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Anthony Mann – The Great Flamarion (1945)
Synopsis (All Movie Guide) — This ambitious independent production was packaged by producer W. Lee Wilder, brother of Billy Wilder, and distributed by Republic. The title character, played with relish...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Mutter Kusters’ Fahrt zum Himmel aka Mother...
Mother Küsters’ Trip to Heaven (German: Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel) is a 1975 German film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It stars Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karlheinz Böhm...
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – O thiasos aka The Traveling Players (1975)
Here is an excellent overview of the film that provides a ton of background information that greatly helps in understanding this outstanding film. from Jump Cut, no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 5-6 copyright...
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Bent Hamer – 1001 Gram (2014)
Quote: When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale....
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Robert Lepage – La Face cachée de la lune AKA The Far Side of the Moon...
Synopsis: Forty-something Quebeçois Philippe Roberge is floundering in his life. He believes that no one listens to him or takes him seriously. A graduate student in Philosophy of Scientific Culture,...
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Ben Safdie & Joshua Safdie – Heaven Knows What (2014)
Based on the experiences of Arielle Holmes — a homeless teenager with a ferocious Jersey accent — the film stars Holmes as Harley, a fictionalized version of herself: a heroin-hooked panhandler unable...
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Ariane Mnouchkine – Molière (1978)
Plot Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-73) was perhaps the greatest playwright of French history. His comedies have been performed, adapted and re-adapted continually from his day to ours not only...
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Nicholas Ray – 55 Days at Peking (1963)
from rottentomatoes: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray...
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Craig Zobel – Z for Zachariah (2015)
Description: In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors....
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Kira Muratova – Melodiya dlya sharmanki AKA Melody for a Street Organ (2009)
Quote: Kira Muratova, the grande dame of Eastern European cinema returns with her richest, most imposing vision of societal decay and personal efflorescence since The Aesthenic Syndrome encapsulated a...
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Yuliya Solntseva – Zacharovannaya Desna AKA The Enchanted Desna (1964)
Jonathan Rosenbaum’s comments on first seeing the film: May 26, 1972: A screening of Julia Solntseva’s THE ENCHANTED DESNA (1964) at the Cinémathèque. Here is another Russian masterpiece that, like...
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Eugène Green – La Sapienza (2014)
Synopsis: Named for the famous seventeenth-century Roman church Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, which was designed by the legendary architect (and Bernini rival) Francesco Borromini, LA SAPIENZA echoes...
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Miklós Jancsó – Szegénylegények AKA The Round-Up (1966)
SUMMARY A profound influence on filmmakers from Sergio Leone to Béla Tarr, The Round-Up is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of world cinema. Set in a detention camp in Hungary 1869, at a time of...
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Marko Babac, Zivojin Pavlovic & Vojislav ‘Kokan’ Rakonjac – Grad AKA City (1963)
The first film of the Yugoslav Black Wave. Quote: Grad is a psychological drama about the thin line that separates depression and melancholy. It gives us the opportunity to understand that the...
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Aki Kaurismäki – Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö aka The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Synopsis: Iiris leads a bleak existence. She has a dead end job working on the assembly line at a match factory. What meager wages she earns all goes toward supporting her mother and stepfather, with...
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Dusan Makavejev – Ljubavni slucaj ili tragedija sluzbenice P.T.T. AKA Love...
An early (1967) film by Dusan Makavejev, the master of the eastern European dirty joke (WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Montenegro). The passionate affair of a telephone operator and a Marxist rodent...
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Vittorio Gassman & Francesco Rosi – Kean aka Kean, Genio e Sregolatezza aka...
Synopsis Edmund Kean is a popular and flamboyant British actor of the nineteenth century, addicted however to vices and in debt. He argues with the Prince of Wales, his companion in intemperance, the...
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Olivier Assayas – L’Eau Froide AKA Cold Water (1994)
Quote: Gilles and Christine a boy and a girl live in the outskirts of Paris, their families are ineffective and distant and they lead a purposeless life. They steal some records in a supermarket but...
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Ilmar Raag – Kertu AKA Love is Blind (2013)
Quote: Kertu (Ursula Ratasepp) is a girl who is different to other people in her village. Extremely fearful and shy, she keeps to herself, and so the word around the village is that she is a...
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C.S. Leigh – Process (2004)
Quote: Filmmaker C.S. Leigh writes and directs his first feature film with the extreme drama The Process. French actress Béatrice Dalle plays an actress trying to kill herself. Through long,...
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