. In order to be with her ill grandmother, which she barely knows,...
View ArticleRaj Kapoor – Satyam Shivam Sundaram: Love Sublime (1978)
Synopsis:As Pandit Shyam Sunder prayed in Bhagwan Shivji’s temple on the occasion of Janamashtami, his wife gives birth to a daughter, Rupa, and passes away, leaving her child to bear the brunt of...
View ArticleTod Browning – Freaks [+commentary] (1932)
Quote:The sideshow of Madame Tetrallini (Rose Dione) is going well until acrobat Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova), in league with strongman Hercules (Henry Victor) decides to marry and murder the rich...
View ArticleOlivier Assayas – Fin août, début septembre AKA Late August, Early September...
Quote:Olivier Assayas directed this French drama, examining several relationships over a year’s span, capturing varying textures and shades of feeling between people from late August of one year until...
View ArticleChan-sang Lim – Hyojadong ibalsa AKA The President’s Barber [+commentaries]...
Synopsis:Seong Han-mo (Song Kang-ho) is a barber and owns a shop in the president’s neighborhood, the Blue House. Politically not very well-versed he always joins his acquaintances’ opinions and at...
View ArticleAlain Tanner – La Salamandre (1971)
Synopsis:‘Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde, a young working-class woman whom they meet because they’re writing a teleplay about a minor but curious...
View ArticleFrancisco J. Lombardi – La Ciudad y los perros aka City and the Dogs (1985)
Based on a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, City and the Dogs is set in a brutal boys` military academy. Juan Manuel Ochoa plays a tough young cadet who rules a student clique called The Circle, which...
View ArticleDenis Côté – Répertoire des villes disparues AKA Ghost Town Anthology (2019)
Denis Cote chronicles the bizarre after-effects of a small-town tragedy, weaving supernatural elements into the tattered social fabric of a rural community.Loosely adapted from the debut novel by...
View ArticleNonzee Nimibutr – OK baytong AKA Baytong (2003)
Synopsis:On hearing the news of the death of his sister, a Buddhist monk leaves the temple where he has lived for childhood and struggles to adjust to life on the outside as an uncle to a young niece...
View ArticleMarc Allégret – Sous les yeux d’occident AKA Under Western Eyes (1936)
Un étudiant que la politique n’intéresse pas, parce qu’il a par pitié recueilli un camarade qui lutte contre l’impérialisme russe, est placé devant un dilemme, être terroriste ou mouchard. Il choisit...
View ArticleBill Forsyth – Local Hero (1983)
Quote:Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Martha (1974) (HD)
A single woman in her early thirties, Martha (Margit Carstensen) is on vacation with her father in Rome when he has a heart attack and falls down dead. She reacts rather indifferently and returns home...
View ArticleFrédéric Mermoud – Moka (2016)
A grieving woman pursues a couple whom she suspects of killing her son in a hit-and-run.Equipped with a few items of clothing, a little bit of money, and a weapon, Diane Kramer leaves for Evian. She...
View ArticleArthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Synopsis:1934. Young adults Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, are immediately attracted to what the other represents for their life when they meet by...
View ArticleFrançois Ozon – Sous le sable AKA Under the Sand (2000)
Quote:Like every summer, a wife and husband go to their beach house in Les Landes for the vacation. But this year, while Marie is napping on the beach, husband Jean disappears. Has he drowned? Run...
View ArticleJoseph Losey – Accident (1967)
Synopsis:Stephen is a married Oxford professor experiencing the pangs of a mid-life crisis as he begins to bristle at the stifling emotional repression of the society in which he lives. Things begin...
View ArticleJoshua Logan – Camelot (1967)
Synopsis:After the arranged marriage of Arthur (Richard Harris) and Guinevere (Vanessa Redgrave), the king gathers the noble knights of the realm to his Round Table. The dashing and stalwart Lancelot...
View ArticleJanez Burger – V leru AKA Idle Running (1999)
Dizzy is a perennial student living in a small double room in a hostel. He never seems to study, but spends his time sleeping, watching TV, and drinking. Marko, a studious freshman from the country,...
View ArticleJasmila Zbanic – Na putu AKA On the Path [+Extra] (2010)
Synopsis:Luna and Amar are a couple. Their relationship is under great strain. First of all, Amar loses his job for being drunk at work. Luna is very worried and has little hope of realising her...
View ArticleFernando E. Solanas – La nube AKA Clouds (1998)
Quote:An eclectic group of actors struggle to save their theater from being demolished and replaced with a shopping mall. Max, the leader of the troupe, is a workaholic director who abandoned his...
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