A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.Read More »
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Pema Tseden – Qi qiu AKA Balloon (2019)
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Floyd Mutrux – The Hollywood Knights (1980)
1971-1980ComedyCultFloyd MutruxUSASynopsis:
It’s Halloween 1965 in Hollywood and is also the last day that a drive in which the hang out of some youths who call themselves the Hollywood Knights will be open. It is being closed because most of the local snobs don’t like them so they decided to close the drive in to get rid of them. Now the Knights decide to lash back at those who were responsible. And they try to make the best of the drive in’s last night. They also have some new pledges and they have to perform a very daring task which includes making a song request and an announcement about the closing of Tubby’s Drive In which is the Home of the Hollywood Knights Car Club before Midnight with the Local DJ played by none other than Wolfman Jack. Also one of the Knights is going to Vietnam, so he is making the best of his last day. And another member is having problems with his girlfriend.Read More » -
Reginald Le Borg – The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
1941-1950CrimeHorrorReginald Le BorgUSAAn Egyptian high priest travels to America to reclaim the bodies of ancient Egyptian princess Ananka and her living guardian mummy Kharis. Learning that Ananka’s spirit has been reincarnated into another body, he kidnaps a young woman of Egyptian descent with a mysterious resemblance to the princess. However, the high priest’s greedy desires cause him to loose control of the mummy.Read More »
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Pál Gábor – Angi Vera (1979)
Drama1971-1980HungaryPál GáborRomanceVera Angi works as a nurse in a hospital after WWII in communist Hungary. Because she speaks up about the terrible conditions in which the nurses and doctors have to work, she’s placed in a six-month education course.Read More »
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Benoît Jacquot – 3 coeurs AKA Three Hearts (2014)
2011-2020Benoît JacquotDramaFranceQuote:
More than 40 years ago, at the outset of his filmmaking career, Benoit Jacquot worked as an assistant director to the great French novelist and helmer Marguerite Duras, and now, with “Three Hearts,” he has made a film that feels more indebted to her romantic values than anything else in his oeuvre. Here, beneath the surface of a cool, contempo love triangle involving a Parisian man (Benoit Poelvoorde) and a pair of provincial French sisters (played by Charlotte Gainsbourg and Chiara Mastroianni), are all the values Duras held dear: love at first sight, spontaneous tears, all-consuming desire and impossible, self-destructive decisions.Read More » -
John C. Joseph – Gravity Is My Enemy (1977)
1971-1980DocumentaryJohn C. JosephShort FilmUSAIMDB:
A look at artist Mark Hicks of Manhattan Beach, California, a quadriplegic since falling out of a tree at age 14. His work is examined, along with a discussion of his being a student at UCLA, culminating with his first gallery show in San Francisco.Read More » -
Johnnie To – Yesterday Once More (2004)
2001-2010ComedyCrimeHong KongJohnnie ToRomance blossoms again for a divorced jewel-thief couple as they try to rekindle the love they once had for each.Read More »
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Seijun Suzuki – Hana fubuki: Hono ni mau ichiban matoi AKA Storm of Falling Petals: Banner of a Fireman in the Flames (1983)
1981-1990JapanMysterySeijun SuzukiTVFour secret agents investigate a series of mysterious fires in a small town in Edo-era Japan. This is an episode of the TV Series “Oedo Sochi-mo,” which follows the same group of secret agents as they solve a variety of mysteries.Read More »
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Jovan Zivanovic – Cudna devojka AKA Strange Girl (1962)
1961-1970DramaJovan ZivanovicRomanceYugoslaviaYugoslavian Cinema under Tito

An interesting drama by Yugoslav director Jovan Zivanovic about a young woman with internal conflicts, Minja (Spela Rozin) leaves her provincial town suffering from some sort of trauma caused by an older man, her drawing class teacher. As she is on her way to studying in at the big university she runs into a journalist and though she is angry, embittered, and temporarily without grounding, she has a one-night-stand. Her morals take a downward turn after arriving in the city and for awhile, it looks as though there is little hope of her recovering from her past wounds.Read More »







