• 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 »

  • Christy Cabanne – Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939)

    1931-1940AdventureChristy CabanneClassicsUSA

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    Plot
    One part high-seas adventure and one part western, Mutiny on the Blackhawk opens as a pair of heroes take a stand against mutineers and a ship load of freed slaves. Eventually the ship docks off the California coast and the twosome disembark. While traveling the land, they end up trying to prevent Mexican soldiers from destroying a village.Read More »

  • André Delvaux – Belle (1973)

    1971-1980André DelvauxArthouseBelgiumMystery

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    Mathieu returns home. He tells no one of his encounter with the strange woman. He goes back to his studious but airless life in the archives of a provincial town, cataloging several centuries of births, marriages and deaths. Days later, he goes back to the farmhouse in the woods only to discover the mysterious woman lying in an upstairs room deliriously ill. He recklessly rushes back into town and returns with medicine and food. She recovers. Emboldened by his restorative powers, Mathieu teaches her his name and, realizing she doesn’t comprehend him, he calls her “Belle.”Read More »

  • Ferzan Ozpetek – Un giorno perfetto AKA A Perfect Day (2008)

    2001-2010DramaFerzan ÖzpetekItalyTurkey

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    Emma and Antonio, married with two children, have been separated for nearly a year. Antonio is living alone in the house where he used to live with his wife, while Emma has gone back to her mother, taking the children with her. Then, one night, a flying squad is called to the palazzo and the police burst into the apartment where gunshots have been heard. In a rapid succession of events, Un giorno perfetto describes the twenty-four hours before this moment, the simple but “unique” life of a group of people who are shadowed every step they take. Camilla turns seven, her brother Aris is sitting an exam at university, Emma loses her job in a call-center, her daughter Valentina meets a boy she likes, the honorable Elio Fioravanti is doing the round of election rallies, Maja, his beautiful wife finds out she is pregnant, young Kevin is invited to an extravagant party, the teacher, Mara, is meeting her lover and Antonio sees his wife for the last time. The stories interweave on the great stage of a frenetic, disquieting Rome that seems to be heading towards tragedy, although the slightest gesture, just one word, would be enough to change the path of destiny. Un giorno perfetto describes a passionate love, separating and uniting Emma and Antonio – with irony, emotion and compassion. It portrays worlds diverse and distant, that then meet, as if in an unrelenting thriller.Read More »

  • Joyce Wieland – Cat Food (1967)

    1961-1970CanadaExperimentalJoyce Wieland

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    Cat Food
    Canada / 13:30 min. / 1967
    sound / color

    “In Catfood Wieland shows a cat devouring fish after fish for some ten minutes. There seems to be no repetition of shots, but the imagery is so consistent throughout–shot of the fish, the cat eating, his paw clawing, another fish, the cat eating, etc.–that it is just possible the shots are recurrent. There is no question that Wieland has a unique talent.”- P Adams Sitney, Film Culture

    “A cat eats its methodical way through a polymorphous fish. The projector devours the ribbon of film at the same rate, methodically. The lay of Grimnir mentions a wild boar whose magical flesh was nightly devoured by the heroes of Valhalla, and miraculously regenerated next morning in the kitchen. The fish in Wieland’s film, and the miraculous flesh of the film itself, are reconstructed on the rewinds to be devoured again. Here is a dionysian metaphor, old as the West, of immense strength. Once we see that the fish is the protagonist of the action, this metaphor reverberates to incandescence in the mind.” – Hollis FramptonRead More »

  • Thom Andersen – Get Out of the Car (2010)

    2001-2010DocumentaryThom AndersenUSA

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    Get Out of the Car is a response to my last movie, Los Angeles Plays Itself. I called Los Angeles Plays Itself a ‘city symphony in reverse’ in that it was composed of fragments from other films read against the grain to bring the background into the foreground. Visions of the city’s geography and history implicit in these films were made manifest.Read More »

  • Keren Marciano – Mémoires d’une jeune fille dérangée aka Memories of a Disturbed Young Lady (2010)

    2001-2010ComedyFranceKeren MarcianoShort Film

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    Synopsis:
    Lola is still a virgin at the age of twenty-five. Her friends decide to stick their noses into it. Memoirs of a Disturbed Young Lady is the story of a mad chase after a politically correct loss of virginity.Read More »

  • Rob Lemkin & Thet Sambath – Enemies of the People (2009)

    2001-2010DocumentaryRob Lemkin and Thet SambathUnited Kingdom

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    The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to Pol Pot’s right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath records shocking testimony never before seen or heard. Having neglected his own family for years, Sambath’s work comes at a price. But his is a personal mission. He lost his parents and his siblings in the Killing Fields. Amidst his journey to discover why his family died, we come to understand for the first time the real story of Cambodia’s tragedy.Read More »

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