• Yôji Yamada – Otoko wa tsurai yo: Tabi to onna to Torajiro aka Tora-san 31: Song Of Love (1983)

    1981-1990AsianComedyJapanYôji Yamada

    Quote:
    On a ship en route to the Sado Islands, Tora-san enjoys the company of a beautiful woman (Miyako Harumi), unaware that she’s a famous enka singer traveling incognito. In this variation on Roman Holiday (1953), the enka star enjoys Tora-san’s company when her boyfriend left her. Eventually, she returns to her glamorous life, but not before surprising everyone in Shibamata by showing up to give Tora-san a ticket to her latest concert. Tora-san thought that this could be a good start, but she finally tells him that… her boyfriend is back.Read More »

  • Aparna Sen – 15 Park Avenue (2005)

    Drama2001-2010Aparna SenIndia

    The narrative pivots around the relationship of two sisters, older sister Anjali (Shabana
    Azmi) is a successful professor with a powerful personality. She is the anchoring rock for
    her family and carer for her sister Meethi whose progression into schizophrenia has been
    speeded up by traumatic experiences. Anjali has always dominated the life of her attractive
    younger sister, and jealously warded off Meethi’s handsome fiancé Jojo (Rahul Bose) with
    fear of Meethi’s impending illness. Years later when Meethi and Anjali are on holiday in the
    Hills there is a chance meeting with Jojo, now with his new wife and children. He is
    shocked to discover that Meethi does not now recognize him, but lives in a world visited by
    an imaginary husband and children of her own.Read More »

  • Sacha Guitry – Les 3 font la paire AKA Three Make a Pair (1957)

    France1951-1960ComedySacha Guitry

    Plot: Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent… Read More »

  • John Frankenheimer – Seven Days in May [+Extra] (1964)

    1961-1970ClassicsJohn FrankenheimerThrillerUSA

    From Wikipedia:
    Seven Days in May is an American political thriller motion picture directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, and released in February 1964 with a screenplay by Rod Serling based on the novel of the same name by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II, which was published in 1962.Read More »

  • Alfred Hitchcock – Champagne (1928)

    1921-1930Alfred HitchcockComedySilentUSA

    plot summary:
    A spoilt rich girl leads a life of luxury on the profits from her father’s champagne business. To bring her back down to earth he tells her that all the money has been lost so she goes to seek her fortune.Read More »

  • Stephen Hopkins – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)

    Drama2001-2010Stephen HopkinsUSA

    There can be fewer people in the film world who embody the moniker ‘flawed genius’ better than Peter Sellers. Adored throughout the world for his hilarious comic creations – not least Inspector Clouseau – the ‘real’ Sellers was wracked with private torment and a chronic lack of confidence. It’s a curious balance which director Stephen Hopkins exploits to lift The Life and Death of Peter Sellers above the usual biopic fare.Read More »

  • Yilmaz Güney – Agit AKA Elegy (1972)

    Drama1971-1980TurkeyYilmaz Güney

    Synopsis:
    Coban and his four comrades are smugglers who live in the bleak, inaccessible mountains. They are hard, pitiless men like the county they live in, whose daily commerce is in greed, danger, betrayal and murder.Read More »

  • Carlos Sorín – Historias mínimas AKA Minimal Stories (2002)

    2001-2010ArgentinaCarlos SorínComedyDrama

    Quote:
    Near the provincial town of San Julian, three vibrant characters undertake seemingly mundane journeys that turn out to be subtly life changing. A lonely, fastidious traveling salesman quests for the perfect cream cake to win the widow of his dreams. A grizzly grandfather hitchhikes to town to find his forgotten lost dog and seek forgiveness. A poor young mother hopes to win the grand prize–a microprocessor–as a contestant on a TV game show. In the end, the three will get more or less what they set out for, but it will come to them in ways that they never expected.Read More »

  • Gregory Doran – Macbeth (2001)

    2001-2010DramaGregory DoranUnited KingdomWilliam Shakespeare

    Antony Sher and Harriet Walter star in a highly-acclaimed screen version of William Shakespeare’s classic story of tyranny and ambition.

    On the stage this Royal Shakespeare Company presentation was universally lauded. Following sell-out seasons at Stratford’s Swan Theatre and in London, the production played in Japan and in the United States, where The New York Times praised director Gregory Doran’s interpretation as a “harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century”.Read More »

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