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Eun-Hee Kim – Ddakjung Bulre AKA Beetles (2009)
Quote: Screened at the Seoul Independent Film Festival, the 2008 Korean indie Beetles is the first feature film from director Kim Eun Hee. Blurring the boundary between dream and reality, fiction and...
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Robert Bresson – Quatre nuits d’un rêveur AKA Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)
Quote: Tells of the love of a young ‘dreamer’ for the woman he meets on the Pont Neuf in Paris one summer night, her obsession with an absent lover and the four nights they spend together. Dave Kehr...
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Sud pralad AKA Tropical Malady (2004)
Quote: Like Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s other films, Tropical Malady is a mechanism to channel thoughts and feelings that are hard to express in words – which means that trying to write about it is at...
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Roberto Rossellini – Era notte a Roma AKA It Was Night in Rome [Long ver.]...
Quote: In keeping with his previous film Il generale Della Rovere, filmmaker Roberto Rossellini pursues a wartime theme in this “personal epic” Era notte a Roma. The film is set in Rome during the...
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António da Cunha Telles – Kiss Me (2004)
Quote: Kiss Me” is the story of Laura, a woman who provokes intense desire and jealous and obsessive passions, fascinating every man that approaches her. In the late fifties, Laura decides to grab...
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Das Bekenntnis der Ina Kahr AKA The Confession of Ina...
Synopsis: ‘Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr...
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Maurice Pialat – La gueule ouverte AKA The Mouth Agape (1974) (HD)
Monique Mélinand portrays a woman in the late stages of terminal illness. Her son Philippe (Philippe Léotard), Philippe’s wife Nathalie (Nathalie Baye), and her husband Roger (Hubert Deschamps)...
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Sepideh Farsi – Le voyage de Maryam AKA The Journey of Maryam (2003)
A poignant and poetic piece exploring the nature of memory, longing, loss, and the people and places that make us who we are. Shot entirely from the vantage point of Maryam, the invisible heroine in...
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Aage Wiltrup – Lyntoget AKA Bullet Train (1951)
Synopsis: ‘A dangerous prison escapee, a young Jutland woman and a bank clerk, who has just deprived his employer of some cash and is now headed abroad, meet on a lyntog (literally “lightning train”)...
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Nicolas Provost – L’envahisseur AKA The Invader (2011)
Quote: Belgium short filmmaker and visual artist Nicolas Provost brings his compelling and assured 2011 debut The Invader (L’envahisseur) to the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Acting as a...
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Periklis Hoursoglou – O diaheiristis AKA The Building Manager (2009)
The story of 50-something Pavlos unfolds in an unspecified modern-day Greek city, portraying the man’s midlife crisis with a light and gently ironic tone. Pavlos takes over custodial duties from his...
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António da Cunha Telles – O Cerco AKA Besieged AKA The Circle (1970)
Quote: A young woman leaves her abusive husband to become the mistress of a married American living in Lisbon. He pays for her apartment, and she becomes a model. After an affair with a photographer...
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Campbell X – Stud Life (2012)
Stud Life takes the viewer into a slice of life of an urban gay scene where casual sex, and drug taking is not treated as deviant behaviour. Where gender is up for grabs but desire follows very strict...
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Louis Delluc – L’inondation (1924)
Synopsis : Dans un village paisible en bord du Rhône, Alban, jeune et honnête fermier, s’apprête à épouser la coquette et frivole Margot. Monsieur Broc, employé de mairie solitaire, retrouve sa fille...
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Otto Preminger – Such Good Friends (1971)
Synopsis from allmovie.com: Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by Dyan Cannon), a...
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Claude Chabrol – Alice ou la dernière fugue aka Alice or The Last Escapade...
Alice, fleeing her boring boyfriend, arrives at a mysterious house which turns out very difficult to leave. A dreamlike cross between Alice in Wonderland and a Borges story – a veritable garden of...
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Takashi Miike – Gokudô kuroshakai AKA Rainy Dog (1997)
“The quietest and, in some ways, most impressive film of the trilogy tells the story of Yuji, an exiled Yakuza, now living in Taiwan. In one of the film’s many similarities to Luc Besson’s Leon, Yuji...
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Kiumars Poorahmad – Sharm AKA Shame (1992)
Majid makes an 8-mm film with some poorly-lit sequences. To repeat the shots, Majid needs highly sensitive negatives and, therefore, some money. He comes up with the money by working as a coolie, but...
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Zhangke Jia – Zhantai AKA Platform (2000)
Quote: Platform opens to an appropriately temporally indeterminate sight of a bustling, crowded backstage of a provincial theater as a group of itinerant performers await the commencement of their...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Kaseki no mori AKA The Petrified Forest (1973)
Synopsis: Based on novel by Shintaro Ishihara, this is a human drama about the complex relationship of parent and child. Haruo spends his time working in a university hospital when he meets a...
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