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Duyu Dan – Pan si dong (1927)
FILM SYNOPSIS/BRIEF REVIEW:One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. When seeking for food alone, Tang Xuanzang was kept prisoner by seven spider monsters...
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Hayao Miyazaki – Kaze no tani no Naushika AKA Nausicaa of the Valley of the...
In the far future, man has destroyed the Earth in the “Seven Days of Fire”. Now, there are small pockets of humanity that survive. One pocket is the Valley of Wind where a princess named Nausicaa...
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Kon Ichikawa – Hi no tori AKA Firebird: Daybreak Chapter (1978)
This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and elderly...
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Andrzej Zakrzewski – Szach i mat! (1967)
Short polish TV film made in 1967 by Andrzej Zakrzewski upon the story of Ludwik Niemojski of the same title. It was a part of the “Opowiesci niezwykle” (Incredible Stories).It tells a story of...
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Nadezhda Kosheverova – Staraya, staraya skazka AKA A Very Old Story (1968)
A young puppeteer tells a story about a soldier who falls in love with a rude princess. Based on fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. 1.86GB | 1h 31mn | 964×402 | mkv...
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Iván Ávila Dueñas – La sangre iluminada AKA Enlightened Blood (2007)
In this mind-bending drama, six lives are shared through a rare mathematical phenomenon that situates people at specific coordinates, allowing them to continue life in a new body. When this threshold...
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Ingmar Bergman – Det sjunde inseglet AKA The Seventh Seal (1957)
Quote:In recent years, The Seventh Seal has often been honored more for its historical stature than its prevailing vitality. Those who attended its first international rollout and were changed forever...
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Arunas Zebriunas – Polunochnyk AKA Naktibalada AKA Nightbird (1973)
In his dreams little Tomas escapes from his every day live to experience a lot of thrilling and exciting adventures. 601MB | 1h 3mn | 768×576 | mkv...
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Jacques Demy – The Pied Piper (1972)
Synopsis:Greed, corruption, ignorance, stupidity, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. A family of strolling players travel to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s...
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Stephen Quay & Timothy Quay – Institute Benjamente (1995)
Synopsis:Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of...
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Andrey Konchalovskiy – Kurochka Ryaba AKA Ryaba My Chicken (1994)
This Russian-French comedy examines the effects of capitalism and democracy upon a Russian peasant village. It was filmed in the rural village of Bezvodnoye, the setting of this film’s 1967 precursor...
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Federico Fellini – La voce della luna AKA The Voice of the Moon (1990)
The swansong of the great Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini (La dolce vita, 8½), The Voice of the Moon emerged without fanfare: it played the Cannes Film Festival out of competition after its Italian...
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Louis Malle – Black Moon (1975)
Synopsis: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...
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Clive Donner – A Christmas Carol (1984)
PLOT:In the Victorian period, Ebenezer Scrooge is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money, and who regards compassion as a luxury he cannot afford. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by...
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Jan Sverák – Akumulator 1 (1994)
Quote:In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that’s right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true...
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Rainer Sarnet – November (2017)
In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. Greg Ruth wrote:The invocation of folklore,...
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Viktor Ivchenko – Lisova pisnya AKA The song of the forest (1961)
Quote:Mavka, a water nymph, loves Lukash, a country youth. Their brief happiness ends when Lukash is forced to marry the shrewish Kilina. The Spirit of the Forest turns Lukash into a wolf as...
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Noam Gonick – Hey, Happy! (2001)
Quote:DJ Sabu’s overactive libido leads him into teenaged pregnancy. His mythic quest for two thousand boys ends with Happy, a paranoid UFO-ologist to whom aliens promise to appear (as his love...
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Alex Piperno – Lloren la locura perdida de estos campos (2019)
A girl dies in a provincial summer house and is buried by her family. By night a wild dog unearths the corpse and takes it to the woods. Under the shade of the trees, the girl wakes up and decides to...
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Neil Jordan – The Company of Wolves (1984)
The story unfolds as young Rosaleen lies dreaming in her bed. A violent nightmare transports her back in time to a world of primeval forests and werewolves. In this netherworld she learns that her...
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