A bright and idealistic young man steels himself for the dog-eat-dog business world, only to flounder in a job market packed with thousands of other hopefuls.Read More »
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Satyajit Ray – Jana Aranya AKA The Middleman (1975)
1971-1980DramaIndiaSatyajit Ray -
Robert Bresson – Affaires publiques AKA Public Affairs (1934)
France1931-1940ArthouseRobert BressonShort Film

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Bresson’s first film is, totally uncharacteristically, a slapstick comedy, centred around two neighbouring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various disasters that befall the ceremonial unveiling of a statue, the launching of a ship, and the crash-landing of a Miremian pilot in Crogandian territory.Read More » -
Arthur Penn – Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
1961-1970Arthur PennCrimeDramaUSA
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1934. Young adults Bonnie Parker, a waitress, and Clyde Barrow, a criminal just released from prison, are immediately attracted to what the other represents for their life when they meet by chance in West Dallas, Texas. Bonnie is fascinated with Clyde’s criminal past, and his matter-of-factness and bravado in talking about it. Clyde sees in Bonnie someone sympatico to his goals in life. Although attracted to each other physically, a sexual relationship between the two has a few obstacles to happen. Read More » -
Jake West – Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010)
2001-2010DocumentaryJake WestUSAA documentary features interviews with filmmakers Neil Marshall (‘The Descent’, ‘Doomsday’), Christopher Smith (‘Severance’, ‘Black Death’) and MP Graham Bright as well as rare archive footage featuring James Ferman (director of the BBFC 1975-1999) & Mary Whitehouse. Taking in the explosion of home video, the erosion of civil liberties, the introduction of draconian censorship measures, hysterical press campaigns and the birth of many careers born in blood and videotape, Jake West’s documentary also reflects on the influence this peculiar era still exerts on us today.Read More »
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Amir Naderi – A, B, C… Manhattan (1997)
Drama1991-2000Amir NaderiArthouseUSA

The Lower East Side of Manhatttan. One day. Three women. Colleen is a single mother and photographer. She spends her time in a bar on Avenue B. She wants a better life for her child. Kate is a musician. She came to the city to free herself of a secret she has been carrying her whole life. Now, all she wants is to make music. Kacey works in a restaurant. She has lost her boyfriend, her girlfriend and her dog. Most of all, she wants to find her dog. Woven into these portraits of Colleen, Kate and Kacey is a fourth portrait: that of New York City itself.Read More »
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Albert Brooks – Real Life [+Extras] (1979)
USA1971-1980Albert BrooksComedyDocumentary
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“A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series ‘An American Family’. However, instead of remaining unobtrusive and letting the family be themselves, he can’t help himself from trying to control every facet of their lives ‘for the good of the show’.”Read More » -
Theodoros Angelopoulos – Taxidi sta Kythira aka A Voyage to Cythera (censored version) (1984)
1981-1990DramaGreeceTheodoros AngelopoulosFrom Strictly Film School:
A pensive, middle-aged filmmaker named Alexander (Giulio Brogi, but whose voice was dubbed in Greek by Theo Angelopoulos) on a shooting break from the filming of a semi-autobiographical feature that explores the plight of returning political refugees during the general amnesty of the 1970s, encounters a gaunt, yet ennobled old man selling lavender at a kafeneon (a village cafeteria and lounge). Captivated by the humble vendor who perhaps bears a resemblance to his own absent father, Alexander follows the old man into the mist. Does Alexander, the abandoned son, believe this man to be his father, or does he, the director, envision this frail elder to be the ideal embodiment of the aging partisan (a part that he has been unable to cast) for his film? Reality becomes obscured in the metaphor of the enveloping fog. Read More » -
Gerhard Ertl & Sabine Hiebler – Sargnagel – Der Film (2021)
Sabine Hiebler2021-2030AustriaComedyDocumentaryGerhard ErtlThe writer Stefanie Sargnagel polarizes in the whole society. When her life and work are to be filmed, she pushes all systems to the brink of collapse. A documedy based on the work of the radical cult-author Stefanie Sargnagel.Read More »
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Giacomo Gatti – Palladio (2019)
2011-2020DocumentaryGiacomo GattiItalyIntroduction
It left Italy with the United Nations World Cultural Heritage complex “Vicenza Ancient City and Veneto Country House”, and wrote the immortal “Four Books of Architecture”, the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (Andrea Palladio) Rewrite the history of world architecture. In later generations, landmarks such as the White House, the U.S. Capitol, and the Wall Street Stock Exchange, which were far away across the ocean, all followed the architectural style pioneered by Palladian. In 2010, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution and respected him as the “Father of American Architecture.” .Read More »




