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Ang Lee’s controversial, erotic espionage thriller set in Shanghai during WWII. Radiant, humble young Wang (sublime ingenue Tang Wei) has fled her village for Hong Kong during the Second World War. She joins a patriotic theatre troupe at her university, and they quickly become a tightly knit group of friends and comrades. Wang’s wrenching performances […]

Emerging Australian filmmaker Murali K. Thalluri has been honored with the nomination of his seminal debut feature film 2:37 in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.
Arguably one of the most important Australian films in recent years, Thalluri’s 2:37 dramatizes the inner and outer turmoil of six students of Adelaide High […]

Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer directed the first major motion picture shot entirely in an indigenous Aboriginal language. It’s an enchanting and wholly symbolic film that journeys with ten Aborigine tribesmen from Arnhem Land on their yearly hunt for goose eggs in the wetlands. One young warrior, Dayindi, covets one of his older brother’s wives. […]

The Cuban revolution is at the center of Mikhail Kalatozov’s (The Cranes are Flying) strange, poetic film from 1964 that unites four stories. Originally controversial because of a uniquely Russian view of Cuba, it was not widely seen. In the years since its initial release, the film, which features a poem by Yevgeni Yevtushenko, has […]

Voted the best Czech film ever made, Marketa Lazarova is a powerful and passionate medieval epic set in the mid-13th Century. Based on avant-garde writer Vladislav Vancura’s novel, it follows the rivalry between two warring clans, the Kozlíks and the Lazars, and the doomed love affair of Mikoláš Kozlík and Marketa Lazarová.
Re-creating an authentic world […]

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 […]

Writer-director Jeffrey Blitz followed his breakout documentary Spellbound with this fiction debut that has all the quirky, smart cinema angst of Rushmore, but adds some surprising twists to the traditional coming-of-age film. Reece Thompson plays Hal, a stuttering, awkward high schooler who joins the debate team as a way to get closer to a brainy […]

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 […]