Archive for June 10th, 2010

Van Gogh (1991)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 23:06
Van Gogh
Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: France
Actors: Jacques Dutronc | Alexandra London | Bernard Le Coq | Gérard Séty | Corinne Bourdon | Elsa Zylberstein | Leslie Azzoulai | Jacques Vidal | Chantal Barbarit | Claudine Ducret | Frédéric Bonpart | Maurice Coussonneau | Didier Barbier | Gilbert Pignol | André Bernot
Directors: Maurice Pialat
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In late spring, 1890, Vincent moves to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of Dr. Gachet, living in a humble inn. Fewer than 70 days later, Vincent dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We see Vincent at work, painting landscapes and portraits. His brother Theo, wife Johanna, and their baby visit Auvers. Vincent is playful and charming, engaging the attentions of Gachet's daughter Marguerite (who's half Vincent's age), a young maid at the inn, Cathy a Parisian prostitute, and Johanna. Shortly before his death, Vincent visits Paris, quarrels with Theo, disparages his own art and accomplishments, dances at a brothel, and is warm then cold toward Marguerite.

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Que la bête meure (1969)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 23:06
Que la bête meure
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Michel Duchaussoy | Caroline Cellier | Jean Yanne | Anouk Ferjac | Marc Di Napoli | Louise Chevalier | Guy Marly | Lorraine Rainer | Dominique Zardi | Stéphane Di Napoli | Raymone | Michel Charrel | France Girard | Bernard Papineau | Robert Rondo
Directors: Claude Chabrol
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Single father obsessed with murdering the hit&run driver who killed his only child, poses as a screenwriter to get close to an actress who was in the death car. He feels fully prepared to kill the pretty young woman if she was the driver, but as his knowledge of her family grows, so does his empathy for them.

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The cousins (1959)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 23:06
The cousins
Genres: Drama
Countries: France
Actors: Gérard Blain | Jean-Claude Brialy | Juliette Mayniel | Guy Decomble | Geneviève Cluny | Michèle Méritz | Corrado Guarducci | Stéphane Audran | Paul Bisciglia | Jeanne Pérez | Françoise Vatel | André Chanal | Gilbert Edard | Clara Gansard | Jean-Louis Maury
Directors: Claude Chabrol
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Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.

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Dirty Hands (1975)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 23:06
Dirty Hands
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy | West Germany
Actors: Romy Schneider | Rod Steiger | François Maistre | Paolo Giusti | François Perrot | Hans Christian Blech | Pierre Santini | Jean Rochefort | Henri Attal | Serge Bento | Jean Cherlian | Jurgens Doeres | Gilbert Servien | Dominique Zardi
Directors: Claude Chabrol
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A woman, with the complicity of her lover, prepares her husband's anticipated death. The husband's cunning makes it difficult - and meanwhile more than family relations are questioned, the couple being a sample of dirty relations in society at large...

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The Nun (1966)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 22:06
The Nun
Genres: Drama
Countries: France
Actors: Anna Karina | Liselotte Pulver | Micheline Presle | Francine Bergé | Francisco Rabal | Christiane Lénier | Yori Bertin | Catherine Diamant | Gilette Barbier | Annik Morice | Danielle Palmero | Françoise Godde | Jean Martin | Marc Eyraud | Charles Millot
Directors: Jacques Rivette
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In eighteenth-century France a girl (Suzanne Simonin) is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior (Madame de Moni, Sister Sainte-Christine, and Madame de Chelles) treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire. Suzanne's virtue brings disaster to everyone in this faithful adaptation of a bitter attack on religious abuses by the Enlightenment philosopher Denis Diderot.

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The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 22:06
Unfaithful Wife, the
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Italy
Actors: Stéphane Audran | Michel Bouquet | Michel Duchaussoy | Maurice Ronet | Louise Chevalier | Louise Rioton | Serge Bento | Henri Marteau | Guy Marly | François Moro-Giafferi | Albert Minski | Dominique Zardi | Michel Charrel | Henri Attal | Jean-Marie Arnoux
Directors: Claude Chabrol
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Charles Desvallées has good reasons to believe that his wife is cheating on him and hires a P.D. in order to prove himself right. Once he knows the lover is writer Victor Pégala, he drives to his apartment, calmly presents himself as the husband, starts a conversation and then kills him cold-bloodedly. The police trace the wife but when she discovers by accident a picture that could incriminate her husband she decides to remain silent.

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Alice and Martin (1998)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 22:06
Alice and Martin
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France | Spain
Actors: Juliette Binoche | Alexis Loret | Mathieu Amalric | Carmen Maura | Jean-Pierre Lorit | Marthe Villalonga | Roschdy Zem | Pierre Maguelon | Eric Kreikenmayer | Jeremy Kreikenmayer | Kevin Goffette | Christiane Ludot | Véronique Rioux | Corinne Hache | Mauricio Angarita
Directors: André Téchiné
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At the age of 20, Martin leaves his home town and comes to Paris, where he fortunately becomes a model by chance. He meets Alice, his brother's friend, and falls in love with her. They start a passionate relationship, although Martin remains very mysterious about his past and the reasons why he left his family. But when Alice tells him she's pregnant, he is suddenly almost driven to madness, as his past comes back to his mind. Alice will now do anything she can to help him.

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The Affairs of Julie (1957)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 21:06
The Affairs of Julie
Genres: Comedy
Countries: West Germany
Actors: Liselotte Pulver | Paul Hubschmid | Bernhard Wicki | Wolfgang Lukschy | Roland Kaiser | Rudolf Platte | Werner Finck | Erwin Linder | Traute Carlsen | Gisela Peltzer | Peter Franck | Hans Hermann Schaufuss | Maria Sebaldt | Marianne Hediger
Directors: Helmut Käutner
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Juliane Thomas is an ambitious but unemployed young writer. After breaking up with her lover she works at a dentist friend to make ends meet. One day she instantly falls in love with one of the patients (Jean Berner) and promptly writes a movie script about the encounter in which she projects her own fantasies about how things will turn out eventually. By coincidence this movie script is picked up by a film director who happens to be Berner's closest friend and from then on things become very complicated...

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Die letzte Brücke (1954)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 21:06
Die letzte Brücke
Genres: Drama | War
Countries: Austria | Yugoslavia
Actors: Maria Schell | Bernhard Wicki | Barbara Rütting | Carl Möhner | Pavle Mincic | Horst Hächler | Robert Meyn | Zvonko Zungul | Tilla Durieux | Fritz Eckhardt | Janez Vrhovec | Walter Regelsberger | Steffie Schwarz | Bata Stojanovic | Stevan Petrovic
Directors: Helmut Käutner
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The winner of the International Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Die Leitze Bruecke (The Last Bridge) was the most financially successful postwar effort of its co-director, veteran German filmmaker Helmut Kauetner. Filmed in a manner resembling Italian neorealism, the story concerns a German lady doctor, played by Maria Schell. While serving in WW II, Maria is captured by Yugoslavian partisans. Despite her distaste for her captors, she nonetheless tends to their wounded. As the film progresses, Maria realizes that people are people no matter what the color of their uniform. None of this altruism matters, however, when she voluntarily crosses "the last bridge," which, symbolically, is her bridge to the Next World. Like the film itself, Maria Schell won the Cannes Film Festival award; equally impressive is future director Bernhard Wicki as the partisan leader.

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Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L. (2005)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 21:06
Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L.
Genres: Thriller
Countries: Italy
Actors: Eraldo Baldini | Alfredo Castelli | Gianfranco de Turris | Sebastiano Fusco | Fabrizio La Palombara | Roberto Leggio | Carlo Lucarelli | Roberto Purvis | Fausto Maria Sciarappa | Gianni Sparapan | Donatella Ceccarello | Chiara Crepaldi | Valentina Lodovini | Simonetta Solder
Directors: Federico Greco
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1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti hypothesizes the possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy. 2002: One of the directors of the film comes across a manuscript in Montecatini (Italy) which may have belonged to the American writer. This journal, dated 1926, describes travels in Italy through the Po Delta in search of inspiration in the form of local folk stories: the Filò Tales. 2004: A small, tough crew of international filmmakers is put together with the help of David, a New York actor, to make a documentary on the finding of the journal and on the links between Lovecraft and the Po Delta.

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Totally spies! Le film (2009)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 20:06
Totally spies! Le film
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy
Countries: France
Actors: Fily Keita | Claire Guyot | Céline Mauge | Jean-Claude Donda | Karl Lagerfeld | Melissa Altro
Directors: Pascal Jardin
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Three average Beverly Hills teenage girls accidentally become international secret agents.

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Fighter in the Wind aka Baramui Fighter (2004)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 20:06
Fighter in the Wind aka Baramui Fighter
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: South Korea
Actors: Dong-kun Yang | Aya Hirayama | Masaya Katô | Tae-woo Jeong | Doo-hong Jung | David Joseph Anselmo | Michael Frederick Arnold | Han-garl Lee | Seong-min Park
Directors: Yun-ho Yang
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It is based on the Japanese comic book Karate Baka Ichidai which is a fictionalised account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin.

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Three... Extremes (2004)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 20:06
Three... Extremes
Genres: Horror
Countries: Hong Kong | Japan | South Korea
Actors: Ling Bai | Pauline Lau | Tony Leung Ka Fai | Meme Tian | Miriam Yeung Chin Wah | Sum-Yeung Wong | Kam-Mui Fung | Wai-Man Wu | Chak-Man Ho | Miki Yeung | So-Fun Wong | Kai-Piu Yau | Byung-hun Lee | Won-hie Lim | Hye-jeong Kang
Directors: Fruit Chan
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A compilation of three different short films entitled "Cut", "Box", and "Dumplings" by directors from Japan, Korea and China that all deal with the theme of human monstrosity.

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Francesca (2009)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 20:06
Francesca
Genres: Drama
Countries: Romania
Actors: Monica Barladeanu | Doru Boguta | Luminita Gheorghiu | Teodor Corban | Dana Dogaru | Doru Ana | Ion Sapdaru | Mihai Dorobantu | Gabriel Spahiu | Dan Chiriac | Alina Berzunteanu | Monica Mihaescu | Dragos Marinescu | Ionut Simionescu | Ioana Diaconescu
Directors: Bobby Paunescu
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Francesca is a young kindergarten teacher whose dream is to immigrate to Italy. Searching for a better life, Francesca is ready to overcome any obstacles, even the worries and the doubtfulness of the people closest to her. The plan is that her boyfriend, Mita, should join her in Italy as soon as he closes the small business he runs. Things take an unfortunate turn, painful truths come to light and priorities change.

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From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 19:06
From the Life of the Marionettes
Genres: Drama
Countries: Sweden | West Germany
Actors: Robert Atzorn | Heinz Bennent | Martin Benrath | Toni Berger | Christine Buchegger | Gaby Dohm | Erwin Faber | Lola Müthel | Ruth Olafs | Karl-Heinz Pelser | Rita Russek | Walter Schmidinger | Heino Hallhuber
Directors: Ingmar Bergman
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Made during Bergman's tax-related exile in Germany, the film continues the story of Katarina and Peter EGermann, the feuding, childless, professional couple who appear in one episode of "Scenes From A Marriage." After Peter perpetrates a horrendous crime in its first scene, the rest of the film consists of a non-linear examination of his motivations, incorporating a police psychological investigation, scenes from the Egermanns' married life, and dream sequences.

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Summer with the Ghosts (2003)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 19:06
Summer with the Ghosts
Genres: Family
Countries: Austria | Canada
Actors: Nikola Culka | Richard Jutras | Ron Lea | Karl Merkatz | Konstanze Breitebner | Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse | Amanda Tilson
Directors: Bernd Neuburger
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Upon arriving in Austria, Caroline meets her father and his crew, which include the ubiquitous director's assistant Marcus, the irascible sound manager Steven, and the aged, gentle special effects manager Otto. These, among others, have come to Austria to make the film against the backdrop of a long-historied castle. While exploring this castle, Caroline meets and befriends a boy called Lakob and his dog Hannibal; who in turn introduce her to the castle's community of ghosts. These ghosts are variously the animated memories of the castle's deceased inhabitants or spirits of the nearby forest.

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Welcome (2009)

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 19:06
Welcome
Genres: Drama
Countries: France
Actors: Vincent Lindon | Firat Ayverdi | Audrey Dana | Derya Ayverdi | Thierry Godard | Selim Akgul | Firat Celik | Murat Subasi | Olivier Rabourdin | Yannick Renier | Mouafaq Rushdie | Behi Djanati Atai | Patrick Ligardes | Jean-Pol Brissart | Blandine Pélissier
Directors: Philippe Lioret
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Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English Channel when you can't swim? The boy soon discovers that his trip won't be as easy as he imagined... The community of struggling illegal aliens in Calais is captured with authenticity, from the point of view of people who arrived there knowing nothing about France. This immigrant drama, with wonderful performances by the actors, is a strong story which uses documentary austerity and minimalist style to create a great emotional impact.

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