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Michael Crichton – Pursuit (1972)
A political extremist plans to spread stolen nerve gas in a city where a political convention is being held. Government agents are sent to catch him....
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Iluminacja AKA Illumination (1973)
Quote: Unanimous winner of all three main prizes at the 1973 Locarno International Film Festival, Zanussi’s landmark film is a dazzling kaleidoscope of ideas and images. Illumination explores the life...
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Max Ophüls – De Mayerling à Sarajevo AKA From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940)
Synopsis: In the late 1800’s, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He’s already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this...
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Walkower AKA Walkover (1965)
Quote: Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature (and first full-length narrative) cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the rhythms of his films influenced as much by jazz and (his own)...
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Étienne Faure – Bizarre (2015)
Quote: If there was one feature that lived up to its title in Berlin this year, it’s Bizarre, French director Etienne Faure’s squiggle of a film about a directionless and taciturn French teenager —...
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Eloy de la Iglesia – El techo de cristal aka The Glass Ceiling (1971)
“This is the second Eloy de la Iglesia film I have seen (the first being CANNIBAL MAN) and I found it to be an excellent thriller. Lonely housewife Carmen Sevilla begins to let her imagination get the...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Pociag AKA Night Train (1959)
Quote: Two strangers, Jerzy (Leon Niemczyk) and Marta (Lucyna Winnicka), accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. While...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst vor der Angst aka Fear of Fear (1975)
For a long, in-depth review; see Jim’s Reviews link From Bill’s Movie Emporium: The story presented in Angst Vor Der Angst isn’t original by any means, although in 1975 I’m sure it had some...
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Wayne Ewing – When I Die – The Gonzo Monument (2005)
IMDB: “When I Die” is about the making of the Gonzo Monument to Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, and the blasting of his ashes into the heavens. The infamous outlaw journalist described his funeral plans in a...
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Kelly Reichardt – Certain Women (2016)
Three strong-willed women (Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Michelle Williams) strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending...
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Federico Fellini – La Strada AKA The Road (1954)
Quote: La Strada is Federico Fellini’s moving masterpiece that explores the soul’s eternal conflict between the heart and mind. Zampano (Anthony Quinn) is a cruel, traveling carnival strongman who...
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Andrzej Wajda – Walesa. Czlowiek z nadziei AKA Walesa: Man of Hope (2013)
The depiction of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Poland’s Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, as events in the 1970s lead to a peaceful revolution. Quote: Wałęsa, an electrician at...
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Juan Miguel del Castillo – Techo y comida (2015)
A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son. http://nitroflare.com/view/36F51E9126EE1E6/Techo_Y_Comida.avi...
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Innocence (2004)
Quote: Is this a horror movie or a grim fairy tale? Dedicated to her colleague, confrontationalist director Gaspar Noé, and sourced from a work by dark expressionist Frank Wedekind, Lucile...
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Stephen Dunn – Closet Monster (2015)
A creative and driven teenager is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood. As seen at: 35th Istanbul Film Festival (2016) 40th Toronto International Film...
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Satyajit Ray – Aranyer Din Ratri AKA Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Quote: Widely regarded as one of Satyajit Ray’s most magnificent films, “Days and Nights in the Forest” is a beautiful and touching story about four young middle class men who leave Calcutta to spend...
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Ming-liang Tsai – Qing shao nian nuo zha AKA Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Quote: On a raining evening at a nondescript telephone booth in Taipei, two petty criminals, Ah-tze (Chen Chao-jung) and his friend Ah-ping (Jen Chang-bin) drill through the lock of the public...
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Takeshi Kitano – Hana-bi AKA Fireworks (1997)
Quote: “Hana-bi” is the highly acclaimed drama from and with Takeshi Kitano. In this film Kitano In a very honest way, also works up and reflects about his own inner life after his motorcycle accident...
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Hiroshi Teshigahara – Rikyu (1989)
Acclaimed director and headmaster of the Sogestsu school of flower arranging Hiroshi Teshigahara helms this elegant historical drama about tea master Sen no Rikyu. A Buddhist priest who talks of the...
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Masahiro Shinoda – Sakura no mori no mankai no shita AKA Under the Blossoming...
Plot: When a mountain man (Lone Wolf and Cub’s Tomisaburo Wakayama) kills a man and steals his wife (Shima Iwashita), he bites off more than he can chew. Rather than being a submissive victim, the...
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