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Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child’s ransom for them.Read More »
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Kinji Fukasaku – Odoshi AKA The Threat (1966)
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Jay Leyda – A Bronx Morning (1931)
Jay Leyda1931-1940DocumentaryExperimentalUSAQuote:
A Bronx morning is a portrait of a place and time, simultaneously a documentary, an avant-garde experiment, and an amateur film–although its compositional beauty and complex editing disguise that it is a 21-year old’s first attempt at moviemaking. Architectural abstractions are only part of Leyda’s portrait. The film soon naturalizes its abstractions into a vibrant vision of children’s games and adult commerce on the summer streets of the Bronx, the New York borough northeast of Manhattan.Read More » -
Takashi Ishii – Yoru ga mata kuru AKA Alone in the Night (1994)
Takashi Ishii1991-2000CrimeDramaJapanNami, the widow of a disgraced narcotics officer seeks to clear his name by going undercover.Read More »
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Pere Portabella – El sopar aka The Supper (1974)
Pere Portabella1971-1980DocumentarySpainQuote:
Five ex political prisoners (Narciso Julián, 24 years in prison – PSUC; Angel Abad, 7 years in prison – PSUC; Antonio Marín, 8 years in prison – CCOO; Lola Ferreira, 3 years in prison – PCML; Jordi Cunill, 10 years in prison – Juventudes Libertarias de Cataluña) meet secretly in a country house one afternoon in 1974, the same day that Salvador Puig Antich is executed, to talk about their experiences in prison. After discussing hunger strikes, ways of keeping up the fight, loss of touch with reality, etc., an unexpected situation arises when one of the ex prisoners sings the praises of life in prison. The forceful response of one of his colleagues does not do away with the cathartic effect of the confession.Read More » -
Miklos Bandy & Stella F. Simon – Hände AKA Hands (1927)
Stella F. Simon1921-1930ExperimentalGermanyMiklos BandyShort FilmQuote:
Stella F. Simon and Miklos Bandy’s 1927–28 16mm film, Hands: The Life and Love of a Gentle Sex, is a short, experimental, feminist film whose aesthetic is drawn from American and European modernist photography movements and early avant-garde film traditions. The film’s underlying melodramatic narrative formula is complicated by the use of hands as both protagonists and as the central aspect of its modernist mise-en-scène.Read More » -
Curtis Bernhardt – Conflict (1945)
Curtis Bernhardt1941-1950250 Quintessential Film NoirsFilm NoirMysteryUSAUnhappily married Richard Mason concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife so that he’ll be free to marry her sister.Read More »
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Lawrence Huntington – Man on the Run (1949)
Lawrence Huntington1941-1950CrimeFilm NoirUnited KingdomQuote:
‘An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.’
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Marco Risi – Il punto di rugiada AKA The Dew Point (2023) (HD)
2021-2030DramaItalyMarco RisiQuote:
Summer 2018, Carlo is a rich boy who, after an evening with friends in which he drank a lot, started driving, and causing a car accident in which a girl was scarred. The court sentences him to a year of social services in a retirement home where he will have to take care of the elderly residents.Read More » -
Bertrand Mandico – Salammbô (2014)
Bertrand Mandico2011-2020ExperimentalFranceShort FilmThe old Salammbo lives alone on a northern island, in total destitution. Haunted by her memories, Salammbo is mistreated by the phantom of her youth, which sometimes taunts, sometimes bends her back so that she no longer sees the blue of the sky.Read More »