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Lily and Erich, telephone operators in Paris and Berlin, respectively, fall in love over the telephone wires and resolve to meet in Paris. Their simple plan is confounded by Erich’s unexpected travel delay and the subterfuge of their friends Annette and Max. Two cases of mistaken romantic identity result and play out against the streets, bistros and beds of Paris. True love triumphs in the end.Read More »
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Bertrand Beauvois, a well-known attorney, is in Monte Carlo to defend a businessman’s mother who murdered a gigolo with ties to gangsters. The businessman provides a bodyguard, Christophe, who is thorough and unsmiling. The middle-aged Beauvois is drawn to Audrey, in her 20s, free spirited, a local TV weather girl who once dated Christophe. Although Christophe warns Beauvois to stay away from Audrey, he’s hooked and spends every moment with her he’s not in court. What’s her angle: is she a plant who’ll ruin the case; is Beauvois her toy; is she digging for gold; or, is she genuine? Beauvois loves the wild sex but not her promiscuity. Has Christophe failed to protect him?Read More »
A group of drug addicts in the 1970’s help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. A highly superstitious Bob and wife Diane love to do various pharmaceutical drugs like dilaudid, morphine and cocaine. To maintain the habit, they steal from pharmacies with the help of another couple. A cop that eventually gets too close for comfort, which causes the crew to move their operation to another town. Before long, one of the crew dies of an overdose; the body has to be moved from their hotel room to their car. The problem is that there is an unexpected sheriff’s convention assembling at the hotel where they’re staying. Bob believes that one of his superstitious beliefs caused this incident and is scared into joining a methadone program. Leaving his past proves harder than he anticipated, though.Read More »
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Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.Read More »
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Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, Coffee and Cigarettes is a collection of 11 vignettes relating to people having conversations about anything while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. The film is a collection of 11 shorts, three of which were made prior in 2003 including the 1993 Somewhere in California segment that won Jarmusch the short film Palme D’or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. With an all-start cast that includes Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinque Lee, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan, Alfred Molina, Issach de Bankole, Jack & Meg White of the White Stripes, RZA & GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Bill Murray. Coffee and Cigarettes is fun collection of shorts and vignettes from Jim Jarmusch.Read More »
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When Joji Hibiki’s (Hiroyuki Sanada) father is dying he tells his son of a deep dark secret that sends Joji reeling into another time, to his childhood. His father tells him that he is not his father and that Joji’s is not his son. He learns that his real name is Joji HINOHARA and that he was a child who he kidnapped, one of two twin brothers and a sister now blind still living in Japan. Soon Joji is in flight to Japan his homeland from America, but not before learning of the chilling fate his real parents suffered one night under mysterious circumstances. He also learns of his twin brothers recent and supposedly random death. Read More »
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In a industrial town one business firm stands out with good management. Thanks to the agile director Todor, his successful policy of “World breakthrough” the whole town look forward to progress and incredibly quick prosperity in 1966. The director’s driver Milutin is the center of absurdly dramatic relations in which base manipulation dominates. His lonely, consequent, and reasonable admiration for Todor, his honesty and goodwill bring him into situations to which he can’t and won’t adapt to, nor will he quit…Read More »
Viola Shafik’s documentary explores the story of El Hedi ben Salem, a lover and collaborator of provocative German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.Read More »
