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Mikio Naruse – Tsuma no kokoro aka A Wife’s Heart (1956)
(SPOILERS!) Quote:The best moments of A Wife’s Heart involve things not said or seen and this is most explicit in…
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Hiroshi Shimizu – Hanagata senshu aka A Star Athlete (1937)
Quote: From acquarello at Strictly Film School Blog: Hiroshi Shimizu’s government-pressured, militarism-era film A Star Athlete is a breezy, refreshingly…
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Vicente Aranda – Fata Morgana (1965)
“Gim is a beautiful fashion model whose life is in peril. There is a homicidal killer who seek to murder…
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Erden Kiral – Hakkâri’de bir mevsim AKA Eine Saison in Hakkari (1983)
The movie tells the story of a teacher who spends one winter in a mountain village of Hakkari, a city…
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Kwon-taek Im – Sibaji aka Surrogate Woman (1987)
Quote: m’s first international prize-winner (best actress for Kang at Venice) is a more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger attack on the principles of male…
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Marguerite Duras – Césarée / Les Mains négatives / Aurélia Steiner (Melbourne) (Vancouver) / La Caverne noire (1979)
Quote: Filmed in 1979, these four short films share a common method: they combine texts written and read by Duras…
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Ken G. Hall – Thoroughbred (1936)
Thoroughbred (1936) Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), would-be horse trainer, buys an emaciated stallion called Stormalong on a trip to New…
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Bo Widerberg – Kärlek 65 AKA Love 65 (1965)
Foreword: Love 65 shares common elements from director Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini and Jean-Luc Godard. Especially Fellini’s “8½” and Godards “Contempt”…
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Tony Gatlif – Djam (2017)
Djam, a Greek girl, is sent to Istanbul on a mission to find a motor-boat part of her uncle, a…
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