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Paul Schrader – Cat People (1982)
Plot :The Cat People originated way back in time, when humans sacrificed their women to Leopards, who mated with them. Cat People look similar to humans, but must mate with other Cat People. We follow...
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Peter Yates – Krull [+Extras] (1983)
From imdb.com Why you MUST give Krull a second look…. Author: Nathan castle ‘Fantasy’, in the traditional ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ sense, in the movies is often seen by the general public as a warning...
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Terry Gilliam – Tideland [+Extras] (2005)
Quote: After her mother dies from a heroin overdose, Jeliza-Rose is taken from the big city to a rural farmhouse by her father. As she tries to settle into a new life in a house her father had...
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David Lynch – Dune [Extended Edition] (1984)
SEVERAL of the characters in ”Dune” are psychic, which puts them in the unique position of being able to understand what goes on in the movie. The plot of ”Dune” is perilously overloaded, as is...
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Aleksandr Ptushko – Skazka o poteryannom vremeni aka A Tale of Lost Times (1964)
Quote: One day, four sorcerers appeared out of the blue in the streets of a small town. These evil old people had long been dreaming of getting back their former vigor and youth. But to do that, they...
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Sally Potter – Orlando (1992)
Sally Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Wolf’s 1928 novel is a visual delight. The story of a person, who apparently lives 400 years, and appears initially as a man, and later as a woman. Tilda Swinton,...
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Louis Malle – Black Moon (1975)
Louis Malle meets Lewis Carroll in this bizarre and bewitching trip down the rabbit hole. After skirting the horrors of a mysterious war being waged in the countryside, beautiful young Lily (Cathryn...
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Johannes Grenzfurthner – Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl (2014)
Instant Cult Film from Austria. Allegedly on a €5.000 budget! Brilliant commentary on the Euro Crisis, international politics, internet and DIY culture … see farmers worshipping EU application forms...
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Roberto Rossellini – Il tacchino prepotente (1939)
This is an anti-Fascist short Rossellini made in 1940. Quote: La vispa Teresa was rejected and, although Ferrara said that Il tacchino was distributed by Scalera under its working title, “La perfida...
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Roberto Rossellini – La vispa Teresa (1939)
Quote: Scalera had obtained backing for a series of animal shorts and needed someone to make them. Roberto plunged in enthusiastically. He arrived at Ladispoli with animals of all sorts distributed...
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Jacques Rivette – Duelle (une quarantaine) AKA Twilight (A Quarantine) (1976)
It all began (as things Rivettian tend to do) auspiciously enough. There were to be four films in a series originally entitled Les Filles du Feu (after Gerard de Nerval) before the more expansive...
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Jean Cocteau – Le testament d’Orphée, ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi! AKA...
Synopsis “Criterion” wrote: In his last film, legendary writer/artist/filmmaker Jean Cocteau portrays an 18th-century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious...
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Till Kleinert – Der Samurai (2014)
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild...
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Alejandro Jodorowsky – The Rainbow Thief (1990)
SYNOPSIS: A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune. Production notes: This was Jodorowsky’s sixth...
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Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay – The PianoTuner of EarthQuakes (2005)
Plot Outline: Dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer with designs on transforming her into a mechanical nightingale. Quote: To watch The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes...
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Bartabas – Mazeppa (1993)
Quote: Mazeppa tells the story of a painter (Gericault) who is brought into the sensuous and strange world of a traveling “circus” — not like Ringling Bros., but more of a demonstration of horse...
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Umit Unal – Gölgesizler AKA The Shadowless (2009)
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a...
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Miguel Gomes – As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 1, O Inquieto AKA Arabian Nights:...
Quote: In which Scheherazade tells of the restlessness that befell the country: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that in a sad country among all countries, where people dream of mermaids and...
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Miguel Gomes – As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 2, O Desolado AKA Arabian Nights:...
Quote: In which Scheherazade tells of how desolation invaded men: It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that a distressed judge will cry instead of giving out her sentence on a night when all three...
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Miguel Gomes – As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume 3, O Encantado AKA Arabian Nights:...
Quote: In which Scheherazade doubts that she will still be able to tell stories to please the King, given that what she has to tell weighs three thousand tons. She therefore escapes from the palace...
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