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Ash Is Purest White (2018)Jiang hu er nü
Oiao (the extraordinary Zhao Tao) lives in a depressed mining town. Her boyfriend, Bin (Liao Fan), is a dashing gangster who works for a corrupt property developer. After his boss is murdered, Bin ascends in rank within the Jianghu (a criminal brotherhood) but finds himself vulnerable to rivals. When they both are arrested, Qiao makes a fateful decision: she takes the blame to save Bin. After five years in prison, she emerges to find her world has transformed. Her former associates have moved into legitimate businesses, while Bin has found another woman. Qiao seeks revenge, but, more importantly, she searches for a new identity in a changing China - a search that will take her to Three Gorges Dam and toward a powerful revelation. - Director:
- Zhangke Jia
- Cast:
- Tao Zhao, Fan Liao, Yi'nan Diao
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Inspired by the life and songs of Bob Dylan, 'I'm Not There' is a profoundly personal and passionate film that captures the essence of this elusive genius. Six different actors including Heath Ledger, Christian Bale, Richard Gere and Oscar nominee Cate Blanchett each embody part of the Dylan legend: from Greenwich to Village folk singer to electric guitar trailblazer to born-again preacher. - Director:
- Todd Haynes
- Cast:
- Christian Bale, Kris Kristofferson, Cate Blanchett
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In the aftermath of Ciro's (Marco D'Amore)'s death, Genny (Salvatore Esposito) is left to face a Naples once again on the brink of fighting and bloodshed. With Sangue Blu taking back his grandfather's kingdom and the Capaccio crew making their moves on the Secondigliano turf, Genny's sole remaining option is to bring in a new player: the Levante family. For a while, their involvement gives Genny a newfound balance on the map of gangland power, and as he starts to shed his old criminal past behind, he dreams of setting up a life for his son entirely different to the one his father left him. But it's never as easy as it seems to get away from your roots. As the truce between the crime families becomes increasingly frail, Genny is about to learn why his father decided to keep the Levante family out of North Naples, and to find out just how fragile a newfound balance of power can be. - Director:
- Francesca Comencini
- Cast:
- Gennaro Apicella, Steve Broad, Christian Di Sciullo
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Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a gruelling coal miners' strike in a small Kentucky town. With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners' sometimes violent struggles with strike-breakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heart-breaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to maximizing profit. Beyond the labour issues, the film also takes a hard look at the living conditions, health issues, and poverty faced by Harlan's residents, and the human toll that goes along with the mining industry. The tense confrontations between Eastover's slimy security goons and the unionizers are particularly gripping, with the threat of violence hanging thick in the air. Sometimes ugly, always absorbing, this is an important, enlightening social record, one that serves the highest calling of the documentary filmmaker's art. - Director:
- Barbara Kopple
- Cast:
- Norman Yarborough, Barbara Kopple, Houston Elmore
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If Beale Street Could Talk is the story of Tish (KiKi Layne), a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her fiancee's innocence. It is a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families and their lives, trying to bring about justice through love, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined. - Director:
- Barry Jenkins
- Cast:
- KiKi Layne, Stephan James, Regina King
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Based on Patrick Hamilton's celebrated stage play, Thorold Dickinson's 'Gaslight' is a narrowing and claustrophobic study of murder, abuse and lust in Victorian London. By turns charming and cruel, Anton Walbrook excels as the sadistic husband who attempts to drive his wife (Diana Wynyard) mad to prevent her from disclosing his dark past. - Director:
- Thorold Dickinson
- Cast:
- Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
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"Friday Night Lights" chronicles the 1988 season of a courageous bunch of friends, the Permian High Panthers, the most successful football team in Texas' history. For the young men of the team, every play is a chance to transcend their small town and the fleeting dream of gridiron stardom whose pinnacle may be reached by the time they turn 18. The movie paints a vivid portrait of Odessa and places like it across America where once a week during the fall season, the town and its hopes come alive beneath the dazzling Friday Night Lights. - Director:
- Peter Berg
- Cast:
- Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez, Derek Luke
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The Untamed (2016)La región salvaje
Alejandra (Ruth Ramos) is a housewife, raising two boys with husband Angel (Jesús Meza) in a small city. Her brother Fabian (Eden Villavicencio) works as a nurse in a local hospital. Their provincial lives are upset with the arrival of the mysterious Veronica (Simone Bucio). Sex and love can be fragile in certain regions where strong family values, hypocrisy, homophobia, and male chauvinism exist. Veronica convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems. Something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath. - Director:
- Amat Escalante
- Cast:
- Kenny Johnston, Simone Bucio, Fernando Corona
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Death in Venice (1971)Morte a Venezia
Based on the classic novella by Thomas Mann, this late-career masterpiece from Luchino Visconti is a meditation on the nature of art, the allure of beauty, and the inescapability of death. A fastidious composer reeling from a disastrous concert, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde, in an exquisitely nuanced performance) travels to Venice to recover. There, he is struck by a vision of pure beauty in the form of a young boy named Tadzio (Bjorn Andrcscn), his infatuation developing into an obsession even as rumors of a plague spread through the city. Setting Mann's story of queer desire and bodily decay against the sublime music of Gustav Mahler, 'Death in Venice' is one of cinemas most exalted literary adaptations, as sensually rich as it is allegorically resonant. - Director:
- Luchino Visconti
- Cast:
- Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
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Woman is the Future of Man / Tale of Cinema (2005)Yeojaneun namjaui miraeda / Geuk jang jeon
This collection brings together 'Women is the Future of Man' and 'Tale of Cinema', the fifth and sixth films by Hong Sangsoo, the masterful South Korean filmmaker who has been favourably compared to that great French observer of human foibles, Eric Rohmer.
Woman is the Future of Man (2004)
Movie tells of two long-time friends, a filmmaker (Kim Taewoo) and a teacher (Yoo Jitae), who have had an affair with the same woman (Sung Hyunah). The friends decide to meet the girl one more time and see what happens...
Tale of Cinema (2005)
'Tale of Cinema' uses the trope of a film within a film to tell two stories, that of a depressive young man (Lee Kiwoo) who forms a suicide pact with a friend (Uhm Jiwon); and the tale of a filmmaker (Kim Sangkyung) who sees see a film that he believes was based on his life, and who meets the actress from the film with view to turning their onscreen relationship into reality.- Director:
- Sang-soo Hong
- Cast:
- Ji-tae Yu, Ho-jung Kim, Tae-woo Kim
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Koyaanisqatsi / Powaqqatsi (1988)Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance / Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation
Double bill featuring two of the films produced by the acclaimed partnership of composer Philip Glass and filmmaker Godfrey Reggio.
Koyaanisqatsi (1983)Prepare to experience a truly remarkable film - a cinematic masterpiece so extraordinary that it regales the senses, stimulates the mind and actually redefines the potential of filmmaking. Celebrated director Godfrey Reggio, innovative cinematographer Ron Fricke and Golden Globe-winning composer Philip Glass have created a spellbinding film so rich in beauty and detail that with each viewing it becomes a new and different film. Unique, profound, mesmerizing, and thought-provoking, Koyaanisqatsi contrasts the tranquil beauty of nature with the frenzied hum of contemporary urban society. Uniting breathtaking imagery with a hauntingly evocative, award-winning score, it is original and fascinating.
Powaqqatsi (1988)
Hailed by audiences and critics around the world as mesmerizing, this second instalment of writer/director Godfrey Reggio's apocalyptic "qatsi" trilogy is quite simply one of the most magnificent visual and aural spectacles ever made. Combining stunning cinematography with the exquisite music of award-winning composer Philip Glass, Powaqqatsi is a breathtaking experience working on many levels - emotional, spiritual, intellectual and aesthetic! Bold, haunting and epic in scale, this extraordinary film calls into question everything we think we know about contemporary society. By juxtaposing images of ancient cultures with those of modern life, Powaqqatsi masterfully portrays the human cost of progress. It is a film that engages the soul as well as the mind - it is truly an absorbing experience.- Director:
- Godfrey Reggio
- Cast:
- Lou Dobbs, Ted Koppel, Christie Brinkley
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)Bad Day at Hondo
Folks in Black Rock have their own way of welcoming mysterious, one-armed stranger John J. Macreedy. He's welcome to leave. Or they'll make sure he leaves in a pine box. Two-time Academy Award winner Spencer Tracy plays World War II veteran Macreedy, who keeps his own counsel about why he's come to Black Rock and who keeps his wits about him when confronted with threats and violence. Director John Sturges ramps up the tension while revealing Macreedy's mission and the town's grim secret. Robert Ryan, Walter Brennan, Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin are among the town's thugs and lap dogs. - Director:
- John Sturges
- Cast:
- Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis
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Juliet of the Spirits (1965)Giuliette Degli Spiriti
Giulietta Masina gives a superb performance as the bored, timid, frumpy and ultimately unfilled housewife who suspects her husband is being unfaithful. In an effort to escape the hurtful reality of her situation she enters a surreal fantasy world of her own by conjuring up spirits who lead her into a world a world of sensual pleasure. The images that Fellini creates become more and more dazzling and hypnotic in their effect. Much of the fantasy involves Juliet's fabulously outgoing and sexually liberated neighbour Suzy, but are they part of plot or is Fellini exploring his own desires? - Director:
- Federico Fellini
- Cast:
- Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu
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Generations have celebrated the magical story, memorable music and unforgettable characters of Walt Disney's Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs. Now, this timeless animated classic sparkles like never before with an all-new, state-of-the-art digital restoration and exciting new bonus features! The beautiful and kind-hearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one -her jealous stepmother, the Queen. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest, where she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs - Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. But when the Queen tricks Snow White with an enchanted apple, only the magic of true love's kiss can save her! - Director:
- William Cottrell
- Cast:
- Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille La Verne
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Olivia de Havilland stars in a dual role as twin sisters - one of whom has committed a murder. Since each twin can provide an alibi for the other, a rumpled detective (Thomas Mitchell) and a handsome shrink (Lew Ayres) are compelled to get to the truth, a task not made easy by the siblings. At first the duo seem physically and emotionally similar but soon subtle nuances begin to differentiate their personalities. In a tour-de-force performance De Havilland's fine acting peels away the layers of emotionalism that define each sister's character traits. - Director:
- Robert Siodmak
- Cast:
- Olivia De Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell
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