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  • Jean-Pierre Melville – Léon Morin, prêtre AKA Léon Morin, Priest (1961)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaFranceJean-Pierre Melville

    Jean-Paul Belmondo delivers a subtly sensual performance in the hot-under-the-collar Léon Morin, Priest (Léon Morin, prêtre), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. The French superstar plays a devoted man of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to a sexually frustrated widow—played by Emmanuelle Riva—a religious skeptic whose relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. A triumph of mood, setting, and innuendo, Léon Morin, Priest is an irreverent pleasure from one of French cinema’s towering virtuosos.Read More »

  • Mikhaël Hers – Primrose Hill (2007)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaFranceMikhaël Hers

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    It’s an album-length drama of friendship and disappearance, youth and responsibility, backed by a soundtrack of overlooked indie-rock classics and Hers’ subtle and flowing direction.

    As Primrose Hill begins, four friends finish band practice and head off on a long walk. They’re enjoying their too infrequent reunion, the beginning of fall, and the memories that come to mind as they wander. But they’re also all marked by an absence, the fifth friend who went missing a few months before, and whose voice we hear on the soundtrack, describing a dream that’s eerily similar to the images we see.Read More »

  • Ali Khamraev – Chelovek ukhodit za ptitsami AKA The Man Who Loves the Birds (1975)

    1971-1980Ali KhamraevArthouseUSSR

    A young Uzbekistani man, whose widower father was a drunkard, finally finds the grown-up mentoring he craves when his father dies and he meets an old man who teaches him about the necessity of resisting tyranny. ~ Clarke Fountain, RoviRead More »

  • Adam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer – Empty Metal (2018)

    USA2011-2020Adam KhalilArthouseBayley SweitzerDrama

    Empty Metal reveals a political fantasy, an alternative reality whose characters teeter on the dull knife edge that is contemporary American politics, but they refuse to fall right or left. Instead, they lash out from the soul, and under the radar, in an attempt to achieve what their mainstream predecessors have yet to accomplish.Read More »

  • Alberto Fischerman – Players vs. Angeles Caidos (1969)

    1961-1970Alberto FischermanArgentinaArthouseExperimental

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    Surrealist type comedy: The Players are managing a film studio which was once in the hands of The Fallen Angels. The Angels make some nocturnal raids and they get ready to reconquer the place but they fail, because they are bad, and goodness shown in the light of the Players always wins instead.Read More »

  • Angela Schanelec – Musik AKA Music (2023)

    Drama2021-2030Angela SchanelecArthouseGermany

    A boy grows up with his step-parents in Greece. At the age of 20, he unwittingly murders his father. While serving his sentence, he falls in love and has a child with a woman who works in the prison. They are both unaware of the fact that she is his biological mother. Twenty years later, he lives in London with his daughter and is beginning to lose his eyesight.Read More »

  • Jacques Tati – Traffic (1971) (HD)

    1971-1980ArthouseComedyFranceJacques Tati

    The eccentric Mr. Hulot’s ill-fated attempt to bring his ultra-modern camper to an Amsterdam auto show results in comic disaster.Read More »

  • Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi – Plemya AKA The Tribe (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaMyroslav SlaboshpytskyiUkraine

    A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system.

    Set in a Ukrainian school for the deaf and mute, The Tribe follows new student Sergey as he gets a crash course in who’s really in charge. The decrepit institution is awash in drugs, prostitution and organized petty crime. This incredible film has one particularly daring aspect: it is acted entirely in sign language without the aid of subtitles or voice-over. The audience follows the story through the physicality of the performances and the emphatic intensity of the signing. Heightened by a hormone-laced narrative, with kids engaging in explicit sex and violence, The Tribe is an unforgettable cinematic experience, from its epic, wordless opening shot to the brutal finale.Read More »

  • Risto Jarva – Ruusujen aika AKA A Time of Roses (1969)

    Arthouse1961-1970FinlandRisto JarvaSci-Fi

    Finnish director Risto Jarva’s fascinating, futuristic sci-fi mystery is set in a dystopian, Pop Art-designed world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of LOGAN’S RUN. A historian of late 20th century culture – “before class boundaries were abolished” – named Raimo (Arto Tuominen) is researching the death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model named Saara (Ritva Vepsä) who died under mysterious circumstances.Read More »

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