Drama

  • Luis Buñuel – Los Olvidados AKA The Young and the Damned (1950)

    1941-1950CrimeDramaLuis BuñuelSpain

    A group of juvenile delinquents live a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others.Read More »

  • Michael Kalesniko – How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog (2000)

    Drama1991-2000ComedyGermanyMichael Kalesniko

    Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he’s become impotent. He’s working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter’s paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor’s dog?Read More »

  • Arne Mattsson – Hon dansade en sommar AKA One Summer of Happiness (1951)

    1951-1960Arne MattssonClassicsDramaSweden

    Synopsis:
    Student Göran is vacationing on his uncle’s farm. On the first day he meets the 17-year old Kerstin, who lives on a farm nearby. The young people in the area are trying to organize a youth club. The priest refuses to help them but Göran’s uncle let them use an old barn of his. Göran and Kerstin fall in love with each other, but neither Kerstin’s relatives or Göran’s father gives their consent to the relationship.Read More »

  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Katzelmacher (1969)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaGermanyRainer Werner Fassbinder

    Quote:
    Katzelmacher was a revelation. One of only a handful of Fassbinder films which I had not seen before, it seems among his best, and most challenging, works.

    Fassbinder’s second feature film, Katzelmacher (1969) is a tour de force of stark visual beauty and ambiguous but riveting characters. Fassbinder adapted his own original play, of the same title, which he had also starred in on stage. (The theatrical script is included in the anthology Fassbinder’s Plays.)Read More »

  • Kaspar Rostrup – Dansen med Regitze AKA Memories of a Marriage (1989)

    1981-1990DenmarkDramaKaspar RostrupRomance

    From: Amazon.com
    Memories of a Marriage (based on Martha Christensen’s best-selling novel, Dansen med Regitze) is a wonderful, moving and superbly acted film featuring what may be the greatest on-screen performance by the luminous Ghita Nørby, one of Denmark’s finest actresses (and a lovely person–I met her once in Seattle). The film traces the relationship between Regitze and her husband, Karl-Aage; in the present, Regitze has received devastating news about her health. Thus, much of the film is a flashback to the ups and downs of their marriage, which began when they first met under the Occupation in World War II. Regitze is a strong-willed young woman, whereas Karl-Aage seems more weak and pliable. Still, they love each other and complement. Read More »

  • Boaz Yakin – Fresh (1994)

    1991-2000Boaz YakinCrimeDramaUSA

    Quote:
    Boaz Yakin’s astounding debut feature looks at the violent world of the projects through the eyes of a 12-year-old drug runner. Sean Nelson delivers a quiet but intense performance as Michael–street name Fresh–a cynical but introspective kid grown up fast and hard on the killing streets of the projects. Samuel L. Jackson costars as Fresh’s estranged father, a speed chess hustler in the city park whose dispassionate philosophy–the chess board as life–becomes the film’s central metaphor, as Fresh plots a brilliant, coldly brutal plan to save himself and his junkie sister from his world of drug dealers and street violence.Read More »

  • Bille August – Pelle erobreren AKA Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

    1981-1990Bille AugustDenmarkDrama

    When his wife dies, Lassefar takes his 12-year-old son Pelle from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. Signing on as laborers at a large farm, father and son undergo numerous trials, including prejudice against immigrants and run-ins with those more powerful than themselves in both the physical and the social sense. Over the course of a year, young Pelle learns what it takes to survive in a harsh and unforgiving world.Read More »

  • Lech Majewski – The Garden of Earthly Delights (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaLech MajewskiUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Working from his own novel Metaphysics, writer-director Lech Majewski (Glass Lips, Gospel According to Harry) crafts magic in The Garden of Earthly Delights intimate passion plays, which are filled with loving detail (Village Voice) and creates a luminous, highly erotic treatise on art, love and death (Chicago Reader). When London art historian Claudine (Claudine Spiteri) meets engineer Chris (Chris Nightingale), it is love and lust at first sight. But their spiritual and erotic connection is threatened by a devastating and deadly illness.Read More »

  • Joseph H. Lewis – Cry of the Hunted (1953)

    1951-1960DramaFilm NoirJoseph H. LewisUSA

    Story
    A fugitive is pursued by a lawman who is obsessed with his capture.Read More »

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