• Jean-Baptiste Péretié – Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune AKA Jacques Tati, Fallen From The Moon (2021)

    2021-2030DocumentaryFranceJean-Baptiste Péretié

    The artistic life of Jacques Tati, from his beginnings as a mime to his last film. A low-budget first feature film, which struggled for a year to find a distributor, before becoming a huge hit… The creation of an eccentric character, who immediately entered the annals of cinema… A Special Jury Prize at Cannes and an Oscar in Hollywood … Then a massive project. A gigantic set, a three-year shoot, a storm, impatient bankers, a lens seized in the middle of filming, a mortgaged house. And in the end, a masterpiece… as well as a financial wreck. His company was liquidated, his films were placed in receivership… But he never stopped creating.Read More »

  • Kazuo Ikehiro – Nemuri Kyôshirô manji giri AKA Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Flyfot Swordplay (1969)

    1961-1970ActionAdventureJapanKazuo Ikehiro

    The epic tales of Nemuri Kyoshiro, the ‘Son of the Black Mass’ come to their ultimate conclusion with Matsukata Hiroki having taken over the role upon the death of Ichikawa Raizo. A chance meeting with another half-Caucasian ronin, leads Kyoshiro into a deadly series of encounters as he tries to save the lad’s life and turn him away from the Satsuma Spy group’s band of vicious assassins. The series ends on a high note as the superior sword skills of Matsukata Hiroki make this one of the most exciting motion pictures to come out of Japan. Entertainment at its finest, this is one of the most violent films of that era. A must-see!Read More »

  • Kazuo Mori – Nemuri Kyôshirô engetsu sappo AKA Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: Full Moon Swordsman (1969)

    1961-1970ActionAdventureJapanKazuo Mori

    The epic tales of Nemuri Kyoshiro, the “Son of the Black Mass” near their conclusion as a young Matsukata Hiroki takes over the role upon the death of Ichikawa Raizo. Expert swordfighting abounds as the half-breed ronin runs afoul of the twin brother of the Shogun’s heir, who secretly plans to replace his brother and rule the nation. The deep running conspiracy includes some of the most powerful members of the Ruling Council. Meanwhile Kyoshiro must find a way to defeat some of the most skillful fighters he has ever faced. Matsukata Hiroki’s swordsmanship shines as he brings the character to a new level.Read More »

  • John Korty – Farewell to Manzanar (1976)

    1971-1980DramaJohn KortyUSAWar

    After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.Read More »

  • Sôkichi Tomimoto – Kemono no tawamure AKA The Frolic of the Beasts (1964)

    Drama1961-1970JapanRomanceSôkichi Tomimoto

    Quote:
    The wife Yuko Kusumon operating a pottery store was a chastal wife without complaints even though her husband is cheated with her heart.
    Kouji Umeya, who was working part-time at a shop, was able to see the unparallel rag, and brought her to the cheerful site.
    Furthermore, Kenji will cause serious injury to the spot.
    Kouji who came to the end of her uniform and started her bizarre living in Izu villa home.Read More »

  • Claude Fournier – La pomme, la queue et les pépins! AKA The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds! (1974)

    1971-1980CanadaClaude FournierComedyErotica

    Quote:
    During his honeymoon a man, who is very much a Don Juan, suddenly becomes impotent and strives to regain his virility. His wife, his friends and everyone joins in to find a solution, giving rise to hilarious scenes. Finally, it is a wise man who manages to put his finger on the bobo, so to speak.Read More »

  • Quentin Dupieux – Daaaaaali! (2023)

    Drama2021-2030ComedyFranceQuentin Dupieux

    Judith, a French journalist meets Salvador Dali on several occasions, one of the main representatives of surrealism and one of the most famous painters of the twentieth century for a documentary film project which never gets to start shooting…Read More »

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini & Giuseppe Bertolucci – La rabbia di Pasolini (2008)

    2001-2010DocumentaryGiuseppe BertolucciItalyPier Paolo Pasolini

    1963: The Mondo Libero newsreel by Gastone Ferranti and other material found in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and England became, for Pier Paolo Pasolini, the basis for a lyrical and polemical analysis of the social phenomena and conflicts affecting the modern world, from the Cold War to the Economic Boom, with commentary consisting of a “poetical voice” (Giorgio Bassani) and a “prosaic voice” (Renato Guttuso).
    While Pasolini was working on editing “La Rabbia”, the producer, with either political and/or commercial motives, decided to turn the movie into a four-handed work, and entrusted Giovannino Guareschi with a part of it, following the well known journalist-like scheme “seen by right, seen by left.”
    Pasolini reacted with irritation to this forced co-habitation, but in the end he acquiesced, giving up the first part of his movie to make room for Guareschi’s segment.Read More »

  • Miranda July – Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)

    2001-2010ComedyDramaMiranda JulyUSA

    IMDb wrote:
    ‘Me and You and Everyone We Know’ is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and “Eldercab” driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey, a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard’s six-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls — practicing for their future of romance and marriage.Read More »

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