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André Téchiné – Quand on a 17 ans AKA Being 17 (2016)
Quote: Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when...
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Alex Anwandter – Nunca vas a estar solo AKA You’ll Never Be Alone (2016)
Quote: First feature film directed by Alex Anwandter and based on a true story. You’ll never be alone tells the story of Juan, a withdrawn manager at a mannequin factory who after his teenage gay son...
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Agnès Varda – Jane B. par Agnès V. AKA Jane B. for Agnes V. (1988)
Quote: There is a good theory that explains why Agnes Varda’s Jane B. for Agnes V. was never officially distributed in the United States. Apparently, the few distributors that saw it after Varda...
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Srdjan Dragojevic – Lepa sela lepo gore AKA Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
Plot: At the Belgrade army hospital, casualties of Bosnian civil war are treated. In the hospital they remember their youth and the war. Two young boys, Halil, a Muslim, and Milan, a Serb, have grown...
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Youssef Chahine – Hadduta misrija AKA An Egyptian Story (1982)
Boldly blending personal and political histories, intercutting its fast-moving fictional scenes with documentary footage, this sort of sequel to Alexandria – Why? follows the fortunes of Chahine’s...
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Pablo Larraín – No (2012) (HD)
A 2012 Chilean drama film directed by Pablo Larraín. The film is based on the unpublished play El Plebiscito, written by Antonio Skármeta. Mexican actor Gael García Bernal plays René, an in-demand...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Zui hao de shi guang AKA Three Times (2005)
Synopsis: Three stories about a man and a woman, all three using the same actors. Three years: 1966, 1911, 2005. Three varieties of love: unfulfilled, mercenary, meaningless. Review: After two films...
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Juanjo Giménez Peña – Timecode (2016)
Synopsis: Parking lot security guard Luna is bored with her uneventful daily routine but a call about a customer complaint leads her to discover how the night guard, Diego, alleviates his boredom....
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Tatsumi Kumashiro – Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu AKA Street of Joy (1974)
It’s the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in 1958. At the Kofukuya’s (literally, the house that sells happiness), five prostitutes decide to celebrate...
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Marcel Carné – Les portes de la nuit AKA Gates of the Night (1946)
S y n o p s i s: February 1945. In the Paris metro, manual worker Jean Diego is accosted by a tramp, who introduces himself as Fate and lets slip the tragic future that awaits him. According to Fate,...
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Hal Ashby – The Landlord (1970)
Quote: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders “runs away” from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention...
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Marcel Carné – Les enfants du paradis aka Children Of Paradise [+Commentary]...
Synopsis ©Hal Erickson Even in 1945, Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert’s screenplay concerns...
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Volker Schlöndorff – Die Blechtrommel AKA The Tin Drum [Director’s Cut] (1979)
Quote: “A country unable to mourn,” Volker Schlöndorff wrote in his journal as he adapted Günter Grass’ novel, The Tin Drum. “Germany, to this day, is the poisoned heart of Europe.” When the film...
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Rolf Schübel – Gloomy Sunday – Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod (1999)
Budapest in the thirties. The restaurant owner Laszlo hires the pianist András to play in his restaurant. Both men fall in love with the beautiful waitress Ilona who inspires András to his only...
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Cristian Mungiu – Bacalaureat AKA Graduation (2016) (HD)
Quote: If any additional evidence was required to confirm Cristian Mungiu as one of the leading European filmmakers of the day, here comes Graduation, his most mature film to date. This portrait of...
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Stephen Poliakoff – Close My Eyes (1991)
Incest, architecture and messing about on the river in Stephen Poliakoff’s frank, challenging and taboo-flaunting London drama. Separated as pre-teens when their parents divorced, Natalie (Saskia...
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Toshiharu Ikeda – Kagi AKA The Key (1997)
Ikuko is a mature, reserved Kyoto woman married for many years to a respectable, now-middle-aged man. The only problem in their relationship has been that her husband is dissatisfied with her lack of...
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Przypadek AKA Blind Chance [+Extras] (1987)
Quote: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance is a powerful political fable that provides an early glimpse at the unique style that would later lead to acclaimed international successes like the Three...
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Arnold Fanck & Georg Wilhelm Pabst – Die Weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü AKA The...
Plot Synopsis While enjoying a romantic stay in a remote mountain cabin, Maria and Hans (Leni Riefenstahl and Ernst Petersen) discover a logbook revealing the tragic tale of Dr. Johannes Krafft...
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Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger – The Small Back Room [+Commentary] (1949)
The Small Back Room details the professional and personal travails of troubled, alcoholic research scientist and military bomb-disposal expert Sammy Rice (David Farrar), who, while struggling with a...
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