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Dino Risi
Aleksi: “Artful (non-USA) road movie: fluffy and funny on the surface, cynical and subtle below, all delivered with a light, sure touch. Lots of great extras.”
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Nicolas Roeg
Aleksi: “The synopsis deterred me for a long time, but I trust Roeg. And he delivered. It's a multi-layered, profound exploration of the big questions.”
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Jacques Demy
Aleksi: “A truly delightful collection. The musicals are magical and surprisingly honest and heartfelt, with great art direction. The B&W films also very good.”
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Alain Resnais
Aleksi: “Brilliant modernist puzzle-box of meanings wrapped in stunning cinematography of Sacha Vierny. Demands repeat viewings. Great cinema art from Resnais!”
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Lewis Allen
Aleksi: “Very strange on many levels, from its rapidly shifting tones to its odd sexual inferences. An unusual yet somehow fitting choice for the Collection.”
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Jonathan Demme
Aleksi: “A movie rife with 'special hidden significance' about the soul of an autocrat that resonates for our times. Elusive, silly, deep, absurd, & overripe.”
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Ettore Scola
Aleksi: “Beautiful film in every way about two lonely souls who connect in a culture that denies them their authenticity. Exquisite cinematography. A real gem.”
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Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
Aleksi: “The most remarkable thing about it is that it actually lives up to its exalted reputation. Clichés...? So? Classics make them fresh. Gorgeous & great!”
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Lucrecia Martel
Aleksi: “Shards of tense narrative infested with ambient noise assemble into a caustic mosaic of cosmic alienation. Martel brilliantly melds form with content.”
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Guy Maddin
Aleksi: “Metaphorically conflating autobiography with investigations of "mother" (-hood and -land), Maddin brilliantly shares his personal mental topography.”
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Federico Fellini
Aleksi: “A masterpiece of cinema as oneiric medium. Almost unique in conveying a world based upon a truly alien morality, one which subtly excoriates our own.”
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Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos
Aleksi: “Genuinely human(e) movie that gives overwhelming sense of real people caught in perilous historical times. Brilliant camerawork. A great, great film! ”
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Larisa Shepitko
Aleksi: “Unique & extraordinary films by a rare and great talent. Were her life not tragically cut so short she may have become one of the titans of cinema.”
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René Clair
Aleksi: “A well crafted, frothy bon-bon with a dash of farce. Veronica Lake is astonishing.”
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Roman Polanski
Aleksi: “(In)Arguably the best transposition of Shakespeare from theatre to a truly filmic experience. Polanski created a beautiful cathartic masterpiece.”
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René Clair
Aleksi: “Magical early sound film! Genuinely charming, inventive, playful, sophisticated, witty, fun, and funny. It's even slyly subversive. A real gem.”
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Mikhail Kalatozov
Aleksi: “If Franz Kline directed a socialist realism film set in Siberia scripted by Hemingway, would it look like this? Visually stunning, a real work of art.”
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Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta
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William Dieterle
Aleksi: “A timeless (& timely) parable of greed. Truly unique Hollywood masterpiece that's a superlative example of the art and craft of storytelling via film”
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Barbet Schroeder
Aleksi: “Clowns are scary. Clowns who don't know they're clowns are absurd. When such psychopathic, charismatic clowns wield power it's horrifying - and comic.”
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Jean-Pierre Gorin
Aleksi: “Fascinating little "small-scale epics" that stick in your head because they're so rich and dense with social, personal, and philosophical associations”
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Jean Renoir
Aleksi: “Delightfully delirious films, Renoir exults in the joy of bringing us lavish entertainments where all of life is a stage. Overflows with joie de vivre”
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Roberto Rossellini
Aleksi: “Another powerfully humanistic Rossellini movie. Based on true story, an ethically conflicted conman finds cathartic redemption. Excellent supplements.”
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CloseStraw Dogs
Sam Peckinpah
Aleksi: “A great director at the height of his powers makes a masterpiece of supreme tension as Hoffman transforms from peaceful victim into bloodlust warrior.”
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CloseBrand upon the Brain!
Guy Maddin
Aleksi: “A great film artist's unique renewal of the repressed via an unholy, explosive discharge straight from his subconscious onto celluloid. Awesome”
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