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Kon Ichikawa – Okuman choja aka A Billionaire (1954)
A full description of the film can be found in James Quandt’s edited collection of writings on (and by) Ichikawa…
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Stéphane Marti – Diasparagmos (1980)
Quote:“A filmmaker and academic, Stephane Marti has pursued cinema as a visual art form, divorced from the codes of the…
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Jacques Rivette – La religieuse AKA The Nun (1966)
Quote:It was Rivette’s second feature, after the puzzling ‘Paris Nous Appartient,’ and eschewed the nouvelle vague in favour of something…
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Sólveig Anspach – Louise Michel, la rebelle AKA Louise Michel (2009)
A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she…
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BBC – Hooligans (2006)
The film follows England fans from Frankfurt to Gelsenkirchen and infiltrates groups of troublemakers.A record 170,000 England fans travelled to…
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Marian Dora – Cannibal (2005)
Quote:In 2003, a man with a lifelong cannibalistic obsession placed an advertisement on the Internet in search of a victim…
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Benito Alazraki – Curse of the Doll people (1961)
Over the years Mexico has gained itself quite a reputation as one of the countries with the strongest traditions in…
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Pedro Costa – No Quarto da Vanda AKA In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Quote:For the extraordinarily beautiful second film in his Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa jettisoned his earlier films’ larger crews to burrow…
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Cong Feng – Dr. Ma’s Country Clinic (2008)
Synopsis:In the arid mountains of the remote and inaccessible Huangyangchuan, Gansu Province, a simple small countryside clinic welcomes the local…
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