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Tony Richardson – The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Plot: A rebellious youth, sentenced to a boy’s reformatory for robbing a bakery, rises through the ranks of the institution through his prowess as a long distance runner. During his solitary runs,...
View ArticleShawn Garry – Desierto sur aka South Desert (2008)
Quote: Sofia is a young Spanish girl who loses her mother to an illness. An enigmatic letter falls into her hands, one that her mother sent to Chile when she was alive. The letter is returned by the...
View ArticleMonta Bell – Torrent (1926)
IMDb review: Greta Garbo’s American film debut is an analogy of how our lives can be swept off course by fate and our actions, as in a torrent, causing us to lose a part of ourselves along the way....
View ArticleGiorgia Cecere – In un posto bellissimo (2015)
A beauteous depiction of a woman’s life and gradual liberation. Lucia has long been married to Andrea and is fully occupied by raising their son and her work in a flower shop. But everything is turned...
View ArticleFrançois Bouvier – Paul à Québec (2015)
Quote: Paul is a cartoonist who lives with his girlfriend and their little daughter in Montreal in the summer of 1999. His in-laws, the Beaulieus, are a large, joyful clan composed of siblings,...
View ArticleHenri Verneuil – Le corps de mon ennemi AKA Body of My Enemy (1976)
Synopsis: ‘Francois Leclerc returns to his home, an industrial town in northern France, after serving a seven year prison sentence for a murder he did not commit. He recalls the events which led up to...
View ArticleClaude Chabrol – Le boucher (1970)
Synopsis: During a wedding celebration in a small rural French village, schoolteacher Helene (Stephane Audran) strikes up a conversation with the local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne), who has just...
View ArticleMartti Helde – Risttuules AKA In The Crosswind (2014)
“Risttuules” is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna. It all started 14th of June 1941 when trucks came for the innocent families with their...
View ArticleChuan Lu – City of Life and Death AKA Nanking Nanking (2009)
The third film from award-winning Fifth Generation director Lu Chuan (Kekexili: Mountain Patrol), City of Life and Death (Nanking Nanking) is a devastating account of the massacre that occurred during...
View ArticleRadu Jude – Trece si prin perete AKA It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014)
An old man tries to play backgammon with friends while babysitting his granddaughter, who’s terrified of the young suicide in their building....
View ArticleNuanxing Zhang – Qing chun ji AKA Sacrificed Youth (1985)
TimeOut London wrote: A lyrical, elegiac tale about the generation of students banished to remote agricultural regions of China during the Cultural Revolution. 17-year-old Li Chun, a shy, even...
View ArticleRadu Jude – O umbra de nor AKA Shadow of a Cloud (2013)
“My wretched life has passed like a deep sleep, like the shadow of a cloud, withering like a wildflower. And the joints of my limbs have begun to weaken, to twist and shake in my body. And my evil...
View ArticleJohn G. Blystone – Change of Heart (1934)
Quote: Four courageous college graduates become heroes when they successfully complete a 15-hour coast-to-coast plane flight. Alas, things don’t go so well for the foursome when they return to earth...
View ArticlePaolo Sorrentino – This Must Be the Place (2011)
Plot / Synopsis 50 year old, retired goth rocker Cheyenne travels from London to New York to visit his dying father, and journeys across the United States on a mission to seek revenge against the...
View ArticleClaude Miller – La petite Lili (2003)
Quote: A contemporary adaptation of Chekhov’s The Seagull set around catty, jealous and precocious film industry types. The story revolves around Mado, a movie-star past her prime who owns an elegant...
View ArticleRoss Partridge – Lamb (2015)
Quote: When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither...
View ArticleJacques Audiard – Dheepan (2015)
Quote: Dheepan is a Tamil freedom fighter, a Tiger. In Sri Lanka, the Civil War is reaching its end, and defeat is near. Dheepan decides to flee, taking with him two strangers – a woman and a little...
View ArticleWoody Allen – Another Woman (1988)
Quote: It’s worth noting that in 1978, ten years before he made “Another Woman,” Woody Allen created another quiet film, a drama with prominent Bergmanesque influences. The film was called...
View ArticleTobias Lindholm – Krigen AKA A War (2015)
Quote: Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile back in Denmark Claus’ wife Maria (Tuva Novotny) is trying to hold everyday life...
View ArticleKing Vidor – Our Daily Bread [+Extras] (1934)
synopsis – AMG: Unable to secure Hollywood-studio backing for his Depression-era agrarian drama Our Daily Bread, director King Vidor financed the picture himself, with the eleventh-hour assistance of...
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