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The Desert Of The Tartars and Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz
(Country: Canada; Year: 1974; Director: Ted Kotcheff; Writer: Mordecai Richler, based on the novel by Mordecai Richler; Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline
Lanctot, Jack Warden, Randy
Quaid, Joseph Wiseman,
Denholm Elliott)
The ambitions of an energetic young Jewish Canadian in Montreal, 1948.
An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)
(Country: Japan; Year: 1962; Director: Yasujiro Ozu; Writer: Kôgo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu; Stars: Chishu Ryu, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, , Ryuji Kita, Shinichirô Mikami, Nobuo Nakamura, Kuniko Miyake, Teruo Yoshida, Noriko Maki, Eijirô Tono, Kyôko Kishida, Michiyo Kan, Toyoko Takahashi, Shinobu Asaji)
A father who is dependent on his daughter comes to realise that she needs to find a life of her own. Out to own as part of The Ozu Collection: Volume 4.
La Belle Et La Bête (Beauty And The Beast)
(Country: France; Year: 1946; Director: Jean Cocteau; Writer: Jean Cocteau, based on the story by Mme Leprince de Beaumont; Stars: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre, Mila Parely, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco)
Timeless classic that lives up to the label.
Marking fifty years since the death of Jean Cocteau
The Birds
(Country: US; Year: 1963; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Evan Hunter, based on the book by Daphne Du Maurier.; Stars: Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright), Trailer
Chaos comes to an isolated community when birds begin attacking people in this Hitchcock classic.
Blazing Sun (Purple Noon)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1960; Director: René Clément; Writer: Patricia Highsmith, René Clément, Paul Gégauff; Stars: Alain Delon, Maurice Ronet, Marie Laforêt, Erno Crisa, Frank Latimore, Billy Kearns, Ave Ninchi, Viviane Chantel, Nerio Bernardi, Barbel Fanger, Lily Romanelli, Nicolas Petrov, Elvire Popesco, Paul Muller, Romy Schneider)
A young man, with a talent for mimicry, is sent to Europe to track down a playboy.
An Autumn Afternoon and The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg
Borom Sarret
(Country: Senegal; Year: 1969; Director: Ousmane Sembene; Writer: Ousmane Sembene; Stars: Ly Abdoulay, Albourah)
A cart driver struggles to make ends meet.
Cleopatra
(Country: UK, US, Switzerland; Year: 1963; Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck; Writer: Joseph L Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman, Plutarch, Suetonius, Appian, Carlo Mario Franzero, Ben Hecht; Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, George Cole, Hume Cronyn, Cesare Danova, Kenneth Haigh, Andrew Keir, Martin Landau)
An epic based on the life of the legendary queen.
The Desert Of The Tartars (Il Deserto dei Tartari)
(Country: Italy, France, West Germany; Year: 1976; Director: Valerio Zurlini; Writer: Jean-Louis Bertucelli, Jean-Louis Bertucelli, André G. Brunelin, Dino Buzzati, Valerio Zurlini; Stars: Jaques Perrin, Philippe Noiret, Max Von Sydow, Giuliano Gemma)
A young army recruit is sent to a remote and mysterious desert outpost.
Fedora
(Country: France, West Germany; Year: 1978; Director: Billy Wilder; Writer: Tom Tryon, Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond; Stars: William Holden, Marthe Keller, Hildegard Knef, José Ferrer, Frances Sternhagen, Mario Adorf, Stephen Collins, Henry Fonda, Michael York, Hans Jaray, Gottfried John, Arlene Francis, Jacques Maury, Christine Mueller, Ellen Schwiers)
A Hollywood producer tries to lure a reclusive actress out of retirement.
Goha
(Country: France, Tunisia; Year: 1958; Director: Jacques Baratier; Writer: Albert Adès, Albert Josipovici, Georges Schéhadé, Georges Schéhadé; Stars: Omar Sharif, Zina Bouzaiade, Lauro Gazzolo, Gabriel Jabbour, Daniel Emilfork, Annie Legrand, Fatna Bent'Lahsen, Hassiba Rochdi, Ahmed Bouleïman, Tahar Bel Hadj, Mohamed Bel Hadj, Mohamed El Medeb, Zohra Faiza, Claudia Cardinale, Mohamed Bouchakour)
A young girl married to an older man falls in love with a young student.
Vertigo and Queen Margot
La Grande Bouffe (Blow Out, La Grande Abuffata)
(Country: France, Italy; Year: 1973; Director: Marco Ferreri; Writer: Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche; Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andréa Ferréol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michèle Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Maurice Dorléac, Simon Tchao, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez, Cordelia Piccoli)
Friends head to a villa with the plan of eating themselves to death.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(Country: France, Japan; Year: 1959; Director: Alain Resnais; Writer: Marguerite Duras; Stars: Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada, Stella Dassas, Pierre Barbaud, Bernard Fresson)
A French actress making an anti-war film embarks on an affair with a married man.
The Last Detail
(Country: US; Year: 1973; Director: Hal Ashby; Writer: Robert Towne, based on the novel by Darryl Ponicsan; Stars: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Luana Anders, Kathleen Miller, Nancy Allen, Gerry Salsberg, Don McGovern)
Ordered to take a young convict to prison, two Navy officers decide to help him have one last good time.
The Last Emperor
(Country: China, Italy, UK, France; Year: 1987; Director: Bernardo Bertolucci; Writer: Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci, Enzo Ungari, Henry Pu-yi; Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Ryûichi Sakamoto, Maggie Han, Ric Young, Vivian Wu, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Jade Go, Fumihiko Ikeda, Richard Vuu, Tsou Tijger)
The story of the final Emperor of China. Converted to 3D.
The Lonely Wife (Charulata)
(Country: India; Year: 1964; Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Satyajit Ray, Rabindranath Tagore; Stars: Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Shailen Mukherjee, Tarapada Basu, Gopaldas Bhattacharya, Dilip Bose, Ramesh Chandra Chandra, Sunilkanta Dasgupta, Nilotpal Dey, Bankim Ghosh, Shyamal Ghoshal, Ajit Gupta, Bholanath Koyal, Kamu Mukherjee, Suku Mukherjee)
A woman neglected by her husband finds herself falling for a younger man.
The Birds and The Last Detail
The Lovely Month Of May (Le Joli Mai)
(Country: France; Year: 1963; Director: Chris Marker, Pierre Lhomme; Writer: Chris Marker, Catherine Varlin; Stars: Chris Marker, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret)
Snapshot of Paris in May 1962.
Lucky Luciano
(Country: US, France, Italy; Year: 1973; Director: Francesco Rosi; Writer: Jerome Chodorov, Tonino Guerra, Lino Iannuzzi, Francesco Rosi, Francesco Rosi; Stars: Gian Maria Volonté, Vincent Gardenia, Silverio Blasi, Charles Cioffi, Larry Gates, Magda Konopka, Dino Curcio, Jacques Monod, Karin Petersen, Edmond O'Brien, Charles Siragusa, Rod Steiger, Pier Maria Pasinetti, Luigi Infantino, Carlo Mazzarella)
Study of the infamous mobster.
Manila In The Claws Of Light (Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag, The Nail Of Brightness)
(Country: Philippines; Year: 1975; Director: Lino Brocka; Writer: Edgardo Reyes, Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr; Stars: Hilda Koronel, Bembol Roco, Lou Salvador Jr., Joonee Gamboa, Pio III De Castro, Danilo Posadas, Joe Jardy, Spanky Manikan, Edipolo Erosido, Pancho Pelagio, Purita Yap, Josephine Gutierrez, Gina Zegui, Ronnie Magalong, Anna Marie Nicolas)
A country boy goes to the city in search of his lost love.
Opium
(Country: France; Year: 2013; Director: Arielle Dombasle; Writer: Arielle Dombasle, Philippe Eveno, Patrick Mimouni; Stars: Niels Schneider, Arielle Dombasle, Marisa Berenson, Julie Depardieu, Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, Grégoire Colin, Hélène Fillières, Philippe Katerine, Anna Sigalevitch, Samuel Mercer)
Marking fifty years since the death of Jean Cocteau
Musical comedy recounts the loves of Raymond Radiguet and Jean Cocteau in the early 1920s.
Queen Margot (La Reine Margot)
(Country: France/Italy/Germany; Year: 1994; Director: Patrice Chéreau; Writer: Patrice Chéreau, Danièle Thompson, based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas; Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi, Dominique Blanc, Pascal Greggory, Claudio Amendola, Miguel Bosé, Asia Argento, Julien Rassam)
Sixteenth century intrigue in the court of the king of France, as a religious war rages and passions run red with blood.
La Belle Et La Bête and Cleopatra
The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg)
(Country: France,; Year: 1964; Director: Jacques Demy; Writer: Jacques Demy; Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuono, Anne Vernon, Narc Michel, Ellen Farmer, Mireille Perry, Harald Wolf)
A low-key story of young lovers is turned into a beautiful MGM style musical in this French classic.
Visions Of Eight
(Country: US, West Germany; Year: 1973; Director: Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Yuri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, Mai Zetterling; Writer: David Hughes, Deliara Ozerowa, Shuntaro Tanikawa)
Documentary about the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo)
(Country: US; Year: 1958; Director: Alfred Hitchcock; Writer: Alec Coppel, Samuel A Taylor; Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Henry Jones, Raymond Bailey, Ellen Corby, Konstantin Shayne, Lee Patrick, Isabel Analla), Trailer
A detective becomes obsessed with a beautiful woman who reminds him of someone else.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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