• Damian Kocur – Pod wulkanem AKA Under the Volcano (2024)

    2021-2030Damian KocurDramaPoland

    Polish entry to this years academy awards.

    Sunshine, a beautiful scenery and a good time with loved ones: a Ukrainian family is spending their last holidays on the island of Tenerife. Little do they know that the next day their lives will change forever when Russia attacks their homeland and their flight back to Kiev is being cancelled. From one day to the next, they are no longer tourists on the volcanic island, but refugees – trapped in paradise. This sensitive and authentic family drama shows us the effects of war without any battle scenes. ‘Damian Kocuur’s feature film debut is a breathtaker. No other feature film has managed to convey the helplessness and powerlessness of the Ukrainians with such sensitivity.’Read More »

  • David Lynch – David Lynch Weather Reports (2005)

    2001-2010David LynchExperimentalUSA

    155 Quicktime movies of David Lynch daily weather reports ranging from January 7, 2005 to June 30, 2005.Read More »

  • Masahiro Makino – Matte ita otoko AKA The Man Who Waited (1942)

    1941-1950DramaJapanMasahiro MakinoMystery

    boblipton@IMDB wrote:
    At a popular resort during the Edo Period, a man is murdered. As everyone gossips about the matter and waits for the samurai in charge of the investigation to do something, honeymooning Hideko Takamine takes time out to solve the crime.Read More »

  • Safi Faye – Mossane (1996)

    1991-2000African CinemaArthouseDramaSafi FayeSenegal

    This Senegalese melodrama tells the story of a young girl called Mossane who lives in a village between the ocean and the savannah. There, veneration for the traditions is very common. There’s a legend saying that every other century a girl is born who is doomed because of her beauty. Mossane is only fourteen years old but is already considered to be extraordinary beautiful. Even her own brother is in love with her. According to the custom she has been promised to a rather wealthy man called Diogoye since the day of her birth. However, Mossane is in love with the poor student Fara who is forced to return to the village while the university is on strike. Torn between her own dreams and traditions, Mossane decides to escape. The film shows the resistance of the young generation and is dedicated especially to the African women, their courage and their wish for emancipation.Read More »

  • T.J. Särkkä – Kuu on vaarallinen AKA Prelude to Ecstasy [Uncensored] (1961) 

    1961-1970DramaEroticaFinlandT.J. Särkkä

    IMDB wrote:
    An atmospheric indian summer triangle drama.
    Decent melodrama from the studio era. Liana Kaarina plays a vamp-like young vagrant hitch hiker, who gets a ride from older industrialist who consequently takes her to his summer house to be his mistress. She takes full advantage of the situation and plans a prosperous marriage when she meets a young man while skinny dipping…

    Surprisingly fresh effort from (the biggest studio mogul of Finland) Särkkä, who (with great help from the master cinematographer Olavi Tuomi) succeeds in creating a suitably sleazy atmosphere to unfold the drama in.Read More »

  • Román Chalbaud – El pez que fuma AKA The Smoking Fish (1977)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaRomán ChalbaudVenezuela

    Plot Summary
    The film opens through the telescope lens of one of the city’s many colorful outcasts, as he watches a truck arriving carrying mattresses. We meet La Garza, the proprietor of The Smoking Fish nightclub and brothel and her current lover Dimas. Dimas, exuberant and yet full of suppressed dissatisfaction, is at his peak. We see him jubilant at the arrival of the fresh beds for the prostitutes and proud as he watches children celebrating round the burning pyres of old mattresses. But the ritual is tense and uneasy, foreshadowing the community’s easy embrace of substitutes.Read More »

  • Oliver Stone – Talk Radio (1988)

    1981-1990DramaOliver StoneUSA

    A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.Read More »

  • John Paizs – The Obsession of Billy Botski (1980)

    1971-1980CanadaJohn PaizsShort Film

    A young man meets his obsession – a ghostly ’60’s Playboy-bunny styled “Connie,” – and is never the same! This is the first of John Paizs’ films to feature his silent Nick character that would later be featured in his cult hits Springtime in Greenland and Crimewave.Read More »

  • João Botelho – Um Adeus Português AKA A Portuguese Farewell (1986)

    1981-1990ArthouseCultJoão BotelhoPortugal

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    PORTUGUESE AFRICA, 1973. Slowly, we have plenty of time: the words of the Second Lieutenant to the small band of soldiers he commands. A land mine exploding on the forest track, the patrol lost in the forest. The death of a soldier, shots in the night. Involved in a war in which the enemy is never seen, the mud-splattered soldiers methodically carry out the final pilgrimage without bitterness or glory, the tame farewell of a generation to five centuries of Portuguese presence in Africa: a story of war.Read More »

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