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Nima Javidi – Melbourne (2014)
The film recounts the story of a young couple on their way to Melbourne to continue their studies. However, just a few hours before the departure of their flight, they are unintentionally involved in...
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Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)
“Insiang” is Lino Brocka’s tale of one girl’s coming of age in the slums of Manila. The title character, played by Hilda Koronel, is a young girl who lives in a small crowded shanty with her mother,...
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Max Ophüls – Divine (1935)
Synopsis: Ludivine Jarisse is a young woman who lives a contented but unexciting life in the country. One day, she is visited by Roberte, an old friend who has made a career for herself as an actress...
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Albert Lamorisse – Le ballon rouge AKA The Red Balloon (1956)
Quote: The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual “purity,” but not enough is said about the movie’s delightful manipulation. A quasi-silent comedy...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Nema-ye Nazdik AKA Close-Up (1990)
Quote: In 1989 in Tehran, a movie mad unemployed printer named Ali Sabzian was arrested for impersonating the famous film director Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The family he had fooled was deep in rehearsals...
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Mu Fei – Xiao cheng zhi chun AKA Spring in a Small Town (1948)
Taking place in a ruined family compound after the war, the film tells the story of the once prosperous Dai family. The husband and patriarch, Dai Liyan is an invalid, and spends his days in the...
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Elio Petri – La classe operaia va in paradiso AKA The Working Class Goes to...
Quote: “Lulu the Tool” is no more descriptive a title for Elio Petri’s Italian social drama that opened yesterday at the D. W. Griffith Cinema than “La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso” (“The Working...
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Flora Gomes – Po di Sangui aka l’arbre aux armes AKA Tree of blood (1996)
In the colorful forest village of Amanha Lundju, tradition demands that when a child is born a tree be planted. As the tree grows, it becomes the twin of the growing human being. At the same time,...
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Ciro Guerra – El abrazo de la serpiente AKA Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Quote: “You are nothing but a white!” So shouts indigenous Amazonian shaman Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) to the seemingly on-the-level but still suspicious German scientist/explorer Theodor (Jan...
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Emin Alper – Abluka AKA Frenzy (2015)
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: Amid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that he become an informant for the police gathering terrorist...
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Vitali Kanevsky – Samostoyatelnaya zhizn aka An Independent Life (1992)
on the road again… This is the second instalment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director’s life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic –Évolution aka Evolution (2015)
The only residents of young Nicholas’s seaside town are women and boys. When he sees a dead body in the ocean one day, he begins to question his existence and surroundings. Why must he, and all the...
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Jayro Bustamante – Ixcanul (2015)
María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm’s foreman. But María longs to discover the...
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Mauro Bolognini – Per le antiche scale AKA Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)
Quote: A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is ruled over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate and benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to...
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Bo Widerberg – Elvira Madigan (1967)
“Exquisite” is only the first word that surges in my mind as an appropriate description of Elvira Madigan, a Swedish film by Bo Widerberg that was put on at the late show in Philharmonic Hall last...
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Jean Renoir – La chienne AKA The Bitch (1931)
Maurice (Michel Simon) is a married cashier who meets Lulu (Janie Marèze), a streetwalker. Their chance meeting results in Maurice falling in love with Lulu. She, however, is in love with her...
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Louis Feuillade – Pierrot, Pierrette (1924)
Pierrot et Pierrette, brother and sister, live in a caravan with their grandfather, the former ringmaster of a circus. To earn a living, they sing in the streets, and their lives are happy. But a...
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Glauber Rocha – Der Leone Have Sept Cabeças AKA The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970)
ın a African country, the people decides to take arms for the revolution, but the white, defended by mercenaries and commanded by a American agent, will defend the interests of capitalists and of...
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Jean Negulesco – Alice in Movieland (1940)
Synopsis: In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her...
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Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt – Havana Motor Club (2015)
Reforms have offered opportunity in Cuba but the children of the Revolution are unsure of the best route forward. For a half-dozen drag racers, this means last-minute changes to their beloved American...
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