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Jean Renoir – Une partie de campagne AKA A Day in the Country (1936)
Quote: This bittersweet film from Jean Renoir, based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, is a tenderly comic idyll about a city family’s picnic in the French countryside and the romancing of the mother...
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Raoul Walsh – High Sierra (1941)
Review (Time Out Film Guide) A momentous gangster movie which took the genre out of its urban surroundings into the bleak sierras, and in so doing marked its transition into film noir. It isn’t just...
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Marcel Camus – Orfeu Negro AKA Black Orpheus [+Extras] (1959)
Quote: Screen: Legend Retold; ‘Black Orpheus’ Bows at the Plaza By BOSLEY CROWTHER Published: December 22, 1959 ALL tangled up in the madness of a Rio de Janeiro carnival, full of intoxicating samba...
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François Truffaut – Tirez sur le pianiste aka Shoot the Piano Player...
A hapless pianist at a jazz club gets caught up with the mob, when his older brother who owes money to them comes to him for help. Eventually, the piano player and his girlfriend become pawns in...
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Jean-Luc Godard – Sauve qui peut (la vie) AKA Every Man For Himself (1980)
Quote: During the 1970’s Jean Luc Godard abandoned the notion of making normal commercial films for cinematic distribution in favour of his Marxist-Leninist ‘Dziga Vertov’ propaganda films. The...
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Margarita Manda – Gia panta AKA Forever (2014)
An ode to cinema as a sensation. A train thunders through a tunnel, seagulls screech above the water. An empty station, a bleak harbour and two lonely souls in a grey town. He’s an engine driver, she...
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Georg Lhotzky – Moos auf den Steinen aka Moss on the Stones (1968)
Description Engaged to the daughter of an aging baron, an ambitious advertising executive wishes to renovate the baron’s crumbling castle into a holiday getaway for the social elite. In his zeal to...
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Nagisa Oshima – Ai no corrida aka In the Realm of the Senses [+Extras] (1976)
Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima’s controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art — making Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris of four...
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Jerry Schatzberg – Scarecrow (1973)
Plot: Max is an ex-con who’s been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who’s returning home to the midwest to see the child born while he was at sea. They form an unlikely...
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Roy Andersson – En kärlekshistoria aka A Swedish Love Story (1970)
Fifteen year-old Pär and fourteen year-old Annika fall in love… Quote: Summer with Annika: A Swedish Love Story (1970) Jean A. Gili Author of very few works – four films in thirty-seven years,...
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Georges Franju – Judex [+Extras] (1963)
There’s a world of difference between the natural, “found” surrealism of Louis Feuillade’s lighthearted French serial (1914) and the darker, studied surrealism and campy piety of this 1964 remake by...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Marnie (1964)
Quote: Marnie Edgar is a habitual liar and a thief who gets jobs as a secretary and after a few months robs the firms in question, usually of several thousand dollars. When she gets a job at...
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Claude Chabrol – Merci pour le chocolat (2000) (DVD)
When the young Jeanne finds out that she could have mistakenly been exchanged, from her cradle, with another newborn (the son of a famous piano player), she decides to contact this family, not really...
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Robert Mullan – We Will Sing aka Mes Dainuosime (2015)
A group of people -students, an elderly couple, a violinist searching for her husband (taken by the KGB), anxious parents, a priest and others- find themselves in the same place, on the evening of...
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François Truffaut – La femme d’à côté AKA The Woman Next Door (1981)
Quote: MUCH in the way that a writer of precise, clean, seemingly effortlessly flowing prose can capture one’s attention in an opening paragraph of essential but banal information, Francois Truffaut...
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Koji Wakamatsu – Okasareta hakui aka Violated Angels (1967)
A voyeur, invited into a dormitory for nurses, remains behind to violate and murder close to a dozen of them. Some of the nurses attempt to talk him out of ending their lives and much of the film is...
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Joe Swanberg – Digging for Fire (2015)
Quote: Young married couple Tim and Lee have planted the seeds of a family in their East L.A. duplex. Three years after the birth of their son, they’re still adjusting to the joy and pain of life with...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Ariel (1988)
From Eye For Film: Aki Kaurismäki’s first feature, Crime And Punishment (1983), updated and transplanted Dostoyevsky’s novel to present day Finland. Since then, the deadpan auteur has written,...
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Pierre Granier-Deferre – Le train AKA The Last Train (1973)
Synopsis: May 1940. Germany invades Europe, people panic and try to flee by any means possible. In France, Julien, a radio repairman, boards a train with his wife and child. As the men are placed in...
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Lars von Trier – Dogville (2003)
Late one night, a beautiful and well-dressed young woman, Grace, arrives in the mountainous old mining town of Dogville as a fugitive; following the sound of gunshots in the distance which have been...
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