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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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Paul Schrader – Cat People (1982)
Plot :The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to Leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People. We follow...
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Shirley Clarke – The Connection (1962)
Synopsis: THE CONNECTION is one of the most vital, fascinating films of the American independent world. Created by a woman director, Shirley Clarke, at a time when they were in very short supply, the...
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Ingmar Bergman – Beröringen AKA The Touch (1971)
Quote: Karin (Bibi Andersson), a happily married mother of two, surprises herself by responding in-kind to an unforeseen profession of love from David (Elliott Gould), an archaeologist visiting...
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Aleksandr Razumnyj – Mat aka Mother [Incomplete] (1919)
First screen adaptation of Gorky’s ” Mother” 1 incomplete ( saved only 22 minutes from 60 ) 2 timecode 3 no subs ( and lot of Russian intertitles) 4 no score...
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Dan Castle – Newcastle (2008)
IMDB: Newcastle’ is a coming-of-age/family drama/surfing movie. 17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor’s failure to become surfing’s Next Big Thing. Even when he’s in his...
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Shunji Iwai – Riri Shushu no subete AKA All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)
Quote: Shunji Iwai’s Lily Chou-Chou offers eternal peace. She’s ethereal, the rebirth of death (indeed, she was born the moment Mark David Chapman shot and killed John Lennon), and all-powerful, a...
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Tetsuya Nakashima – Kokuhaku AKA Confessions (2010)
Quote: A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter’s death. Quote: Marketers have been...
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Kinji Fukasaku & Koreyoshi Kurahara – Seishun no mon AKA The Gate Of Youth...
This hard-to-find Fukasaku/Kurahara collaboration is an interesting coming-of-age story. The boy Shisuke grows up in a coal mining community in Kyushu, during and after the Second World War, and the...
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Orson Welles – The Merchant of Venice – Costume Tests (1969)
This short clip (10mins) features colour footage shot of costume tests for Welles unfinished project “The Merchant of Venice” from 1969 and whilst there is no sound to the footage, the music is part...
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Mikio Naruse – Yama no oto AKA Sound of the Mountain (1954)
Review (Dag Sødtholt, Sound of the Mountain: The Beauty of Pessimism, Senses of Cinema) If you have ever wondered what happened to the various Setsuko Hara characters from all those Ozu films after...
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Hachi no su no kodomotachi AKA Children of the Beehive (1948)
The movie focuses on the plight of ten war orphans hailing from different cities across Japan. With nowhere to go, they scavenge around train stations, scratching out an existence by means of black...
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Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán – Jean Gentil (2010)
Quote: In Jean Gentil, a man looks for a job in a cacophonous city that wouldn’t notice if he had never existed. He’s wearing a tie and the kind of sadness that removes from the face any immediately...
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Helena Wittmann – Drift (2017)
Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in...
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Gustav Ucicky – Flüchtlinge AKA Refugees (1933)
Propaganda film detailing the plight of ethnic Germans, known as “Volga Germans”, in the Soviet province of Manchuria. http://nitroflare.com/view/863B286ECC9F0C4/Fluechtlinge_1933.upgrade.part1.rar...
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Shunji Iwai – Hana to Arisu AKA Hana and Alice [+Extra] (2004)
“DVD Talk” wrote: Though overlong at 135 minutes, Hana & Alice (Hana to Arisu, 2004) is another intriguing effort by its jack-of-all-trades filmmaker, Shunji Iwai, who not only wrote and directed...
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Mikhail Kalatozov – Letyat zhuravli AKA The Crane’s are Flying (1957)
Veronica and Boris are walking in the streets of Moscow and they love each other. Veronica is laughing, cause they are happy together this morning. They see some cranes in the sky. When arriving to...
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Andrew Haigh – 45 Years (2015)
Plot Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and her husband Geoff (Tom Courtenay) had to cancel the party for their 40th anniversary at short notice when Geoff underwent bypass surgery. The comfortably off,...
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Andrew Haigh – Lean on Pete (2017)
Fifteen-year-old Charley lives with his alcoholic father (Travis Fimmel) in a run-down house on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon. In an effort to help his dad stay afloat, Charley takes a job at a...
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Masaki Kobayashi – Musuko no seishun AKA Youth of the Son (1952)
Quote: The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls. YOUTH OF THE SON (1952, aka MUSUKO NO SEISHUN) marked...
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