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This is reputed to be the best film ever made involving native Americans. Atanarjuat the Fast Runner is the first feature film in the Inuktitut language, spoken by the Inuit tribes of northern Canada. The film, based on an ancient Inuit legend, is set at the dawn of the millennium. It’s an epic […] 
The Night of the Hunter [1955]—incredibly, the only film the great actor Charles Laughton ever directed—is truly a stand-alone masterwork. A horror movie with qualities of a Grimm fairy tale, it stars a sublimely sinister Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher named Harry Powell (he of the tattooed knuckles), whose nefarious motives for […] 
Adapted from James Dickey’s popular novel, John Boorman‘s 1972 movie recounts the grueling psychological and physical journey taken by four city slickers down a river in the backwoods of Georgia. At the behest of Iron John-esque Lewis (Burt Reynolds), the less adventuresome Ed (Jon Voight), Bobby (Ned Beatty), and Drew (Ronny Cox) agree […] 
[1925-1984] ↑ Badass Digest ↓ ¤ The Ballad of Cable Hogue ⇓ [Starring Jason Robards & Stella Stevens _ 1970] The film is a charming and surprising comedy/love story built loosely around the biblical story of Job. It constantly defies the expectations of […] 
Von Trier first established his name as a filmmaker with a trilogy of films dealing with a dark and traumatised Europe: The Element of Crime (1984), Epidemic (1987) and Europa (Zentropa, 1991). However, it was his second television outing, The Kingdom (1994) co-directed by Morten Amfred, that brought him public acclaim, and helped […] 
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. Based on Stephen King‘s work of the same title The Twins… ↓ «Come Play With Us…» [Stanley Kubrick, […] 
→ http://www.davidlynch.de/ [1946-2025] 1. Eraserhead (song: In heaven) 2. The elephant man (song: Recapitulation) 3. Dune (song: Toto – Main title) 4. Blue velvet (song: Bobby Vinton – Blue velvet) 5. Twin peaks (song: Julee Cruise – Falling) 6. Wild at heart (song: Nicholas Cage – Love me tender) 7. Fire walk with me […] 
¤ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ⇓ [1920]
A 1920 silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films and is often considered one of the greatest horror movies of the silent era. The film used stylized sets, […] 
♦ ‘Gadjo Dilo’ ↓ [1998] In this comedy-drama, Stephane (Romain Duris), a young man from France («Payo loco» = ‘The Crazy Stranger’), travels to Romania on a mission; his father has recently passed away, and since the old man’s favorite singer was an unrecorded gypsy vocalist from Romania, he has […] 
. . . a Tunisian writer, artist, storyteller and filmmaker… born in 1948 ◊ El Haimoune↓»The Wanderers of the Desert» A traveling writer and teller of fables, Nacer Khemir here applies his age-old skills to a narrative feature film, the first in his highly-regarded «Desert Trilogy» that includes […] 
Born in Hamburg to Turkish parents, Fatih Akin has taken Istanbul to his heart like a native. The title of this film refers to the fact that the city, placed at the point where Asia and Europe meet, has always been as open to the East as it is to the West. It […] 
Winner of the Silver Bear at the 2006 Berlin Film Festival, The Road to Guantanamo, directed by Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, uses interviews, news footage, and reenactments to tell the story of the Tipton Three, young British men of Pakistani descent who were detained for over two years without charges at […] 
‾ A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows. ◊ This is England […] 
¤ London – The Modern Babylon Directed by Julien Temple | UK 2012 | Colour, black and white | 128min | British director Julien Temple (Absolute Beginners, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle) has released a new documentary called London – The Modern Babylon, exploring the history of his hometown […] 
Zatōichi← (座頭市?) is a 2003 Japanese samurai drama and action film, directed, written, co-edited, and starring Takeshi Kitano in the eleventh film he has directed. He also plays the protagonist role of the blind swordsman in this revival of the classic Zatōichi series of samurai film and television dramas. The film ends with a dance number led by noted Japanese tap dance troupe The Stripes, and Zatōichi walking […] 
This is the home of a fun method for both learning and perfecting your English. ⇓ It primarily focuses on spoken English. ¤ Taylor Swift: ‘We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together’⇒ ∇ MORPHINE ⇓ ◊→ ‘Thursday‘⇐[Cure for Pain] [… Each blank needs a personal pronoun] ____ used […] 
•→http://www.history.com/shows/vikings← The TV series, written and created by Michael Hirst for the television channel History, is set at the beginning of the Viking Age, marked by the Lindisfarne raid in 793. The first season portrays Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as a young Viking warrior who longs to discover civilizations […] 
◊ Under The Black Flag: Exploits Of The Most Notorious Pirates [Don C. Seitz] Riveting account traces careers of buccaneers of many nationalities across 2 centuries and around the globe —from the West Indies to the South Seas. A few true stories of such notorious brigands as . . . Thomas […] 
Julian Barnes contributes a previously unseen extract from his novel England, England. Sir Jack Pitman creates a theme park on the Isle of Wight (=’England England’) that duplicates the tourist spots of England. Within easy walking distance are replicas of Big Ben (half size), Princess Di’s grave, Harrods, Stonehenge, and the white […] 
«The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting» [Arthur Schopenhauer]
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