• Julian Radlmaier – Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa AKA A Spectre Is Haunting Europe (2013)

    2011-2020ComedyGermanyJulian Radlmaier

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    Berlin, a summer in the age of neoliberalism: the spectre of the soviet avant-garde is haunting the city. A young Georgian contract-worker is surprised to find the ghost of the Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky in his kitchen. At the same time, his friend Kasimir inherits a big fortune, but what shall he do with all this money? Framed by a travel through time leading to Flaubert’s 19th Century und the shooting of a revisionist melodrama for German television, the film follows the adventures of these three characters in contemporary Berlin. A suprematist digital comedy about the transmission of emancipatory energies.Read More »

  • Victor Saville – Conspirator (1949)

    United Kingdom1941-1950Film NoirThrillerVictor Saville

    London, 1949. A young American beauty, Melinda Greyton, flighty and immature, falls in love with a dashing but solitary and lonely English major, Michael Curragh, and he with her. His aged aunt, his only family, urges him to marry her, and he does. The trouble is, he’s an agent for the Soviets. His control is unhappy that he’s married without the Party’s consent. Melinda figures out he’s a spy and a traitor, and she develops some backbone and maturity when he tries to convince her to go along with him. She demands that he cease spying at about the same time that his control orders him to kill her. Is she safe? Is there any way he can satisfy conflicting loyalties?Read More »

  • Karl Freund – Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)

    1931-1940ClassicsKarl FreundMusicalUSA

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    A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.Read More »

  • Raoul Walsh – Pursued (1947)

    1941-1950Raoul WalshThrillerUSAWestern

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    After his family is murdered in the 1880s, orphan Jeb Rand is raised by the Callum family on their nearby horse ranch. He remains haunted by this childhood trauma in a recurring nightmare of flashing spurs and confinement inside a trap door as his family is slaughtered. Widow Callum does her best to make Jeb feel loved as he is growing up, but the young man stubbornly maintains a sense of his own identity. While he has great affection for his foster-sister Thor, his relationship with her brother Adam is tenuous at best, especially when Jeb blames him for shooting a colt that he was riding.Read More »

  • Matías Piñeiro – Rosalinda (2011)

    2011-2020ArgentinaDramaMatías Piñeiro

    Two different rhythms in the same body. The first one of an actress and the second that of his character: Luisa and Rosalinda share the same body but not the same rhythm. One afternoon in the Delta del Tigre, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, a group of actors meet to rehearse the comedy Como les guste, by William Shakespeare. During this day, love rages and the roles between actress and character are confused between the enjoyment of artifice and the anguish of the uncertain.Read More »

  • Douglas Sirk – Lured (1947)

    1941-1950CrimeDouglas SirkFilm NoirUSA

    A serial killer in London is murdering young women whom he meets through the personal columns of newspapers; he announces each of his murders to the police by sending them a cryptic poem. After a dancer disappears, the police enlist an American friend of hers, Sandra Carpenter, to answer advertisements in the personal columns and so lure the killer.Read More »

  • Laura Huertas Millán – La Libertad (2017)

    2011-2020ColombiaLaura Huertas MillánShort Film

    La Libertad follows a group of matriarchal weavers in Mexico, formally mimicking the examination of an object through subtle shifts in scale and space.Read More »

  • Kaneto Shindô – Ichimai no hagaki AKA Postcard (2010)

    2001-2010DramaJapanKaneto ShindôWar

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    Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the war ends, Keita visits his comrade’s wife Yuko and bears witness to the tragic life she has led. This year’s Oscar entry from Japan finds SHINDO in top form and his 49th and reportedly last film as fresh and poignant as ever.Read More »

  • Fritz Lang – Hangmen Also Die! (1943)

    1941-1950Film NoirFritz LangUSAWar

    Synopsis:
    Set in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation, Hangmen Also Die depicts an Eastern Europe populated by spies, traitors and revolutionaries…a deadly funhouse of political intrigue in which every personal encounter brings with it the threat of betrayal.
    Pursued by the Germans after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Dr. Svobonda (Brian Donlevy) enlists the aid of a young woman (Anna Lee) who is oblivious to the lethal crosscurrents that surround her. As she learns more about the mysterious doctor, she grows aware of the involvement of her father (Walter Brennan) and fiance (Dennis O’Keefe) in the resistance, and soon finds herself entangled in the revolution’s secret operations.Read More »

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