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David Leland – Wish You Were Here (1987)
Her mother’s dead, her father’s a drunk, and inside of her beats a spirit that is free and true. But…
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Michael Reeves – Witchfinder General AKA The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Synopsis:England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from…
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Otakar Vávra – Kladivo na carodejnice AKA Witches’ Hammer (1970)
Quote:The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf at the Communion. She…
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Tag Gallagher – I did what he told me to – Josef von Sternberg & Marlene Dietrich (2019)
Tag Quote:Von Sternberg is a like Bach or Beethoven: he provides the performer with a form, and the performer creates…
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Emir Kusturica – Arizona Dream (1993)
Quote:An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and…
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Antônio Moreno – Eclipse (1984)
An experimental rehearsal film about the 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil. In front of images that are transfigured, inside…
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Govindan Aravindan – Thampu AKA The Circus Tent (1978)
Quote:Aravindan’s finest b&w film chronicles three days with a circus in a small town in Kerala. A series of high-angle…
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Jacques Rivette – Paris s’en va (1981)
Before Le Pont du Nord Rivette films Paris s’en va, a short film of approximately 25 minutes. He works with…
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Shinji Aoyama – Kôrogi AKA Crickets (2006)
Quote:Kaoru, a woman in her 30s, is married to an older, blind and apparently mute man, whom she cares for…
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