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15 Events
on Sunday the 17th of February, 2008
My film diaries 1970-1979: my marriage, children are born, you see them growing up. Footage of daily life, fragments of happiness and beauty, trips to France, Italy, Spain, Austria. Seasons of the year as they pass through New York. Friends, ...
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They don’t make them like this any more – but that hasn’t stopped the intrepid François Ozon, who’s come up with possibly the most unexpected film of an unpredictable career. Based on Elizabeth Taylor’s novel, Angel is a ...
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Mala Noche was the 33-year-old Gus Van Sant’s debut feature and is the first of his bittersweet odes to tender outcasts, remaining the simplest and least burdened. Arriving on the damp streets of Portland, Johnny (Cooeyate) and ...
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Noah Baumbach’s follow-up to 2005’s The Squid and the Whale retains traces of his breakthrough’s squirmworthy fixations. In fact, the awkward social fumbling of the new movie’s pubescent lad could pass as outtakes from the director’s ...
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Over nearly four decades, Swedish master stylist Roy Andersson has directed just four features. While cinephiles were forced to wait almost twenty-five years for his 2000 chefd’æuvre, Songs from the Second Floor, we have been granted the ...
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Joy Division superbly details the backgrounds of the influential post-punk group and its members, as well as the cultural context from which they emerged. There are interviews with most of the key figures: the three surviving band members, Tony ...
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80-year-old Martha manages to overcome her sorrow over her husband’s death when she starts living out a secret dream. She closes down the grocery store and instead opens a shop selling homemade lingerie. Since she is the mother of the town’s ...
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Few films can claim a roster of talent comparable to this one, which boasts contributions by 33 of the most acclaimed directors in world cinema, each responsible for three minutes of celluloid.Gilles Jacob, president of the Cannes Festival, ...
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Father of three, Juha is a caring husband to his depressed wife. Every morning before leaving the house he counts her pills to make sure she has taken the correct dose. He’s trying to keep his family together, although unbeknown to them he’s ...
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In director Eran Kolirin’s debut feature, a small, uniformed Egyptian police band becomes lost in rural Israel on their way to performing at a concert. They unexpectedly encounter not only tensions and friendships with the townspeople who take ...
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The lovely Audrey Tautou (Amélie) brings out all her charm as the frivolous Irène, a girl who likes to hunt for sugar daddies on the French Riviera. She loves all things luxurious and has an addiction to Chanel and Lacroix. But the branded ...
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Rayda Jacobs co-directs and stars in this very funny and poignant story of devotion and addiction, based on her own critically acclaimed novel of the same name. It is a fascinating look at the very distinctive Cape Muslim community in South ...
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Kiumars Pourahmad’s spare, masculine Night Bus, taking place during a single night on a dangerous desert road, has a realism that aids in punching home its anti-war sentiments. During the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, 18-year-old Essa (Mehrdad ...
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A towering presence in the world of post-World War II cinema, Andrzej Wajda has spent his career analysing in great detail Poland’s gradual social and political evolution with a considerable amount of sensitivity while maintaining an ...
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A middle-class couple and their son motor along country lanes, with sunlight dappling through the trees. The mood is prosperous, relaxed… a little opera plays on the car stereo… until the heavy metal comes clashing in on the ...
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