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James Mangold – Heavy (1995)
Synopsis: The life of an overweight, unhappy cook is forever changed after a kind, beautiful college drop-out comes to work…
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Lisandro Alonso – Sin título (Carta para Serra) AKA Untitled (Letter to Serra) (2011)
The original dvdr announce wrote: This filmic exchange is based on two works that reflect on the way each director…
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Bill Duke – Deep Cover (1992)
PlotLaurence Fishburne plays no-nonsense LAPD narc Russell Stevens, Jr., who has worked all his life to expunge the memory of…
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Joshua Oppenheimer – The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998)
“In Louisiana Purchase I wanted to examine the whole question of historical memory, the making of history…” — Joshua Oppenheimer…
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Joshua Oppenheimer & Nish Saran – Hugh (1996)
Hugh is the earliest demonstration of Oppenheimer’s key thesis that hate and extremism are not necessarily disruptive forces – they…
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Yilmaz Güney & Atif Yilmaz – Zavallilar AKA The Poor AKA The Wretched Ones (1975)
Synopsis: The Poor Ones tells the semi-melodramatic story of three poor friends who met in prison where have been sent…
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Bernard Queysanne – Un homme qui dort AKA The Man Asleep (1974)
Quote: In this French tour-de-force a young student (Jacques Speisser) decides to have no more interaction with the world than…
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Ranjan Palit – In Camera (2010)
In this meditative and strident overview of the career of Ranjan Palit, award-winning documentary cameraman, the filmmaker himself shows us…
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Veiko Õunpuu – Püha Tõnu kiusamine AKA The Temptation of St. Tony (2009)
Quote: There’s no better cinematic praise than to be evocative of Béla Tarr’s tour de force Werckmeister Harmonies. And The…
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