Paloma herida, by Emilio “El Indio” Fernández, who co-wrote the screenplay with writer Juan Rulfo, is the story of a native woman who arrives pregnant in a rural town and soon finds herself involved in the murder of an indigenous chieftain.
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A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus, unaware that the skeletons that he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is her next target.Read More »
After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brotherRead More »
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Andy Warhol’s Blow Job (1964) is a masterpiece of the complexities of voyeurism and duration. The 36-minute film shows a young man apparently receiving oral sex, though the viewer only ever sees his head and shoulders – leaving the person performing the act in our imagination.Read More »
Mehmet, who decides to take revenge on Ekrem and Reyhan as soon as he is released from prison, is forced to face facts he does not know.Read More »
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.Read More »
Two men in their twenties spend their time in Parisian cafes trying to pick up women. They take one girl dancing, and then steal her purse when she prefers to dance with another man.Read More »
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Ginette, a young and free lifestyle dressmaker’s apprentice, receives each day a 10,000 francs bill, in an anonymous sealed letter. Her search among some old and wealthy acquaintances is vain. The young Ginette, first disturbed, then worried, eventually becomes used to this wonderful income transforming her life. She gives up – not without insolence – her work at the sewing workshop, and goes on holiday at her mother’s farm, in Saint-Gervais-du-Cantal. The young Parisian is in sharp contrast with her family background and her childhood friends.Read More »
“A soldier is assigned to guard a fortress on a remote Greek island and finds himself unable to cope with the crushing boredom of the task in this interesting drama, an early film by renowned-director Werner Herzog. The story is set during WW II and concerns a soldier who was wounded and stationed on the Nazi-controlled island. He is accompanied by his wife and two other guards. It is a very quiet island and soon the men begin looking for constructive things to do. First they paint houses. Then they try raising goats. One of them finds a small stockpile of explosives, so the men begin making bombs. Another of the men can read Greek and so begins translating some of the ancient inscriptions on the castle walls.Read More »