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Yasujirô Ozu – Higanbana AKA Equinox Flower (1958)
Quote: The first color feature film from Yasujiro Ozu, Equinox Flower is a spare, evocative, and compassionate portrait of aging,…
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Carl Theodor Dreyer – Ordet (1955)
Quote: Although The Word deals with a miracle, it is through and through a realistic film—about those who are weak…
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Manoel de Oliveira – O Pão AKA Bread [Short Version] (1959)
Quote: Each day, a man must work around the clock to produce and acquire bread: throwing the seeds into earth,…
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Chan-wook Park – Ah-ga-ssi AKA The Handmaiden (2016)
Quote: Park Chan-wook’s giddy mixture of historical romance and auteur eroticism is spiced with ghosts, horror and S&M. Expectations are…
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Johan Grimonprez – Shadow World (2016)
Based on the book of The Shadow World, this feature length documentary is an investigation into the multi-billion dollar international…
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Azadeh Navai – Friday Mosque (2014)
A silent meditation on the Islamic prayer ritual through motion (water is the core, but light is the cause) in…
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Aleksandr Rou – Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki AKA The Night Before Christmas (1961)
The whimsical combination of Christmas phantasmagoria and an eccentric fairy tale makes this film an unforgettable spectacle. The action takes…
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Robert Fischer & Wilfried Reichart – The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette’s Out 1 Revisited (2015)
Quote: There’s little doubt that, for the serious cinephile, the home video event of this fall will be the the…
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Andrew Repasky McElhinney – Story of the Eye (2004)
Quote:ABOUT THE DIRECTORFrom Wikipedia Andrew Repasky McElhinney is an American film producer born in Philadelphia in 1979. He grew up…
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