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Bucharest 1989 – Last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory […]

Whether you label her early work Left Bank or French New Wave, Varda’s role in the evolution of narrative film as an art form is certain. The collection includes four by Anges Varda: Her directorial debut, La Pointe-Courte (1955, 80 mins.), an independent production that prefigured the New Wave by three years. As edited by […]

British filmmaker Shane Meadows wrote and directed this semi-autobiographical portrait of a 12-year-old boy growing up in a dreary coastal town in northern England. Having lost his father in the Falklands War, Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) stumbles upon a role model in Woody (Joe Gilgun), the leader of the local skinheads. This Is England follows a […]

A collection of seven films from Michael Haneke, “perhaps the most important European filmmaker currently active” (Robin Wood, Artforum). Included: The Seventh Continent (Austria, 1989, 104 mins., German with English subtitles), the obsessive tale of a ordinary family’s cosmic and suicidal indifference; Benny’s Video (Austria, 1992, 105 mins., French with English subtitles), the second film […]

Rene Laloux, director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Gandahar, his final animated feature film, in 1988. Based on an original story by Jean-Pierre Andrevon, and a huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Philippe Caza. Gandahar is a fascinating, adult […]

Rene Laloux, the director of Fantastic Planet [La Planète sauvage], created Time Masters [Les Maîtres du temps], his penultimate animated feature film, in 1982. A huge hit in France at the time of its release, it combines Laloux’s famous imagination with that of animation designer Jean Giraud (aka Moebius).
On planet Perdide, an attack of giant […]

Rene Laloux’s mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and is a landmark of European animation. Based on Stefan Wul’s novel Oms en série [Oms by the dozen], Fantastic Planet tells the story of “Oms”, human-like creatures, kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of […]

Qui Etes-Vous Polly Maggoo?, a 1966 film directed by the American photographer William Klein. Klein worked as a photographer for Vogue between 1955 and 1965 and drew on his experiences for his first feature film - a monochrome Mod film about the life of a model in Paris. As the fictional film crew follow Polly […]