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Catherine Binet – Les jeux de la Comtesse Dolingen de Gratz (1981)
Plot In Paris, a young woman, Louise Haines Pearson, visits her disturbed friend Nena who tells her that she has…
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Thom Andersen – The Tony Longo Trilogy (2014)
Although he has been limited to bit parts, actor Tony Longo is an axiom of American action cinema: the giant…
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Jörg A. Hoppe & Heiko Lange & Klaus Maeck – B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
Music, art and chaos in the wild West-Berlin of the 1980s. The walled-in city became the creative melting pot for…
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Sidney Lumet – Network (1976)
Quote: “Network” will shake you up. Paddy Chayefsky’s absurdly plausible and outrageously provocative original script concerns media running amok. Faye…
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Mauro Bolognini – Senilità (1962)
Based on Italo Svevo’s great novel so admired by James Joyce, this atmospherically photographed film is set in old Trieste…
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Robert Aldrich – Apache (1954)
Apache was based on Paul I. Wellman’s novel Broncho Apache, which in turn was inspired by a true story. Burt…
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Alberto Rodríguez – La isla mínima AKA Marshland (2014)
Quote: With Unit 7, Alberto Rodriguez paid homage to his native Seville whilst producing a fine urban thriller. Now he…
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Yimou Zhang – Qian li zou dan qi AKA Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
A young Japanese film maker is in hospital in Tokyo. His estranged father tries to visit, but the son refuses…
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