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Richard Brooks – In Cold Blood (1967)
Synopsis:In meeting in Kansas, ex-cons Perry Smith and Dick Hickock are breaking several conditions of their respective paroles. The meeting,…
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Edwin H. Knopf – The Law and the Lady (1951)
The Law and the Lady is the third film version of the venerable Frederick Lonsdale stage play The Last of…
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Quote:Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s controversial, fifteen-hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, based on Alfred Döblin’s great modernist novel, was the crowning achievement of a…
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Shuqin Huang – Hua Hun aka A Soul Haunted by Painting (1995)
Based on the true story of a Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang (Gong Li), whose work was celebrated in Paris yet…
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Takashi Miike – Gokudô Sengokushi: Fudô aka Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son…
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Aleksandr Zarkhi – Anna Karenina [+Extras] (1967)
Synopsis:“The title character (Tatiana Samojlova) is a dutiful wife to Karenin (Nikolai Gritsenko), a minor political functionary, and mother to…
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Raoul Ruiz – Mammame (1986)
Capsule by Jonathan RosenbaumFrom the Chicago Reader Except for The Red Shoes, this shot-by-shot rethinking of a dance performance by…
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Olivier Assayas – Demonlover [Director’s Cut] (2002)
Quote:Twenty years after David Cronenberg prophesised the dark side of the Internet age in Videodrome, acclaimed French filmmaker Olivier Assayas…
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Jacques Tourneur – Easy Living (1949)
from Film Society of Lincoln Center:Money, sex, and football: the three cornerstones of American life spell doom in Tourneur’s tough,…
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