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The Invitation
While attending a dinner party at his former home, a man thinks his ex-wife and her new husband have sinister intentions for their guests. Will and Eden were once a loving couple. After a tragedy took their son, Eden disappeared. Two years later, out of the blue, she returns with a new husband… and as…
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The Forbidden Room
A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that’s been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears. The Forbidden Room is a 2015 Canadian…
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Anomalisa
Anomalisa is a 2015 American stop-motion comedy-drama film directed and produced by Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson, and written by Kaufman based on his 2005 play of the same name. It was released on December 30, 2015 by Paramount Pictures. The film follows a lonely self-help author (voiced by David Thewlis) who perceives everyone (Tom Noonan)…
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White God (2014)
White God (2014) is a Hungarian film by Kornél Mundruczó. It tells the story of thirteen year old Lilly who tries to protect her dog and best friend, Hagen. Eventually her father throws the dog in the streets. Lilly sets out to find Hagen. Meanwhile, Hagen is on a quest on his own,enduring abuses but also…
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Shirley – Visions of Reality (2013)
“Shirley – Visions of Reality” is a film by Gustav Deutsch, released in 2013. Synopsis from official website: 13 of Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history. Shirley is a woman in America in…
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Blind (2014)
Blind (2014) is a Norwegian drama film and the directorial debut of Eskil Vogt, which has received many positive critics along with the award in Label Europa Cinemas category at Berlin International Film Festival, an award in Screenwriting: World Cinema Dramatic and a nomination for World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at Sundance Film…
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The Council of the Gods [Der Rat der Götter, Kurt Maetzig/East Germany 1950]
This is an East German propaganda film based on Richard Sasuly’s book IG Farben from 1947. Sasuly was one of the first to write and investigate the implication of Big Business oligarchy in the Nazi War effort. His book is not easy to find – so I would recommend a look at the detailed notes…
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Tracks (2013)
Tracks is a 2013 Australian drama film directed by John Curran and starring Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver. It is an adaptation of Robyn Davidson‘s memoir of the same name, chronicling the author’s nine-month journey on camels across the Australian desert. “And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere,…