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Werner Herzog – Herz aus Glas AKA Heart of Glass (1976)
Quote: If Werner Herzog’s The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser is, as I contend, an exegesis on the human tendency to contextualize life through custom – not to mention, of course, the inculcative parallels...
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Stina Werenfels – Dora oder Die sexuellen Neurosen unserer Eltern AKA Dora or...
Quote: At the age of 18, Dora is just beginning to blossom. Her mother Kristin has recently decided that Dora’s psychotherapeutic medication is no longer necessary. As the mentally disabled young...
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Bertrand Tavernier – Des enfants gâtés AKA Spoiled Children (1977)
Quote: Some films cry out to be made. Others whisper, and some just offer the tiniest, weariest shrug. ”Spoiled Children,” which opened yesterday at the Public Theater, is one of the latter. Its main...
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Uzak AKA Distant (2002) (HD)
Synopsis wrote: Uzak/Distant chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut reluctantly receives...
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Mikhail Kalatozov – Soy Cuba (1964) (HD)
Four vignettes in Batista’s Cuba dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless stories. In Havana, Maria faces shame when a man who fancies her discovers how she earns her...
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Carlos Jaureguialzo – Matrimonio AKA Marriage (2013)
Quote: Argentine director Carlos Jaureguialzo offers a fine take on the challenge with Matrimonio (Marriage), which will have its world premiere at the Miami International Film Festival this Sunday....
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Johannes Schmid – Agnes (2016)
The non-fiction author Walter falls for the physics student Agnes. He is fascinated by her extreme attitude towards life and her reserved appearance, which is quite the opposite of his quiet and...
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Nacer Khemir – Les baliseurs du desert AKA The Wanderers (1986)
Synopsis: A teacher is assigned to a remote desert village that is obsessed with a mysterious buried treasure and whose children are cursed to wander the desert. Review: Quote: A traveling writer and...
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Marco Bellocchio – Marcia trionfale AKA Victory March (1976)
Synopsis: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Der var engang AKA Once Upon a Time (1922)
Quote: Once upon a Time (a.k.a. Der var engang) is an atypical film for the Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer, a departure from his more usual realistic dramas into the realm of fantasy and...
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Nacer Khemir – Tawk al Hamama al Mafkoud AKA Le collier perdu de la colombe...
Synopsis: The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Coming across a fragment of manuscript, Hassan goes in search of the missing pieces, believing that...
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Bent Hamer – Eggs (1995)
Quote: Two brothers in their seventies, Pa and Moe, have lived together all their lives in a little house in the country, the only interruption being when Pa made a weekend trip to Småland on his...
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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Præsidenten AKA The President (1919)
Quote: It perhaps comes as no surprise, given Carl Theodor Dreyer’s lifelong, idealized melancholy over his own unresolved parentage, that the scenario selected for his first film, The President would...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Angst vor der Angst AKA Fear of Fear (1975)
Margot, who lives in a comfortable middle class apartment, fears that she is losing her mind after having had her second child. Her husband Kurt, who is busy studying for an exam, does not understand...
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Stina Werenfels – Nachbeben AKA Going Private (2006)
Quote: Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the crash of the stock exchange. One evening, on a barbecue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP’s Danish au pair girl threatens to...
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Claire Denis – Les salauds AKA Bastards (2013)
Quote: The world of Claire Denis’s Bastards is one of nightmarish inversion, where compassion has no place and connection only breeds despair. Structured around the fracturing of two family units, one...
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Jean Cocteau & René Clément – La belle et la bête AKA Beauty and the Beast...
Quote: While some other mid-20th-century directors were pursuing the chimera of “total cinema,” Jean Cocteau was chasing down the dream of a “total art.” But if “total cinema” meant capturing on...
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Satyajit Ray – Charulata AKA The Lonely Wife (1964)
Quote: The opening shots of Satyajit Ray’s Charulata bypass melodrama for the feel of a fairy tale, with bored housewife Charu (Madhabi Mukherjee) flitting about her spacious Victorian home like...
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Ken Loach – Family Life (1971)
A young woman, Janice, is living with her restrictive and conservative parents, who lead a dull working-class life, and consider their daughter to be “misbehaving” whenever she’s trying to find her...
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John Hayes – Hot Lunch (1978) (HD)
Andrew’s life has hit rock bottom. After being fired from his job and discovering that his girlfriend is having an affair, he hits the streets looking for work only to discover a non-stop series of...
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