May 6, 2021
Dir: Hugo Rütters | Doc, Silent 95'
A staple genre in Germany during the mid-twenties, and also popular abroad, were these upbeat documentaries known as 'Kulturfilm'. Of these, Wege zu Kraft...
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May 6, 2021
Dir: Lance Oppenheim | US Doc
A life of eternal holidays beckons in a Florida retirement complex in the opening scenes of Lance Oppenheim's thought-provoking first feature.
Days of sun-drenched relaxation by...
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May 6, 2021
Dir: Elfar Adalsteins | Cast: John Hawkes, Logan Lerman, Sarah Bolger, Olafur Darri Olafsson | US, Drama 97'
There's a dicey moment in the opening scenes of this road movie when a...
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May 6, 2021
Dir: Vivian Qu | Drama | China | 101'
Writer and director Vivian Qu was the producer of Black Coal, Thin Ice and rose to fame with her debut Trap Street....
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May 6, 2021
Dir.: Da Peng aka Dong Chengpeng; Documentary with Liu Lu, Wang Jixang, Da Pen; China 2020, 80 min.
Chinese writer/director Dong Chengpeng had great success with his comedy City of Rock....
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May 5, 2021
Dir.: Aslaug Holm, Sigve Endresen; Documentary with Ina Rangones Libak, Kamzy Gunaratnam, Renate Tarnes, Line Hoem; Norway 2021, 104 min.
Commemorating that fateful day of 22th July 2011 when Anders Behring...
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May 4, 2021
Dir: Kinuyo Tanaka | Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka, Ryoji Hayama, Junkichi Orimoto | Drama Japan, 104'
A romantic biopic reminiscent of Magnificent Obsession based on the short life of the Japanese poet...
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May 4, 2021
In 1964, Henri Georges Clouzot, the acclaimed director of thriller masterpieces Les Diaboliques and Wages of Fear, began work on his most ambitious film yet. Richard Chatten looks back at...
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May 4, 2021
Dir.: Ivan Ostrochovsky; Cast: Samuel Skyva, Samuel Olakovic, Vladimir Miculcik, Vladimir Obsil, Vlad Ivanov, Martin Sulik, Vladimir Strnisco; Slovakia/Romania/Czech Republic/Ireland 2020, 78 min.
Slovakian director/co-writer Ivan Ostrochovsky creates a Bresson-like study...
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