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Bad Luck
For a brief moment before his tragic death in 1961, Andrzej Munk was the yin to Andrzej Wajda’s yang in Polish cinema.
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Blind ChanceThe philosophical implications of this film are as universal as they are obvious ? accidental events can radically influence your life. But it is Kieslowski’s honest approach to hi...
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The Great FlightIn 2008, a godwit with different color rings was seen at the estuary of Nakdong River in Busan. The tracking of his flight showed it was from New Zealand. He was named YRBY based o...
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Cul-de-sacPolanski’s third feature is a subversive send-up of a gangster story, heavily influenced by surrealists and the theatre of absurd (the film’s initial title was Waiting for Katelbac...
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In DarknessAgnieszka Holland works hard to avoid the cliches in a story that could be regarded as iconic. First of all, she refuses clear division of characters based on moral grounds (good o...
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009 Re: CyborgNine regular humans from different parts of the world are abducted and transformed into cyborgs with astounding powers for the purpose of being used as weapons. The nine cyborgs re...
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MISHIMAWakamatsu Koji, the most heretical and disputable film director in Japanese cinema, insists that he has made films in order to understand what is not understandable occurring in Ja...
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Petrel Hotel BLUEEx-con Yukio has come to a town surrounded by the mountains, the sea, lava flows and desert for vengeance against Yoji, the man who betrayed him. But instead Yukio becomes obsessed...
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The Millennial Rapture
Based on Nakagami Kenji’s novel of the same name, Wakamatsu’s latest film,
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Akhtar the ClownAkhtar is a tramp in a city. Although he is penniless, he enjoys freedom, wandering around the city. One day, he meets a rich man and his life begins to change. The sincere friends...