In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named “Black Tulip” held the
surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood,
who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux “plays” this
benefactor. When he fought with Mouche, the policeman he was wounded … Read More »
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Christian-Jaque – La etulipe noire aka The Black Tulip (1964)
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Jan Batory – Spotkanie ze szpiegiem AKA Rendezvous with a Spy (1964)
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Bekleme odasi aka The Waiting Room (2004)
Zeki Demirkubuz2001-2010ArthouseDramaTurkeySynopsis:
Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, pushes those who love him away and cannot complete the film.Read More » -
Péter Forgács – The Danube Exodus (1998)
1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalHolocaust HistoryHungaryPéter ForgácsQuote:
He is primarily interested in the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments, but on closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history, which can be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker.In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats.
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H.C. Potter – The Time of Your Life (1948)
H.C. Potter1941-1950ComedyDramaUSAThe film follows the adventures of a group of regulars at Nick’s ‘Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace’ in San Francisco. A sign outside tells people to come in as they are. At the center is the wealthy Joe (James Cagney), who has given up working to hold court at Nick’s (William Bendix) bar. He desires to live “a civilized life” without hurting anyone and believes the real truth in people is found in their dreams of themselves, not the hard facts of their actual existence.[4] Joe has a stooge named Tom (Wayne Morris), who runs his eccentric errands until a woman with a past named Kitty (Jeanne Cagney) comes in and steals Tom’s heart. Also appearing are Broderick Crawford as Krupp, Ward Bond as McCarthy, Tom Powers as Blick, and James Barton as Kit Carson.Read More »
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Walerian Borowczyk – La bête AKA The Beast (1975)
1971-1980DramaFantasyFranceWalerian BorowczykThe head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious ‘beast’ is stalking the vicinity.Read More »
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Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things (2023)
Yorgos Lanthimos2021-2030ComedyDramaIrelandBella is a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Under the scientist’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.Read More »
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Nancy Meckler – Sister My Sister (1994)
Nancy Meckler1941-1950DramaQueer Cinema(s)United KingdomThis all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930’s. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself. The relationship of the sisters slowly evolves into obsession, brought about by isolation and by emotions left from childhood. Trapped in a garret room, the sisters’ violent downstairs-upstairs collision with Madame Danzard and the lumpy Isabelle seems certainRead More »
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Paul de Nooijer & Frans Zwartjes – Moving Stills (1972)
1971-1980ExperimentalFrans ZwartjesNetherlandsPaul de NooijerQuote:
First film by Paul de Nooijer, in collaboration with his artistic father Frans Zwartjes. Moving Stills shows a series of photographs by Françoise de Nooijer, which are joined, by means of editing and colour effects, and turned into a moving picture. The erotic image gets an explosive charge.
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