2011-2020

  • Emmanuel Mouret – Mademoiselle de Joncquières (2018) (HD)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaEmmanuel MouretFrance

    When a romance between a widow and a notorious libertine takes an unexpected turn, Mademoiselle de Joncquières becomes instrumental to one lover’s plans for revenge.Read More »

  • Hui-Chen Huang – Ri Chang Dui Hua AKA Small Talk (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryHui-Chen HuangTaiwan

    Quote:
    Small Talk is a 2016 Taiwanese documentary feature film in which the director Huang Hui-chen attempts to reveal and reconcile a painful past shared between herself and her mother A-nu, a lesbian Taoist priestess.Read More »

  • Frank Beauvais – Ne croyez surtout pas que je hurle AKA Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryFranceFrank Beauvais

    January 2016. The love story that brought me to this village in Alsace where I live ended six months ago. At 45, I am now alone, without a car, a job or any real prospects, surrounded by luxuriant nature, the proximity of which is not enough to calm the deep distress into which I am plunged. France, still in shock from the November terror attacks, is in a state of emergency. I feel helpless, I suffocate with contained rage. I am lost and I watch four to five films a day. I decide to record this stagnation, not by picking up a camera but by editing shots from the stream of films I watch.

    —Frank BeauvaisRead More »

  • Marko Nabersnik – Sanghaj AKA Shanghai Gypsy (2012)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaMarko NabersnikSlovenia

    Synopsis:
    Lutvija Belmondo Mirga narrates a story about four generations. Belmondo is the central character of the film, a gypsy king, who decided to establish his own gypsy village. He names it Shanghai. Belmondo makes a living smuggling and his power and influence grow big. He even gets the local police and politics on his side and that helps him to become untouchable for law. But with the downfall of Yugoslavia, smuggling of goods is replaced by smuggling of the arms. Though lucrative the business starts to threaten Belmondo’s personal life and he finds himself at the crossroads. Will he protect his own family or is he going to sacrifice his personal happiness for business ambitions? Shanghai Gypsy is a story about longing for happiness; it is a story about love and family ties, in which tears are intertwined with laughs. The story is set in times of the downfall of Yugoslavia. The film is shot in the authentic Romani language.Read More »

  • Matthew Akers & Jeff Dupre – Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

    USA2011-2020DocumentaryMatthew Akers and Jeff DuprePerformance

    Synopsis
    This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the world’s premiere museums is, for any living artist, the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina, it is far more – it is the chance to finally silence the question she has been hearing over and over again for four decades: ‘But why is this art?’Read More »

  • Werner Herzog – Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)

    2011-2020DocumentaryUSAWerner Herzog

    Quote:
    “I think anyone who claims they know what’s going to happen to the internet is not worth listening to.” This summation of the way we understand and can predict the interconnectivity of the future seems an apposite way to begin a discussion of Werner Herzog’s expansive, nebulous investigation in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. The notion that we can’t really know anything is catnip for a director who revels in intricate philosophical enquiry. Audiences undoubtedly excited by the lip-smacking prospect of an intent documentary from the man who asked a journalist, baffled, whether Pokémon GO resulted in murder.Read More »

  • Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne – Le jeune Ahmed AKA Young Ahmed (2019)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaFranceJean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne

    NYFF wrote:
    The Dardenne Brothers won this year’s Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for this brave new work, another intimate portrayal-in-furious-motion of a protagonist in crisis. The filmmakers’ radical empathy alights on a Muslim teenager (extraordinary first-time actor Idir Ben Addi) in a small Belgian town who is being gradually radicalized into extremism despite the desperate protestations of his single mother (Claire Bodson), and who winds up hatching a murderous plot targeting his beloved teacher (Myriem Akheddiou). Taking a serious view of a difficult issue—the effect of fanaticism on the body and soul—the Dardennes here remind viewers why they continue to be at the center of 21st-century cinema.Read More »

  • Callisto McNulty – Delphine et Carole, insoumuses (2019)

    2011-2020Callisto McNultyDocumentaryFrancePoliticsThe Female Gaze

    Delphine and Carole – Delphine Seyrig, the actress who starred in the films of Resnais and Buñuel, Duras and Akerman; and Carole Roussopoulos, the pioneering video-maker, who, after Jean-Luc Godard, was only the second person in France to use video as a film production tool. From the mid-1970s, in the turbulence of post’68 and the feminist movement, the two women embarked on a militant working partnership, making a series of videos devised as political interventions to champion the struggle of women, whether actresses, prostitutes or workers.
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  • Shin’ya Tsukamoto – Zan (2018)

    2011-2020DramaJapanShinya Tsukamoto

    Quote:
    Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan, Killing is the story of a masterless samurai or ronin named Ikematsu Sosuke. As the prevalent peace and tranquility are sure to be replaced by war and conflict across the land the swordsman feels restlessness creep upon him.Read More »

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