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Agnès Varda – Documenteur (1981)
Documenteur, Agnès Varda’s companion piece and follow-up to her documentary Mur murs, shares with it a filming location and a similarly punning title (a menteur is a liar, in French). But the...
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Louis Delluc – Fièvre (1921)
Synopsis: Louis Delluc was one of the most important silent pioneers in France and probably one of the first persons in that country who thought of the cinema as an Art. He was part of group called...
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Frank Perry – Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Review by Michael Costello Frank Perry’s bleak study of the lot of a beleaguered Manhattan housewife features three excellent performances. Carrie Snodgress stars as the wife of a lawyer (Richard...
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Michael Mann – The Jericho Mile (1979)
by Hal Erickson Director Michael Mann co-wrote the teleplay for The Jericho Mile with Patrick J. Nolan. Peter Strauss stars as “Rain” Murphy, serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for first-degree...
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Raoul Ruiz – El realismo socialista AKA Socialist Realism (1973)
Quote: A people’s court dictates that a laborer kept some tools for himself and thus deserves derision. “But, can’t we improve?” he asks, without blushing, at the moment they decide his expulsion. The...
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Marin Karmitz – Coup pour coup AKA Blow for Blow (1972)
The film describes a strike in a French textile factory, when the striking workers occupy the factory. The title translates as, “Blow for Blow”, as in a fight. “A movie which must have scared lots of...
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Thorold Dickinson – The High Command (1938)
Synopsis: ‘A high-ranking general is stationed in West Africa, but when a new doctor arrives at his post he is forced to face his dark past. The doctor is an old acquaintance and holds a deadly secret...
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Philippe Claudel – Il y a longtemps que je t’aime AKA I’ve Loved You So Long...
Quote: Want a master class in film acting? Check out Kristin Scott Thomas as Juliette, a doctor just out of prison in this spellbinder from writer-director Philippe Claudel. Juliette has been invited...
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Xavier Dolan – J’ai tué ma mère AKA I Killed My Mother (2009)
Quote: With I Killed My Mother, writer-director Xavier Dolan makes a grandiose show of his pain and narcissism. The 20-year-old Canadian filmmaker appears in his own film as Hubert Minel, a...
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Sharunas Bartas – Peace to Us in Our Dreams (2015)
Plot Summary: A mild-mannered father, his restless daughter and his supine companion spend some time in a country cottage at the tail end of summer in Peace to Us in Our Dreams, from Lithuanian auteur...
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George Hoellering – Murder in the Cathedral (1951)
Do you like rare things? Low-budget but striking film version of TS Eliot’s revolutionary work. How much we would like to have the film!, 1 March 2007 Author: Dr Jacques COULARDEAU from Olliergues,...
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Sean Baker – Tangerine (2015)
Quote: It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee (newcomer Kitana Kiki Rodriguez) is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend (James Ransone, STARLET, “Generation Kill”) hasn’t been...
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Petra Costa & Lea Glob – Olmo & the Seagull AKA Olmo e a Gaivota (2015)
Olmo and the Seagull’ is a poetic and existential dive into an actress’s mind during the nine months of her pregnancy as she must confront her most fiery inner demons while trying to rewrite a new...
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Goran Radovanovic – Enklava AKA Enclave (2015)
Quote: The Serbian community remained living in Kosovo in small isolated communities – enclaves. Limited to a very confined space, Serbs live out their lives in dire circumstances. What happens when...
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Philippe Garrel – L’ombre des femmes AKA In the Shadow of Women (2015)
Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon...
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Jean-Paul Civeyrac –À travers la forêt AKA Through the Forest (2005)
Quote: Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s latest feature, Through the Forest is composed of ten meticulously crafted shots, each running for six or seven minutes. Despite this formal rigor, the narrative has a...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Cosmos (2015)
By Carlo Chatrian, pardolive.ch For his return to directing 15 years after La Fidélité, Andrzej Zulawski has chosen one of the most difficult authors to adapt and a text that poses significant...
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Jonas Carpignano – Mediterranea (2015)
Quote: Jacques Audiard’s decent Dheepan may have won the top prize at Cannes, but another drama about the experience of illegal immigrants in Europe deserves its fair share of the limelight. Screened...
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Francesco Rosi – Tre fratelli AKA Three Brothers (1981)
Quote: Three Brothers opens to an oddly sterile medium shot of a building wall (made even colder and more impersonal by the black and white photography) as the amplified sound of a heartbeat...
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Frantisek Vlácil – Mág (1987)
IMDB Review This movie is the very last opus of a great Czech director Frantisek Vlácil(1924-1999; Markéta Lazarová, Valley of the Bees, Concert at the End of Summer) and it’s truly his masterpiece....
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