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Julian Radlmaier – Selbstkritik eines buergerlichen Hundes AKA Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017)
Young filmmaker Julian, ironically played by director Julian Radlmaier himself, falls for a young expat and offers her the leading…
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Forugh Farrokhzad – Khaneh siah ast AKA The House Is Black (1963) (DVD)
From Village Voice: In 1962, beloved and controversial poetess Forugh Farrokhzad went to Azerbaijan and made this short film on…
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John Ford – The Last Hurrah (1958)
Synopsis:An aging politician tries to get re-elected one last time in the changing world of the 1950s when TV started…
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Roberto Rossellini – Socrate (1971)
‘Socrates’ Mirrors the Platonic Touch of RosselliniSomething more than wordplay is involved when one describes Roberto Rossellini’s “Socrates,” which opened…
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Henry Hathaway – Call Northside 777 (1948)
Synopsis:When a woman places an ad in the Chicago Times offering a $5,000 reward for information that will exonerate her…
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Crane Wilbur – The Bat (1959)
Synopsis:Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called “The Oaks”, which not long ago had been the…
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Robert Dornhelm & Earle Mack – The Children of Theatre Street (1977)
This documentary provides a fascinating look at one of the world’s greatest schools of dance, the Kirov School in Leningrad,…
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John Ford – The Horse Soldiers (1959)
Ex railroad man, Yankee Colonel John Marlowe leads an irregular troop on a mission into the Confederacy, feuding every step…
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Tonia Mishiali – Pause (2018)
Quote:Elpida, a middle-aged housewife, is trapped in the misery of an oppressive loveless marriage, with a man who has no…
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