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Zbynek Brynych –…a páty jezdec je Strach AKA …and the Fifth Horseman Is Fear...
Synopsis: Dr. Braun is forbidden to practice medicine because he’s a Jew living in Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia. He’s old, seems resigned about the fate of the Jews, and even works in the Department...
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Angelina Jolie – First They Killed My Father (2017)
Synopsis: Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge. Review: In the Western world today, the Khmer Rouge are...
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Mathieu Amalric – Barbara (2017)
Quote: While her star continues to shine brightly in France 20 years after her death, the singer Barbara remains a lesser-known artist in other parts of Europe, not to mention on the other side of the...
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Abdullah Oguz – Mutluluk AKA Bliss (2007)
Quote: In spite of the palpable ubiquity of misogyny across many diverse quarters of the Arabic world, filmic representation of the Middle Eastern female subaltern often feels reductive, and at its...
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Sidney Lumet – Child’s Play (1972)
Synopsis Leon Prochnik adapted the evocative Robert Moresco play Child’s Play for the screen, with Sidney Lumet assuming directorial duties. Beau Bridges stars as a young teacher at an exclusive...
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Ruben Östlund – The Square (2017)
Quote: A prestigious Stockholm museum’s chief art curator finds himself in times of both professional and personal crisis as he attempts to set up a controversial new exhibit....
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Sean Baker – The Florida Project (2017)
Quote: Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while...
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Sidney Lumet – Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Quote: Had Dame Agatha Christie’s “Murder on the Orient Express” been made into a movie 40 years ago (when it was published here as “Murder on the Calais Coach”), it would have been photographed in...
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Aku Louhimies – Tuntematon sotilas AKA The Unknown Soldier (2017)
Synopsis: A film adaptation of Väinö Linna’s best selling novel The Unknown Soldier (1954) and the novel’s unedited manuscript version, Sotaromaani. The film’s setting is based on the unit Väinö Linna...
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Urszula Antoniak – Nothing Personal (2009)
Quote: Alone in her empty flat, from her window Anne observes the people passing by who nervously snatch up the personal belongings and pieces of furniture she has put out on the pavement. Her final...
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Abdellatif Kechiche – La graine et le mulet AKA The Secret of the Grain (2007)
Quote: The winner of four César awards, including best picture and director, Abdellatif Kechiche’s The Secret of the Grain is a stirring drama about the daily joys and struggles of a bustling...
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Alfred Hitchcock – Rebecca (1940)
Quote: Rebecca is a 1940 psychological/dramatic noir thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock as his first American project, and his first film produced under his contract with David O. Selznick. The...
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Lawrence Schiller – The Executioner’s Song (1982)
Quote: The Executioner’s Song is one of the best films about crime and punishment ever made. Far from being lurid or simpleminded, it paints a stark picture of how it must have been to live around...
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Werner Herzog – Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Synopsis: Klaus Kinski plays the title role of an obsessed opera lover who wants to build an opera in the jungle. To accomplish this he first has to make a fortune in the rubber business, and his...
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Alfred Hitchcock – The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Quote: In this best-loved of Hitchcock’s British-made thrillers, a young woman on a train meets a charming old lady (Dame May Whitty), who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having...
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Mario Soldati – Malombra (1942)
Like Piccolo mondo antico, Malombra is a film set in a grandiose, but a bit crowded aristocratic house, which is itself squashed between the beautiful, but deadly see, and the stolid, un-romantic...
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Shion Sono – Anchiporuno AKA Antiporno (2016)
Kyoko is a twenty-one-year-old artist who loves being at the center of attention. One day, feeling down, she lashes out against her assistant, sexually humiliating her in front of the rest of the...
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Daniel Sandu – One Step Behind the Seraphim (2017)
A group of freshmen in an orthodox college are introduced in a world of cons, pleasure and money, but they soon discover that’s not the way one’s life should be lead....
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Tetsuji Takechi – Kuroi yuki AKA Black Snow (1965)
Synopsis: Review from Midnight Eye: Credits roll over a static shot of a prostitute, lying prone on her back with all the aloofness of Manet’s Olympia and nothing but the prostrate figure of a hulking...
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Jafar Panahi – Dayereh AKA The Circle [+extras] (2000)
Synopsis: In a Tehran hospital, a woman awaits anxiously for news about her grandchild – and she’s shattered when she learns that the baby is a girl. Outside the hospital are three young women –...
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