Director Tanada Yuki offers a frank depiction of sexuality at 17 in her brilliant adaptation of Saso Akira’s coming-of-age manga. Charging forward with all the stagnant urgency and high-strung awkwardness of adolescence, “Ain’t No Tomorrows” weaves three episodes of high school angst and sexual awakening. Sex-obsessed virgin Hiruma (Emoto Tokio, Your Friends) desperately pursues a sickly classmate (Miwako). His buddy Mine (Endo Yuya, Nodame Cantabile) becomes the unlikely savior for a naive schoolgirl (Ando Sakura, Love Exposure), and chubby Ando (Kusano Ini) unexpectedly scores with the class beauty (Misaki Ayame, Ghost Friends).Read More »
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Yuki Tanada – Oretachi ni asu wa naissu aka Ain’t no Tomorrows (2008)
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Tayfun Pirselimoglu – Kerr (2021)
2021-2030DramaMysteryTayfun PirselimogluTurkey

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Can witnesses a murder in a small town. The police don’t allow him to leave after his testimony. On the other hand, a quarantine is declared due to rabid dogs. The whole town turns into purgatory with no exit is almost at the edge of insanity.Read More » -
Marcel L’Herbier – Le bonheur (1934)
1931-1940DramaFranceMarcel L'Herbier

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‘Clara Stuart, star of music hall and cinema, arrives in Paris, to great public acclaim. She has everything – fame, wealth, and – through her aristocratic husband – a title. Hence, whilst she is worshipped by the masses, she is the object of hatred for Philippe Lutcher, am impoverished artist and notable anarchist. Lutcher shoots Clara Stuart after she gives a public recital, but he cannot bring himself to kill her. At his subsequent trial, the star attempts to plead in her assailant’s favour, but Lutcher rejects her support…’
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Grigoriy Chukhray – Ballada o soldate AKA Ballad of a Soldier (1959) (HD)
1951-1960DramaGrigoriy ChukhrayRomanceUSSRQuote:
***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***Three years before Andrei Tarkovsky made his first feature film Ivanovo Detstvo (1962) and became one of the most extraordinary directors of all time, war veteran Grigori Chukhrai wrote and directed a memorable and considerably beloved anti-war statement called Ballada o Soldate. This beautiful cinematographic achievement was basically one of the first films that accurately portrayed the human side of people that were involved in the war and the cataclysmic aftermath caused in an environment surrounded by hopelessness and chaos.Read More »
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Jan Sverák – Kolja AKA Kolya [Director’s Cut] (1996)
1991-2000Czech RepublicDramaJan SverákA confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.Read More »
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Javier Andrade – Lo invisible (2021)
2021-2030DramaEcuadorJavier Andrade

When Luisa, 45, returns from a psychiatric clinic after a bout with severe postpartum depression, she enters a new confinement in her dazzling home, surrounded by family members and a brigade of servants who expect her struggles to remain invisible. Unable to continue playing the role of the perfect housewife, Luisa’s only escape is to waltz elegantly into madness.Read More »
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Ivan Herrera – Bantú Mama (2021)
2021-2030Dominican RepublicDramaIvan Herrera

Dominican Republic official entry for Academy Awards.
A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.Read More »
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Alejandro Loayza Grisi – Utama (2022)
2021-2030Alejandro Loayza GrisiBoliviaDramaQuote:
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and his wife (Sisa) face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.Read More » -
Miklós Jancsó – La Tecnica e il rito (1972)
1971-1980Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtDramaItalyMiklós Jancsó

The narrative purports to deal with the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun (an appropriately brooding if unsympathetic figure throughout)…and, yet, none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites! …..
by Mario GauciRead More »



