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Bryony Dixon, Jane Giles, Becci Jones – Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016)
From King John in 1899, film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays proved popular with early filmmakers and audiences. By the end…
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Bill Plympton – Hitler’s Folly (2016)
“Hitler’s Folly” explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler’s art career had been more successful and instead of becoming…
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Wen Jiang – Yang guang can lan de ri zi AKA In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
Quote: Beijing, the Seventies. Now that the Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces, 14-year old Monkey and…
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Naomi Kawase – An AKA Sweet Bean (2015)
Quote: It is easy to forget what a breath of fresh air Kawase Naomi once seemed within Japanese filmmaking circles…
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Ken Russell – Women in Love (1969)
Quote: Ken Russell’s celebrated and controversial film is a lyrical take on love and death as experienced by a Britain…
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Grímur Hákonarson – Hrútar AKA Rams (2015)
Quote: In Rams, writer-director Grímur Hákonarson mixes drollness and pathos with commanding matter-of-factness. The narrative is so inherently poignant that…
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Richard Wallace – The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Synopsis: A former Spanish Civil War prisoner, John McKittrick arrives in New York to find the truth behind the death…
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René Clément – Plein soleil AKA Purple Noon (1960)
Quote: Purple Noon is a taut, intelligently written, and well crafted film about an amoral criminal. Tom Ripley (Alain Delon),…
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Ross Lipman – Notfilm (2015)
In 1964 author Samuel Beckett set out on one of the strangest ventures in cinematic history: his embattled collaboration with…
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