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Jean Epstein – Coeur fidèle AKA The Faithful Heart (1923)
Quote: In Coeur Fidèle’s accompanying 44-page booklet, Jean Epstein, at a 1924 address, argues his film as “romantic” rather than”realist”, the label with which Italian poet Ricciotto Canudo assigned...
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Anne Fontaine – Les innocentes AKA The Innocents (2016)
Quote: It was only three years ago that Ida diligently aestheticized the blackness of religious habits against the whiteness of Polish snow, so it’s hard not to expect Anne Fontaine’s The Innocents,...
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Mark Noonan – You’re Ugly Too (2015)
After her mother’s death, Stacey (Lauren Kinsella) moves with her uncle Will (Aiden Gillen) to a remote region in the Irish midlands. As the two cautiously get to know each other,they have to deal...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Austeria AKA The Inn (1982)
Quote: Austeria takes place during the opening days of World War I, in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. Tag (Franciszek Pieczka) is a Jewish innkeeper whose inn (austeria means inn in the...
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Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley – Like Cattle Towards Glow (2015)
Quote: The film’s violence is the genuinely spiritual kind. A loud expression of the alienation that hums constantly in the elevator music to modern life. (John Farley, Full Stop) The novels, writings...
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Mara Eibl-Eibesfeldt – Im Spinnwebhaus (2015)
Jonas is already head of the family at just 12 years of age. He has been helping his two younger siblings and supporting his mother, Sabine, since his father left. Sabine is very loving towards her...
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Takashi Miike – Kaze ni tatsu raion AKA The Lion Standing in the Wind (2015)
Jack-of-all-trades director Miike Takashi takes on more serious material in the human drama The Lion Standing in the Wind about the experiences of a Japanese doctor in Africa. Featuring location...
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Benjamín Naishtat – El Movimiento AKA The Movement (2015)
Synopsis: El Movimiento takes place during the first half of the XIX century, in a vast and desolated land which has fallen into anarchy. Several groups of armed men drift along the infinite Pampas...
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Antoine Barraud – Le dos rouge AKA Portrait of the Artist (2014)
A Chinese aphorism says that although the poet dreams he is a butterfly, it is perhaps instead the butterfly that dreams it has become a poet. In Le dos rouge, a famous filmmaker played by Bertrand...
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Michel Franco – Chronic (2015)
A home care nurse works with terminally ill patients. http://nitroflare.com/view/BAA500D94D34976/Chronic.avi Language(s):English Subtitles:None
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Francesco Rosi – I magliari AkKA The Swindlers (1959)
Synopsis: In Rosi’s film I magliari (The Weavers, sometimes known as The Swindlers, 1959) the Southern Problem is articulated through the theme of emigration. The film is, in fact, both set and shot...
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Robert Bresson – Au hasard Balthazar AKA Balthazar (1966)
Quote: Balthazar is a farm animal – a donkey – born into a life of servitude: a beast of burden destined to work the land, carry bales of hay, provide occasional transportation. His harsh, often...
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Eldar Ryazanov – Vokzal dlya dvoikh AKA Railway Station For Two (1983)
Quote: Platon Ryabinin, a pianist, is traveling by train to a distant town of Griboedov to visit his father. He gets off to have lunch during a twenty minute stop at Zastupinsk railway station. He...
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Sulev Keedus – Georgica (1998)
Plot Synopsis Jakub Luukas, who had gone to Africa as a christian missionary shortly after World War II, returns to the small Estonian island where he was born more than 70 years ago. Since it is now...
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Ritwik Ghatak – Meghe Dhaka Tara AKA The Cloud-Caped Star (1960)
Quote: In an impoverished refugee village in Calcutta, an attractive and industrious young woman, Nita (Supriya Choudhury), breaks a sandal while passing through the market square, and without...
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Bob Quinn – Poitín AKA Poteen (1978)
Poitin is widely regarded as a classic of Irish cinema. It tells the story of a Conamara moonshiner, his daughter and two cheating agents who they outwit and bring to a tragic end. The story has a de...
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Michel Brault – Les Ordres AKA Orders (1974)
Les ordres has been rated by critics as one of the best Canadian films ever made. It subtly blends fiction and documentary realism in a chilling portrait of what can happen to a liberal democracy when...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Dekalog AKA The Decalogue (1989)
Quote: The Ten Commandments, exact and uncompromising, literally cast in stone, continues to provide a source of moral conflict in contemporary society. In the ten part epic masterpiece, Decalogue,...
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Tadeusz Konwicki – Ostatni dzien lata AKA The Last Day of Summer (1958)
Quote: There is something vaguely mythical to the manner in which Konwicki introduces his characters, both to us and to each other, lapped as much by the ethereal eeriness of the score as by the...
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Paul Verhoeven – Elle (2016)
Quote: Who else but Isabelle Huppert could have played Michèle Leblanc, the eponymous heroine of Paul Verhoeven’s Elle? The exuberant gravitas, the unapologetic condescension, the classily managed...
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