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William Keighley – The Street with No Name [+extra] (1948)
Quote: In Center City, a housewife is murdered in a night-club by a gang of thieves. When a security guard…
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Celine Danhier – Blank City (2010)
Quote: Directed by French newcomer Celine Danhier, BLANK CITY captures the idiosyncratic, explosive energy of the “No Wave Cinema” and…
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Mike Nichols – Wit (2001)
Plot:Based on the Margaret Edson play, Vivian Bearing is a literal, hardnosed English professor who has been diagnosed with terminal…
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Janet Bergstrom – Murnau’s 4 Devils: Traces of a Lost Film (2003)
Quote:One of the cinema’s Holy Grails, Murnau’s lost Four Devils (1928) starred Janet Gaynor, fresh from Sunrise, in a circus…
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Raffaello Matarazzo – Treno popolare (1933)
Plot: Lina, Giovanni and Carlo take the Roma-Orvieto train for a trip to the countryside.Quote:One of the beacon films of…
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Mariam Khatchvani – Dede (2017)
It’s 1992. Young Dina lives in a remote mountain village where life is strictly governed by centuries of tradition. Dina’s…
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Quote: After a retreat to the atmospheric and spectral Loft and Retribution that reinforce Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s reputation as a horror…
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Yves Robert – Le Grand blond avec une chaussure noire aka The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
A frothy French farce, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe is a classic madcap comedy about espionage, surveillance…
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Abel Ferrara – The Funeral (1996)
Quote: Abel Ferrara must be one “happy camper.” Really, I have to wonder when there’s been a happy ending in…
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