• Yukihiro Sawada – Tomodachi AKA Friend (1974)

    1971-1980ClassicsDramaJapanYukihiro Sawada

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    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 »

  • Pawel Pawlikowski – The Stringer (1998)

    1991-2000ActionDramaPawel PawlikowskiUnited Kingdom

    Vadik 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 »

  • Todd Solondz – Palindromes (2004)

    2001-2010DramaTodd SolondzUSA

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    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 CohenDocumentary

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    An intimate access to the private life of Courtney Barnett, an anti-influencer who is a powerful voice for our times.Read More »

  • Jonathan Miller – Othello (1981)

    Drama1981-1990BBCJonathan MillerTVUnited KingdomWilliam Shakespeare

    As with most of Miller’s productions, the visual inspiration came from sixteenth-century Mediterranean painters, in this case Tintoretto, El Greco and Velasquez. At 205 minutes, this is one of the longest BBC Shakespeare productions, and the text is duly presented almost complete, with only minor trims to material rendered redundant by small-screen restaging.Read More »

  • Larry Cohen – God Told Me To (1976)

    Larry Cohen1971-1980CrimeHorrorUSA

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    The storyline of this movie involves a series of motiveless murders committed by various New York residents: a sniper shoots people from a water tower; a father murders his entire family; and a cop (Andy Kaufman) opens fire during a St. Patrick’s Day parade. The only consistent pattern to the crimes involves the perpetrators calm admissions of guilt, explaining, “God told me to.” While investigating the murders, catholic police detective Peter Nicholas (Tony Lo Bianco) is increasingly troubled by evidence of a Christ-like figure named Bernard Phillips (Richard Lynch) who appeared to each of the killers and can’t seem to shake the feeling that his own fate is somewhat linked to this mysterious being. As he comes closer to the truth, his worst fears are confirmed.Read More »

  • Luisa Homem – Suzanne Daveau (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryLuisa HomemPortugal

    Suzanne Daveau sketches a portrait of an adventurous woman who traverses the 20th century right up to the modern day guided by her passion for geographical research.Read More »

  • Kazuyoshi Kumakiri – Nonko 36-sai (kaji-tetsudai) aka Non-Ko (2008)

    2001-2010AsianJapanKazuyoshi KumakiriRomance

    Non-ko (36-sai Kaji Tetsudai), 7th film directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri. Stars Maki Sakai and Gen Hoshino (Shakerock). Nobuko commonly called Nonko who is 36 years old and a once-divorced woman returns Shinto shrine that her family runs, to help out around the house. There is no drive and no place to belong, just a backwards little country town. The only thing she does is riding her bicycle and going to the bar to drink with the owner, an another divorcee. She cannot remember the last time she had sex. One day, Nonko encounters a young man named Masaru who has great expectations about selling chicks at shrine’s festival. Masaru is rather naive and pitiable, but this earnest and straightforward younger man puts a smile back on her face, and she gradually becomes more emotionally and physically receptive…Read More »

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