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Takashi Miike – Kaze ni tatsu raion AKA The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
(from Japanese Film Festival) Lion Standing in the Wind is based on a real story and chronicles the inspirational life of Dr Koichiro Shimada who sets off to Kenya to serve as a medical doctor. In a...
View ArticleChristian Carion – Joyeux Noël AKA Merry Christmas (2005)
STORYLINE: In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and...
View ArticleBernard Émond – Le Journal D’un Vieil Homme AKA The Diary of an Old Man (2015)
Based on Chekhov’s revered novella, The Diary of an Old Man centers on a terminally ill emeritus professor of medicine who realizes how powerless he is to cure the unhappiness of his adopted daughter,...
View ArticleD.W. Griffith – The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ (1914)
D.W. Griffith’s silent psychological drama based on Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” tells the story of a depressed young man who murders the cruel uncle who prevented his marriage to his...
View ArticleAthina Rachel Tsangari – The Slow Business of Going (2000)
The first film of the director of Award Winning “Attenberg”. Won Best Film Award in New York Underground Film Festival, USA, 2002 and Lausanne Film Festival, 2002. Petra Going is a migrant cyborg, an...
View ArticleNikos Papatakis – I Fotografia AKA La Photo (1986) (HD)
Synopsis: During the dictatorship, a young man goes to Paris, where he seeks help from a solitary and almost misanthropic distant relative who works as a furrier. The young man carries with him the...
View ArticleAndrew Haigh – 45 Years (2015)
Plot Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay) had to cancel the party for their 40th anniversary at short notice when Geoff underwent bypass surgery. The comfortably off,...
View ArticleAdrián Caetano – Francia (2009)
In this comedy-drama from writer and director Israel Adrian Caetano, Mariana (Milagros Caetano) is a ten-year-old girl who lives with her mother Cristina (Natalia Oreiro). Mariana’s father Carlos...
View ArticleChristoph Hochhäusler – Die Lügen der Sieger AKA The Lies of the Victors (2014)
Investigative journalist Fabian Groys enjoys great freedom since the stories he uncovers make for strong sales. He works for a political news magazine in their Berlin head office. In this context, his...
View ArticleMichael Winterbottom – Butterfly Kiss (1995)
Quote: Winterbottom’s theatrical feature debut Butterfly Kiss was released into UK theatres in August 1995. Set in a dystopian environment limited almost entirely to motorways, service stations and...
View ArticleElia Kazan – On the Waterfront (1954)
synopsis This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey. Mob-connected union boss Johnny Friendly...
View ArticleAthina Rachel Tsangari – Attenberg (2010)
Quote: A boldly conceived assemblage of diverse and seemingly random fictional materials, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg is concerned with nothing less than those hardy perennials: sex, death, and...
View ArticleNikos Papatakis – Oi Voskoi AKA The Shepherds of Calamity (1967) (HD)
Synopsis: Katina, an impoverished Greek woman, tries to arrange the marriage of her shepherd son, Thanos, to Despina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. But when Despina’s father, Vlahopoulos...
View ArticleBrian De Palma – Hi, Mom! (1970)
A Vietnam vet moves into an apartment and views in other people’s windows across the street, meets one of the women, and discovers black theater....
View ArticleFengliang Yang & Yimou Zhang – Ju Dou (1990)
Synopsis: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband’s nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband’s heir without...
View ArticleSpike Lee – Chi-Raq (2015)
Quote: It may not take much to make Spike Lee angry, but there’s no denying he gives us his reasons and then some in “Chi-Raq,” a sprawling, blistering state-of-the-union address that presents...
View ArticlePaolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Maraviglioso Boccaccio AKA Wondrous...
Synopsis Florence, Italy, 1348. As the plague ravages the city dwellers of Tuscany, a group of young men and women takes shelter in a remote villa in the hills surrounding Florence. Now living as a...
View ArticleOunie Lecomte – Yeo-haeng-ja AKA A Brand New Life (2009)
Quote: Set in a South Korean orphanage circa 1975 and featuring a concentrated, thoroughly convincing perf by preteen Kim Sae-ron, “A Brand New Life” is an admirably un-manipulative drama about the...
View ArticleNils Malmros – Kundskabens træ AKA Tree of Knowledge (1981)
A modified review by Roger Ebert Quote: “The Tree of Knowledge” is the truest and most moving film I have ever seen about the experience of puberty, about the little joys and great heartbreaks of the...
View ArticleAlain Resnais – La Guerre est finie AKA The War Is Over [+Extras] (1966)
‘For some soldiers the war is never over…’ Legendary ‘New Wave’ director Alain Resnais helms this emotionally charged suspense-drama set in France and on the streets of fascist Spain starring Montand,...
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