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...
View ArticleSion Sono – Eiga: minna! Esupâ da yo! AKA The Virgin Psychics (2015)
Quote: High school student Kamogawa Yoshiro wakes up one day to discover that he has psychic superpowers. He also soon discovers that others in the city have the gift, only some of them are hellbent...
View ArticleBernard Nicolas – Daydream Therapy (1977)
Quote: Daydream Therapy is set to Nina Simone’s haunting rendition of “Pirate Jenny” and concludes with Archie Shepp’s “Things Have Got to Change.” Filmed in Burton Chace Park in Marina del Rey by...
View ArticleFerdinand Diehl – Die Sieben Raben AKA The Seven Ravens (1937)
A peasant father sends his seven sons to fetch water for their sickly young sister but when he curses them for not returning soon enough, they turn into ravens and disappear. Many years later when the...
View ArticleChristophe Honoré – Métamorphoses (2014)
Quote: One of France’s most unpredictable writer-directors, Christophe Honoré (Dans Paris, Love Songs) offers an audacious, erotically upfront re-reading of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, enacted by a fearless...
View ArticleVíctor Erice – El Espíritu de la colmena aka The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Widely regarded as a masterpiece of Spanish cinema, this allegorical tale is set in a remote village in the 1940s. The life in the village is calm and uneventful — an allegory of...
View ArticleHenrikas Sablevicius – Atspindziai AKA Reflections [Restored] (1968)
“Reflections” is a film created by Henrikas Šablevičius and the national television. Back then, the movie was seen as unconventional in the context of Lithuanian cinema: it employs a surrealistic...
View ArticleBertrand Mandico – Les garçons sauvages AKA The Wild Boys (2017)
At the beginning of the 20th century on the island of La Réunion, five adolescents of good family, enamored with the occult, commit a savage crime. A Dutch Captain takes them in charge for a...
View ArticleUmit 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...
View ArticleFederico Fellini – Giulietta degli spiriti AKA Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
Quote: Fellini lore has it that the master made “Juliet of the Spirits” as a gift for his wife. Like many husbands, he gave her the gift he really wanted for himself. The movie, starring a sad-eyed...
View ArticleVáclav Vorlícek – Jak utopit doktora Mrácka aneb Konec vodniku v Cechách AKA...
Synopsis: There are still water spirits among us. One group lives in Prague, led by Mr. Wassermann, who is using his wife’s family as a servants. All they need is their old house near the river. But...
View ArticleRoberto Gavaldón – Macario (1960)
Quote: The enigmatic B. Traven is certainly one of the most amazing figures in modern literature, as to this date his true identity remains an unsolved mystery. Better known for having written the...
View ArticleNadezhda Kosheverova & Mikhail Shapiro – Zolushka AKA Cinderella (1947)
Based on the traditional story about the hard working Cinderella, her wicked step-mother and lazy sisters. The film was restored at ”Mosfilm” in 1967. imdb user comment 8 out of 8 people found the...
View ArticleApichatpong Weerasethakul – Blue (2018)
An insomniac lies in bed as theatrical backdrops unveil themselves and her sheet catches aflame. TIFF wrote: In the hushed, somnolent, yet unsettling Blue, Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul and...
View ArticleMarcel Carné – Juliette ou La clef des songes AKA Juliette, or Key of Dreams...
Synopsis: Having been caught stealing money from his employer to pay for a holiday with his girlfriend Juliette, Michel finds himself in a prison cell. He falls into a deep sleep and awakes to find...
View ArticleMara Eibl-Eibesfeldt – Im Spinnwebhaus (2015)
Jonas is already head of the family at just 12 years of age. He has been helping his two younger siblings and supporting his mother, Sabine, since his father left. Sabine is very loving towards her...
View ArticleDave McKean – Luna (2014)
Quote: Grant and Christine are still struggling with a storm of grief following the death of their baby. They visit an old friend, Dean, with his new girlfriend, Freya, in an isolated house by the...
View ArticleBoots Riley – Sorry to Bother You (2018)
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed. 3.81GB | 1 h 51 min | 1920×802 |...
View ArticleAlbert Pyun – The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
Alan Mount (IMDB) said this: “This movie which came out at around the same time as “CONAN THE BARBARIAN” is the better film. It is a rip-roaring fantasy adventure which has elements of Harryhausen’s...
View ArticleAnna Melikyan – Rusalka AKA The Mermaid (2007)
PLOT:The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true.She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys...
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