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Ken Russell – The Music Lovers (1971)
“Vulgar, excessive, melodramatic and self-indulgent: Tchaikovsky’s music is indeed all of these things, yet gloriously so, and the same goes for Ken Russell at his freewheeling best. The director’s...
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Rene Daalder – Population: 1 (1986)
Quote:Like fellow Dutchmen Paul Verhoeven and Jan De Bont, Rene Daalder was drafted by Hollywood to make genre films, though his inclinations ran a little artier. Daalder achieved some cult success...
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Tobias Adam & Florian Kläger & Markus Milcke – A Story of Sahel Sounds (2016)
The film is about a project from Christopher Kirkleys called “Sahel Sounds”. He owns an independent label and travels through the Sahel area in Africa, to find musician with an unique sound. The music...
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Max Neufeld – Sehnsucht 202 (1932)
From luise-rainer.com:Many sources, including Luise herself, referred to the ‘overnight sensation’ that Luise made in her first film for MGM, Escapade (1935). This narrative of the newly discovered...
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Woody Allen – Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Quote:A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a troubled marriage while her stepsister gets engaged. 2.77GB | 1h 40m | 1024×576 | mkv...
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Julien Temple – Absolute Beginners (1986)
Quote:A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are...
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Giuseppe Tornatore – La leggenda del pianista sull’oceano AKA The Legend of...
Plot Synopsis : On the 1st of January in 1900, Danny Boodmann (Bill Nunn), the mechanic of the transatlantic liner Virginian bound for America, finds an abandoned baby on board and decides to keep...
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Jacques Baratier – Dragées au poivre aka Sweet and Sour (1963)
Autour de Jacques Baratier & Sweet and SourBy Elliott Stein – Tuesday, April 14th 2009 – Village Voice (Jacques Baratier, 1963). This fascinating nearly plot-less feature from eccentric Baratier,...
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João Maia – Variações AKA Variações: Guardian Angel (2019)
António Variações was a unique man. He was born in a small village in Amares, in the north of Portugal. At an early age, unhappy with his life working at a local factory, he came to Lisbon to stay...
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Charles Vidor – Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Synopsis:Hans Christian Andersen was Sam Goldwyn’s final production for RKO Radio release, and also the producer’s last Danny Kaye vehicle. The Moss Hart-Myles Connolly screenplay largely disregards...
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Charles Reisner – Chasing Rainbows (1930)
Synopsis:The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The...
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François Ozon – 8 femmes AKA 8 Women (2002)
Synopsis:One morning at an isolated mansion in the snowy countryside of 1950s France, a family is gathered for the holiday season. But there will be no celebration at all because their beloved...
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Ludwig Berger – Ich bei Tag und du bei Nacht AKA I by Day, You by Night (1932)
A nightclub waiter and a manicurist share the same room, she sleeps there by night and he by day. They’ve never met, but they can’t stand each other. Then one day, they meet by chance… Quote:Ich bei...
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Osias Wilenski – El perseguidor AKA The Pursuer (1965)
PlotThe brief life and extraordinary times of American jazz great Charlie Parker is the subject of this Argentinian biography by director Osias Wilenski. One of the greatest saxophonists of all time,...
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Abel Ferrara – Alive in France (2017)
Abel Ferrara headlines a film retrospective and a series of concerts in France dedicated to songs and music from his films. Preparations with his family and friends will form the material of this self...
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Richard Lester – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Quote:Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a...
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Stanley Donen – Give a Girl a Break (1953)
When the lead of the musical he’s putting on quits, Ted Sturgis (Gower Champion) searches for a new headliner. Newcomers Joanna Moss (Helen Wood) and Suzy Doolitle (Debbie Reynolds) do well at open...
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Penny Woolcock – The Death of Klinghoffer (2003)
The 1985 hijacking by Palestinian terrorists of the Mediterranean cruise ship Achille Lauro culminated in the murder of wheelchair-bound Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer. Adams’s...
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Wim Wenders – Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Plot:Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro’s takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the...
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Andrzej Zulawski – Boris Godounov AKA Boris Godunov (1989)
Andrzej Zulawski’s take on Mussorgsky’s opera. Conducted by Rostropovich. Quote:This is the best opera-inspired film I have ever seen. It’s not what we frequently see: a filming of a theater...
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