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Jane Campion – Bright Star (2009)
Quote:London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year-old English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), an out-spoken student of high fashion....
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Agnieszka Holland – The Third Miracle (1999)
In Agnieszka Holland’s English-language film from 1999, Frank Shore (Ed Harris) is a Catholic priest who works as a postulator, a church official who investigates reports of holy miracles to determine...
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Jun Ichikawa – Ashita no watashi no tsukurikata AKA How to Become Myself (2007)
Plot summary: (from A Nutshell Review)Juri (Niko Narumi, you’ll be amazed that she’s only so young, but yet has the capability to take on a character that so layered and yet so subtle in her delivery)...
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Jacques Rivette – Jeanne la Pucelle I – Les batailles AKA Joan the Maid 1:...
A part of Joan of Arc’s life. At the beginning, Jeanne (Joan) has already left Domremy, she is trying to convince a captain to escort her to the Dauphin. It ends during Jeanne’s first battle, at...
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Jacques Rivette – Jeanne la Pucelle II – Les prisons AKA Joan the Maid 2: The...
‘The Prisons’ continues with Jeanne (Sandrine Bonnaire) leading her countrymen in victorious assaults on the English army. But when she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life...
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Jack Clayton – The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Synopsis:Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo’s eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo’s three...
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Wim Wenders – The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
The Million Dollar Hotel follows the supposed murder of Izzy Goldkiss. FBI Agent Skinner is sent into investigate the crime, and to weed out the killer. When he reaches the ‘hotel’, he comes across...
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Laetitia Masson – En avoir (ou pas) (1995)
IMDB:Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who’s just been dumped...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Le petit soldat AKA The Little Soldier (1963)
Quote:Le Petit Soldat is an early Jean-Luc Godard film that was made on a shoestring budget. Michel Subor (who would surface years later in Claire Denis’ Beau Travail [1999] to great critical...
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Xiaoshuai Wang – Qing hong AKA Shanghai Dreams (2005)
SynopsisIn the 1980s, encouraged by the government, a large number of families leave Chinese cities to settle in the poorer regions of the country, in order to develop local industry. The film’s main...
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Nietzchka Keene – The Juniper Tree (1990)
Quote:An unsung talent in her lifetime, director, professor and Fulbright scholar Nietzchka Keene’s stark, stunning debut feature The Juniper Tree is loosely based on a Brothers Grimm fairy tale of...
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Martin Scorsese – Taxi Driver (1976)
Quote:A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a...
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Paul Verhoeven – Soldaat van Oranje AKA Soldier of Orange (1977)
Plot:1938. A small group of Dutch students stop their tennis game momentarily to hear of England’s entry into World War II. Erik and his friends don’t show much concern at first. But when Queen...
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Céline Sciamma – Naissance des pieuvres AKA Water Lilies (2007)
SynopsisSummer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and...
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Fred Kelemen – Frost (1997)
Frost is a landmark European film, cementing Fred Kelemen as an inheritor of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog. This three-hour epic 16mm film focuses on a mother and son fleeing her abusive...
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Nina Agadzhanova & Lev Kuleshov – Dva-Buldi-dva aka Two-Buldi-Two (1929)
“A father and son, both clowns, are to perform together for the first time, but the civil war separates them, and the elder Buldy, tempted for a moment to acquiesce to the White forces, casts his lot...
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Asko Kase – Detsembrikuumus AKA Decemberheat (2008)
The young country of Estonia is dancing to the jazzy tune of the 1920’s when on December 1, 1924, the capital Tallinn is overrun by members of the Comintern in an attempt to stage a Communist coup....
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Gilles Grangier & Georges Lautner – Les Bons Vivants AKA Un Grand Seigneur...
Pleasure-seekers deal with the official closing of French bordellos after the passing of the 1949 legislation outlawing the houses of ill repute. Part two finds a former prostitute who is besieged by...
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Fred Niblo & Dorothy Arzner – Blood and Sand [extended version] (1922)
Synopsis:Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother’s wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his...
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Mario Monicelli – La ragazza con la pistola AKA The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
Girl with a Pistol, directed in 1968 by Mario Monicelli and starring Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker and Carlo Giuffrè, is one of the most successful Italian comedies. Monica Vitti is Assunta, a Sicilian...
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