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260. Côte d’Ivoire’s (Ivory Coast’s) film director Philippe Lacôte’s second...
“I don’t make a lot of films...I can only shoot what is essential to me” --Director Philippe Lacôte in an interview to CNN titled "Machetes and Microbes: Why Philippe Lacôte's Prison Drama Cuts Close...
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261. US film directors Cathy Allyn’s and Nick Loeb’s film “Roe v. Wade”...
Roe v. Wade is a2021feature filmthat provides considerable insight from a pro-life point of view into a very important US Supreme Court judgement given in 1973 that the Constitution of the United...
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262. Spanish film director Oliver Laxe’s film “O Que Arde” (Fire Will Come)...
“If they hurt others, it’s because they hurt, too.”-- Benedicta, mother of Amador, responding to Amador’s comment on the root formation of the Eucalyptus tree, a tree that can cause explosive...
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263. Mexican film director Carlos Reygadas’ debut film “Japón” (Japan)...
My goal is to observe life and not to mystify it. What I film is simply matter that exists in the world. A person or object may have a particular meaning within the context of the film but I don’t...
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264. Japanese film director Naomi Kawase’s fourteenth feature film “Asa ga...
Director and co-scriptwriter Naomi Kawase, co-scriptwriter Izumi Takahashi and novelist Mizuki Tsujimura present a diversity of candidates in the film True Mothers who could fit the title of the film....
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265. Italian film director Uberto Pasolini’s third feature film “Nowhere...
“I wanted to make a film with this title for a long time. The title is from a dialogue at the end of Mel Brooks' film Blazing Saddles; one character asks the other, "Where are you going to go?" and...
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266. The late Chilean maestro Raoul Ruiz’ film in French “Les trois couronnes...
“You always need a living sailor on a ship full of the dead. That was me.” (Final spoken lines of the film)“Never forget that memories, imagination and understanding must be used for an honest and...
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267. Uruguayan film director Rodrigo Plá’s sixth feature film “El Otro Tom”...
“Although you don't attempt to show it, one has a point of view on things and it ends up emerging, whether you like it or not. Our films (with director/husband Rodrigo Plá) often turn on the limits...
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268. Iranian film directors Maryam Moghadam’s and Behtash Sanaeeha’s feature...
And recall when Moses said to his people, “Allah commands you to slaughter a cow” They answered, “Do you make a mockery of us?”---“Surah of the Cow” in the Holy Quran (Opening quote in the film)Iran...
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269. Canadian film director Denis Côté’s tenth feature film “Hygiène sociale”...
The title of the film Social Hygiene will remindviewers of the Covid pandemic’s cardinal rule to avoid infection—maintain social distancing to avoid infection. In fact, no two characters make physical...
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270. German film director Maria Schrader’s third feature film “Ich bin dein...
“Your pain is pathetic. It is pathetic because it is relative. It is also not pathetic because it is part of you, and that’s why I love it.” ---The android Tom created by algorithms and constantly...
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271. Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ninth feature film “Doraibu mai...
Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car will appeal to different folks for totally different reasons. Those familiar with Haruki Murakami’s written work flock to watch cinematic adaptations of his written...
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272. Russian director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s fifteenth feature film...
A majority of film critics and viewers tend to dismiss Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s films in their initial assessments, especially in recent decades. Why is that? To answer that question, one needs...
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273. Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s tenth complete feature film,...
“A sound like a rumble from the core of the earth” —Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scotswoman and a scientist, describing the sound that woke her up one day from slumber in Colombia, that she wishes to...
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274. Turkish director Semih Kaplanoglu’s eighth feature film “Baglilik Hasan”...
"You think you can go on a pilgrimage and come back clean as a whistle? Only God can forgive you, sir." --Turgut, an honest former employee of Hasan, branded as a thief by Hasan, when Turgut procured...
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275. Italian director Paolo Taviani’s twenty-second feature film “Leonora...
“Have any of you read Pirandello?” asks a senior priest in a Sicilian seminary to his junior priests “I read him in secret, then I confessed” replies a junior priest meekly, with penitence, “I have...
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276. The late French director Bertrand Tavernier’s feature film “Ça commence...
"For its commitment to everyday heroism, its multi-layered approach to an array of social problems, and for the visual force of the storytelling.” --Citation of the FIPRESCI award bestowed on the...
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277. Japanese film director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s fifteenth feature film...
"'Thank you for being born.' - A single sentence that touches the audience in such a way that entire films rarely can. When every character, no matter how small or large, is intricately layered,...
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278. US film director Todd Field’s third feature film “Tár” (2022), based on...
Quotes from the film that provide glimpses of the thought-provoking script: (Tár, being interviewed by Adam Gopnik in front of a live audience on Tár conducting Mahler’s Adagietto Symphony no.5)...
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279. Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof’s second feature film “Jazireh...
Mohammad Rasoulof is different from most filmmakers. He does not adapt written works—he writes his own original screenplays stitched together from what he observes and hears from Iranian compatriots....
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280. Russian maestro Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s 24th feature film “Sin“...
“Arrogance is sin” “I wanted to find God; I only found Man” “Money always rubs elbows with infamy” --key lines spoken in Sin--co-scripted by Andrei Konchalovsky and Elena KisalevaAndrei...
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281. German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 11th feature film “The...
“Of course, he took me seriously, respected my opinions.. but, nevertheless, he wanted to be the breadwinner. That way, oppression lies; that’s obvious. It’s like this, ‘I hear what you are saying...
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282. The talented indigenous Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen’s 11th feature...
"Limbo is the continuation of themes I explored in my previous films. Those earlier films dealt with indigenous perspective through the eyes of an indigenous police officer. Limbo explores the deeper...
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The Polish film maestro Krzysztof Zanussi converses with Jugu Abraham on 14...
Krzysztof Zanussi (84) has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for his film A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), the Jury prize at the Cannes film festival for The Constant Factor (1980)., the...
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283. The Vietnamese director Thien An Pham’s debut feature film “Ben trong vo...
“Faith is what I am searching for” --answers the film’s main character, Thien, to his toddler nephew’s question, on what is faith, soon after his dead mother is described publicly as someone had...
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