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Eriprando Visconti – Una storia milanese AKA A Milanese Story (1962)
Giampiero is a young and rich middle-class boy, who carries all the limits and weaknesses of his environment. He is…
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Edward Buzzell – Fast Company (1938)
Plot:Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. He finds stolen or lost rare books for the…
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Benjamin Stoloff – The Lady and the Mob (1939)
Plot Synopsis by Hal EricksonHow could anyone dislike a film with the title Lady and the Mob? Sweet Fay Bainter…
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Ali Abdel-Khalek – El-Baydha Wal Hagar AKA Hocus Pocus (1990)
Mustafaa is a high school philosophy teacher whose life is turned upside down when the landlord decides to raise his…
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Ken McMullen – 1871 (1990)
Quote:“1871” is a visually sumptuous, multi-layered treatment of the Paris Commune which was selected for the “Un Certain Regard” section…
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Bertrand Bonello – Le pornographe AKA The Pornographer (2001)
Jacques Laurent made pornographic films in the 1970s and ’80s, but had put that aside for 20 years. His artistic…
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Lewis Klahr – Sixty Six (2015)
Quote:Sixty Six began as a three minute, 16mm film I created in 2002– a pop poetic filled with the lush…
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Philip Haas & David Hockney – A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth (1988)
SynopsisThis famous Chinese scroll painting traces the Emperor Kangxi’s second tour of his southern empire in 1689. Painted by Wang…
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George B. Seitz – Under Cover of Night (1937)
Plot Synopsis:For a studio specializing in glossy soap operas, costume pictures and musicals, MGM made an inordinate number of “B”-grade…
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