• Stefan Krohmer – Sommer ’04 AKA Summer ’04 (2006)

    Stefan Krohmer2001-2010ArthouseGermanyThriller
    Sommer '04 (2006)
    Sommer ’04 (2006)

    A family vacation sets the stage for an often uncomfortable generational battle. Krohmer constructs an unpredictable love triangle between Miriam (Martina Gedeck), a still-radiant forty-something mother and wife, her son’s 12-year-old girlfriend, Livia (Svea Lohde) and Bill (Robert Seeliger), the charming American expat in his twenties to whom both women find themselves drawn.Read More »

  • Detlev Buck – Same Same But Different (2009)

    Detlev Buck2001-2010DramaGermanyRomance
    Same Same But Different (2009)
    Same Same But Different (2009)

    From IMDB: Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben returns home to Germany he discovers that Sreyko is sick and he takes on the responsibility to save her. On the way he discovers a world where not everyone is dealt the same cards and where motivations are not always pure.Read More »

  • Jacques Rivette – Noroît aka Nor’west (1976)

    Jacques Rivette1971-1980AdventureFantasyFrance
    Noroît (1976)
    Noroît (1976)

    After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to bringing the murderers to justice. Soon, she has become an important member of the pirate gang and has begun acquiring the loyalty of key members. Eventually, she makes her move and challenges the leader, a demi-god (literally), known as “The Daughter of the Sun.” The story of Noroit is based on an early 17th-century tragedy by Cyril Tourneur, and, though it is only the third one filmed, the movie is the concluding episode in a four-part series by director Jacques Rivette.Read More »

  • Richard Quine – How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

    Richard Quine1961-1970ComedyUSA
    How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
    How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

    Jack Lemmon is a happily unmarried man with all the creature comforts one could desire including a wonderful butler who takes care of all his material needs. At a bachelor party for a friend, Lemmon gets drunk and wakes up married to an Italian woman who speaks nearly no English. It totally alters his life. He even changes the cartoon he writes and shifts it from a secret agent to a household comedy. When he begins to have trouble with all of these changes he starts to plot that at least his secret agent cartoon will return to order and plans, in his daily comic strip, killing his wife. When she disappears, the cartoons are used as evidence at his trial.Read More »

  • Pepa San Martín – Rara (2016)

    2011-2020ChileDramaPepa San MartínQueer Cinema(s)
    Rara (2016)
    Rara (2016)

    Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar to that of other families. But not everyone sees it that way.Read More »

  • Xavier Giannoli – Quand j’étais chanteur AKA The Singer (2006)

    Xavier Giannoli2001-2010ArthouseDramaFrance
    Quand j’étais chanteur (2006)
    Quand j’étais chanteur (2006)

    Gérard Depardieu has at last returned to his true form in THE SINGER, which was a huge hit in France. Xavier Giannoli has created a genuinely touching love story which displays humour and a sense of compassion for its characters.

    Depardieu plays the part of Alain Moreau, a nightclub crooner in Clermont-Ferrand described by one critic as: “much lower in the food chain than Charles Aznavour, but cut from the same cloth.”Read More »

  • Kichitarô Negishi – Onna kyôshi: Yogoreta hôkago AKA Female Teacher: Dirty Afternoon (1981)

    1981-1990EroticaExploitationJapanKichitarô Negishi
    Onna kyôshi Yogoreta hôkago (1981)
    Onna kyôshi Yogoreta hôkago (1981)

    A teacher, Sakiko Kurata, receives a phone call regarding one of her former students. Young Sueko is accused of being a prostitute and has requested Sakiko’s help. This minx seduces random strangers for sex, but does not ask for payment. Sakiko has moved to another town and barely remembers Sueko, but there’s something about her that awakens painful memories of her own secretive past. What is that strange paint thinner smell on Sueko? Who is the man in the nylon ski mask that violently assaulted Sakiko many years ago? In her search for answers, Sakiko discovers that her past may have inadvertently destroyed another family’s future.Read More »

  • Jörg Buttgereit – Captain Berlin versus Hitler (2009)

    Jörg Buttgereit2001-2010ComedyGermany
    Captain Berlin versus Hitler (2009)
    Captain Berlin versus Hitler (2009)

    After the Nazis took power, the resistance searched for a solution to end Adolf Hitler’s evil dictatorship. They formulated a plan to bio-engineer super-human assassins, eventually finding their man in one Captain Berlin.Read More »

  • Brad Leong – Palo Alto, CA (2007)

    Brad Leong2001-2010ComedyDramaUSA
    Palo Alto, CA (2007)
    Palo Alto, CA (2007)

    Palo Alto, CA is a movie starring Aaron Ashmore, Johnny Lewis, and Justin Mentell. On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.Read More »

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