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Edward Dmytryk – Murder, My Sweet (1944)
This adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’, renamed for the American market to prevent filmgoers mistaking it…
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Martin Fric – Kristian (1939)
This tragicomedy from 1939, directed by Martin Frič, is among the most popular Czech films of all time. The reason…
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Michael Gordon – Pillow Talk (1959)
Quote: Sometime in the mid to late sixties, Doris Day got saddled with the “Oldest Living Virgin” label, something which…
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Chūsei Sone – Furin AKA Adultery (1986)
Original title: 不倫 A wife, bored with her husband, meets one of his old friends at a party. He manages…
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Yuriy Chulyukin – Devchata AKA The Girls (1962)
Quote: Tonya has just graduated from the trade school and found a job as a cook in a Siberian village.…
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Bostjan Hladnik – Ko pride lev AKA The Lion is Coming (1972)
Quote: Lionhearted Leo doesn’t know what to do. He simply can not decide between the fragile Michelle and the fatal…
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Ivan Ostrochovský – Sluzobníci AKA Servants (2020)
Two students of a theological seminary in totalitarian Czechoslovakia must decide if they’ll choose the easier way of collaboration, or…
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Michelangelo Antonioni – L’amorosa menzogna (1948)
Documentary on the making of “fotoromanzi”, popular comic strips using live action photgraphs instead of drawings. Early morning in an…
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Jean-Claude Brisseau – Les anges exterminateurs AKA The Exterminating Angels (2006)
Quote: It’s tough to find something redeeming about Jean-Claude Brisseau’s Exterminating Angels, a conflated, borderline pornographic, and execrable projection of…
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