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Dennis Iliadis – Hardcore (2004)
Two young women on the wrong side of both society and the law fall into a dangerous love affair in…
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Ousmane Sembene – Xala (1975)
Synopsis: A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of…
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Narayama bushikô AKA Ballad of Narayama (1958)
Quote: In Kabuki style, the film tells the story of a remote mountain village where the scarcity of food leads…
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Wim Wenders – Im Lauf der Zeit aka Kings of the Road (1976)
Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader wrote: The first masterpiece of the New German Cinema. Wim Wenders’s existentialized road movie…
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Charles Laughton – The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Quote:The Night of the Hunter—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A…
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Mikio Naruse – Shiroi yajuu aka White Beast (1950)
Quote: The third film that Naruse made in 1950, White Beast (Shiroi yaji, 1950), was described by Kinema Junpo critic…
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Rob Van Eyck – The Afterman (1985)
Quote: What I have the honor of reviewing here is something totally unique and probably ranks quite high on the…
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Souleymane Cissé – Finye AKA The Wind (1983)
Overview Finye / Le vent/ The Wind (1982) continues Cisse’s examination of internal African problems. This film examines the sources…
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Bille August – Honning måne AKA In My Life (1978)
A young man, Jens, gets a job in a Copenhagen factory. He lives with his mother and has been without…
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