Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel “All Souls” by Javier Marias. It tells the story of a Spanish professor at Oxford who witnesses the return of a very popular man there.Read More »

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Premiered at the Galleria Milano for the inauguration of the Hammer and Sickle exhibition in 1973, this 16mm film is made by Enzo Mari with the work group of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia students in Spring 1971. The film collects the exclusive witnesses of union spokepersons, the employees and the workmen at the Minganti, Sasib, Comi Rhodiatoce, Châtillon and the Petrochemical factory in Porto Marghera.Read More »

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During the portrait sessions, the philosopher and the young painter engage in a passionate struggle for truth in image and likeness, and ultimately for love and death.Read More »

Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne’s husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre’s wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne’s husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre’s wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will “benefit the town”, and wants Pierre’s political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife’s affair…Read More »

Plot: Set within Chicago’s labyrinth of alleyways, Scrappers is a cinema verite portrait of Otis and Oscar, two scrap metal scavengers searching for a living with brains, brawn and battered pickup trucks. The film shows how globalization, the 2008 financial crisis, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants and widespread scrap metal theft effect these men and their families.Read More »

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A film depicting the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, which was the tallest building in Japan at the time in 1969.Read More »

Remake of Naruse Mikio’s 1943 film “The Song Lantern.Read More »

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Maureen O’Hara as the spoiled, rich, American preditor who falls head-over-heels for the brooding, tormented, about-to-retire matador, Luis Santos (Anthony Quinn) who has inexplicably run away prior to a corrida that was to occasion the “alternativa” of a young, up-and-coming bullfighter (Manuel Rojas). The mystery is solved 94 minutes later, after Maureen has conquered Tony and Tony has saved Marueen’s life by caping a toro bravo with his plaid horse blanket.Read More »

One of Japan’s leading female directors, Kawase Naomi first came to international attention in 1997 when she became the youngest winner of the Cannes Caméra d’Or with her debut feature Moe no Suzaku. Ten years later, she won the Grand Prix at the 30th Cannes Film Festival with her acclaimed film The Mourning Forest. Though better known for her full-length narrative films, Kawase has spent most of her filmmaking career working with documentaries, often of an autobiographical nature. Read More »