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  • Jacques Rozier – Du côté d’Orouët (1971)

    1971-1980ArthouseComedyFranceJacques Rozier

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    A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.Read More »

  • José Luis Guerín – Unas fotos en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007)

    2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryJosé Luis GuerínSpain

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    An unnamed young man arrives in the foreign city of Strasbourg for reasons unstated. He waits at a hotel, visits a café, sketches passersby… Eventually his motives are revealed, but it is not a traditional narrative that Guerín is after so much as the urban experience of watching, waiting, absorbing. Out of these materials Guerín builds a spellbinding film that reminds us of cinema’s powerful ability to evoke the tugs of memory, desire and the transitory. An extraordinary city film, Sylvia almost entirely eschews dialogue to instead give a symphonic voice to the city itself through a rich and fully immersive soundtrack of urban sounds, explosions of music and strangeRead More »

  • Jon Moritsugu – Mod Fuck Explosion (1994)

    1991-2000ArthouseComedyJon MoritsuguQueer Cinema(s)USA

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    A bizarre tale about London, a lonely teen yearning for affection and a leather jacket, who lives in a dysfunctional family home where the mother keeps popping and sexually playing with her other child, X-Ray, a member of a gang of Mods who are constantly at war with a gang of Asian Bikers. Amidst this turmoil, London and her soul mate M16 search for meaning in a phantasmagoria without it.Read More »

  • Vera Egito – Elo AKA Bond [+Extra] (2009)

    2001-2010ArthouseBrazilShort FilmVera Egito

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    Synopsis:
    January 19th, 1982. Lilian experiences her first disillusion. She is fifteen years old and understands what pain is. January, 19th, 1982. Elis Regina dies at the age of 36. And the whole city understands what loss is.Read More »

  • Ali Reza Amini – Namehay bad AKA Letters in the Wind (2002)

    Drama2001-2010Ali Reza AminiArthouseIran

    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 men. Many of the young men have to make difficult adjustments to this new life. When one of the men gets the opportunity to visit Teheran, the others give him messages that they want him to deliver to their families. Letters in the Wind was screened at the Toronto Film Festival.Read More »

  • Various – Avant-Garde 3: Experimental Cinema 1922-1954 (2009)

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    CAVALCANTI MAAS PETERSON BROUGHTON BUTE KESSLER WHITNEY KIRSANOFF MURPHY MARC’O WATSON HUFF

    From THE Collection of THE GEORGE EASTMAN HOUSE AND FROM THE RAYMOND ROHAUER COLLECTION

    From the little theaters of the 1920s to the ad hoc film societies of the ’50s, avant-garde cinema knew no established form and held no predictable position. The boundaries of its history are still hotly debated, but its rough sensibilities informed and permeated the city symphonies of Alberto Cavalcanti, the visual music of Mary Ellen Bute and John Whitney, the classroom films of Sidney Peterson, the confessional film poems of Willard Maas and John E. Schmitz, the Lettrist cinema of Marc’O, and even marginal exploitation films and home movies. Drawn from the rich collections of Raymond Rohauer and the George Eastman House, Kino’s third volume of experimental films continues to illuminate the degree to which cinema’s evolution has been influenced by those filmmakers who occupy its periphery.Read More »

  • Dusan Makavejev – Nevinost bez zastite aka Innocence Unprotected (1968)

    1961-1970ArthouseDusan MakavejevYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

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    Quote:
    Innocence Unprotected was originally filmed in 1941 under the title Nevinoz bez Zastite; it was meant to be the first all-talking feature ever made in Serbia. Yugoslav gymnast Dragolijub Aleksic wrote, produced, directed and starred in this simple tale of a young man who rescues his lady love from her wicked stepmother. The film was never released, falling victim to the Nazi censors; later on, the film was condemned as pro-Nazi (huh?) Flash-forward to 1968: documentary filmmaker Dusan Makavejev unearthed this forgotten film, expanded upon it with newsreel footage of Dragolijub Aleksic performing his athletic feats and filmed interviews with the surviving cast members, and came up with Innocence Unprotected. The result is less a dramatic film than a montage-like celebration of Yugoslavian customs, folklore, and humor. Makavejev referred to Innocence Unprotected as a “montage of attractions”; viewers will no doubt find those attractions most attractive.Read More »

  • Alain Resnais – Aimer, boire et chanter AKA Life of Riley (2014)

    2011-2020Alain ResnaisArthouseComedyFrance

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    Quote:
    In the midst of rehearsals for a new play, amateur dramatics proponents Colin and Kathryn receive the shattering news that their friend George is fatally ill and only has a few months to live. Life begins to come apart at the seams – not just for Kathryn, who was once George’s partner, but also for her friends Tamara and Monica. The full force of the emotional turmoil they experienced in their youth and their long-buried dreams are rekindled. Much to the chagrin of their respectable, middle-class husbands, the women begin to argue about which of them should be allowed to accompany George on a final journey …
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  • Peter Greenaway – The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway (2002)

    Arthouse2001-2010ExperimentalPeter GreenawayUnited Kingdom

    Taken from The 92 Faces of Peter Greenaway CD-ROM, 84 Quicktime movie clips of Peter Greenaway discussing a variety of topics. The clips range in length from 6 seconds to 2 minutes 47 seconds.Read More »

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