• Erden Kiral – Ayna AKA Der Spiegel AKA The Mirror (1984)

    1981-1990DramaErden KiralTurkey

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    Der Spiegel reflects the sad existence of a village couple, Necmetting and Zelihan, whose lives are regulated by nature and the all-powerful feudal lord. When the lord’s good-looking brother tries to seduce beautiful Zelihan, her husband has no choice but take up arms to restore his lost honor.Read More »

  • Nikolaj Arcel – En kongelig affære aka A Royal Affair (2012)

    Drama2011-2020DenmarkNikolaj ArcelRomance

    A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician –
    and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever. Read More »

  • Phil Karlson – Ladies of the Chorus (1949)

    1941-1950DramaMarilyn MonroeMusicalPhil KarlsonUSA

    Andrea Passafiume wrote:
    Ladies of the Chorus
    Marilyn Monroe makes an early big screen appearance in director Phil Karlson’s 1949 entertaining B musical Ladies of the Chorus. In her first starring role, Monroe plays Peggy Martin, a young chorus girl in a burlesque show who works alongside her mother, Mae (Adele Jergens). When Peggy is pursued by wealthy society man Randy Carroll (Rand Brooks), Mae worries that class differences will doom the relationship and tries to protect her daughter from heartbreak.Read More »

  • William Van Der Veer, Joe Rucker [Cinematographers] – With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)

    1921-1930DocumentaryUSAWilliam Van Der Veer

    Winner of the 3rd Academy Award for Best Cinematography

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    With Byrd at the South Pole (1930)
    With Byrd at the South Pole is one of the earliest and most captivating film documentaries. A deserving Academy Award winner for Best Cinematography, the film chronicles in stark reality the Antarctic expedition that led to Byrd’s famous flight over the south pole.Read More »

  • Howard Hawks – Monkey Business (1952)

    1951-1960ClassicsComedyHoward HawksMarilyn MonroeScrewball ComedyUSA

    Description: Barnaby Fulton is a research chemist working on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. While trying a sample dose on himself, he accidentally gets a dose of a mixture added to the water cooler and believes his potion is what is working. The mixture temporarily causes him to feel and act like a teenager, including correcting his vision. When his wife gets a dose that is even larger, she regresses even further into her childhood. When an old boyfriend meets her in this state, he believes that her never wanting to see him again means a divorce and a chance for him.Read More »

  • Alejandro Jodorowsky – Santa sangre [+Commentary] (1989)

    1981-1990Alejandro JodorowskyArchitectureArthouseCultMexico

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    Does the prolonged gestation period account for the bulging-valise feel of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seething, gore-drenched carnivale? Not really — all of his pictures seem deliberately shaped to let the fantasies spill over once poured in, and this lushly scabrous murkfest, made after nearly a decade of inactivity, is true to the molten-lava of Jodorowsky’s imagination. As in his ’70s freakouts, the movie follows the trajectory of the subconscious, namely Fenix’s (as in “rising from the ashes,” and played at different ages by the filmmaker’s sons, Axel and Adan), first spotted perched nekkid atop a tree in the asylum. Cue flashback, and the parade of candy-colored melodrama surging out of the “Circo del Gringo,” traumas piling up on little Fenix’s innocence via his bloated, randy cowboy dad (Guy Stockwell) and his fervid-eyed mom (Blanca Guerra), who, when not dangling from a trapeze by her hair, presides over an order of fanatics worshipping an armless martyr. Read More »

  • Dino Risi – Il viale della speranza (1953)

    1951-1960ComedyDino RisiItaly

    Synopsis:
    Here is Dino Risi’s second feature film as a director. A film centered around the infatuation with the film industry at the time, and the story of three young women trying to find love and stardom in Cinecitta. Marcello Mastroianni is a cameraman and love interest on the lot.Read More »

  • Takahisa Zeze – Raigyo (1997)

    1991-2000AsianExploitationJapanTakahisa Zeze

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    Murder, sex, blood and designer erotism meet head-on in this
    perverse tale of sexual alienation in nineties Japan.

    Set amidst the desolate background of a warped and twisted Japan.
    Raigyo takes its concept from a real life event in which a black
    clad woman murders a man that she had just met by chance through
    a phone sex club. Her chosen place for this execution, where he
    will be stabbed to death, is called the “Love Hotel”.Read More »

  • Emilio Fernández – Río Escondido AKA Hidden River (1948)

    1941-1950ClassicsDramaEmilio FernándezMexico

    allmovie.com review
    Filmed in 1947, Emilio Fernandez’ Hidden River (originally Rio Escondido) was distributed in the U.S. three years later. The matchless Maria Felix stars as Rosaura, an idealistic Mexican schoolteacher who does her best to educate the illiterate Indians in her native land. Rosaura is opposed by several authority figures who have no intention of losing their hold over the Indians, but she finds support in the form of a kindly priest. Director Fernandez’ understanding of and sensitivity towards Mexico’s teeming millions of unfortunates enables Hidden River to rise above its occasional cliches and unsubtleties. The cinematography is by Gabriel Figueroa, who like Emilio Fernandez and Maria Felix is a legendary figure in the Mexican cinema.Read More »

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