• Leonardo Di Cesare – Buena vida (Delivery) aka Good Life Delivery (2004)

    Leonardo Di Cesare2001-2010ArgentinaComedyDrama
    Buena vida (Delivery) (2004)
    Buena vida (Delivery) (2004)

    This film, the first in De Cesare career, remember me on “Brutti, sporchi e cattivi” one of the greatest Scola films. It’s a simply history of two young people of a suburban place in Buenos Aires. A simply “boy meets girl” one. But the family of the girl came to town and the plot developed to a “grotesco”. The situations are growing to a intense drama and black comedy. De Cesare make the film so transparent, so simply and put his look on characters and relationships. He made it with a naturalist view, and a lot of great actor’s works. Ignacio Toselli simplify the work and “Venancio” make me remember to Nino Manfredi in Scola’s films. The script by De Cesare and Hans Garrino is simple and perfect at the same time. This film win the 19th Mar del Plata film Festival in Best film and best script.Read More »

  • Brillante Mendoza – Thy Womb (2012)

    Drama2011-2020Brillante MendozaPhilippines
    Thy Womb (2012)
    Thy Womb (2012)

    A Bajau midwife copes with the irony of her own infertility amid the deprivations of her gypsy community in Tawi-Tawi. A saga of island life stuck between the devil of passion and the deep blue sea of tradition.Read More »

  • Pierre Schoeller – Les anonymes (2013)

    Pierre Schoeller2011-2020DramaFrance
    Les anonymes (2013)
    Les anonymes (2013)

    February 6, 1998. Ajaccio. The prefect Claude Erignac is murdered and the French anti-terrorist task forced arrest a group called “Anonymous”.Read More »

  • Ulrich Seidl – Sparta (2022)

    2021-2030AustriaDramaUlrich Seidl
    Sparta (2022)
    Sparta (2022)

    Follow-up to Ulrich Seidl’s previous film, Rimini. It focuses on Richie Bravo’s brother, Ewald.

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    Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree existence. But the distrust of the villagers is soon awoken. And Ewald is forced to confront a truth he has long suppressed. Sparta is the brother film to Rimini, and the conclusion of Ulrich Seidl’s diptych about the inescapability of the past and the pain of finding yourself.Read More »

  • TCM – The Power of Film  (2024)

    2021-2030DocumentaryTCMUSA
    The Power of Film (2024)
    The Power of Film (2024)

    Dives deep into the art of storytelling by examining the defining principles and inner workings of the most popular and memorable American films of all time.Read More »

  • Frank Oz – Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    Frank Oz1981-1990ComedyMusicalRock n' Roll MusicalsUSA
    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
    Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

    Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik’s, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper. Soon enough, Seymour feeds Audrey’s sadistic dentist boyfriend to the plant and later, Mushnik for witnessing the death of Audrey’s ex. Will Audrey II take over the world or will Seymour and Audrey defeat it?Read More »

  • Luciano Salce – Le ore dell’amor AKA The Hours of Love (1963)

    Luciano Salce1961-1970ComedyItalyRomance
    Le ore dell'amor (1963)
    Le ore dell’amor (1963)

    Gianni and Maretta live for three years a relationship that sees them happily in love. The decision to get married radically changes their lives, impacting negatively on their relationship. Cohabitation and daily routine stifle their passion and restrict the cultivation of their respective interests, fatally distant and irreconcilable.

    After clumsy attempts at betrayal, they both realize that mutual love is not gone, but it’s just suffocated by forced cohabitation, and so they save their relationship by resuming the menage as an engaged couple, made of amorous encounters that enrich their lives, but lived far apart, each one at his house.Read More »

  • Tania Cypriano – Transformation AKA Born to Be (2019)

    2011-2020DocumentaryTania CyprianoUSA
    Born to Be (2019)
    Born to Be (2019)

    BORN TO BE follows the work of Dr. Jess Ting at the groundbreaking Mount Sinai Center for Transgender Medicine and Surgery in New York City-where, for the first time ever, all transgender and gender non-conforming people have access to quality transition-related health and surgical care. With extraordinary access, this feature-length documentary takes an intimate look at how one doctor’s work impacts the lives of his patients as well as how his journey from renowned plastic surgeon to pioneering gender-affirming surgeon has led to his own transformation.Read More »

  • Patricia Mazuy – Saint-Cyr (2000)

    Patricia Mazuy1991-2000DramaFrance
    Saint Cyr (2000)
    Saint Cyr (2000)

    Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers “her” two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.Read More »

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