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Mike Leigh – Bleak Moments (1971)
Synopsis: The quiet desperate life of a secretary and her retarded sister depicted in a halting sequence of improvised fragments. The uncompromising cinematic debut of British director Mike Leigh...
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Vincent Sherman – Saturday’s Children (1940)
This third film version of Maxwell Anderson’s play Saturday’s Children stars Claude Rains as the impecunious but proud father of a large brood. Rains’ daughter Anne Shirley marries idealistic John...
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Walter Hugo Khouri – O Palácio dos Anjos aka The Palace of Angels (1970)
Synopsis: In São Paulo, the greedy Bárbara is not happy with her work in a loan and investment company. When her boss Ricardo invites Bárbara for a meeting at his apartment, he harasses her first and...
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Helmut Käutner – In jenen Tagen aka Seven Journeys (1947)
Synopsis: Told in seven chapters, Käutner’s first postwar film portrays the lives of average people overwhelmed and traumatized by the impact of fascism. Käutner uses the framing device of an...
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Roy Andersson – En duva satt på en gren och funderade på tillvaron AKA A...
Synopsis: Like modern times’ Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Sam and Jonathan, two travelling salesmen peddling novelty items, take us on a kaleidoscopic wandering through human destinies. A trip that...
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John Cromwell – Jalna (1935)
In this adaptation of author de la Roche’s chronicle of the passionate lives of the strange Whiteoaks of Jalna, their beautiful family estate located in souther Ontario. The story begins as a young...
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Francesco de Robertis & Roberto Rossellini – La Nave Bianca aka The White...
Quote: La Nave Bianca is a movie about a group of firemen on a Italian battleship, that takes part in a sea battle. During the battle one of the heaters is wounded and brought to the hospital ship,...
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Marcel L’Herbier – L’affaire du collier de la reine AKA Queen’s Necklace (1946)
One of the most expensive French films of the immediate postwar years, L’Affaire du Collier de la Reine is primarily a vehicle for the formidable Vivian Romance. The star plays an aristocrat in the...
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Gilles Carle – La tête de Normande St-Onge aka Normande (1975)
Synopsis: The demands of her family and the stress of daily life drive the mind of a woman into permanent fantasy as a way to cope. Quote: Normande St-Onge (Carole Laure) works in a drug store and...
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Robert Altman – 3 Women (1977)
David Kehr, Chicago Reader wrote: Robert Altman’s would-be American art film (1977) is murky, snide, and sloppy, but the director’s off the hook because he dreamed it all. Sissy Spacek and Shelley...
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Nancy Savoca – True Love (1989)
Synopsis: Donna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears...
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Serge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime moi non plus AKA I Love You, I Don’t (1976)
IMDB: The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she’s lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns...
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Claire Denis – Beau Travail AKA Good Work (1999)
Synopsis This film focuses on ex-Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, as he recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. His existence there was happy, strict and regimented, but...
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Hsiao-hsien Hou – Qian Xi Man Po AKA Millenium Mambo (2001)
Synopsis: Winner of the Grand Prix Technique at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Hou Hsiao Hsien’s MILLENNIUM MAMBO is a strikingly beautiful film set in Taipei’s hot nightclub scene. The remarkable Shu...
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Jacques Doillon – Ponette (1996)
An extremely captivating movie on how a little girl copes with her mother’s death. She withdraws from all the people around her, waiting for her mother to come back. She tries waiting, and when her...
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Vicente Aranda – Celos AKA Jealousy (1999)
Quote: A month before he’s to marry Carmen, Antonio finds a photograph of a man with his arm on her shoulder. The photograph triggers jealousy: he questions Carmen, Carman’s friend Cinta, and his...
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Gia Coppola – Palo Alto (2013)
Quote: Palo Alto is a 2013 American drama film based on James Franco’s short story collection Palo Alto (2010). Francis Ford Coppola’s granddaughter Gia Coppola directed the film and wrote the...
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Claude Chabrol – Les cousins (1959)
In Les cousins, Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a...
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Jacques Rivette – Céline et Julie vont en bateau aka Celine and Julie Go...
Quote: Jacques Rivette continues with his improvisatory tactics, allowing lead players to invent quite freely and also collab on the script. He mixes a modernized takeoff on Alice in Wonderland and a...
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Bob Kelljan – Black Oak Conspiracy (1977)
Quote: Black Oak Conspiracy stars Jesse Vint (Forbidden World) as Jingo Johnson, a struggling Hollywood stunt man who comes back home after hearing his mother is sick. He is greeted by his friend...
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