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International Film Festival Rotterdam
Though not as historied as some of its equals on the European festival scene, Rotterdam has become as influential in many respects as the more fabled Cannes, Venice and Berlin festivals. Its emphasis on new artistic currents has, among other things, made it a notable spotlight for emerging Asian filmmakers.
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2012
A Trip to the Moon
The material for A TRIP TO THE MOON was sourced from a restored color version that had been considered lost for several decades. It is presented here with an original soundtrack by Air. In 2010, three experts in worldwide film restoration (Lobster Films along with two non-profit entities, Groupama Gan...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
The Day He Arrives
A film director who no longer makes films, Seongjun, arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, Seongjun wanders the city aimlessly. He runs into an actress he used to know, shares a drink with some film students and against his better judgment, heads to his ex-girlfriend's...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
Patience (After Sebald)
Retracing the steps taken by W.G. Sebald (1944–2001) in his ground-breaking book ‘The Rings of Saturn’, PATIENCE (AFTER SEBALD) offers a unique exploration of the work and influence of the internationally acclaimed writer. Directed by Grant Gee (RADIOHEAD: MEETING PEOPLE IS EASY, JOY DIVISION), the film...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
99 Clerkenwell Road
Filmed in an empty shop, the remaining features of the space are used to create a kaleidoscopic light film. Ceiling lamps become coloured spheres and circles that sweep across the frame. Pillars provide wipes and fades, window shutters are hole punched stencils, passing buses shoot beams of light. A toy...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
The Great Northwest
An experimental documentary based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in 1958 by four Seattle women who thoroughly documented their journey in an elaborate scrapbook. Fifty years later, Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick found that scrapbook in a thrift store, and in 2010 set out on the road,...Start your free trial to watch
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2012
Grey Matter
Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, THE CYCLE OF THE COCKROACH. The trenchant drama, about a brother and sister dealing with the aftermath of genocide, finds no...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Imperceptihole
A correspondence film: rolls of high-contrast black-and-white film were sent back-and-forth in the mail over the course of a year until the film began to reveal itself as a science non-fiction fairy tale, a speculative quest (circling and searching, falling and landing, entering and exiting) to recapture elisions in light...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Mill and the Cross
THE MILL AND THE CROSS is a "film of great beauty and attention" (Roger Ebert) that stunningly recreates one of the great masterpieces of painting, Pieter Bruegel the Elder's "The Way to Calvary." Lech Majewski brings the viewer inside the painting with immersive period detail and jaw-dropping digital...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Aurora
A mesmerizing new masterwork from the director of the critically-acclaimed THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU, AURORA is a murder mystery turned on its head, where the mystery's not the culprit but the motive. Inside a non-descript apartment kitchen, a man and a woman discuss the inconsistencies in "Red Riding Hood," their voices...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Strange Case of Angelica
A beguiling film from master filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira, THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA is a magical tale of a young photographer who falls madly in love with a woman he can never have (except in his dreams). Late one night, Isaac is summoned by a wealthy family to take the last photograph of a young...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Chekhov for Children
CHEKHOV FOR CHILDREN tells the inspiring story of an ambitious undertaking: the 1979 staging on Broadway of "Uncle Vanya" by New York City 5th and 6th graders, directed by the celebrated writer Phillip Lopate. Using a wealth of never-before-screened student documentary videos and dramatic super 8mm films...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
A Useful Life
After twenty-five years, Cinemateca Uruguaya’s most devoted employee, Jorge (real-life Uruguayan critic Jorge Jellinek) still finds his inspiration in caring for the films and audiences that grace the seats and screen of his beloved arthouse cinema. But when dwindling attendance and diminishing support force the theater to...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Soul of Sand
A watchman and his wife living at an abandoned mine find themselves trapped in the brutal schemes of their tyrannical landlord in this suspenseful, visually striking drama set on the urban outskirts of Delhi. When the landlord offers his daughter to a wealthy potential buyer of the mine, she and her lower-caste lover run...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
Trypps no.7 (Badlands)
“Regarding LSD, brass bells, the youth of today, Terence Malick and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, phase cancellation, the Pine Ridge Reservation and the Romantic Sublime.” That’s how Ben Russell describes this surround sound installment of TRYYPS, an ongoing exploration of cinematic transcendence. An...Start your free trial to watch
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2011
The Voyagers
In the summer of 1977, NASA sent Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on an epic journey into interstellar space. Together and alone, they will travel until the end of the universe. Each spacecraft carries a golden record album, a massive compilation of images and sounds embodying the best of Planet Earth. According to Carl Sagan, “[t]he...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Beyond Enchantment
Where all is static motion; where music and light become one; where change and motion become one; and where the end is the beginning. Black and white cut-out animation with touches of color. Ladies of the past encounter science and natural phenomena.Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Rapt
One morning, the rich and powerful industrialist Stanislas Graff is kidnapped outside his home by a commando group. Completely cut off from the rest of the world and only aware of what the kidnappers tell him, Stanislas cannot understand why his friends and family are taking their time to pay the demanded ransom. Outside, his...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Inferno
One of the great, unfinished works in film history, Henri-Georges Clouzot's INFERNO was an audaciously experimental film with a virtually unlimited budget that was stopped only three weeks into production. Working closely with Clouzot's widow, Inès, Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea reconstructs Clouzot's original vision,...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Beaufort
After eighteen years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of an ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they've tenuously clung to life and victory...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Dogtooth
Graceful, enigmatic and often frightening, DOGTOOTH is an ingenious dark comedy that won the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, propelling Yorgos Lanthimos to the forefront of contemporary cinema’s most ambitious young filmmakers. In an effort to protect their three children from the corrupting influence...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Two in the Wave
Directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut changed the face of cinema forever as members of the French New Wave. They also happened to be best friends. TWO IN THE WAVE documents their intensely combative and creative relationship during their time at Cahiers du Cinéma, their triumphant work on THE 400 BLOWS and...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Film socialisme
Legendary director Jean-Luc Godard returns to the screen with FILM SOCIALISME, a magisterial essay on the decline of European civilization. As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean (with Patti Smith among its guests), Godard embarks on a state of the E.U. address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes,...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Becloud
On a dry lakebed in 1964, a trucker and his companion find a baby boy at the dry breast of its dead mother. Years later, the trucker operates an ice factory in a poor urban district with his son, José, who dreams of one day striking out on his own. Neighbor Felipe, meanwhile, works at an Internet café and another neighbor,...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Alamar
Jorge has only a few weeks with his five year old son Natan before he leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
The Joy
THE JOY is a fairy tale about youth and courage. THE JOY tells the story of sixteen year old Luiza. She is tired of hearing about the end of the world. On Christmas Eve, her cousin João is shot in a poor neighborhood and disappears in the middle of the night. A few weeks later, while alone in her apartment in a middle class...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Slovenian Girl
Having grown up in small-town Slovenia, twenty-three year old Alexandra embraces the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital. She styles herself as a call girl, planning to take advantage of everything the city has to offer. But her isolated existence, English studies and mortgage payments by...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Summer of Goliath
Shocked by her husband’s sudden departure, Teresa embarks on a mission to find out what happened. Instead of finding answers, her mission becomes a journey through the streets and homes of the people she meets. Blending fiction and documentary, her wanderings portray the town and its inhabitants....Start your free trial to watch
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2010
City of Life and Death
CITY OF LIFE AND DEATH, a stunning depiction of the Rape of Nanking, is "a film strong enough to change your life" (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times). Director Lu Chuan based the film on the recorded witness testimony from the real-life survivors of the massacre, meticulously recreating the infamous reign...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Ghost Algebra
Under erratic skies, a solitary figure navigates a landscape of constructed nature and broken bones. She peers through a decaying aperture, waiting and watching; the fragility of the body is exposed for what it is: ephemeral, liquid, a battlefield of nervous dreams. Using found and natural objects, rephotographed video,...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Oxhide II
Breaking new ground in cinematic art, Liu Jiayin's follow-up to her masterful debut OXHIDE turns a simple dinner into a profoundly intimate study of family relationships. Building on the stunning vision of OXHIDE (voted one of the best Chinese films of the 2000s), writer-director Liu Jiayin once again casts herself and her...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Street Days
A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival, even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But...Start your free trial to watch
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2010
Scene 32
SCENE 32 maps the terrain that lies between a beloved place and the things that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation but a rebuilt world of...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Los bastardos
A multiple award winner and 2008 Cannes Film Festival selection, Amat Escalante's LOS BASTARDOS makes an indelibly disturbing impact. Like the rest of the day-laboring migrant workers who gather together each morning on a southwestern American strip mall sidewalk, Jesus (Jesus Moises Rodriguez) and Fausto (Rubén Sosa)...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
24 City
A masterful film from Jia Zhangke, the renowned director of STILL LIFE, 24 CITY chronicles the dramatic closing of a once-prosperous state-owned aeronautics factory in Chengdu, a city in Southwest China, and its conversion into a sprawling luxury apartment complex. Bursting with poetry, pop songs and striking visual detail,...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
35 Shots of Rum
Widely hailed as one of the best films of 2009, the latest from the renowned director of BEAU TRAVAIL, Claire Denis’ sublime 35 SHOTS OF RUM is the moving story of a father and daughter whose close-knit, tender relationship is disrupted by a handsome young suitor. Sumptuously filmed and featuring an evocative score by...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Helen
An 18 year old girl named Joy has gone missing. Another girl named Helen is a few weeks away from leaving her care home. Helen is asked to "play" Joy in a police reconstruction that will retrace Joy's last known movements. Joy had everything. A loving family, a boyfriend, a bright future. Helen, parentless, has lived in...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Mock Up on Mu
A radical hybrid of multiple genres, Craig Baldwin's MOCK UP ON MU cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction...Start your free trial to watch
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2009
Shirin
A vibrant, daringly original work from Abbas Kiarostami, SHIRIN is the flowering of an experimentalist streak that’s been evident in many of the director’s most well-known features, including CLOSE-UP, TASTE OF CHERRY and others. Ostensibly an adaptation of a 12th century Persian poem about a young princess courted by two...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Alexandra
In a desolate, sun-scorched corner of the world, an elderly woman has come to see her beloved grandson, a young officer stationed at a remote military outpost. With the enemy just beyond the compound, she wanders the barracks, observing the routines of military life before making a sudden trip into the outlying countryside....Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Jerichow
In a small desolate town in northeastern Germany, a handsome ex-soldier, a Turkish businessman and his beautiful, restless wife find themselves in a desperate love triangle in this suspenseful reworking of the James M. Cain's novel THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE from acclaimed director Christian Petzold.Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Wonderful Town
Aditya Assarat's WONDERFUL TOWN follows Ton, a young Bangkok architect dispatched to oversee a building site in a seaside Thai resort town. There, he meets and gradually falls for Na, a shy and pretty inn-keeper who is equally drawn to Ton. The couple's deceptively tranquil romance takes root and grows but it is in the...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
I Am from Titov Veles
Set in the quaint but scarred town of Veles, three sisters long to escape the suffocating environment of their dying community. Burdened by memories of their late father, each chooses a different path: Sapho struggles to secure a visa to Greece; Slavica desperately searches for a rich husband; Afrodita...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Mutum
Thiago is a sensitive and imaginative boy living on a small, hardscrabble farm in a remote region of Brazil. His life is filled not only with curiosity and youthful discovery but also the reality of his parent's unhappy marriage and his father's abuse, all of which are one day changed by a chance encounter and unexpected...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
A Week Alone
A group of privileged children, ages 7 through 14, are left home alone at a house in a secluded community in the countryside. Their innocence is gradually corrupted as they experiment with rule-breaking, ultimately leading to house break-ins around the neighborhood. The arrival of the maid's son, exposes prejudice and...Start your free trial to watch
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2008
Black and White Trypps no.4
Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.Start your free trial to watch
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2007
What a Wonderful World
Souad is a prostitute whose best friend is Kenza, a tough traffic cop. Kamel is a stony–eyed contract killer who receives his hit orders via the Internet; he is also Souad's favorite customer. When Kenza falls in love with Kamel, the two begin a bizarre courtship doomed by their disparate lines of work....Start your free trial to watch
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2007
Black and White Trypps no.3
The third part in a series of films dealing with naturally-derived psychedelia. Shot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt, this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collective freak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Sabah
Director Ruba Nadda brings new life to the classic dilemma of family, culture and forbidden love in a witty drama that blends Syrian tradition with Western modernism. In SABAH, Arsinée Khanjian plays the title character, an unmarried 40-year-old woman of Syrian birth who lives in Toronto with her traditional and sometimes...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Old Joy
Based on Jonathan Raymond’s short story and featuring a soundtrack from Yo La Tengo, Kelly Reichardt's second feature chronicles a short camping trip by two old friends to a quasi-mystical oasis, the Bagby Hot Springs, in Oregon’s lush Cascade Mountains. The actors in this Cain-and-Abel story are Kurt (musician/actor Will...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
Madeinusa
MADEINUSA is a girl aged fourteen with a sweet Indian face who lives in an isolated village in the Cordillera Blanca Mountain range of Peru. This strange place is characterized by its religious fervor. From Good Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon (the time of day when Christ died on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the...Start your free trial to watch
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2006
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES is the breathtakingly beautiful and long-awaited second feature from Stephen and Timothy Quay. On the eve of her wedding, the beautiful opera singer Malvina is mysteriously killed and abducted by a malevolent Dr. Droz. Felisberto, an innocent piano tuner, is summoned to...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
A tout de suite
A stylish, erotically charged thriller, A TOUT DE SUITE is the highly anticipated film from acclaimed French director Benoit Jacquot. Based on actual events, it tells the story of sexy free-spirited Lili, a Parisian art student who falls for a charismatic bank robber and joins him on the run, a dizzying cross-continent escape...Start your free trial to watch
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2005
Angel's Fall
A critically acclaimed, contemporary tale from picturesque Istanbul, a city bordering the West and the Arab world, comes a timely tale about love and hope. Zeynep, a beautiful, young woman, dreams of a better life. Her days are spent cleaning hotel rooms and her nights are like hell because of her abusive father. The only...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Since Otar Left
Winner of the prestigious Critics Week "Grand Prize" at the Cannes Film Festival and featuring a trio of stunning performances, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite SINCE OTAR LEFT is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection. Three Georgian women, strong-willed matriarch Eka (90-year-old former dental assistant and fledgling...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Hollow City
HOLLOW CITY is set in Angola, the civil war-torn country in the southern west coast of Africa that had been colonized by Portugal until independence in 1975. In the tribal village of Bie, eleven year old N'dala (Roldan Pinto João) sees his family massacred by soldiers. He and other orphans are rescued by a missionary nun (Ana...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Uniform
Filmed on a shoestring budget in the city of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, this deceptively simple first feature perfectly illustrates a Chinese saying, "the clothes enter before the person." A young tailor finds his life improving in a variety of ways when he, innocently at first, starts wearing a policeman's uniform left...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Lili's Apron
LILI'S APRON is a love story set amidst Argentina's economic crisis. The film opens with a couple having a quiet picnic; they are obviously in love with one another. They are quite gentle and affectionate as they spend the leisurely afternoon together. Ramon (Luis Ziembrowski), a restaurant cook, takes as much pride and...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Aaltra
Comedians Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who wrote, directed, and co-star in this irreverent road movie, show a distinct flair for understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor. Rural neighbors who hate each other come to blows one day on a farm and get tangled up in an agricultural tractor, leaving them both...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Gozu
A horror thriller from the director of ICHI THE KILLER and AUDITION. Prepare for a delirious descent into a nightmare world, courtesy of Japan's most untamed filmmaker, Takashi Miike. What starts out as a gangster film spirals rapidly out of control when a young yakuza is ordered to assassinate his own superior, who also...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Free Radicals
Austrian housewife Manu's narrow escape from the catastrophic consequences of "The Butterfly Effect" aboard an airliner only sets her up for an even more shockingly random fate. As the devastating results of a traffic accident transform Manu's family and the young occupants of the other car, the personal and circumstantial...Start your free trial to watch
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2004
Peep Show
J. X. Williams was a legendary bottom-of-the-barrel director in the fifties and sixties, pushed even lower by his Commie leanings. On the skids, he drifted around the Continent making cheapo features and the occasional nudie reeler (like the infamous NORWEGIAN WOOD). In the late-1950s he fell in with the Chicago mob, helming...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Cowards Bend the Knee
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Guy Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Satin Rouge
A widowed Tunisian seamstress takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in writer-director Raja Amari’s sumptuous and sensual SATIN ROUGE. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, young widow Lilia becomes drawn to an exotic nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, Canadian cult auteur Guy Maddin concocted his most ravishingly stylized cinematic creation to date. Beautifully transposing the Royal Winnipeg Ballet’s interpretation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire yarn from stage to...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
John Garfield
Mark Rappaport completed his concise portrait of the legendary John Garfield in 2002, comprised (like much of his filmed essays) from existing film footage of the actor. Exceptionally engaging, Rappaport's extraordinary short contains more insightful observations of its subject than many feature-length biographical...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Women's Prison
This taboo-breaking film is based on Manijeh Hekmat's long fieldwork among women prisoners in Iran. She depicts the lives of Iran's lost generation in the two decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution using the claustrophobic life of women behind bars as a metaphor for the entire society. Her protagonist, Mitra, is in prison...Start your free trial to watch
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2003
Oasis
Hailed as the seminal film of the Korean new wave, acclaimed director Lee Chang-dong’s OASIS tells the story of two societal misfits and their struggle to find love and acceptance amidst the hypocrisy of modern Korean life. Fate helped bring them together, family fought to keep them apart.Start your free trial to watch
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2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
With IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
Children of Love
A beautiful story of family relations, CHILDREN OF LOVE portrays six family members dealing with questions of loyalty and love. Michael, Winnie and Aurelie are three children of divorced parents. It is Friday morning and they are getting ready to spend their weekend with their fathers. Winnie, age twelve,...Start your free trial to watch
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2002
To the Left of the Father
Based on the eponymous book by award-winning writer Raduan Nassar, TO THE LEFT OF THE FATHER is set in the Brazilian countryside and focuses on the relationship between a young man, André (Selton Mello), and his religious but caring family. After running away from his Lebanese-Brazilian abode, André has to...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
A Time for Drunken Horses
Winner of the Caméra d’Or ("Best First Feature") at the Cannes Film Festival, A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES announced Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi (TURTLES CAN FLY) as a major talent. His debut follows the heart-wrenching drama of a Kurdish family living on the Iran-Iraq border. The only work available in...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
La perdicion de los hombres
"The ruination of men is caused by women," is a famous saying in Mexco. The film depicts two ranchers who decide to stone a third rancher to death. In a darkly surreal and comic way the film then follows several widows that show up at the police station to claim the body, as each detail their grievances....Start your free trial to watch
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2001
Sincerely, Joe P. Bear
Polar bears, ice queens, lost love. Appropriated news clips from the 1960’s combine with hand-painted film to tackle the momentous issue of how polar bears cope with heartbreak and rejection. One of my earliest films, SJPB was made with 16mm news footage that I found in the dumpster of a Portland...Start your free trial to watch
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2001
Elsa Kirk
In the mid-1990s I unearthed photographic contact sheets of different women in a thrift store in the East Village. Only one was named and dated: "Elsa Kirk, Feb 22 ‘63." But all looked like they were from the same photographer and time period. There were twelve images per sheet of these models/actresses and I found myself...Start your free trial to watch
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1998
Immer Zu
IMMER ZU is an elliptical, experimental animated film which evokes a mysterious undercover world of secret messages, cryptic language and indecipherable codes. Shot in luminous black and white, IMMER ZU uses miniature two and three dimensional figures and sets, as well as shadow puppetry, to suggest the urgency of a nocturnal...Start your free trial to watch
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1998
Lulu
Initially commissioned to accompany a Danish production of Alban Berg’s LULU, Lewis Klahr’s cut-out animation refigures the opera's themes in a torrent of images. With an ever-inventive approach to color and symbol, Klahr distills the title character's moral predicament, along with a great many of German Expressionism’s...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Kitchen Party
Scott wants to throw a party to celebrate going off to college, and to impress (and hence, score with) his girlfriend Tammy. But he’s not going anywhere if his overly retentive parents find out, or if one footstep is seen on the perfectly-vacuumed carpet. Scott’s solution: have the party anyway, but restrict everyone to the...Start your free trial to watch
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1997
Irma Vep
Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. After seeing her in Johnny To’s cult-actioner HEROIC TRIO, past-his-prime director René Vidal (New Wave legend Jean-Pierre Léaud) impetuously casts Cheung as the lead in his remake of the silent classic...Start your free trial to watch
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1993
Terminal, USA
How to describe the indescribable TERMINAL, USA? "FATHER KNOWS BEST meets PINK FLAMINGOS" (according to the New York Daily News). "A take-off on American sit-coms... that gives new meaning to the term dysfunctional" (or so says the Entertainment Weekly). Could be. Maybe you could do better?Start your free trial to watch
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1992
American Orpheus
"Intended as a tribute to Jean Cocteau's classic ORPHÉE, Schmidt gives the Orpheus legend a very contemporary twist. Here the central bond, the love that reaches beyond death, is not between a young man and woman, but between a mother and her small daughter. Shot in a lean, composed style, what is...Start your free trial to watch