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Juzo Itami – Shizukana seikatsu AKA A Quiet Life (1995)
Veteran director Juzo Itami who — shot to fame with his sharply satirical Ososhiki and Tampopo — turns to decidedly…
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Rene Daalder – Population: 1 (1986)
Quote:Like fellow Dutchmen Paul Verhoeven and Jan De Bont, Rene Daalder was drafted by Hollywood to make genre films, though…
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Armand Gatti – El otro Cristóbal (1963)
Using satire, encoded in symbolism and surrealism, the French director Armand Gatti tells the story of an imaginary country in…
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Ken Russell – The Music Lovers (1971)
“Vulgar, excessive, melodramatic and self-indulgent: Tchaikovsky’s music is indeed all of these things, yet gloriously so, and the same goes…
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Robert Altman – Robert Altman – Short Cuts (1993)
Quote:Given Robert Altman’s fondness for working with ensemble casts, it comes as no surprise that his films often provide a…
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Travis Collins & Amélie Ravalec – Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay (2015)
Quote:Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay traces the development of one of music’s most quietly influential genres from the post-industrial…
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Aktan Arym Kubat – Svet-Ake aka The Light Thief (2010)
In this colourful modern-day parable of good and evil, a humble village electrician devoteshis compassion and ingenuity to destitute neighbours…
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Sabrina Sarabi – Prélude (2019)
Prélude follows in the great tradition of romantic tales on the torments of adolescence and the highs and lows of…
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François Truffaut – La chambre verte AKA The Green Room (1978)
Synopsis:A French little town, at the end of the twenties. Julien Davenne is a journalist whose wife Julie died a…
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