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Wiktor Grodecki – Telo bez duse AKA Body Without Soul (1996)
Quote: An unflinching portrait of life on the post-Communist streets of Prague where young men find it all too easy to pick up extra money as porno models and hustlers. Their clients consist largely...
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George Sluizer – Twee vrouwen AKA Twice A Woman (1979)
Quote: Laura (Bibi Andersson) has long been divorced from her theater-critic husband Alfred (Anthony Perkins), though they still see one another from time to time. One day, while working at the icon...
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Robert Beavers – The Hedge Theater (1986-90/2002)
Quote: The Hedge Theater, USA 1986-90/2002, 19 min Cast: Robert Beavers, Gregory J. Markopoulos Beavers shot The Hedge Theatre in Rome in the 1980s. It is an intimate film inspired by the Baroque...
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Urszula Antoniak – Nude Area (2014)
Quote: Love doesn’t unfold like a story. Only the first and the last chapter are known. Love starts from Love and ends in letting go. In between there is tenderness and cruelty, waiting and...
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François Ozon – Le temps qui reste AKA Time to Leave (2005)
Quote: Diagnosed with terminal cancer and given only a short while to live, a successful fashion photographer embarks on one final journey in the second of three films in a trilogy about death and...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Kika (1993)
Quote: Harshly treated by the critics on release, of Pedro Almodovar’s work, Kika is perhaps the one that most benefits from re-viewing and re-assessment. The story of Kika (an astonishing Veronica...
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Curt McDowell – Lunch (1972)
directed by Curt McDowell (THUNDERCRACK); starring Velvet Busch and Mark Ellinger; a busy prostitute during businessmen’s lunch break. http://nitroflare.com/view/0A92097BAD397A3/Lunch_1972.avi...
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Fred Halsted – LA Plays Itself (1972)
L.A. Plays Itself begins as a mock-pastorale, with a steamy woodland encounter between a long-haired blonde guy and a hunky brunette whose face, typical of the director, we can barely discern. This...
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Anna Muylaert – Mãe Só Há Uma AKA Don’t Call Me Son (2016)
Quote: Most films—especially taut, lower-budgeted indies—choose one theme or dramatic premise and run with it. Others cross-wire two potent and ostensibly unrelated ideas and bask in the sparks they...
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William Friedkin – Cruising (1980)
A 1980 psychological thriller film directed by William Friedkin and starring Al Pacino. The film is loosely based on the novel of the same name, by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker, about a...
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André Téchiné – Quand on a 17 ans AKA Being 17 (2016)
Quote: Damien lives with his mother Marianne, a doctor, while his father is on a tour of duty abroad. He is bullied by Thomas, whose mother is ill. The boys find themselves living together when...
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Alex Anwandter – Nunca vas a estar solo AKA You’ll Never Be Alone (2016)
Quote: First feature film directed by Alex Anwandter and based on a true story. You’ll never be alone tells the story of Juan, a withdrawn manager at a mannequin factory who after his teenage gay son...
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Christopher Hampton – Carrington (1995)
Quote: Frail, intellectual Bloomsburyan Lytton Strachey is the unlikely hero for a movie, but congratulations to writer-director Christopher Hampton for making the essayist an elitist everyone can...
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Edgardo Castro – La noche (2016)
Quote: Gritty journey through the sexual underbelly of Buenos Aires, with graphic depictions of the highs and lows in one man’s quest for intimacy. The story tells, from an accentuated hyper-realistic...
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Jean Cocteau – Orphée AKA Orpheus [+commentary] (1950)
Quote: Jean Cocteau died on October 11, 1963, the same exact day that his longtime friend, the French chanteuse Edith Piaf, succumbed to liver cancer not all that far away. Some have even speculated...
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Marco Berger & Martín Farina – Taekwondo (2016)
Quote: In a picturesque country house in Buenos Aires, Fernando gathers his mates for a boys-only vacation. Free from work, responsibilities and their girlfriends, this close-knit gang of bros kick...
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Jérôme Reybaud – Jours de France AKA Four Days in France (2016)
Quote: Disillusioned with his life in Paris, Pierre Tomas drops everything to travel through France. Via phone numbers written in bathroom stalls, coincidental rendezvous, and Grindr, a smartphone...
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Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato – Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016)
Quote: Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures is the first definitive, feature length portrait of the controversial American artist Robert Mapplethorpe since his death from AIDS in 1989. The one thing...
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Le fate ignoranti AKA His Secret Life (2001)
Quote: When Antonia’s husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele. Although she’s...
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Derek Jarman – Jubilee (1978)
Quote: Punks hail Britannia in their own peculiar way in this little-seen gem by the late queer auteur Jubilee (1978), Britain’s only decent punk film, still isn’t respected at home as much as it...
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