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Jem Cohen – Museum Hours (2012)
Quote: Acclaimed filmmaker Jem Cohen’s new feature, Museum Hours, is a mesmerizing tale of two adrift strangers who find refuge in Vienna’s grand Kunsthistorisches Art Museum. Johann, a museum guard,...
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Wolfgang Becker – Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Quote: If not as dense as Godard’s Masculin Féminin, Wolfgang Becker’s Good Bye, Lenin! is an equally playful look at the effects of American globalization abroad. Christiane Kerner (Katrin Saß) is a...
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Yoshishige Yoshida – Kaigenrei AKA Coup D’Etat (1973)
Quote: Ikka Kita is a revolutionary, who suffers when he is brought his younger brother’s clothes, still smeared with his blood. Ikka’s brother followed the revoltionary’s precept and acted,...
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Christopher Hampton – Carrington (1995)
Quote: Frail, intellectual Bloomsburyan Lytton Strachey is the unlikely hero for a movie, but congratulations to writer-director Christopher Hampton for making the essayist an elitist everyone can...
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Jim Jarmusch – Paterson (2016)
Quote: The new movie written and directed by Jim Jarmusch is a total fantasy. This in spite of being shot on the streets of the New Jersey city in which it is set, and for which the movie itself and...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Ivanovo detstvo AKA Ivan’s Childhood (1962)
Quote: The debut feature from the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan’s Childhood is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of one boy’s war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the...
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Ingmar Bergman – Såsom i en spegel AKA Through a Glass Darkly [+Extras] (1961)
A young woman, Karin, has recently returned to the family island after spending some time in a mental hospital. On the island with her is her lonely brother and kind, but increasingly desperate...
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Larry Clark – The Smell of Us (2014) (HD)
Math, JP, Pacman and Marie belong to the same crew of skate kids in Paris. Every day they meet up at The Dome – behind the Museum of Modern Art, opposite the Eiffel Tower – skateboarding, goofing off...
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Hans Weingartner – Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei aka The Edukators [+extras]...
The Edukators (German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) is a German-Austrian film made by the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and released in 2004. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 2004 Cannes Film...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – La notte (1961)
Quote: One of the masterworks of 1960s cinema, La notte [The Night] marked yet another development in the continuous stylistic evolution of its director, Michelangelo Antonioni — even as it solidified...
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Marlen Khutsiyev – Mne dvadtsat let AKA I Am Twenty [+Extras] (1965)
Synopsis: I am Twenty is notable for its often dramatic camera movements, handheld camerawork and heavy use of location shooting, often incorporating non-actors (including a group of foreign exchange...
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Youssef Chahine – Iskanderija, kaman oue kaman AKA Alexandria Again and...
The last film in Youssef Chahine’s autobiographical Alexandria Trilogy stars Chahine himself as his cinematic alter ego, Yehia Mourad, completing his merging of fiction with real life and drama with...
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Yannis Sakaridis – Wild Duck (2013)
Synopsis A bankrupt telecoms engineer, employed by his ex-boss to investigate a phone-hacking operation, gets trapped into paying off either his economic or his moral debts. ———————– “Wild Duck” is...
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James L. Brooks – Broadcast News (1987)
Review (Sarah Goodman, DVD Bits) Writer, director and producer James L. Brooks, notably best known as a producer of The Simpsons, provides a satirical look at the world of television news, coupled...
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Robert Reinert – Nerven aka Nerves (1919)
Quote: In Nerven, writer-director-producer Robert Reinert tried to capture the “nervous epidemic” caused by war and misery which “drives people mad”. This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany,...
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Mia Hansen-Løve – L’avenir AKA Things to Come (2016)
Quote: Nathalie teaches philosophy at a high school in Paris. She is passionate about her job and particularly enjoys passing on the pleasure of thinking. Married with two children, she divides her...
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Valeriy Todorovskiy – Podmoskovnye Vechera AKA Katya Ismailova (1994)
Quote: A wife finds her life transformed after a torrid affair in this story of murder. Katia is a rather dull young woman who types manuscripts for Irina, her husband’s mother and successful writer...
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Ildikó Enyedi – Az én XX. századom AKA My Twentieth Century [+extra] (1989)
Synopsis: Dorothy Segda essays three roles in the Hungarian-made My 20th Century. The film begins with the birth of twin girls to a Budapest mother (Dorothy Segda) in 1880. Orphaned early on, the...
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Miklós Jancsó – Szörnyek évadja AKA Season of Monsters (1987)
Zoltai (Andras Balint) is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr....
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Peter Weir – The Mosquito Coast (1986)
From Reel Film Reviews: The Mosquito Coast, based on the novel by Paul Theroux, manages to do the impossible: It makes Harrison Ford come off as a jerk. But despite this (or maybe because of this),...
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