Stanislavski has nothing on Sergio, who leads experimental acting workshops for the grade school set. This comedy will forever change the way you look at child actors.Read More »
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Federico León & Martín Rejtman – Entrenamiento elemental para actores (2009)
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Derek Jarman – Ashden’s Walk on Møn (1973)
1971-1980Derek JarmanExperimentalShort FilmUnited KingdomJarman quietly back in Kenneth Anger-mode with all the expected superimpositions and coloured gels in slow motion.
Set on the island of Mon off the coast of Denmark and Death Dance – Jarman’s rendition of a Dance Macabre.
A film in two parts: first in black-and-white we trek through a forest, down some steep wooden steps to the bottom of a cliff face; a photo of a star nebula is superimposed over the whole; secondly in colour is a series of still views of a green landscape peppered with small mounds.Read More » -
Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Earwig (2021)
2021-2030ArthouseLucile HadzihalilovicUnited KingdomQuote:
A 50-year-old caretaker is employed to look after 10-year-old girl. His most important task is to maintain her dentures that are made of ice and must be changed several times a day.
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John Ford & Gregg Toland – December 7th (1943)
USA1941-1950DocumentaryGregg TolandJohn FordWarQuote:
Utilizing stock military footage of Pearl Harbor, December 7th departs from the typical documentary form to present a narrative framing device featuring Walter Huston as a character representing Uncle Sam, Harry Davenport as a folksy representation of “conscience” called Mr. C, and Dana Andrews as the ghost of an American soldier. The story opens on December 6, 1941, the day before the attack, with Uncle Sam and Mr. C carrying on a discussion about the history of Hawaii and the country’s war preparations. One of the approaches taken by co-directors John Ford and Gregg Toland was to paint the Japanese-American citizens of Hawaii (37 percent of the population, according to the film) as potential traitors, fifth-columnists spying on their “American” employers for information to hustle back to the “homeland.” Read More »
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Yukihiro Sawada – Tomodachi AKA Friend (1974)
1971-1980ClassicsDramaJapanYukihiro SawadaQuote:
A young girl moves from Iwate to Kawasaki after leaving her village, but she suffers from asthma and is ostracised by her friends. A young boy who dreams of becoming a footballer. The two gradually develop a friendship, but tragedy strikes at the end…A very pure and touching film. The last part of the film will make you cry.Read More »
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Pawel Pawlikowski – The Stringer (1998)
1991-2000ActionDramaPawel PawlikowskiUnited KingdomVadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.Read More »
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Todd Solondz – Palindromes (2004)
2001-2010DramaTodd SolondzUSAQuote:
A fable of innocence: thirteen-year-old Aviva Victor wants to be a ‘mom’. She does all she can to make this happen, and comes very close to succeeding, but in the end her plan is thwarted by her sensible parents. So she runs away, still determined to get pregnant one way or another, but instead finds herself lost in another world, a less sensible one, perhaps, but one pregnant itself with all sorts of strange possibility. She takes a road trip from the suburbs of New Jersey, through Ohio to the plains of Kansas and back. Like so many trips, this one is round-trip, and it’s hard to say in the end if she can ever be quite the same again, or if she can ever be anything but the same again.Read More » -
Eva Vitija – Loving Highsmith (2022)
Documentary2021-2030Eva VitijaSwitzerland

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Based on Patricia Highsmith’s personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer’s life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.Read More » -
Danny Cohen – Anonymous Club (2021)
2021-2030AustraliaDanny CohenDocumentarySynopsis
An intimate access to the private life of Courtney Barnett, an anti-influencer who is a powerful voice for our times.Read More »







