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Ingmar Bergman – Det regnar på vår kärlek AKA It Rains on Our Love (1946)
Quote: It Rains on Our Love / Det regnar på vår kärlek (1946) was Bergman’s fourth film and it paints a very romantic picture of poverty and love on the run. Two young lovebirds from the wrong side of...
View ArticleRungano Nyoni – I Am Not a Witch (2017)
Quote: Following a banal incident in her local village, 8-year old girl Shula is accused of witchcraft. After a short trial she is found guilty, taken into state custody and exiled to a witch camp in...
View ArticleMike De Leon – Alpha Kappa Omega Batch ’81 (1982)
Quote: Sid Lucero, a 26-year old pre-Med student is an aspiring neophyte of the Alpha Kappa Omega fraternity. Over a six-month initiation period, he and six other neophytes are subjected to severe...
View ArticleSouleymane Cissé – Baara AKA Work (1978)
Synopsis In this early work, Cissé focuses on a young innocent who has left the countryside for the city and become caught in the middle of social conflict. Befriended by the manager of a textile...
View ArticleAlan Rudolph – Welcome to L.A. (1976)
SYNOPSIS: The theme of romantic despair and shallowness is displayed utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around songwriter Carroll Barber, played by Keith...
View ArticleGarin Nugroho – Puisi tak terkuburkan AKA Unconcealed Poetry (2000)
Timely in terms of current Indonesian politics but in other respects long overdue, Nugroho’s extraordinary film looks back to 1965, when the assassination of seven army officers was unconvincingly...
View ArticleAli Reza Amini – Namehay bad AKA Letters in the Wind (2002)
Plot Iranian director Ali Reza Amini’s Namehay Bad (Letters in the Wind) is set in the familiar world of basic training. A group of uneducated cadets is abused, toughened up, and shaped by military...
View ArticleBahman Ghobadi – Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand AKA Turtles Can Fly (2004)
Quote: One of my most anticipated films at last year’s Toronto Film Festival was Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly. Ghobadi had directed A Time for Drunken Horses, a devastating film about Kurdish...
View ArticleSam Peckinpah – Convoy [+Extras] (1978)
SYNOPSIS: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider...
View ArticleSolveig Melkeraaen – Flink Pike AKA Good Girl (2014)
Quote: A feel good film about depressions. About being able to do it all, but losing it in a severe anxiety attack. About controlling angst together with the family, and be able to laugh of it all,...
View ArticleDon Edmonds – Wild Honey (1972)
Quote: A farm girl girl runs away from her sexually abusive father and ends up in Los Angeles. Hippies, LSD, prostitution, lesbianism, a threesome, and a meeting with a satanic cult soon follow....
View ArticleYasujirô Ozu – Ochazuke no aji AKA Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)
A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts. Quote: Taeko (Michiyo Kogure) despises and regularly deceives her quiet, saturnine husband, Mokichi (Shin Saburi), who works as a...
View ArticleManuel Mozos – Ramiro (2017)
From imdb: Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his...
View ArticleMario Camerini – I Promessi Sposi aka The Spirit and the Flesh (1941)
Alessandro Manzoni’s book I Promessi Sposi from 1823 seems to be one of the best kept secrets of the whole Italian literature. While by many considered to be the greatest novel ever written in the...
View ArticleAli Özgentürk – At (1982)
Ali Ozgenturk’s second feature was one of the most acclaimed Turkish films of the 1980s, winning numerous awards at international film festivals and even getting decent distribution in the U.S....
View ArticleNanni Moretti – Habemus Papam AKA We Have a Pope (2011)
Quote: The great Italian comic filmmaker, Nanni Moretti turns his satirical eye on the nomination of a new Pope. When the man is chosen he freezes at the immense responsibilities throwing the Vatican,...
View ArticleRuslan Korostenskiy – Velvet Sky (2017)
After his feature film debut, Ruslan Korostenskij returns to the screen with the erotic drama VELVET SKY. After Sophie’s secrets were revealed by her mother, Sophie decides to take a break from city...
View ArticleFrank Tuttle – No Limit (1931)
Theater usherette Bunny O’Day (Clara Bow) inadvertently becomes hostess of a private gambling den, and gets involved in a romance with a ne’er-do-well gambler. Review: Clara Bow, less boisterous than...
View ArticleKeisuke Kinoshita – Umi no hanabi AKA Fireworks Over the Sea (1951)
Quote: A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced....
View ArticleLionel Rogosin – On the Bowery (1957) (HD)
A mix of documentary and scripted footage on the Bowery, New York City’s skid row. Against a backdrop of men (and a few women) drinking in bars, talking and arguing, and sleeping on sidewalks, we have...
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