admin
-
Alfred Hitchcock – The Farmer’s Wife (129m version) (1928)
Farmer Sweetland is a lonely old widower. He is determined to marry again and he enlists the help of his…
Read More » -
Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant AKA The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
A successful fashion designer abandons a sado-masochistic relationship with her female assistant in favor of a love affair with a…
Read More » -
Man Ray – Emak-Bakia AKA Leave Me Alone (1927)
Emak-Bakia shows elements of fluid mechanical motion in parts, rotating artifacts showing his ideas of everyday objects being extended and…
Read More » -
Terry Gilliam – The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
In the bleak days of 1983, the Crimson Permanent Assurance, an accountancy staffed by elderly workers much like a slave…
Read More » -
Grigoriy Aleksandrov & Sergei M. Eisenstein – Staroye i novoye aka The Old and the New aka The General Line (1929)
The horseless Marfa Lapkina, together with the local agronomist and other poor peasants, organizes a dairy farm in the village.…
Read More » -
Ulrike Ottinger – Johanna D’Arc of Mongolia (1989)
Asian warriors take a group of Western women hostage and bring them to their all-female village, leading to a culture…
Read More » -
Alan Parker – The Commitments (1991)
Quote: Foul-mouthed, fast-talking and very funny, this is Parker’s best to date. It’s an intentionally ‘small’ movie that treats a…
Read More » -
Milos Forman – Konkurs AKA Talent Competition (1964)
Quote: Two closely related episodes. Youths make problems for two local orchestras about to compete nationally, and in a talent…
Read More » -
Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Arsenal (1928)
Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his…
Read More »