• Jean-Luc Godard – Week End AKA Weekend (1967) (HD)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseComedyFranceJean-Luc Godard

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    The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this raucous, biting satire. A nasty, scheming bourgeois Parisian couple embarks on a journey through the countryside to her father’s house, where they pray for his death and a subsequent inheritance. Their trip is at first delayed, and later it is distracted by several outrageous events and characters including an apocalyptic traffic jam, a group of fictional philosophers, a couple of violent carjackers, and eventually, a gross display of cannibalism. By the time the film concludes, their seemingly simple journey has deteriorated into a freewheeling philosophical diatribe that leaves no topic unscathed. With Week End, Jean-Luc Godard reaches an impressive plateau of film originality, incorporating inter-titles, extended tracking shots, and music to add an entirely new grammar to film language. The result is a deeply challenging work that will most certainly invigorate some viewers just as much as it will as frustrate others.Read More »

  • Hans W. Geissendörfer – Die gläserne Zelle aka The Glass Cell (1978)

    1971-1980DramaGermanyHans W. GeissendörferThriller

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    Noteworthy crime movie

    A rather forgotten but very interesting adaptation of a novel by Patricia Highsmith. The plot is simple: A man, unjustly convicted for criminal negligence to 5 years imprisonment, gets released from jail and is being increasingly entrapped to a web of jealously regarding his beautiful wife’s activities while he was locked-up. The film adroitly examines the corrosive effects of jealously that gradually generate a form of mental confinement which effectively proves to be equally unbearable with the physical one. It unfolds with almost clinical precision, its use of location is inspired and the performances sharp and convincing (avoid the dubbed English version). The climax could have been stronger but it generally captures the amoralism of Highsmith’s work as well as some other more well-known adaptations of her work.Read More »

  • Jean Dréville – Copie conforme (1947)

    1941-1950ClassicsFilm NoirFranceJean Dréville

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    Another Louis Jouvet’s tour de force., 8 March 2003
    Author: dbdumonteil
    Some movies do not need a director at all:when Louis Jouvet is the lead,he carries everything on his shoulders.Here he’s got two parts: a crook and an honest man ,who is his perfect double. Jouvet is so good,a perfectionist extraordinaire ,that you do believe there are really TWO different actors on the screen,one self-assured,smart and tricky,the other one a born-sucker. Nevertheless, best scenes are to be found at the beginning:Jouvet selling a castle on the historical register to a couple of nouveaux riches: his crook becomes a true noble ,and when he says to these bourgeois he despises “call me excellency as everybody does”,his behavior compels respect.Read More »

  • Boris Barnet & S. Mardanin – U samogo sinego morya AKA By the Bluest of Seas (1936)

    1931-1940Boris BarnetBoris Barnet and S. MardaninDramaRomanceUSSR

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    The sea is at first quite dark for the sailors Aliosha and Yussuf. Adrift, they reach an island where they meet Mashenka, a beautiful girl they both immediately fall in love with…

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    One of the films revered by French filmmakers such as Godard and Otar Iosseliani, this marvelous picture, a spontaneous and joyful romantic comedy shot at eye-popping locations, stars the delicious Elena Kouzmina as a bouncy island beauty wooed by two young shipwrecked Caspian fisherman. And it’s more fun than Alexander Nevsky.Read More »

  • Alfred Hitchcock – Bon Voyage (1944) (HD)

    1941-1950Alfred HitchcockShort FilmUSAWar

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    A young Scottish RAF gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German agent. Read More »

  • John Carl Buechler – Troll (1986)

    1981-1990CanadaFantasyHorrorJohn Carl Buechler

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    An evil troll, Torok, the transformed state of the ex-husband of an old friendly witch named Eunice St. Clair, has chosen her apartment building to be the heart of the restoration of the world he once knew. To do this he uses an Emerald ring, and takes possession of a little girl named Wendy, whose brother Harry immediately suspects something wrong. Torok, often in the form of the little girl, goes into each occupant’s apartment, hideously transforming people into plant pods.Read More »

  • Sérgio Ricardo – Juliana do Amor Perdido AKA Lost Love Juliana (1968)

    1961-1970BrazilDramaSérgio Ricardo

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    A beautiful young woman living in an isolated fishing community on an island falls in love with an outsider, a train machinist. But her father, a violent religious fanatic interferes.Read More »

  • Bill Morrison & David Harrington – Beyond Zero: 1914-1918 (2014)

    2011-2020Bill MorrisonBill Morrison and David HarringtonDocumentaryExperimentalUSA

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    Intro from CPH : DOX homepage
    The 100 year old film images sparkle and crackle with an expressive fury, which almost looks like a reaction to what they depict. This year, it is 100 year since the First World War – the first ‘modern’ war, and the first to be documented in moving images – forever destroyed any notion of the (Western) world’s continued progress under the banner of reason and industrialisation. 1914 was the modern era’s absolute year zero. A landmark year, which is here marked in a cinematic collaboration between the renowned American filmmaker Bill Morrison and the string quartet Kronos Quartet, who have recorded the original score by the Serbian composer Aleksandra Vrebalov. Read More »

  • Corneliu Porumboiu – Al doilea joc AKA The Second Game (2014)

    2011-2020Corneliu PorumboiuDocumentaryExperimentalRomania

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    The Second Game (Romanian: Al doilea joc) is a 2014 Romanian documentary film directed by Corneliu Porumboiu. The film integrally depicts the Dinamo — Steaua footbal derby played on December 3, 1988; the game is commented on by Porumboiu and his father, Adrian, the referee of that match.

    It was selected for the Forum section at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.Read More »

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