Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by brunodante
France | 1985 | Directed by Luc Besson
Logline: A cocky safe-cracker evading police finds an escape haven in the Metro of Paris and is befriended by a ragtag group of musicians and misfits, while an elusive romance beckons.
Luc Besson is a style merchant extraordinaire. He became the cine vogue du jour (he was only 25) with the release of this breezy riff of a tale (more. . .)
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Posted on August 18th, 2010 by brunodante
Italy | 1960 | Directed by Federico Fellini
Logline: A listless playboy journalist drifts in and around Rome over the course of several days and nights following celebrities and dealing with the breakdown of his marriage.
While not the masterstroke of cinema 8½ is, La Dolce Vita, which translates as The Sweet Life, is a bittersweet portrait of sensual ennui and the pursuit of (more. . .)
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Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by brunodante
France/Italy | 1990 | Directed by Luc Besson
Logline: A young and volatile criminal is convicted of multiple felon, but given a second chance; a new identity and exclusive training as a top secret assassin.
Talented French filmmaker Luc Besson had already garnered a cult following with his mid-80s subterranean neon romance, Subway, and then his lush oceanic romance The Big Blue. But it was fourth feature, (more. . .)
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Posted on June 28th, 2010 by brunodante
Poland | 1989 | Directed by Krzystof Kieslowski
Logline: Ten modern fables loosely based on each of the Ten Commandments, all set within different apartments in the same high-rise block.
When Polish filmmaker was commissioned to make a series of hour-long dramas for Polish television little did he know the impact his work would have on cinephiles and dramatists around the world for (more. . .)
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Posted on June 24th, 2010 by brunodante
UK/Italy | 1990 | Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Logline: The plight of an American woman, and her husband, whilst traveling through the desert and villages of the Sahara, North Africa, in 1947.
Peter Bowles’ best-seller adapted for the big screen by master Italian director Bertolucci, co-scripted with Mark Peploe, and starring John Malkovich as Port Moresby and Debra Winger as his wife Kit, with Campbell Scott (more. . .)
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Posted on June 21st, 2010 by brunodante
UK | 2004 | Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski
Logline: A naïve teenager, in despair over her working class father’s born again Christianity, seeks solace and escapism in a romantic fling with an upper-middle class teenage girl.
With a cast of only eight speaking parts, five of which barely have more than a line or two, My Summer of Love is essentially a two-hander; the relationship between young (more. . .)
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Posted on June 16th, 2010 by brunodante
France | 2009 | Directed by Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea
Logline: A documentary about the making of the ill-fated feature Inferno by a legendary French director and starring a legendary Austrian actress.
French director Henri-Georges Clouzot had an illustrious career, with two brilliant movies in particular; The Wages of Fear and Diabolique. In 1964 he began work on what promised to be his most adventurous and profound piece, (more. . .)
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Posted on June 11th, 2010 by brunodante
Germany/Austria | 2010 | Directed by Benjamin Hesienberg
Logline: The true story of an ex-con who trains as a marathon runner whilst leading a double life as a masked armed robber.
A thoroughly gripping drama that borders on being an action thriller The Robber is driven, in every sense of the word. Based on real events and adapted from the book by Martin Prinz, the narrative focusing on the (more. . .)
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Posted on June 10th, 2010 by brunodante
France/Germany/UK | 2010 | Directed by Roman Polanski
Logline: A ghostwriter hired to complete the memoirs of a former British prime minister uncovers dangerous secrets that put his own life in jeopardy.
Returning to the genre he knows and understands best, the brilliant Roman Polanski, now aged a stately 76-years-old, delivers a moody political thriller about deception, betrayal and the manipulation of absolute power. Like his horror-thrillers (more. . .)
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Posted on February 15th, 2010 by brunodante
South Korea | 2003 | Directed by Chan-wook Park
Logline: An ordinary man is kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, then suddenly released, confused and bewildered, only to be informed he must find his captor in five days.
“Laugh and the world laughs with you. Weep and you weep alone.â€
Adapted for the screen from a Manga comic, Oldboy is a tour-de-force of cinematic storytelling, a stunning (more. . .)
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Posted on February 11th, 2010 by brunodante
USA/France | 2005 | Directed by Tommy Lee Jones
Logline: A ranch foreman honours the final Mexican burial wishes of his murdered best friend and makes sure the man responsible, an arrogant and reckless Border Patrolman, is held accountable.
It’s curious how a respected actor decides he needs to try his hand at directing, gets a feature made, and never makes another, even though his efforts are (more. . .)
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Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by brunodante
Sweden/Denmark | 1998 | Directed by Lukas Moodysson
Logline: Two teenagers – an unhappy girl with a secret crush on the cute popular girl – find themselves the centre of attention, much of it very awkward.
Writer and director Lukas Moodysson had been writing serious poetry for years before finally turning his hand to telling stories for the screen, but his deft hand at inspired irony, (more. . .)
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Posted on January 28th, 2010 by brunodante
UK/USA/Australia/Japan | 2007 | Directed by Anton Corbijn
Logline: The story of Ian Curtis, the singer of seminal UK indie band Joy Division, whose personal and professional troubles lead to him committing suicide at age 23.
“When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low.
And resentment rides high, but emotions won’t grow.
And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads.â€
It was inevitable that a biopic would (more. . .)
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Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by brunodante
New Zealand | 1981 | Directed by Mike Newell
Logline: The true story of Stanley Graham, a poor farmer, who shot dead seven men during a WWII arms surrender, then hid in the surrounding bush land, whilst a manhunt was launched.
Despite the B-movie title this is a highly competent production with a compelling narrative and excellent acting. The movie is based on the book Manhunt – (more. . .)
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Posted on October 27th, 2009 by brunodante
Brazil | 2005 | Directed by Andrucha Waddington
Logline: The plight of a woman, and her feisty daughter, over the span of nearly sixty years, as she tries in vain to adapt to a life in a desolate landscape of shifting sand dunes.
This is a stunningly realised character study of mother and daughter, juxtaposed against a harsh, unforgiving, yet beautiful geography that (more. . .)
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Posted on August 11th, 2009 by brunodante
USA | 2008 | Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Logline: A middle-aged professional wrestler struggling with drug addiction, thankless gigs, and being estranged from his daughter, is told to retire by his doctor, yet he’s reluctant to throw in the towel.
This was the comeback gig that touched Hollywood’s heart, but not quite enough to win Mickey Rourke the Oscar everyone thought he should get (although it must (more. . .)
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Posted on July 17th, 2009 by brunodante
Canada | 1995 | Directed by Patricia Rozema
Logline: An uptight and conservative woman, working as a Christian university professor and engaged to another of the college’s professors, finds herself strangely attracted to a free-spirited, liberal woman whom works at a local carnival which has come to town.
A deeply lush and exquisitely sensual drama streaked with a subtle, but resonating sense of humour, this romance (more. . .)
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Posted on July 15th, 2009 by brunodante
France | 1986 | Directed Jean-Jacques Beineix
Logline: A carefree handyman begins a passionate relationship with a beautiful, but emotionally volatile young woman who wants desperately for him to succeed as a writer, and to have his child.
I love this movie with an aching in my melodic heart. A celebration of love and life inexorably entwined with melancholy and tragedy, so French (more. . .)
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Posted on July 9th, 2009 by brunodante
Belgium | 2007 | Directed by Koen Mortier
Logline: A manipulative and cynical writer joins a desperate punk band under the pretence he is as handicapped as the other three, when the reality is he simply wants to shake up his complacent existence and disturb theirs.
You want to upset your cinematic sensibilities, then leave it to the wayward Europeans to throw a spanner in the works, (more. . .)
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by brunodante
USA | 1990 | directed by Phil Joanou
Logline: An undercover cop returns to his NYC stomping ground in order to bring an Irish-blooded criminal family and associates to justice, but finds the danger too close for comfort.
One of the best gangster flicks set in New York City, Phil Joanou’s blistering tale of corruption, deception and betrayal amidst the noise, squalor and filthy beauty of (more. . .)
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