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Carol Reed – The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Pope Julius II (Rex Harrison) pulls Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) from his life’s work making sculptures to instead throw a fresco up on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, a dreary building the...
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Danny Boyle – Strumpet (2001)
Quote:Director Danny Boyle , Producer Martin Carr and Jim Cartwright have achieved what many would be afraid to do. This feature shot on dv has captured the heart of true movie making with is...
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Franklin J. Schaffner – Patton (1970)
Synopsis:“Patton” tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with Patton’s career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Europe...
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Ritwik Ghatak – Meghe Dhaka Tara AKA The Cloud-Caped Star (1960)
Quote:Nita (Supriya Choudhury), breaks a sandal while passing through the market square, and without complaining, continues barefoot on the graveled street, unable to buy a replacement pair of sandals...
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Terence Young – Mayerling (1968)
Synopsis:It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince, Archduke Rudolf, have never seen eye to eye. While the Emperor retains the traditions of the...
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Mitchell Leisen – Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Quote:This superior melodrama with a darkly comic tinge came out at a time when Mitchell Leisen’s career was running hot after a series of successes including films like Easy Living, Midnight, and...
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Mikhail Bogin – Dvoe AKA Two In Love (1965)
Quote:Dvoe aka Two aka Two in Love (Mikhail Bogin, 1965) (confusingly, the NY Times reviewer cited below refers to this as A Ballad of Love, the English title commonly given not to this but to Bogin’s...
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Madhur Bhandarkar – Page 3 (2005)
Page 3′ takes a behind-the-scenes look at A-list celebrity lifestyles through the eyes of a female entertainment journalist. It explores the power-play between the rich and famous and the media. It is...
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Gerardo de Leon – Jose Rizal’s “Noli me tángere” (1961)
Quote:A multi-awarded film by Filipino National Artist Gerardo de Leon, based on a novel written by martyr-hero Jose P. Rizal, and which trigerred the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Produced in 1961...
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Sydney Pollack – Three Days of the Condor (1975)
Quote:One of the most memorable paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of the Condor never loses its focus as a tense, compelling exercise in suspense. The plot rests on the...
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Jean Pierre Lefebvre – Les dernières fiançailles AKA The Last Betrothal (1973)
Quote:The sweet life of a couple together for seventy years. After another cardiac incident, Armand knows he doesn’t have much time left. But after all these years in the same house, he doesn’t want...
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Nikos Panayotopoulos – Ta hromata tis iridos AKA The Color of Iris AKA The...
A mysterious disappearance takes place during the shooting of a commercial on the beach in the early morning hours. An unknown man suddenly comes into the shot, then walks into the sea holding an...
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Noah Buschel – Sparrows Dance (2012)
Quote:When stage fright gets the best of her, a former actress stops leaving her apartment, crippled by fear of the outside world. Living off delivery food and residuals from her acting career, she...
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Michelangelo Frammartino – Il Dono AKA The Gift (2003)
SynopsisThe languid account of a disaster happening in slow motion. The film charts the bleak daily life of a village in Calabria, which once had a population of some fifteen thousand but is now down...
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Emmanuel Mouret – Mademoiselle de Joncquières (2018) (HD)
When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge. 6.04GB | 1 h 45 min | 1920×816 |...
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Cheng-sheng Lin – Mei li zai chang ge AKA Murmur Of Youth (1997)
Quote:Recent Taiwanese cinema has almost had a monopoly on the kind of angst that permeated so many European art films of the 1960’s. The anomie that envelops Lin Cheng-sheng’s ”Murmur of Youth” in a...
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Mabel Cheung – Chou tin dik tong wah AKA An Autumn’s Tale (1987)
Quote:Filmed in New York, story of naive young woman from Hong Kong who goes to New York to study. Street-wise cabbie cousin takes care of her in the big city. 2.26GB | 1 h 38 min | 1024×554 | mkv...
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Oleg Novkovic – Beli, beli svet AKA White White World (2010)
Quote:In the Serbian drama “White White World: The Miner’s Opera” (“Beli Beli Svet”), the characters sing, but never dance. Formulated as a modern day Greek tragedy set in the decrepit southeastern...
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Paul Schrader – American Gigolo (1980)
Quote:Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician’s wife, without expecting any pay. One of his...
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Edward Buzzell – Virtue (1932)
A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York street girl and a good-hearted cab driver–who first meet when she stiffs him for the fare–but other matters keep getting in their way,...
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