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Étienne Faure – Bizarre (2015)
Quote: If there was one feature that lived up to its title in Berlin this year, it’s Bizarre, French director…
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Jerzy Skolimowski – Walkower AKA Walkover (1965)
Quote: Jerzy Skolimowski’s second feature (and first full-length narrative) cemented his status as a one-man Polish New Wave, with the…
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Max Ophüls – De Mayerling à Sarajevo AKA From Mayerling to Sarajevo (1940)
Synopsis:In the late 1800’s, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He’s already…
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Krzysztof Zanussi – Iluminacja AKA Illumination (1973)
Quote: Unanimous winner of all three main prizes at the 1973 Locarno International Film Festival, Zanussi’s landmark film is a…
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James Benning – 74.78 (2005)
Quote: The 16mm test roll for James Benning’s feature-length film TEN SKIES. 74.78 is part of Mike Plante’s Lunchfilm series…
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Jean-Guy Noël – Tu brûles… tu brûles… AKA You’re Hot… You’re Hot… (1973)
A dropout gets the margins of society and resists his father’s pressure to return to the bosom of the village.…
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Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin – Tout va bien AKA Everything’s All Right [+extras] (1972)
The film centers on a strike at a sausage factory which is witnessed by an American reporter and her French…
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Paul Verhoeven – Elle (2016)
Quote: Who else but Isabelle Huppert could have played Michèle Leblanc, the eponymous heroine of Paul Verhoeven’s Elle? The exuberant…
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José Luis Guerín – Le Saphir de Saint-Louis AKA The Sapphire of St. Louis (2015)
In 1741, a ship called the Saphir sets sail from a port in La Rochelle, France on its way to…
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