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Rino Di Silvestro – Hanna D. – La ragazza del Vondel Park AKA Hanna D.: The Girl from Vondel Park (1984)
Hanna is a young woman with a dysfunctional family background who becomes addictive to heroin and takes up with a…
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Vladimir Léon – Le Brahmane du Komintern AKA The Comintern Brahmin (2006)
Vladimir Leon on a quest for a forgotten man in the annals of history. Guessing the film-maker’s Russian connection, the…
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Henri Decoin – Retour à l’aube aka She returned at dawn (1938)
Retour à l’aube is like Russian (or should we say Hungarian) dolls dreaming of each other : when the dream…
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Cheh Chang – Mai ming xiao zi AKA The Magnificent Ruffians (1979)
A tale of lies and revenge. A local Kung fu master hopes to monopolise, but family in his way is…
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Toshio Masuda – Shuto shôshitsu AKA Tokyo Blackout (1987)
Synopsis:Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an…
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Andy Warhol – The Life of Juanita Castro (1965)
MARCH 22, 1965: CASTRO OPENS. Warhol’s film, The Life of Juanita Castro premiered at the Film-Makers Cinematheque. (DB217) It was…
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Jun Ichikawa – Byôin de shinu to iu koto AKA Dying at a Hospital (1993)
Quote:In the early 1990s a spate of hospital films were released in Japan, including Takita Yojiro’s two Let’s Go to…
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Neil Jordan – Not I (2000)
A young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a…
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