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Wim Wenders – Hammett (1982)
The plot Based in part on detective-fiction writer Dashiell Hammett’s early experiences as a Pinkerton detective, this moderately-noir film has Hammett (using his little-known first name, Sam)...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Mocky – Les vierges aka The Virgins (1962)
The story of five girls who are looking for their first love and first lovemaking. Some will get their heart’s desire, and some will get their hearts broken… at least for a while. 885MB | 1:24:37 |...
View ArticleAlexandre Astruc – Le rideau cramoisi (1953)
Plot: A young second lieutenant in the hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, recalls a strange adventure. While staying with an old couple he meets Albertine, his hosts’ daughter, falls in love with...
View ArticleAlfredo Ureta – La guarida del topo (2011)
Quote: Daniel, loner and hermit, is forced to give overnight shelter to Anna, his neighbor’s niece. The need for affection and human warmth of these two injured people will emerge, turning into a...
View ArticleFrançois Villiers – Le puits aux trois vérités AKA Three Faces of Sin (1961)
Synopsis Midnight in Paris, Faubourg St Honoré. In one house, a woman suddenly screams and the sound of a gunshot is heard. A short time later, Laurent Lénaud, a young painter, is running away with a...
View ArticleMark Piznarski – The 60’s (1999)
The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in...
View ArticleBen Hopkins – Hasret: Sehnsucht (2015)
A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life – but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city – its past, its...
View ArticleLarry Clark – Wassup Rockers (2005)
Quote: Photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark offers another look at the inner workings of urban youth culture in this comedy drama. Jonathan (Jonathan Velasquez) is a teenaged El Salvadorian refugee...
View ArticleMichael Haneke – Amour (2012)
Quote: Cinema feeds on stories of love and death, but how often do filmmakers really offer new or challenging perspectives on either? Michael Haneke’s ‘Amour’ is devastatingly original and unflinching...
View ArticleDesmond Davis – Smashing Time (1967)
Quote: SMASHING TIME is a 1967 comedy film starring Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave. It is a satire on the 1960s media-influenced phenomenon of Swinging London. It was written by George Melly and...
View ArticleSergei Parajanov – Tsvetok na kamne AKA A Little Flower on a Stone (1962)
Quote: The overtly propagandistic, anti-religious plot of The Flower on the Stone (Tsvetok na kamne, Dovzhenko Film Studio 1960–1962) does not look like promising Parajanov material: when a new...
View ArticleSergei Parajanov – Ukrainskaya rapsodiya aka Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
Quote: “Ukrainskaya Rapsodiya” (the USSR, 1961) of Sergueï Paradjanov is a film saga of oceanic proportion with many rivers flowing into it. The characters are the affluents which mix in and...
View ArticleMike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies what seems like an emotional dependence upon each other. This...
View ArticleIsao Yukisada – Kita no zeronen aka Year one in the north (2005)
Quote: In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part of Hokkaido. These people once supported the now...
View ArticleAkio Jissôji – Ijmete kudasai Henrietta AKA Arietta (1989)
Synopsis: A young widow (Keiko Kaja) becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza husband. She’s a depressed woman, merely going through the motions of existence, subjected...
View ArticleOtto Preminger – Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Synopsis: Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond’s old love interest, comes to Raymond’s villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life. Review:...
View ArticleOrson Welles – The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
The story of a legendary director named J.J. “Jake” Hannaford, who returns to Hollywood from years of semi-exile in Europe, with plans to complete work on his own innovative comeback movie, also...
View ArticlePen-Ek Ratanaruang – Invisible Waves (2006)
SYNOPSIS By RUSSELL EDWARDS (Variety) Bad karma does a slow fade, but gives the occasional wink, in “Invisible Waves,” Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s highly anticipated followup to “Last Life in the Universe.”...
View ArticleRaphaël Jacoulot – Avant l’aube (2011)
Director Raphaël Jacoulot’s dark and atmospheric mystery, set in an isolated high-Pyrenees hotel, has all the desired elements – precise and intelligent direction, excellent casting and a great...
View ArticlePhilippe Garrel – Liberté, la nuit (1984)
‘Liberte, la nuit’ is not really a political film, or, at least, a film about politics. Its central figures are an aging revolutionary helping Algerians in the anti-colonial war against France, his...
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