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Roy Andersson – Du Levande aka You, the Living (2007)
Quote: Or, you, the living dead. The motley bunch of sad-looking characters that inhabit this series of vaguely-connected episodes of…
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Fruit Chan – Jiao zi AKA Dumplings (2004)
Plot: In Hong Kong, Aunt Mei is a cook famous for her home-made rejuvenation dumplings, based on a millenarian recipe…
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Otto Preminger – Bonjour tristesse (1958)
Synopsis: Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond’s old love interest, comes…
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Akio Jissôji – Ijmete kudasai Henrietta AKA Arietta (1989)
Synopsis: A young widow (Keiko Kaja) becomes an SM call girl to pay off the debts accumulated by her yakuza…
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Joris Ivens, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani – L’Italia non è un paese povero (1960)
According to Carlos Böker’s thesis, Joris Ivens, Film-Maker: Facing Reality (“Studies in Photography and Cinematography, No. 1”, UMI Research Press,…
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Yakov Bazelyan & Sergei Parajanov – Andriesh (1954)
Андриеш Quote: The feature length version of Andriesh (Kyiv Film Studio 1955) is a straight forward example of the Soviet…
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Mike Nichols – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
George and Martha are a middle aged married couple, whose charged relationship is defined by vitriolic verbal battles, which underlies…
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Sergei Parajanov – Tsvetok na kamne AKA A Little Flower on a Stone (1962)
Quote: The overtly propagandistic, anti-religious plot of The Flower on the Stone (Tsvetok na kamne, Dovzhenko Film Studio 1960–1962) does…
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