• Francis Veber – Les fugitifs AKA The Fugitives (1986)

    1981-1990ComedyCrimeFranceFrancis Veber

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    Francis Veber directs this hilarious comedy about François (Pierre Richard), a desperate, novice, bumbling bank robber who takes an ex-con hostage during his attempted hold-up. They are both chased by the police. Jean (Gérard Depardieu) plays the convicted bank robber just released from jail and forced to escape with François. Anaïs Bret portrays François’ 6-year-old autistic daughter, and is the reason why he needed money so badly that he would steal for it. An inventive series of farcical situations and witty dialogue keeps the two men moving one step and several missteps ahead of the police. This comedy was so successful that Veber repeated it in 1989 for English-speaking audiences as Three Fugitives, starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short.

    — Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • Petr Václav – Marian (1996)

    1991-2000ArthouseCzech RepublicDramaPetr Václav

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    Václav started his career as a director of film documentaries, first attracted critical attention with his graduation film, Paní Le Murie (Madame Le Murie, 1993) and consolidated his reputation with his first feature Marián (1996), which testified to the problems of social and racial determination and more generally also the theme of human freedom and humiliation.Read More »

  • Gustav Machaty – Erotikon (1929)

    1921-1930Czech RepublicGustav MachatyRomanceSilent

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    IMDb user comments:
    75 years after the release of EROTIKON, I had a chance to see it in a modern cinema in Wroclaw (Poland). The wonderful experience was intensified by the live background music played by the members of Prague Archa theater. It was a lovely return to the end of silent era, the year 1929. The film EROTIKON, made by Gustav Machaty, caused controversy among the audiences of that time. What particularly shocked them was the way the director showed love scenes. Some admired it, some condemned it and, as a result, it was underrated and lost for years. Fortunately, the copy was found in the 1980s and restored for today’s audience who can admire the genius of Machaty.Read More »

  • Ben Verbong – De onfatsoenlijke vrouw AKA The Indecent Woman (1991)

    1991-2000Ben VerbongDramaNetherlandsThriller

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    Plot / Synopsis:
    Emilia leads a quiet life, together with her husband Charles and her little daughter Anna. To love is a familiar feeling to her, but she is totally oblivious to a feeling such as pure lust. Until she meets Leon.

    Their affair starts as a game to which Emilia completely surrenders. But when it starts interfering with her daily existence, she wants out.Read More »

  • Leonard Bernstein – Little Drummer Boy: Essay on Mahler by Leonard Bernstein (1985)

    1981-1990DocumentaryLeonard BernsteinPerformanceUSA

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    Quote:
    Wow!–I just finished watching “The Little Drummer Boy.”
    Previously I had thought that I knew quite a bit about Gustav Mahler, but Leonard Bernstein showed me more.

    What Bernstein does is show you–through biographical commentary and excerpts from Mahler’s music–just what it was that made this masterful composer and conductor so obsessed with Life and Death.

    Yes, part of it was Mahler’s being born Jewish, and part was seeing so many of his brothers and sisters die so early in life. But Bernstein shows us how Mahler was, like most of us, striving to try to come to terms with life–to understand why death has to come and deprive us of the joys of life.

    To give you an idea of how concrete, knowledgeable and specific this program is, Lenny takes a few minutes, using musical excerpts, to illustrate how there is a funeral march in each of Mahler’s nine symphonies.Read More »

  • Nick Donkin & Melodie McDaniel – The Junky’s Christmas (1994)

    1991-2000AnimationCultMelodie McDanielNick DonkinUSA

    Quote:
    Based on the short story by Burroughs or the same name this is a short clay-mation released by Francis Ford Copolla.

    Narrated by Burroughs, we follow Danny a junk sick and broke bum on his aimless wanderings to find that christmas fix, his eyes are sting and all he can feel is the raw ache in his bones, only the warming rush of Junk will make his at ease. Severed leg’s, drunk Doctors and and a 1/4 grain all go into making this a superb little tale that every family should gather round come christmas morning.

    With a small scene during Thanksgiving at Burrough’s house tagged on the end (he slices the Turkey with a switchblade) it’s a worthy way of spending 22 mins over and over again.Read More »

  • Franco Zeffirelli – Storia di una capinera aka Sparrow (1993)

    Drama1991-2000Franco ZeffirelliItalyRomance

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    Synopsis:
    Set in 1854 in the Sicilian town of Catania, the story follows beautiful young Maria who is freed from a convent when the town is evacuated after 12 years of forced seclusion by her evil stepmother. She finds love in the form of Nino, a family friend, but eventually she must return to the convent…Read More »

  • Pol Cruchten – Perl oder Pica aka Little Secrets (2006)

    Drama2001-2010ComedyLuxembourgPol Cruchten

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    * Luxembourg’s Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008)

    A delightful coming-of-age story set in small town Luxembourg in 1962 about a sensitive 12-year-old boy who is struggling with puberty and a difficult family life within a society that is still recovering from the effects of the former Nazi occupation.Read More »

  • Pierre Coulibeuf – Le Démon du passage (1995)

    1991-2000ArthouseExperimentalFrancePierre Coulibeuf

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    Le Démon du passage (The Demon of Passage)
    35 mm – 14’ – 1995
    “Fictional” reconstruction of the chain of mental images that make the visions of the photographer Jean-Luc Moulène appear.Read More »

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