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Kana Matsumoto – Mazâ wôtâ aka Mother Water (2010)
Blessed with several large rivers, interconnected streams and springs, Japan’s ancient capital, Kyoto, anoints the land with a bountiful source…
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Jean-Luc Godard – Week End AKA Weekend [+Extras] (1967)
SYNOPSIS The master of the French New Wave indicts consumerism and elaborates on his personal vision of Hell with this…
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Michelangelo Antonioni – Identificazione di una donna AKA Identification of a Woman (1982)
Michelangelo Antonioni’s Identification of a Woman is a body- and soul-baring voyage into one man’s artistic and erotic consciousness. After…
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Viktor Kosakovsky – Sreda AKA Wednesday (1997)
Quote: Wednesday, July 19, 1961: it’s summertime and the newspapers are full of the usual articles. The world is comfortably…
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Chia-Liang Liu – Wu guan aka Martial Club (1981)
Quote: Martial Club can be loosely seen as a sequel to Challenge of the Masters as Gordon Liu revives the…
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Mario Soldati – Tragica notte aka Tragic night (1942)
Released from jail, Nanni (Checchi) punches prison guard Stefano (Ninchi) who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano…
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Fernando Di Leo – Avere Vent’anni aka To Be Twenty (1978)
Avere vent’anni (To Be Twenty) – (the title refers to the famous phrase at the beginning of Paul Nizan’s book,…
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Alfred Hitchcock – Young and Innocent (1937)
Young and Innocent (1937) Synopsis: As early as 1937’s Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but…
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Jacques Becker – Le Trou AKA The Hole (1960)
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson Le Trou (literally, The Hole) is a harrowing experience in claustrophobia, pressure and hope among inmates…
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