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Hiromichi Horikawa – Aoi yaju AKA The Blue Beast (1960)
Quote:At the publishing company “Fujin Shunju,” union executives Date, Kuroki, Imoto, and others were having a heated argument with President…
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Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe – Greener Grass (2019)
Quote:There’s a scene in “Greener Grass,” written and directed by Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe (who also co-star), where four…
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Curtis Harrington – Picnic (1948)
Quote:Beginning in the reality of American middle-class life, Picnic portrays the idealistic dream-quest of the protagonist, from which he is…
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Stéphanie Di Giusto – Rosalie (2023)
Rosalie has a secret—her face and body are covered in hair. She’s concealed her hirsutism all her life, shaving to…
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Jacques Tourneur – What Do You Think? (1937)
Carefully constructed in Tourneur’s typical style – akin, as Chris Fujiwara put it, to a Chinese-box structure – this first…
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Ivan Mikolaychuk – Vavilon XX AKA Babylon XX (1983)
The small town of Vavilon hears of the recent Russian Revolution, but attempts to communize it are met with resistance…
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S. Shankar – Mudhalvan (1999)
A man accepts a challenge to act as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for one day only, and makes…
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Nanni Moretti – La stanza del figlio AKA The Son’s Room (2001)
In Ancona, Giovanni is a therapist, whose 17-year-old son Andrea is accused of stealing a rare ammonite fossil from his…
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Robert Hossein – Pardonnez nos offenses (1956)
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies. From the…
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