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Director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for the riveting story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the decade leading to the historic Apollo 11 flight. A visceral, intimate account told from Armstrong's perspective and based on the book by James R. Hansen, the film explores the triumphs and the cost on Armstrong, his family, his colleagues, and the nation itself for one of the most dangerous missions in history. - Director:
- Damien Chazelle
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
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Bergman: A Year in a Life (2018)Bergman - ett år, ett liv
Jane Magnusson's documentary centres on 1957, a turbulent but miraculously productive year when Bergman, besides unveiling The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries and working extensively in theatre and TV, led a messily complicated domestic life. This is the springboard for a survey that spirals out to embrace everything from childhood to old age, touching on his many creative achievements, his strengths and failings as a man, and the way his art derived from his life. This release includes both the theatrical version of the film and the expanded, four-hour edition made for Swedish TV, 'Bergman: A Life in Four Acts', in which further illuminating anecdotes are offered by many who knew him - perhaps none, however, quite as revealing as Bergman's own testimony. - Director:
- Jane Magnusson
- Cast:
- Ingmar Bergman, Lena Endre, Thorsten Flinck
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Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016)Mifune: Last Samurai
Nearly 20 years after his death, Toshiro Mifune remains a true giant of Japanese cinema. Rich with archive footage and personal reminiscences from family and friends, this Keanu Reeves - narrated documentary shines a light on both the man and the actor, from his childhood and military service to his early years in the film industry and the string of masterpieces made with legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Directed by Academy Award-winning director Steven Okazaki and featuring contributions from Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, 'Mifune: The Last Samurai' reveals him as a formidable and mercurial talent, both onscreen and off, and an influence that still resonates through world cinema. - Director:
- Steven Okazaki
- Cast:
- Wataru Akashi, Kyôko Kagawa, Takeshi Katô
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From Peter Greenaway, one of the most inventive, ambitious and controversial film-makers of our time, comes a thrilling period drama, told in explicit detail with customary irony and wit, that explores the romantic and professional life of the great Dutch painter Rembrandt, and the mystery surrounding the creation of his 1642 masterpiece, 'The Night Watch'. Featuring impressive performances from a cast that includes Martin Freeman in a remarkable leading role as the wry, lusty Rembrandt, Eva Birthistle as his young wife Saskia, Jodhi May as his seductive maid. Toby Jones and Natalie, Nightwatching unravels a fascinating conspiracy in sumptuous detail whilst displaying all Grccnaway's regular fascinations with sex and death. - Director:
- Peter Greenaway
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- Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle
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In 2016 Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of the cult film 'House' was diagnosed with lung cancer and given only a few months to live. With not much time left he realised his ultimate passion project, adapting Kazuo Dan's novella 'Hanagatami', which he had originally planned as his debut film! Obayashi returns us to 1941, a pivotal time for Japan, as the unstoppable momentum of war forcibly seized the lives of youth away to battlefields where they disappeared forever. Forty years in the making, Nobuhiko Obayashi's boundary-breaking, tradition-al-yet-experimental film celebrates the clamorous heart of youth and the indomitable will to live. The culmination of his life as a filmmaker now explodes in "Hanagatami", drawing us to journey beyond time and imagination. - Director:
- Nobuhiko Ôbayashi
- Cast:
- Shunsuke Kubozuka, Shin'nosuke Mitsushima, Keishi Nagatsuka
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If cinema has its equivalents to the master modernists of music, painting, or literature, then one of the tradition's foremost practitioners is undoubtedly Alain Resnais - and "Muriel, ou le Temps d'un retour" represents one of his earliest, and greatest, triumphs. In Resnais' two preceding features, the master filmmaker pioneered new ways of representing inner reality and emotion; but with Muriel, he merged the vicissitudes of his characters' personal pasts, and married them to the traumas of the political present - namely, the French war in Algeria. The story of the middle-aged Helene, an antique dealer located in the provincial port-town of Boulogne-Sur-Mer, who resides amid her wares inside the same flat that serves as her business showroom. An old lover of Helene's comes to visit and soon takes up a more permanent residence within her life, despite the presence of a suspicious, tortured, and sexualised stepson who is haunted by a woman, a name, from his own past: "Muriel". Scripted by Jean Cayrol, the co-writer of Resnais' landmark early short film Night and Fog, Muriel is one of the great family films, and stands like a cinema landmark as one of the most complex and rewarding films of the 1960s. - Director:
- Alain Resnais
- Cast:
- Delphine Seyrig, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Nita Klein
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Monet's Garden at Giverny (2004)Monet's Palate: A Gastronomic View from the Gardens of Giverny
The great impressionist Monet was also a passionate horticulturalist and created his most inspirational subject on his own doorstep: Giverny is a garden that was planted to be painted. With unprecedented access to Giverny this film follows a year in the life of the garden from the first blossom of spring, through the vibrant colours of summer, to the rich oranges and russets of early autumn. Finally we see the garden being dismantled and put to bed for the winter. There are also interviews with artists who discuss Monet's work and the water lily garden that was Monet's preoccupation later in his life and the subject of the Water Lily series of paintings. - Director:
- Steve Schechter
- Cast:
- Tony Abou-Ganim, Maurice Amiot, Helen Rappel Bordman
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Lo and Behold (2016)Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World
Academy Award-nominated director Werner Herzog chronicles the virtual world from its origins to its outermost reaches, exploring the digital landscape with the same curiosity and imagination he previously trained on earthly destinations as disparate as the Amazon, the Sahara, the South Pole and the Australian outback. Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works - from business to education to space travel and healthcare. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Elon Musk, Lawrence Krauss, Lucianne Walkowicz
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Love Letter (1995)Rabu retâ / When I Close My Eyes
Hiroko Watanabe's fiancé Itsuki (Miho Nakayama) died two years earlier in a mountain climbing accident. While looking through his high school yearbook, Hiroko in a fit of grief decides to write a letter to him using his old school address. Surprisingly she receives a reply, not from her dead husband, but from a woman also named Itsuki whom had known Hiroko's husband in school. A relationship develops between the two women as they continue to exchange letters and share memories of the dead Itsuke. - Director:
- Shunji Iwai
- Cast:
- Miho Nakayama, Etsushi Toyokawa, Bunjaku Han
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I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (2018)Kimi no suizô o tabetai
My unforgettable spring. The best time of her life. A high school boy stumbles across a secret journal in a hospital one day. He soon finds out the diary belongs to his classmate, a girl named Sakura Yamauchi (voice of Lynn), who is revealed to be suffering from a terminal illness in her pancreas and only has a few months left to live. A secret they share that brings their hearts closer together. - Director:
- Shin'ichirô Ushijima
- Cast:
- Mahiro Takasugi, Lynn, Yukiyo Fujii
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Morvern Callar (Samantha Morton) is a 21 year old supermarket worker from a small port town in the west of Scotland. Morvern believes that life is something that you get on with as best you can with what you've got. one morning, Morvern finds that what she's got is a dead boyfriend on the kitchen floor... - Director:
- Lynne Ramsay
- Cast:
- Samantha Morton, Kathleen McDermott, Linda McGuire
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Dark Water (2002)Honogurai mizu no soko kara / From the Depths of Dark Water
When Yoshimi's marriage breaks down, she (Hitomi Kuroki) and her daughter (Rio Kanno / Asami Mizukawa) are forced to find a new place to live. Desperate for stability during a time of anguish and uncertainty they settle for an apartment in a gloomy, run down block of flats. Once there, the discovery of a schoolbag left behind by a mysterious young girl, along with the appearance of damp patches on the ceiling and walls, begins to haunt them. Soon they will both learn the sinister truth behind these events, and their lives will change forever... - Director:
- Hideo Nakata
- Cast:
- Hitomi Kuroki, Shelley Calene-Black, Rio Kanno
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Parasite (2019)Gisaengchung
Kim Ki Taek's (Song Kang Ho) family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son, Ki Woo, gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle, but as their deception unravels events begin to get increasingly out of hand in ways you simply cannot imagine. - Director:
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Cast:
- Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
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Marriage, the class system, the church, the state and the frivolous hypocrisy of modern life all come within the firing line of Jimmy Porter, cinema's original angry young man and celebrated playwright John Osborne's most iconic creation. An absolute landmine of a movie on its original release, 'Look Back in Anger' inspired and shocked audiences with its unrepentant realism, explosive dialogue and frank portrayal of everyday, contemporary British life. Featuring an incredibly intense, breakthrough performance from screen legend Richard Burton, "Look Back in Anger" is often cited as igniting the radical 'Angry Young Men' movement in film and theatre, which ran parallel with America's 'Beat Generation' and formed a gritty, groundbreaking pre-cursor to the sixties 'Kitchen Sink' dramas. By night he drunkenly prowls the local Jazz clubs, by day he runs his own market stall. Disaffected and abusive, Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is constantly at odds with his mundane existence, his middle-class wife and their squalid living conditions. But what really lies at the core of his resentful rebellion? - Director:
- Tony Richardson
- Cast:
- Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure
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Set in Glasgow in the 1970s, 'Ratcatcher' is seen through the eyes of twelve-year-old James Gillespie (William Eadie), a young boy haunted by a secret. Feeling increasingly distant from his family, his only escape comes with the discovery of a new housing development on the outskirts of town where he has the freedom to lose himself in his own world. Enticed by a gang of older boys, James is thrown together with vulnerable fourteen-year-old Margaret Anne (Leanne Mullen) and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship which becomes their hesitant but touching experience of first love... - Director:
- Lynne Ramsay
- Cast:
- Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, William Eadie
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