• Giovanni Fago – O’Cangaçeiro AKA The Magnificent Bandits (1970)

    1961-1970DramaEuro WesternsGiovanni FagoSpainSpanish cinema under FrancoWestern

    IMDB:
    Espidito, survives the massacre of his entire village. A hermit helps him believing he is a Jesus like figure. As “Redeemer” Espidito goes out to help the poor turning to guns and his own rebel band. The discovery of oil twists everything.
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  • Natasha Arthy – Se til venstre, der er en Svensker AKA Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)

    2001-2010ComedyDenmarkDogma FilmsDramaNatasha Arthy

    REVIEW by Anji Milanovic (from plume-noire.com):
    In Old, New, Borrowed and Blue director Natasha Arthy begins the film with a signed certificate of authenticity from the Dogma school. By the film’s end, however, it’s clear that she has taken the rules of Dogma and used them to make her own engaging film, instead of an exercise in philosophical experimentation.Read More »

  • John Dower – My Scientology Movie (2015)

    2011-2020DocumentaryJohn DowerUnited Kingdom

    Louis documents his investigation into what goes on behind the scenes of the infamous church of scientology.Read More »

  • Babak Anvari – Under the Shadow (2016)

    2011-2020Babak AnvariHorrorMysteryUnited Kingdom

    As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war-torn Tehran of the 1980s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
    Shideh (Narges Rashidi) and her family live amid the chaos of the Iran-Iraq war, a period known as The War of the Cities. Accused of subversion by the post-Revolution government and blacklisted from medical college, she falls into a state of malaise. With Tehran under the constant threat of aerial bombardment, her husband (Bobby Naderi) is drafted and sent to the frontlines by the army, leaving Shideh all alone to protect their young daughter, Dorsa (Avin Manshadi).Read More »

  • Charles Chaplin – Those Love Pangs (1914)

    1911-1920Charles ChaplinShort FilmSilentUSA

    Quote:
    Charlie and a rival vie for the favors of their landlady. In the park they each fall for different girls, though Charlie’s has a male friend already. Charlie considers suicide, is talked out of it by a policeman, and later throws his girl’s friend into the lake. Frightened, the girls go off to a movie. Charlie shows up there and flirts with them. Later both rivals substitute themselves for the girls and attack the unwitting Charlie. In an audience-wide fight, Charlie is tossed from the screen.Read More »

  • Gordon Hessler – Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973)

    1971-1980Gordon HesslerHorrorThrillerUSA

    A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with himRead More »

  • Aki Kaurismäki – Hamlet liikemaailmassa AKA Hamlet Goes Business (1987) (HD)

    1981-1990Aki KaurismäkiArthouseComedyFinland

    Quote:
    A sardonic and irreverent contemporary adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet Goes Business is an idiosyncratically whimsical, yet incisive satire on corporate greed, materialism, corruption, and vengeance. Shot in black and white and employing high contrast lighting, the film achieves an atmospheric noir that reflects Aki Kaurismäki’s irrepressibly droll sense of humor and penchant for understated irony. Kaurismäki incorporates traditional, often manipulative and hackneyed stylistic devices of lush, overarching music, directed stage lighting, expressionistic gestures, skewed camera angles, and meticulously composed slow motion shots in order to playfully subvert dramatic convention: Lauri’s angered departure from Hamlet’s office; Hamlet’s self-consciously tormented delivery of a poem to Ophelia; the overdramatic, but anticlimactic plot device of the Murder of Gonzago play-within-a-play episode to expose Klaus’s treachery; the exquisite choreography of Ophelia’s final moments of despair. By integrating muted emotion with exaggerated theatricality, Kaurismäki creates a delirious and incongruent fusion of highbrow art film and pop culture kitsch – a patently iconoclastic comedic tragedy on indecision, inertia, and alienation.
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  • René Vautier – Le Remords (1974)

    1971-1980FrancePoliticsRené Vautier

    Synopsis
    A filmmaker witnesses an act of racist police violence in Paris. He discusses with a lady whether and how he should make a film out of this.

    Gossip: Vautier wrote the script for this short film in 1957 already and wanted to shoot it. Yet he couldn’t find an actor. All those he asked saw their respective main directors represented in the piece and didn’t want to take the risk of offending them. So only 17 years later Vautier shot the film – and played the role himself…Read More »

  • Luigi Di Gianni – Il tempo dell’inizio (1974)

    1971-1980DramaExperimentalItalyLuigi Di Gianni

    Quote:
    Distributed by L’Italnoleggio Cinematografico, with Sven Lasta, Rada Rassimov, Claudio Volonte, Jean Martin, Milena Vucotic
    Presented at the Venice Biennale 1974.
    Segnalazione ufficiale della Critica Cinematografica (SNCCI)
    Winner of the Nastro d’Argento 1975.
    Presented at the Festival du Jeune Cinéma de Toulon 1975.
    Presented at the Festival of New Delhi 1976.
    Presented at the Italian Film Festival in London (British Film Institute) 1976.
    Invited to the Festival of Valladolid 1975.Read More »

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