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A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.Read More »
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Pedro Costa – Vitalina Varela (2019)
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H.C. Potter – The Shopworn Angel (1938)
Drama1931-1940H.C. PotterRomanceUSAPlot: During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over. Daisy agrees to pretend to be Bill’s girl to impress his friends, but then a real romance begins. Written by Col NeedhamRead More »
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Raffaello Matarazzo – La nave delle donne maledette AKA The Ship of Condemned Women (1953)
1951-1960AdventureDramaItalyRaffaello MatarazzoCaged of the sins of their past, they break for freedom climaxed by an orgy of wanton lust and revenge.
This interesting twist to “the ship of lost souls” theme has a ship of women convicts being taken to the colonies to be kept under control. One of these, Britt, has been framed in the killing of her child. Manni, the lawyer responsible for her conviction, sneaks on board after suffering remorse for his deeds. Also on board ship is Britt’s cousin, Weber, the real murderer who has gained her passage through a marriage to a rich businessman. She allows her husband to die in order to inherit his riches, and then takes up with the captain. When Britt and Manni publically denounce her, the prisoners mutiny, killing Weber and the captain. A storm rises up, and despite the…Read More » -
Jean-Claude Brisseau – La croisée des chemins (1976)
1971-1980DramaFranceJean-Claude BrisseauThe peregrinations of a group of boys and girls from Paris. Two girls swap the capital for the countryside near Montpellier. One of the girls hesitates between dream world and reality.La croisée des chemins marks the start of a significant oeuvre and is a film in which reality and dream are mixed. Jean-Claude Brisseau shot this film on Super8 in 1975. Screened in Studio 43 in Paris, the film was noticed and admired by Eric Rohmer, who attached the name of his production company Les Films du Losange to several films by Brisseau: Un jeu brutal, De bruit et de fureur en Noce blanche.Read More »
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François Leterrier – Les mauvais coups aka Naked Autumn (1961)
1961-1970DramaFranceFrançois LeterrierAn ex-racing driver (Reginald Kernan) lives in the country with his aging wife (Simone Signoret). They spend their days quarrelling and baiting each other, and making up uneasily before starting again. The new village school teacher (Alexandra Stewart) enters the scene, threatening to upset the love-hate balance of the couple.Read More »
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Jean-Jacques Annaud – La guerre du feu AKA Quest for Fire (1981)
1981-1990AdventureCanadaDramaJean-Jacques AnnaudQuote:
“Fire was a symbol of power and a means of survival. The tribe who possessed fire, possessed life.” – Opening title cardThat is the last piece of modern language iterated by the film. The filmmakers transport us 80,000 years into the past, to the Middle Palaeolithic era. The subsequent complex creation of communication was formulated by linguist and author Anthony Burgess (A CLOCKWORK ORANGE), zoologist Desmond Morris, and actors in advance formulating a gesture-based relay of thoughts. Read More »
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Kevin Connor & Douglas Hickox – Mistral’s Daughter (1984)
1981-1990Douglas HickoxDramaKevin ConnorTVUSAAn arrogant Paris painter attracts a number of women from the 1920s to the 1970s, though he focuses on leaving a legacy for his daughter.Read More »
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Shirô Moritani – Hakkodasan aka Mount Hakkoda (1977)
1971-1980DramaEpicJapanShirô MoritaniIsolde Standish:
With the change in the aesthetic of the yakuza genre that occurred in the 1970s towards the realist style of the innovator Fukasaku Kinji ‘jitsuroku’ film series, the ninkyo ethic of the 1960s films again shifted genre. After the great success of the three-part epic War and Humanity (Senso to ningen), based on the six-part novel by Gomikawa Junpei (1916-1995) and released by Nikkatsu between 1970 and 1973, epics based on the war or military themes became increasingly popular throughout the 1970s and 1980s.Read More » -
Alejandro Landes – Monos (2019)
2011-2020Alejandro LandesColombiaDramaThrillerAnarchy clashes with adolescence as a squadron of teen rebels on a remote mountaintop watch over a prisoner amid drills, attacks and misdeeds.Read More »