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Edward Yang – Yi yi (2000)
Quote: Master Taiwanese director Edward Yang spins this intricate and complex yarn about life’s everyday crises. The film focuses on…
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Anqi Ju – Shi ren chu chai le AKA Poet on a Business Trip (2015)
Quote: In all its simplicity, a completely unique film, shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A…
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Takeshi Kitano – Ryûzô to 7 nin no kobun tachi AKA Ryuzo and His Seven Henchmen (2015)
From hollywoodreporter.com To the many ways in which the career of Japanese auteur and action star Takeshi Kitano resembles that…
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Govindan Aravindan – Uttarayanam (1974)
Quote: Aravindan’s debut extended a 60s Calicut modernism into cinema, drawing on the work of the writer Pattathiruvila Karunakaran, who…
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Moumen Smihi – Si Moh, pas de chance AKA Simoh, the Unlucky Man (1971)
Shot in Paris after Smihi completed film school, Si Moh is an investigation of the life of migrant workers in…
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Martin Scorsese – It’s Not Just You, Murray! (1964)
Synopsis: Now middle-aged, mobster Murray looks back at his humble beginnings as a bootlegger and his rise to becoming wealthy…
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Moumen Smihi – Chroniques marocaines AKA Moroccan Chronicles (1999)
In Moroccan Chronicles, set in the ancient city of Fez, a working class mother, abandoned by her husband who has…
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Evgeny Dobrenko – Stalinist Cinema and the Production of History: Museum of the Revolution (2008)
Quote: ‘This is essential reading for all those interested in Soviet film. Dobrenko with his fresh approach and non-standard mix…
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Howard Hughes – Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoer’s Guide to Great Westerns (2008)
British author Howard Hughes charts the development of the modern Western movie in this insightful, informative volume published in 2008…
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