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Richard Lester – The Three Musketeers (1973)
Synopsis:The young D’Artagnan (Michael York) arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King’s Musketeer. He meets and quarrels with…
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Nicolas Klotz – La Blessure AKA The Wound (2004)
Quote:Inviting favorable comparison to the overtly political, social realist films of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, The Wound is an understatedly…
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Joan Micklin Silver – Hester Street (1975)
Synopsis:It’s 1896. Yankel Bogovnik, a Russian Jew, emigrated to the United States three years earlier and has settled where many…
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Ki-young Kim – Goryeo jang AKA Burying Old Alive (1963)
Prior to the adoption of Confucianism, it was the tradition to abandon one’s parents on a mountainside if they were…
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Godfrey Reggio – Powaqqatsi (1988)
Quote:Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he again joined forces with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators…
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Krzysztof Kieslowski – Blizna AKA The Scar (1976)
Quote:Films made under the state socialist regimes of Eastern Europe in the mid-twentieth century tend to fall roughly into two…
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Paul Turner – Hedd Wyn (1992)
Oscar nominated for Best Foreign Language film in 1994, this Welsh language film tells the true story of a young…
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Peter Davis – Hearts and Minds [+ Commentary] (1974)
Academy Award for Best Documentary (1975). “We weren’t on the wrong side. We were the wrong side.” A courageous and…
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Walter Hill – Hard Times (1975)
Synopsis:During the Great Depression, the mysterious drifter Chaney befriends the promoter of illegal street fights Speed and they go to…
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