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A night in a club. The magic of little things happening and ‘dishappening’ with some kind of ironic tendernessRead More »
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Jean-Daniel Pollet – Gala (1961)
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Dmytro Kolomoytsev & Anatoliy Lavrenishyn – Ukrayinska literatura AKA Ukrainian Literature: Guide for Assholes (2009)
2001-2010Anatoliy LavrenishynComedyDmytro KolomoytsevShort FilmUkraineIt was a common habit in Soviet schools to draw the intimate organs on all portraits in textbooks.Read More »
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Wisit Sasanatieng – Fah talai jone AKA Tears of the Black Tiger [Director’s cut] (2000)
1991-2000ComedyThailandWesternWisit SasanatiengSynopsis:
In the countryside of Thailand, a gang of outlaws makes the region unsafe. Among them is the handsome gun hero Dum, who became unwillingly involved in the bandit life. Handsome Dum made a promise to his upper-crust lover Rumpoey: despite the class difference, they will get married. When the moment of reunion arrives, Dum gets involved in a fire fight and cannot possibly reach Rumpoey in time. She is desperate: her father has married her off to a policeman. The taciturn Dum, called the ‘Black Tiger’ by his co-conspirators, has however not forgotten Rumpoey. Read More » -
Francis Veber – La chèvre AKA The Goat AKA Knock on Wood (1981)
France1981-1990ComedyCrimeFrancis VeberSynopsis:
When the accident-prone daughter of a French businessman disappears in Mexico and the detective sent down to find her returns empty-handed, the businessman’s company psychologist comes up with an unusual plan – send someone equally accident-prone to find her. Despite detective Campana’s objections and disbelief in bad luck, he and Francois Perrin, the accident-prone man in question, are teamed up and head back down to Mexico to pick up the girl’s trail.Read More » -
Jean Dréville – Copie conforme (1947) (HD)
1941-1950CrimeDramaFranceJean DrévilleSynopsis:
No one would think that Manuel Ismora, an esteemed society photographer, is an audacious thief and con artist. The newspapers are ?lled with accounts of Ismora’s criminal exploits, which involve the fraudulent sale of a château and the theft of some valuable jewels, but the police are slow in bringing him to justice. Instead, it is Gabriel Dupon, a modest button salesman who bears a remarkable physical resemblance to Imora, who ends up being taken into custody. Positively identi?ed by Imora’s many victims, Dupon is branded a criminal, and even when he is released by the police through lack of evidence, his reputation is in tatters.Read More » -
Hans-Christian Schmid – Lichter AKA Distant Lights (2003)
2001-2010DramaGermanyHans-Christian SchmidQuote:
This movie reflects on the situation around the border between Poland and Germany. The fate of many single characters creates a picture of life in this region: Some Ukrainians want to cross the border illegal to get into Germany, a company wants to build a new factory, a Polish taxi driver desperately needs money to buy his daughter a communion dress, and so on.Read More » -
Donald G. Jackson & R.J. Kizer – Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
USA1981-1990ComedyDonald G. JacksonR.J. KizerSci-FiQuote:
After a nuclear war, the survivors are divided between horribly mutated beings who live on desolate reservations and fertile women who are searching for scarce virile men in order to multiply and start a new human society.Read More » -
Jean-Daniel Pollet – Pourvu qu’on ait l’ivresse… AKA As Long as You Get Drunk… (1958)
France1951-1960Jean-Daniel PolletShort FilmQuote:
In a ballroom dance, a shy young man tries to find a young girl to dance with … The clumsiness and ease of the dancers, the hesitations of the flirters, an atmosphere of celebration and derision, filmed with sensitivity, without comment or dialogue.Read More » -
Jacques Demy – The Pied Piper (1972)
1971-1980FantasyJacques DemyMusicalUnited KingdomSynopsis:
Greed, corruption, ignorance, stupidity, and disease. Midsummer, 1349: the Black Death reaches northern Germany. A family of strolling players travel to Hamelin for the Mayor’s daughter’s wedding to the Baron’s son. He wants her dowry to pay his army, while his father taxes the people to build a cathedral he thinks will save his soul. A local Jewish apothecary tries to find a treatment for the plague. The Priests charge him with heresy and witchcraft. A mysterious minstrel (Donovan), who joined up with the players and who has soothed the Mayor’s daughter with his music, promises to rid the town of rats for a fee. The Mayor agrees, then reneges after the rats have been dealt with. In the morning, the plague, the Jew’s execution, and the Piper’s revenge come at once.Read More »









