Drama

  • Nanni Moretti – Habemus Papam AKA We Have a Pope (2011)

    2011-2020ComedyDramaItalyNanni Moretti

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    The great Italian comic filmmaker, Nanni Moretti turns his satirical eye on the nomination of a new Pope. When the man is chosen he freezes at the immense responsibilities throwing the Vatican, and all Catholics into a major crisis. A psychiatrist is called in to help the elected Pope overcome his nerves, but the anointed man has other ideas.Read More »

  • Ali Özgentürk – At AKA Horse, My Horse (1982)

    1981-1990Ali ÖzgentürkDramaTurkey

    Driven by the desire to see his son get an education and rise out of their level of abject poverty, a peasant father takes his boy to Istanbul to look for the advantages that were missing in his life. He hopes to find a good job so he can send his son to school, but as time goes by it seems they can barely make their way around the city and stay out of debt, let alone get ahead. Besides, the police always seem to be after them for one thing or another. Director Ali Özgentürk was arrested before he completed shooting this film, with no reason given for his arrest — as the content of his film suggests, this is not an unusual occurrence. He was later released.
    — Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide.Read More »

  • Mario Camerini – I Promessi Sposi aka The Spirit and the Flesh (1941)

    1941-1950DramaItalian Cinema under FascismItalyMario Camerini

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    Alessandro Manzoni’s book I Promessi Sposi from 1823 seems to be one of the best kept secrets of the whole Italian literature. While by many considered to be the greatest novel ever written in the Italian language, it doesn’t seem to have a particularly strong reputation abroad. I first heard about it from an Italian friend during a long night of Totò films and beer some months ago, but when doing some googling after watching Camerini’s film during a train trip yesterday, I realized that I actually have a Norwegian translation myself, bought some years back when I spent most of my time going to book sales in Oslo and filling up my parents’ attic with everything I came across.Read More »

  • Manuel Mozos – Ramiro (2017)

    Drama2011-2020Manuel MozosPortugal

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    From imdb:
    Ramiro is a bookstore owner in Lisbon and a poet in perpetual creative block. He lives, somewhat frustrated, somewhat conformed, between his shop and the tavern, accompanied by his dog, his faithful drinking companions and his neighbors: a pregnant teenager and her grandmother recovering from a stroke. He would gladly continue living this quiet and somewhat anachronistic routine if events worthy of a soap opera did not invade his bubble.Read More »

  • Yasujirô Ozu – Ochazuke no aji AKA Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952)

    1951-1960AsianDramaJapanYasujiro Ozu

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    A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis of sorts.

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    Taeko (Michiyo Kogure) despises and regularly deceives her quiet, saturnine husband, Mokichi (Shin Saburi), who works as a corporate executive and who only seems to come alive when visiting bars, racetracks, and arcades with a younger friend. Meanwhile, Taeko’s niece, Setsuko (Keiko Tsushima), resolves not to accept an arranged marriage and end up in an unloving relationship like that of her aunt and uncle. Read More »

  • Don Edmonds – Wild Honey (1972)

    1971-1980Don EdmondsDramaEroticaUSA

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    A farm girl girl runs away from her sexually abusive father and ends up in Los Angeles. Hippies, LSD, prostitution, lesbianism, a threesome, and a meeting with a satanic cult soon follow.Read More »

  • Solveig Melkeraaen – Flink Pike AKA Good Girl (2014)

    2011-2020DocumentaryDramaNorwaySolveig Melkeraaen

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    A feel good film about depressions. About being able to do it all, but losing it in a severe anxiety attack. About controlling angst together with the family, and be able to laugh of it all, even the electro shocks.Read More »

  • Sam Peckinpah – Convoy [+Extras] (1978)

    1971-1980ActionDramaSam PeckinpahUSA

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    SYNOPSIS: While driving through the Arizona desert, Albuquerque based independent trucker Martin Penwald – who goes by the handle “Rubber Duck” – along with his fellow truckers “Pig Pen” and “Spider Mike”, are entrapped by unscrupulous Sheriff Lyle “Cottonmouth” Wallace using a key tool of the trucker’s trade, the citizens’ band (CB) radio. Rubber Duck and Cottonmouth have a long, antagonistic history. When this encounter later escalates into a more physical one as Cottonmouth threatens Spider Mike, a man who just wants to get home to his pregnant wife, Rubber Duck and other the truckers involved, including Spider Mike, Pig Pen and “Widow Woman”, go on the run, figuring the best thing to do being to head to New Mexico to avoid prosecution. Along for the ride is Melissa, a beautiful photographer who just wanted a ride to the airport. As news of what happened spreads over the CB airwaves, other truckers join their convoy as a show of support. Cottonmouth rallies other law enforcement officers …Read More »

  • Bahman Ghobadi – Lakposhtha parvaz mikonand AKA Turtles Can Fly (2004)

    2001-2010Bahman GhobadiDramaIran

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    One of my most anticipated films at last year’s Toronto Film Festival was Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly. Ghobadi had directed A Time for Drunken Horses, a devastating film about Kurdish children on the Iranian side of the Iran-Iraq border. I knew that Turtles Can Fly was going to shift the focus over to the Iraqi side just before the U.S. invasion, and I was more than curious to see how he’d handle the political angle.Read More »

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