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DIRECTED BY: Shane Carruth FEATURING: Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins PLOT: After a man known as the Thief drugs a young woman and steals most of her money, she loses her job and some of her memory, and needs to start an entirely new life; a year . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: UPSTREAM COLOR (2013) Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulain DIRECTED BY: Jean-Pierre Jeunet FEATURING: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Dominique Pinon, Rufus PLOT: An introverted and imaginative Parisian girl devotes herself to secretly helping those around her, but is it only because she’s afraid to go after love herself? WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: If Amélie makes . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: AMELIE (2001) DIRECTED BY: Ki-duk Kim FEATURING: Jung Suh, Yoosuk Kim PLOT: A mute woman who runs a fishing resort becomes obsessed with a suicidal fugitive hiding out in one of the floating cabins. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE LIST: It’s a bizarre, perverted sadomasochistic love story in a unique setting, made with skill and a . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: THE ISLE [SEOM] (2000) DIRECTED BY: Gus van Sant FEATURING: Henry Hopper, Mia Wasikowska, Ryo Kase PLOT: A moody boy with the ghost of a kamikaze pilot for a best friend and a hobby of attending funerals falls in love with a girl who’s dying of cancer. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Remaking Harold and Maude as . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: RESTLESS (2011) DIRECTED BY: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi FEATURING: Mathieu Amalric, Maria de Medeiros, Edouard Baer, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini PLOT: A master musician loses the will to live after his prized violin is destroyed, and retires to his deathbed where his story is told through flashbacks mingled with fantasy sequences. WHY IT MIGHT MAKE THE . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: CHICKEN WITH PLUMS [POULET AUX PRUNES] (2011) Ai no Mukidashi “Nothing is more important than love.”–Shion Sono on the theme of Love Exposure DIRECTED BY: Shion Sono FEATURING: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Andô, Atsurô Watabe, Makiko Watanabe PLOT: Yu Honda, the son of a Catholic priest, falls in with a gang of upskirt photographers in an attempt to generate sins . . . → Read More: 129. LOVE EXPOSURE (2008) The Hollywood musical has pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur. Contemporary audiences, corn-fed on laser battles with green aliens and tights-wearing, invulnerable superheroes who defy gravity, somehow find the idea of a film in which actors suddenly burst into song as “intolerably unrealistic!” The genre’s peak era began at the dawn of sound, . . . → Read More: TOP HAT (1935) DIRECTED BY: Veit Helmer FEATURING: Denis Lavant, Chulpan Khamatova, Terrence Gillespie, Philippe Clay, Catalina Murgea PLOT: Can a picturesque but dilapidated Turkish bathhouse pass a government inspection, and can love between a poolboy and a female patron flourish after the girl’s father is killed when a piece of the crumbling ceiling falls on him? . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: TUVALU (1999) AKA The Matrimony DIRECTED BY: Hua-Tao Teng FEATURING: Rene Liu, Fan Bingbing, Leon Lai PLOT: The ghost of a woman who died moments before her lover proposed to her contacts his new bride with an offer to help her thaw the heart of the groom who still pines for his lost love. WHY IT . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: MATRIMONY [XIN ZHONG YOU GUI] (2007) “”This exploration of the unreliability of reality and the power of the human unconscious, this great examination of the limits of rationalism and the perverse power of even the most ill-fated love, needs to be seen as widely as possible before it’s transformed by Steven Soderbergh and James Cameron into what they ludicrously threaten will . . . → Read More: 95. SOLARIS [SOLYARIS] (1972) |
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