The new teacher at a severely administered boys’ boarding school works to positively effect the students’ lives through music.Read More »
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Christophe Barratier – Les Choristes AKA The Chorus (2004)
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Wes Anderson – The French Dispatch (2021) (HD)
Wes Anderson2021-2030ComedyDramaUSA

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in “The French Dispatch Magazine”. The staff of a European publication decides to publish a memorial edition highlighting the three best stories from the last decade: an artist sentenced to life imprisonment, student riots, and a kidnapping resolved by a chef.Read More »
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Patrick Boudet – La vie de Brian Jones AKA The Short Life of Brian Jones (2021)
2021-2030DocumentaryFrancePatrick BoudetHe was the first (blond) fallen angel of rock. By disappearing at the age of 27, drowned in his swimming pool on July 3, 1969, Brian Jones inaugurated the macabre list of rock’s shooting stars: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, all decimated at the same age by a too toxic lifestyle. Mounted very early in London, one of the first “slide guitar” players recruits beginners named Mick Jagger, Keith Richards or Charlie Watts, chooses the name “Rolling Stones”, defines the garage sound and blues, and inspires the bad boy side of the band. But endowed with a shy, insecure temperament, Brian Jones is gradually crushed by the creative power of the Jagger/Richards duo.Read More »
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Jeanine Meerapfel – La amiga AKA The Girlfriend (1988)
Jeanine Meerapfel1981-1990ArgentinaArthouseDramaSummary:
This film is a story of a close, but complex friendship between two women against the backdrop of the military dictatorship. They swear everlasting friendship and promise to become actresses. Twenty years later, Raquel has indeed become a famous Argentine actress. Maria is married to an electrician and has three children.
1976. The military take over the government. Carlos, Maria’s oldest son, is taken away by a special commando. Despairing, Maria turns to her influential girlfriend, Raquel. The two women begin their search for Carlos. The two go to police departments, barracks, official bureaus. But nobody will give them information. And those who ask questions are themselves suspicious. Raquel is also threatened.Read More » -
Yûzô Kawashima – Tonkatsu taisho AKA The Pork Cutlet General (1952)
Yûzô Kawashima1951-1960AsianComedyJapanYusaku, whose nickname is “Tonkatsu Taisho” (General Pork Cutlet), is a popular young children’s doctor. Mayumi, a female doctor of another hospital, plans to expand her clinic with the advice of a lawyer named Oguro by destroying small houses. Oguro, however, plans to take advantage of Mayumi’s plan and build a cabaret instead.Read More »
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Takashi Ito – Shashin ki 87 AKA Photodiary ’87 (1987)
Takashi Ito1981-1990ExperimentalJapanShort FilmTakashi Ito wrote:
I turned my gaze to the various events in daily life and made this filmic diary in a manner as if confessing my feelings. Of course, since I was making the film, I wanted to depict these feelings and events with tricky techniques. I used various methods to shoot photographs of a relative’s wedding, the landscape I see from window of my house, commemorative travel photographs and the like frame-by-frame.Read More » -
Takashi Ito – Screw (1982)
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Valeri Rubinchik – Otstupnik AKA The Apostate (1987)
Valeri Rubinchik1981-1990PoliticsSci-FiUSSRScientist creates a machine that is able to clone human beings. Soon the Government wants to take hold of it for military purposes.Read More »
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Veljko Bulajic – Kozara (1962)
Veljko Bulajic1961-1970EpicWarYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under TitoIn June of 1942 Germans and their collaborators decide to get rid of partisans and their stronghold in the woods of Mount Kozara in Northern Bosnia. They encircle the mountain and begin the mop up operation. Out gunned and outnumbered the partisans must not only take care of themselves but try to protect thousands of refugees too.Read More »







