• Thomas McGuane – 92 in the Shade (1975)

    1971-1980ComedyDramaThomas McGuaneUSA
    92 in the Shade (1975)
    92 in the Shade (1975)

    “Adapted from his own superb, blackly comic novel of eastern seabord eccentrics, macho mythology and the ultimate Florida face-off, McGuane’s sole film as director is one of the most enjoyable messes ever to be suppressed as unsaleable. His literary talent lionised and his film reputation secure on scripts for Rancho Deluxe, Missouri Breaks and Tom Horn, McGuane here exhibits a totally appealing incompetence as director: the movie’s got all the coherence of an amiable narrative jam-session. Storywise, Fonda wants to set up as a Key West fishing guide; Oates claims a monopoly and threatens to kill him if he does. That’s it…except for the crazy-quilt interaction of cultishly-cast fringe characters, mouthing idiosyncratically lively dialogue and obviously having a ball. Jimmy Buffet’s songs might give you some hook for what’s going on, but the fun’s infectious anyway.” – TimeOut LondonRead More »

  • Ali Abdel-Khalek – El-Keif AKA The High (1985)

    Ali Abdel-Khalek1981-1990ComedyDramaEgypt
    El Keif (1985)
    El Keif (1985)

    As ethics is degraded in the Egyptian society; a chemist deceive his punk brother with a nonnarcotic drug that he created to prove that it’s all delusional. So the punk tries to convince him to produce the substance for a greedy drug lord.Read More »

  • Christian-Jaque – La etulipe noire aka The Black Tulip (1964)

    Christian-Jaque1961-1970ActionAdventureFrance
    La tulipe noire (1964)
    La tulipe noire (1964)

    In 1789, when the Revolution went on, a bandit named “Black Tulip” held the
    surroundings of village Roussillon in fear. The poor people respected him as Robin Hood,
    who declare himself a revolutioner but Count Guillaume de Saint Preux “plays” this
    benefactor. When he fought with Mouche, the policeman he was wounded … Read More »

  • Jan Batory – Spotkanie ze szpiegiem AKA Rendezvous with a Spy (1964)

    1961-1970CrimeJan BatoryPolandThriller
    Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (1964)
    Spotkanie ze szpiegiem (1964)

    Quote:
    On the Koszalin coast, secret agent Bernard is about to land information on the deployment of Polish missile bases.Read More »

  • Zeki Demirkubuz – Bekleme odasi aka The Waiting Room (2004)

    Zeki Demirkubuz2001-2010ArthouseDramaTurkey
    Bekleme Odasi (2003)
    Bekleme Odasi (2003)

    Synopsis:
    Zeki Demirkubuz plays the lead character Ahmet who wants to make a film about Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’. He falls into a deep depression, loses interest in the film and life, pushes those who love him away and cannot complete the film.Read More »

  • Péter Forgács – The Danube Exodus (1998)

    1991-2000DocumentaryExperimentalHolocaust HistoryHungaryPéter Forgács
    The Danube Exodus (1998)
    The Danube Exodus (1998)

    Quote:
    He is primarily interested in the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments, but on closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history, which can be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker.

    In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats.
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  • H.C. Potter – The Time of Your Life (1948)

    H.C. Potter1941-1950ComedyDramaUSA
    The Time of Your Life (1948)
    The Time of Your Life (1948)

    The film follows the adventures of a group of regulars at Nick’s ‘Pacific Street Saloon, Restaurant and Entertainment Palace’ in San Francisco. A sign outside tells people to come in as they are. At the center is the wealthy Joe (James Cagney), who has given up working to hold court at Nick’s (William Bendix) bar. He desires to live “a civilized life” without hurting anyone and believes the real truth in people is found in their dreams of themselves, not the hard facts of their actual existence.[4] Joe has a stooge named Tom (Wayne Morris), who runs his eccentric errands until a woman with a past named Kitty (Jeanne Cagney) comes in and steals Tom’s heart. Also appearing are Broderick Crawford as Krupp, Ward Bond as McCarthy, Tom Powers as Blick, and James Barton as Kit Carson.Read More »

  • Walerian Borowczyk – La bête AKA The Beast (1975)

    1971-1980DramaFantasyFranceWalerian Borowczyk
    La bête (1975)
    La bête (1975)

    The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that a mysterious ‘beast’ is stalking the vicinity.Read More »

  • Yorgos Lanthimos – Poor Things (2023)

    Yorgos Lanthimos2021-2030ComedyDramaIreland
    Poor Things (2023)
    Poor Things (2023)

    Bella is a young woman brought back to life by a brilliant and unorthodox scientist. Under the scientist’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.Read More »

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