• L. Rezan Yesilbas – Sessiz – Be Deng (2012)

    2011-2020DramaL. Rezan YesilbasShort FilmTurkey

    [SPOILER] A woman tries to give a pair of shoes to her husband, who is in prison. The story takes place in Diyarbakır,Turkey in 1984 after the military coup in 1980. In prison only allowed language to speak is Turkish. The film won “Palme D’or” for short film in Cannes Film Festival 2012. [SPOILER]Read More »

  • Hal Ashby – Shampoo (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyHal AshbyRomanceUSA

    Plot Synopsis from allmovie.com
    A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to all of his women’s tonsorial and sexual needs, while trying to swing a bank loan to fund his own salon, to notice the fateful Presidential race. As George juggles the demands of girlfriend Jill (Goldie Hawn) and mistress Felicia (Lee Grant), not to mention Felicia’s daughter (Carrie Fisher), he meets Felicia’s husband Lester (Jack Warden) to get money for the salon and discovers that his beloved ex-girlfriend Jackie (Julie Christie) is now Lester’s mistress. Read More »

  • Kai S. Pieck – Ein Leben lang kurze Hosen tragen AKA The Child I Never Was (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseGermanyHorrorKai S. Pieck

    from allmovie:
    A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on a true story. Young Jurgen Bartsch (Sebastian Urzendowsky) was raised in a family where his father (Walter Gontermann) barely acknowledged his existence and his mother (Ulrike Bliefert) displayed an inappropriate degree of affection toward him. When he reached puberty, Bartsch (played as a teenager by Tobias Schenke) was a young man confused and bitter about his growing sexual maturity, and possessing a deep hatred of those around him. Read More »

  • Marco de Gastyne – La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d’Arc AKA Saint Joan the Maid (1929)

    1921-1930FranceMarco de GastyneSilent

    Restoration in 1983.

    Plot summary not found. (but probably no need for this one.)
    Just some descriptions from jeanne-darc.info

    A little forgotten by the historians the cinema because of film of Dreyer left the previous year, this “Jeanne d’ Arc”, in a very different style, is however remarkably carried out. We are here in the more popular register of the great historical reconstitutions with great reinforcement of horses and ebullient oil. With a superb Jeanne d’ sixteen year old Arc, interpreted by Simone Genevois.Read More »

  • Henry Hathaway – 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)

    1951-1960DramaHenry HathawayThrillerUSA

    tvguide wrote:
    Van Johnson plays a blind American writer who is renting an apartment on Baker Street while in London for the opening of his new play. After a row with his former fiancée (Vera Miles), he decamps to the local pub to drown his self-pity with a drink. There, his acute hearing picks up hushed snatches of conversation from the next booth. Convinced that a kidnap plot is in the offing, he rushes to the police, who are polite but refuse to believe him. However, Johnson knows what he heard is true and engages the help of Vera and Cecil Parker, his secretary, to find the kidnappers and save the unknown victim.Read More »

  • Olle Hellbom – På rymmen med Pippi Långstrump aka Pippi on the Run (1970)

    1961-1970ComedyCultOlle HellbomSweden

    She’s one of those definitively Generation X characters, the original latchkey kid, the first one left Home Alone: Pippi Longstocking, living on her own in the pastel Villa Villekulla without benefit of adult supervision and only a horse, Little Old Man, and a monkey, Mr. Nilsson, for company. Independently wealthy, thanks to her sailor-father’s adventures in the South Seas, she buys toys and candy for the town kids, pigs out on cakes and cookies, and is assuredly a bad influence on her young next-door-neighbors, Tommy and Annika (Päaut;r Sundberg and Maria Persson). Read More »

  • Jack Hill – Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told [+Commentary] (1968)

    USA1961-1970CultHorrorJack Hill

    A 1968 black comedy horror film, written and directed by Jack Hill. It stars Lon Chaney, Jr. as Bruno, the chauffeur and caretaker of three orphaned siblings who suffer from “Merrye Syndrome”, which causes them to mentally, socially, and physically regress backwards down the evolutionary ladder starting in early puberty. Jill Banner, Carol Ohmart, Quinn Redeker, Mary Mitchel, and Karl Schanzer also star.Read More »

  • Zhangke Jia – Gong gong chang suo aka in public (2001)

    2001-2010ChinaDocumentaryZhangke Jia

    Quote:
    sensesofcinema article :
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    (…)the 1990s have witnessed the unprecedented development and modernization of the South Korean film industry, encouraged by multi-faceted efforts from the government. The creation of the Chonju/Jeonju Film Festival in 2000 matched the desire of involving South Korea in a cutting edge international film culture. In addition to homages to Asian (Hou Hsiao-hsien) or European (Chantal Akerman) auteurs, the Festival hosted a number of events devoted to digital filmmaking(…)Read More »

  • Byamba Sakhya – Remote Control (2013)

    2011-2020ArthouseByamba SakhyaMongolia

    Quote:
    Byamba Sakhya / 2013, Busan, Rotterdam, Anonimul, Asiatica Film Festival Rome, Camerimage, Dharmshala, Göteborg, Inverness, Mongolian Week Dortmund, Mooov Belgium, Melbourne, Munich, Seattle, Seoul Independent, Shanghai, Terracotta Far East Film Festival London, Vilnius, Warsaw, Washington DC, Zlín / 90′

    Teenage boy Tsog lives in the slums outside Ulan Bator, selling milk from his neighbor in the nearby city to support his family, with whom he frequently quarrels. The flight of his imagination is Tsog’s only solace— he spends hours drawing his hero, a young monk.Read More »

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