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  • Werner Schroeter – Argila (1969)

    1961-1970ArthouseExperimentalGermanyWerner Schroeter

    SYNOPSIS
    Schroeter’s legendary two-screen projection Argila.Read More »

  • Lav Diaz – Batang West Side AKA West Side Avenue (2001)

    2001-2010ArthouseCrimeLav DiazPhilippines

    A Filipino teenager (Yul Servo) is shot to death on the sidewalk of New Jersey, USA. An investigation starts into his death. His family members and friends are interviewed. Along the way, we find out not only more about him but about the community of Filipinos in America in general, including the destructive effect of the drug “shabu” on its youth. The detective who handles the case (Joel Torre) also has his own personal demons to settle with his violent past.Read More »

  • Hamed Rajabi – Paridan az ertefa kam AKA A Minor Leap Down (2015)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaHamed RajabiIran

    Nahal who is four months pregnant suddenly finds out that her child is dead. She chose silence and decides not to talk with anybody about that.

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    A dark film with moments that recall Bunuel.

    Nahal is around thirty and in her fourth month of pregnancy. During a routine check-up she learns that her baby has died and she now faces a curettage abortion in two days’ time. When she tries to address the subject, neither her mother nor her husband give her a chance to speak. Nahal knows that her family will force her to go back to taking the antidepressant medication she began prior to her pregnancy. At first the young woman appears to resume her daily life as before, but her silence soon turns into rebellion.Read More »

  • Various – Dekalog 89+ AKA Decalogue 89+ [Official Dekalog Remake] (2010)

    Drama2001-2010ArthousePolandVarious

    This is a very rare and obscure official remake of Kieslowski’s Decalogue.

    Episodes:
    I: The Scent of Flowers Does Not Blow Against the Wind (You shall have no other gods before me)
    II: Newbie (You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain)
    III: Overboard (Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy)
    IV: My Poor Head (Honour your father and your mother)
    V: Janusz W. Case (You shall not kill)
    VI: The Lodger (You shall not commit adultery)
    VII: Street Feeling (You shall not steal)
    VIII: The Fence (You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour)
    IX: Yoko Ono’s Cups (You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife)
    X: Real (You shall not covet your neighbour’s goods)Read More »

  • Paul Humfress & Derek Jarman – Sebastiane: A Work in Progress (1976)

    1971-1980ArthousePaul Humfress and Derek Jarman

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    Sebastiane: A Work in Progress (c.1975): newly remastered from 16mm film elements held by the BFI National Archive, this sadly incomplete early black and white work-print of Sebastiane differs significantly from the finished film. This previously unseen alternate edit – assembled in a different order, featuring a different soundtrack – was never subtitled or released.Read More »

  • Paul Humfress & Derek Jarman – Sebastiane (1976)

    1971-1980ArthouseCultDerek JarmanPaul Humfress and Derek JarmanQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

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    Filmed entirely in vulgar Latin, this experimental film recounts the life of Sebastiane, a puritanical but beautiful Christian soldier in the Roman Imperial troops who is martyred when he refuses the homosexual advances of his pagan captain. When this film was released, it was the only English-made film to have required English subtitles, and it is an early film by the noted experimental and outspokenly homosexual director Derek Jarman, who died in 1994.Read More »

  • Terence Davies – The Terence Davies Trilogy (1984)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaTerence DaviesUnited Kingdom

    Description from IMDb
    Davies’ film is divided into three segments enitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first segment looks at his birth and formative years in school, an austere boy’s school. The bleak environment is not aided by loveless, violent homelife he experiences. Nonetheless, his father’s death is a major impact to him. In the second segment, he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final segment, he deals with his mother’s death and then faces his own impending doom. As his death approaches he flashes back to his life’s events.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 »

  • 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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