Jonas Mekas spend his summer holiday with Jackie Kennedy, her sister’s families and children.Read More »
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Jonas Mekas – This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography (1999)
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Kenneth Lonergan – You Can Count on Me (2000)
Kenneth Lonergan1991-2000DramaUSAA single mother’s life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town.Read More »
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Dariush Mehrjui – Derakhte Golabi AKA The Pear Tree (1998)
Dariush Mehrjui1991-2000ArthouseDramaIran

A man contemplates life and compares it to a pear tree in his yard which stops producing fruit.
From IMDb:
A quiet gentle film guaranteed to soothe the most jangled nerves with its soft approach to life’s little annoyances and heartbreaks. A writer looks back on his early life as a twelve year old when he lived in a grand mansion and played in the extensive surrounding orchard of fruit trees. I felt like turning off in the first five minutes as the morose writer became more and more depressed with life in general as he struggles for inspiration to write more books and articles. But I’m very glad I kept watching because as he remembers about the happier days of his youth, the dark and shadowy set dissolves into a sun-kissed orchard with a family picnicking under the trees. Read More » -
Takashi Miike – Nintama Rantarô AKA Ninja Kids!!! (2011)
Takashi Miike2011-2020ComedyFantasyJapanPlot
Rantaro was born into a low class ninja family. His parents hope he can one day become an elite ninja to make his family proud. Rantaro, bearing his parents’ expectations, enters the Ninja Academy. At the academy, he becomes friends with Shinbe (Futa Kimura), the son of a wealthy merchant family and Kirimaru (Roi Hayashi ), who lost his father in the war. The students at the Ninja Academy are called Nintama – which means future ninjas. Rantaro has a fun time at school, but Rantaro, Shinbe and Kirimaru have difficulties with their studies.Read More » -
John Boorman – Deliverance (1972)
John Boorman1971-1980AdventureQueer Cinema(s)ThrillerUSAIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it’s dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they’ll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.Read More »
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Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989)
1981-1990DramaIrelandJim SheridanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb – his left foot.Read More »
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Luiz Bolognesi – A Última Floresta AKA The Last Forest (2021)
2021-2030BrazilDocumentaryEthnographic CinemaLuiz BolognesiIn powerful images, alternating between documentary observation and staged sequences, and dense soundscapes, Luiz Bolognesi documents the Indigenous community of the Yanomami and depicts their threatened natural environment in the Amazon rainforest.Read More »
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Nana Dzhordzhadze – 27 Missing Kisses (2000)
Nana Dzhordzhadze1991-2000ComedyGeorgiaRomanceQuote:
A young woman’s passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill (Nino Kuchanidze) is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender age, Sybill is ripe and sexually aware, and while the initial object of her attention is Alexander (Eugenji Sidichin), a widower in his early 40s, she instead pairs up with Mickey (Shalva Iashvili), Alexander’s teenage son. Mickey quickly becomes infatuated with Sybill and is more than happy to indulge her fondness for outdoor lovemaking. Between Sybill’s carefree, youthful sensuality and the appearance of Emmanuelle at the local movie house, suddenly love and lust are in bloom all over town.Read More » -
Vadim Abdrashitov – Povorot (1979)
Drama1971-1980USSRVadim AbdrashitovVictor and Natasha drive back to Moscow after a good honeymoon trip by the Black Sea. Already nearing home, Victor hits an elderly lady while driving too fast. All of a sudden, their plans for a good life together are in doubt. Victor is going to face trial, may go to prison.
To start with, the situation seems to him just ridiculous and sad. They are so young and bright. Their whole life is ahead of them. The lady that was hit by Victor was old, probably half blind and careless in the street. Surely the old lady is more to blame for her own death than Victor, isn’t she? Why did this have to happen precisely to him? Should he accept the blame for the accident and thus risk long-term prison, and the end of his career and marital prospects? Does he have to pay for it or not? Should he not escape, somehow? What is the point of self-sacrifice in such a situation? The film also shows a clash between the young and the old, the bright and the ordinary, the haves and the have nots.Read More »







