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John Boorman – The General (1998)
The General begins with the death of Martin Cahill–celebrated Dublin gangster who stole millions during the 1980s–then literally reverses the approach and assault of his IRA assassin, flashing back in...
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Céline Sciamma – Portrait de la jeune fille en feu AKA Portrait of a Lady on...
Quote:France, 1760. Marianne is commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Because she is a reluctant bride-to-be, Marianne arrives under the...
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Basilio Martín Patino – Nueve cartas a Berta AKA Nine Letters to Berta (1966)
Quote:Lorenzo, a student at Salamanca in the late 1950s, has just spent a summer in England where he has discovered new ways of life and other horizons as well as meeting and falling in love Berta,...
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Walter Grauman – I Deal in Danger (1966)
StorylineDuring World War II, an American who sympathizes with the Nazi cause defects to Germany, where he is greeted as a hero and given a job broadcasting propaganda to the West. What the Nazis...
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Victor Saville – The Green Years (1946)
Plot:From the author of The Citadel and in the grand epic tradition of MGM’s adaptations, The Green Years is the moving story of a boy’s difficult growth to manhood. When young Robert Shannon is...
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Maroun Bagdadi – La fille de l’air AKA The Girl in the Air (1992)
Synopsis:Brigitte lives with her boyfriend, Daniel, who is on the run having escaped from prison for a series of armed robbery offences. Brigitte is a few months’ from giving birth when the couple’s...
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Elia Kazan – The Last Tycoon (1976)
The Last Tycoon (1976) is a feature dramatic film based upon Harold Pinter’s screenplay adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon, sometimes known as The Love of the Last Tycoon. Directed by...
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Frank Wisbar – Die Unbekannte AKA The Unknown (1936)
Here’s a film that’s very rare and had no commercial exposure after the war due to the sad fact that the last 8 minutes have only survived without any sound. The copy isn’t perfectly sharp and has a...
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Tom Gries – The Hawaiians AKA Master of the Islands (1970)
The intertwined lives of two kindred souls with ambition begins when Captain Whip Hoxworth discovers that Nyuk Tsin has been smuggled aboard as part of cargo on The Carthaginian, which he captains, a...
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Axelle Ropert – La famille Wolberg AKA The Wolberg Family (2009)
SynopsisHe can knock out an amazing speech on the American soul to dumbfounded schoolchildren, meddle in his fellow citizens’ lives, or make his 18-year-old daughter swear that never would she leave...
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Michael Almereyda – Another Girl, Another Planet (1992)
Quote:As Another Girl, Another Planet’s hapless protagonist Bill (Barry Sherman) thinks back on relationships with girlfriends past, the Pixelvision might be read as the haziness of his memory...
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Eisuke Naitô – Sensei wo ryûzan saseru-kai AKA Let’s Make the Teacher Have a...
Let’s Make the Teacher Have a Miscarriage Club is a Japanese movie written and directed by Eisuke Naito. It was screened at the Nippon Connection Film Festival on April 30, 2011 and released by...
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Andrew Kotting – This Filthy Earth (2001)
From The GuardianFilthy is right. This is a film to counter-balance any lingering misapprehension that the countryside is a place of picturesque tranquillity – and, thank heavens, it is not your...
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Nobuhiro Suwa – M/Other (1999)
Quote:The romantic pretensions of Hollywood to the contrary, love is a very messy business. After all, the other person is a completely separate being, whose independent thoughts, feelings, and...
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Jean Eustache – La maman et la putain (1973)
A few days of a dandyish French intellectual in his late 20s named Alexandre (Jean-Pierre Leaud), who’s living with and supported by his lover, Marie (Bernadette Lafont); she’s in her mid-30s and runs...
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Marin Karmitz – Coup pour coup AKA Blow for Blow (1972)
Synopsis by Clarke FountainCoup Pour Coup is a film about a worker’s strike at a textile plant, and is written and enacted by the actual striking workers. This film was a collaborative and collective...
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Florestano Vancini – Le stagioni del nostro amore AKA Seasons of Our Love (1966)
StorylineVittorio Borghi, a middle-aged journalist torn between young mistress and wife he no longer loves, returns to his hometown Mantua. There he remembers childhood in the era of fascism, war and...
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Frank Beyer – Spur der Steine AKA Trace of Stones (1966)
Synopsis:‘Hannes Balla is the foreman of a group of building construction workers at the large construction site “Schkona” in the GDR. They spend most of their time working hard and drinking harder –...
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Richard Quine – Full of Life (1956)
Museum of Modern Art writes:In a gender twist on the “meddling mother-in-law,” Nick Rocco’s old-world father, Vittorio Rocco (Salvatore Baccaloni), can’t help insinuating himself into his son and...
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John Ford – The Long Voyage Home (1940)
Shannon Kelley writes:The powers and fascinations of director John Ford and playwright Eugene O’Neill are happily met in this 1940 feature dramatizing the lives of men who serve as crew members aboard...
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