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Peter Watkins – Aftenlandet AKA Evening Land (1977)
Evening Land presents fictitious events in the Europe of those days. It opens in a Copenhagen shipyard with a strike…
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William Friedkin – To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Quote:Worthy of the director of “French Connection,” the pace of this set- in-LA action thriller immediately draws the view in…
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Kaneto Shindô – Gogo no Yuigon-jo AKA A Last Note (1995)
Quote:Veteran Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo was 82 when he directed this meditation on life, death, and loss. Following the passing…
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Roberto Rossellini – Il tacchino prepotente (1939)
This is an anti-Fascist short Rossellini made in 1940. Quote: La vispa Teresa was rejected and, although Ferrara said that…
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Hal Hartley – Fay Grim (2006)
Hal Hartley’s dark comedy “Henry Fool” was an indie masterpiece that effectively and accessibly meshed Hartley’s literary influences with his…
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Claus Bredenbrock – Pier Paolo Pasolinis Reisen durch Italien AKA Pier Paolo Pasolini: An Italian Journey (2018)
The documentary retraces Pier Paolo Pasolini’s journey along the coast of Italy in 1959. His reportage was published on the…
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Andrzej Zulawski – La note bleue AKA The Blue Note (1991)
Ultimately a story about destiny, “La Note Bleue” seems a personal reflection of Zulawski’s experiences, for both he and Chopin…
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Sara Driver – Sleepwalk (1986)
Quote:Sara Driver’s first feature–a luminous, oddball comic fantasy about ancient Chinese curses and Xerox machines, set in Manhattan’s Chinatown and…
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Albert Birney & Jon Moses – The Beast Pageant (2010)
IMDB:Abraham lives deep in the heart of an industrial wasteland. His only companion is a giant machine. Inside the machine…
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