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Masaki Kobayashi – Kaidan AKA Kwaidan [uncut] [+commentary] (1964)
Quote: For a film so widely and indelibly remembered, Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan has confounded a surprising number of critics over the years. Ever since its release in 1965, there have been those who...
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George Lazopoulos – Medousa AKA Medusa (1998)
Quote: In this surreal retelling of the ancient myth of the Medusa, bizarre, clothed statues of men are appearing all over Greece. Only Perseus, the leader of a gang of modern Athenian thieves, holds...
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Claude Autant-Lara – Sylvie et le fantôme AKA Sylvia and the Ghost (1946)
Quote: With this film, conceived during the occupation and released after the war, Claude Autant-Lara entered the realm of pure fantasy. Odette Joyeux stars as Sylvie, in love with a long-dead...
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Sergei Parajanov & Dodo Abashidze – Ambavi Suramis tsikhitsa AKA The Legend...
Directors Sergei Paradzhanov and Dodo Abashidze resurrected an old Soviet Georgian folktale as the basis for their film The Legend of Suram Fortress. The fortress in question is forever under...
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Daniel Asadi Faezi – The Absence of Apricots (2018)
A village in the mountains of Northern Pakistan. One day, a landslide congested a river. Thousands of homes and fields were inundated. Villages vanished. What is left are the people and their stories,...
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Rainer Sarnet – November (2017)
Quote: NOVEMBER is set in a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam, Rainer Sarnet’s third feature film is a bold, twisted fairy tale about unrequited love. In NOVEMBER,...
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Sogo Ishii – Mizu no naka no hachigatsu AKA August in the Water (1995)
Quote: Taking in the whole spectrum of pre-millennial new age phenomena, the bizarre August in the Water (whose English language release title is a direct translation of the Japanese, though is not to...
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Andrew Kotting – Ivan and the Dogs AKA Lek and the Dogs (2017)
Synopsis In his adaptation of Hattie Naylor’s play Ivan and the Dogs, experimental filmmaker Andrew Kötting travels to the Chilean desert to recreate the life of the young boy who left his Moscow...
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Federico Fellini – Intervista [+extras] (1987)
Synopsis: Cinecitta, the huge movie studio outside Rome, is 50 years old and Fellini is interviewed by a Japanese TV crew about the films he has made there over the years as he begins production on...
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Terry Gilliam – The Zero Theorem (2013)
Quote: The Zero Theorem casts Christoph Waltz as Qohen Leth, an egghead data processor who is given a mission to make order out of chaos. This being a production by Terry Gilliam – the rambling mad...
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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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Jaromil Jires – Valerie a týden divu AKA Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up...
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David Lynch – Eraserhead (1977)
Quote: Is it a nightmare or an actual view of a post-apocalyptic world? Set in an industrial town in which giant machines are constantly working, spewing smoke, and making noise that is inescapable,...
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Emir Kusturica – Dom za vesanje AKA Time of the Gypsies (1988)
In this luminous tale set in the area around Sarajevo and in Italy, Perhan, an engaging young Romany (gypsy) with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime, which threatens...
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Janusz Majewski – Lokis aka The Bear (1970)
Synopsis: Lokis is a dark Gothic romance, a faithful (though expanded) adaptation of Prosper Merimee’s famous story, and the creme de la creme of the small horror niche dealing with the Eastern...
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Sergei Bodrov – Bear’s Kiss (2002)
A dramatic fantasy romance film directed by Sergei Bodrov. A German, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, French, and Italian co-production, it tells the story of the circus girl Lola, who raises a bear from...
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Pavel Arsyonov – Lilovyy shar AKA The Purple Ball (1987)
Plot Alisa Seleznyova and her father professor Seleznyov are traveling in space. They meet their old friend archaeologist Gromozeka, who’s just discovered a planet all inhabitants of which died. It...
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Stephen Chow – Mei ren yu AKA The Mermaid (2016)
Plot: Xuan’s estate project involving reclamation of the sea threatens the livelihood of the mermaids who rely on the sea to survive. Shan is dispatched to stop Xuan and this leads them into falling...
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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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Pierre Prévert – Le petit Claus et le grand Claus AKA Little Claus and Big...
Synopsis Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing...
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