Masaki Kobayashi – Kaidan AKA Kwaidan [uncut] [+commentary] (1964)
Quote: For a film so widely and indelibly remembered, Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan has confounded a surprising number of critics over the years. Ever since its release in 1965, there have been those who...
View ArticleMarco Martins – São Jorge AKA Saint George (2016)
From TMDB: In 2011 Portugal began the so-called “year of the Troika” (EU, IMF and ECB budget cuts and economic restructuring), with the level of debt among the Portuguese people reaching staggering...
View ArticleAlain Resnais – Coeurs AKA Private Fears In Public Places (2006)
Private Fears in Public Places, (French: Cœurs (“Hearts”), is a 2006 French film directed by Alain Resnais. It was adapted from Alan Ayckbourn’s play Private Fears in Public Places. The film won...
View ArticlePaolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani – Cesare deve morire (2012)
Quote: The performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause. The lights go out; the actors leave the stage and return to their cells....
View ArticleLuc Béraud – Plein sud AKA Heat of Desire (1981)
Quote: In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with...
View ArticleLev Kuleshov – Velikiy uteshitel aka The Great Consoler (1933)
The Great Consoler is Lev Kuleshov’s most personal film reflecting both the facts of his life and his thoughts about the place of the artist in contemporary reality. It was the only film in the Soviet...
View ArticleMichel Mardore – Le mariage à la mode (1973)
Quote: A woman who has long had a stifling marriage in a boring province. She has an affair with a traveling photographer, follows him to Paris, and then has a series of unsatisfactory but interesting...
View ArticleLukas Valenta Rinner – Los decentes AKA A Decent Woman (2016)
A housemaid working in an exclusive gated community in the outskirts of Buenos Aires embarks on a journey of sexual and mental liberation in a nudist swinger-club. Nodding to Greek Weird Wave’s...
View ArticleNejc Gazvoda – Izlet AKA A Trip (2011)
Quote: Ziva, Andrej and Gregor are best friends since high school. Gregor is a soldier who is about to embark on a mission to Afghanistan and Ziva is going to study abroad. Andrej is their gay friend...
View ArticleEduardo Williams – El auge del humano AKA The Human Surge (2016)
Quote: An ingeniously shape-shifting debut from director Eduardo Williams, The Human Surge looks at today’s idle youth in an age of exploitative labour practices and illusory hyper-connection,...
View ArticleRoberto Minervini – Low Tide (2012)
Quote: A 12 year old boy and his single mother live parallel lives. The boy spends his days alone while his mother works and goes out with her friends. The boy’s solitude is both a source of freedom...
View ArticleDavid Lowery – A Ghost Story (2017)
Quote: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft...
View ArticleLaurent Cantet – Entre les murs AKA The Class (2008)
Quote: Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood. Quote: Cannes Palmes d’Or winner...
View ArticleRonald Bronstein – Frownland (2007)
Quote: First-time director Ronald Bronstein describes his extraordinary film as “a rotten egg lobbed with spazmo aim at the spotless surface of the silver screen.” Be forewarned: audience response has...
View ArticleEdmond T. Gréville – Remous AKA Whirlpool (1935)
Quote: The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is...
View ArticleMatías Piñeiro – La princesa de Francia AKA The Princess of France (2014)
Victor returns to Buenos Aires after a stay in Mexico for his father’s death to prepare a radio production of “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” Reuniting with his repertory, he finds himself sorting out...
View ArticleTeuvo Tulio – Mustasukkaisuus AKA Jealousy (1953)
Teuvo Tulio’s remake of his 1946 film, Levoton veri AKA Restless Blood, possibly even wilder and more surrealistic than the original. Enjoy! http://nitroflare.com/view/A76648422F68DDB/Jealousy.mkv...
View ArticleFabien Dufils – 1 Buck (2017)
Quote: Shifting from one pocket to another, from one man’s drama to another, a lowly dollar bill, ‘one buck’ takes us on an odyssey through the heart of a forgotten town in Louisiana....
View ArticleHana Jusic – Ne gledaj mi u pijat AKA Quit Staring at My Plate (2016)
Marijana’s life revolves around her family, whether she likes it or not. They live on top of one another in a tiny apartment, driving one another crazy. Then her controlling father has a stroke and is...
View ArticleTinto Brass – Caligola AKA Caligula (1979)
Quote: Some describe CALIGULIA as “the” most controversial film of its era. While this is debatable, it is certainly one of the most embarrassing: virtually every big name associated with the film...
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