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To escape an arranged marriage, a woman flees into the depths of the Mayan jungle, where untamed nature merges the human and the supernatural.Read More »
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Yulene Olaizola – Selva trágica AKA Tragic Jungle (2020)
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Júlio Bressane – Capitu e o Capítulo AKA Capitu and the Chapter (2021)
Júlio Bressane2021-2030ArthouseBrazilDrama

“If you had to choose between me and your mother, who would it be?” Capitu asks provocatively of her problematic lover. Elsewhere, they dance to inaudible music, with their friends, each couple keeping to a rhythm of their own. At times, this depiction of the memories we see one Dom Casmurro commit to paper with a flamboyant pen seems to be an interplay of conflicting emotions – particularly when jealousy raises its head.Read More »
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Joris Ivens – Philips-Radio (1931)
Joris Ivens1931-1940DocumentaryNetherlandsSilentAn industrial film which shows the operations inside the Philips Radio plant: In a mêlée of activity, glassblowers make delicate glass bulbs. Machinery assists the bulb manufacture. A virtuoso glassblower begins a more complex tube used in radio broadcasting; it is then turned, fired, and sculpted. Conveyors carry partially completed units. Workers perform their various specific assembly-line tasks. Cases are manufactured and machined, wire harnesses are assembled, loudspeakers are produced. As radios near completion, they are run through a series of tests. Engineers and draughtsmen define future developments. In a closing stop-motion sequence, in a style reminiscent of Norman McLaren, a group of loudspeakers performs a playful dance. The film overall is a poetic depiction of an industrial process.Read More »
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Mark Rappaport – Love in the Time of Corona (2021)
Mark Rappaport2021-2030DocumentaryShort FilmUSA
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The new film by Mark Rappaport, which spans René Magritte and Michelangelo to Bonnie & Clyde. Let’s mask up to rob a bank! But make sure that you are home before the curfew.Read More » -
Claude Lelouch – Le bon et les méchants AKA The Good and the Bad (1976)
Claude Lelouch1971-1980CrimeDramaFranceSynopsis
1935. Jacques and Simon live by their wits, from the hold-up in jewelry theft. When war broke out, the two friends and Lola, a prostitute, make the traffic with the Germans, but by discovering the methods of the Gestapo, they give up and enter the Resistance. At the end of the war, Jacques is decorated and returned to his first occupations. 1935 Flying the new model of Citroën, a man invented the gang des tractions avant. Thus begin ten years of tracking down an infernal, good between the band and the gang of bad guys. A continuous suspense on WWII base where the good are not always the nicest, and not necessarily the most wicked cruel …Read More » -
Terence Young – De la part des copains AKA Cold Sweat (1970)
Terence Young1961-1970CrimeDramaFranceSynopsis
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Gakuryû Ishii (Sogo Ishii) – Ikiterumono wa Inainoka AKA Isn’t Anyone Alive? (2012)
Gakuryû Ishii2011-2020ComedyJapanMysterySynopsis:Cult Japanese director Gakuryu Ishii (formerly known as Sogo Ishii, a longstanding influence on Quentin Tarantino) presents a world coming to an end. On a university campus the students separately rehearse a performance, discuss an urban myth and debate the future of an unborn child, but all are inconvenienced by their sudden unexplained deaths. Adapting the screenplay from his own play, writer Shiro Maeda’s dialogue is shot through with absurdist observations and deftly mixes dread with farcical comedy.Read More »
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Andreas Fontana – Azor (2021)
2021-2030Andreas FontanaDramaSwitzerland

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, goes to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumours, who disappeared overnight.Read More »
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Shingo Matsumura – Koi to sayonara to Hawai AKA Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017)
2011-2020DramaJapanRomanceShingo MatsumuraA woman slowly coming to the realization that a relationship with her ex-boyfriend may well and truly be dead and she faces the decision of whether to resurrect it or move on.Read More »





