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Liam Gavin – A Dark Song (2016)
Synopsis: Sophia Howard rents a house in the countryside of Wales and hires the occultist Joseph Solomon to contact her…
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Michael Curtiz – Mandalay (1934)
Synopsis: Tanya, a Russian refugee, is hiding in Rangoon, Burma under the protection of her lover, Tony Evans, a gunrunner…
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Lothar Mendes – Jew Süss aka Power (1934)
Quote: Unlike the horrifically antisemitic 1940 Nazi propaganda film, Lothar Mendes’ adaptation of Lion Feuchtwanger’s book offers a fairly sympathetic…
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Matías Piñeiro – Hermia & Helena (2016)
Quote: Camila, a young Argentine theater director, travels from Buenos Aires to New York to attend an artistic residency to…
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Jean-Luc Godard – Bande à part aka Band of Outsiders (1964)
Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote: To gauge the historical significance of Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders (1964) — getting a week’s run…
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Ralitza Petrova – Bezbog AKA Godless (2016)
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash,…
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Mutter Küsters’ Fahrt zum Himmel (1975)
Quote: Like all of Fassbinder’s best films, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven is many things at once. It is simultaneously…
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Philippe Garrel – L’amant d’un jour AKA Lover for a Day (2017)
Quote: A young woman returns home after the breakdown of a relationship to discover her father is dating a woman…
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Yonggang Wu – Shen nu AKA The Goddess (1934)
Quote: Ruan Lingyu, one of the most famous stars of early Chinese cinema, gives a devastating performance as an unnamed…
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