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The Living End and The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick
Duvidha (Country: India; Year: 1973; Director: Mani Kaul; Writer: Vijayadan Detha; Stars: Hardan, Manohar Lalas, Ravi Menon, Raisa Padamsee, Bhola Ram, Kana Ram)
A ghost story derived from a Rajasthani folktale.
Following (Country: UK; Year: 1998; Director: Christopher Nolan; Writer: Christopher Nolan; Stars: Jeremy Theobald, Alex Haw, Lucy Russell, John Nolan, Dick Bradsell, Gillian El-Kadi, Jennifer Angel)
A writer hooks up with a thief in a tale of cross and double-cross.
The Goalie’s Anxiety At The Penalty Kick (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter) (Country: West Germany, Austria; Year: 1972; Director: Wim Wenders; Writer: Wim Wenders, based on the novel by Peter Handke; Stars: Arthur Brauss, Kai Fischer, Erika Pluhar, Libgart Schwarz, Marie Bardischewski, Alexandra Bäck, Sybille Danzer, Rosl Dorena, Maria Engelstorfer, Ernst Essel, Bert Fortell, Ina Genée, Liane Gollé, Otto Hoch-Fischer, Paul Hör)
Following in the footsteps of a goalie after he is sent off in a game.
The Living End (Country: US; Year: 1992; Director: Gregg Araki; Writer: Gregg Araki; Stars: Mike Dytri, Craig Gilmore, Mary Woronov, Paul Bartel, Johanna Went)
People with HIV, from very different backgrounds, go on the run.
Lucía (Country: Cuba; Year: 1968; Director: Humberto Solas; Writer: Julio García Espinosa, Nelson Rodríguez, Humberto Solás; Stars: Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moure, Ramón Brito, Adolfo Llauradó, Idalia Anreus, Silvia Planas, Flora Lauten, Rogelio Blain, Maria Elena Molinet, Aramís Delgado, Teté Vergara, Flavio Calderín, Nelson Rodríguez)
The history of Cuba as illustrated by three episodes in the life of one woman, who is betrayed by the man she loves.
Following Following
Following and Lucía
The Meetings Of Anna (Country: France, Belgium, West Germany; Year: 1978; Director: Chantal Akerman; Writer: Chantal Akerman; Stars: Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler, Lea Massari, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Alain Berenboom, Françoise Bonnet, Thaddausz Kahl, Laurent Taffein, Victor Verek, Aurore Clément, Helmut Griem, Magali Noël, Hanns Zischler)
A Belgian filmmaker on a promotional tour through a featureless northern Europe fluctuates between intimacy and disengagement with a series of figures, including a one-night stand, a former lover, and her distant mother.
My Brother's Wedding (Country: US; Year: 1983; Director: Charles Burnett; Writer: Charles Burnett; Stars: Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Ronnie Bell, Dennis Kemper, Sally Easter, Angela Burnett, Monte Easter, Frances E. Nealy, Sy Richardson, Terrence Allen, Charles Anderson, Dione Bacon, James Bacon, Roman Bate)
A man tries to navigate friendship and familial obligation in South Central Los Angeles.
Peppermint Candy (Bakha Satang) (Country: South Korea, Japan; Year: 1999; Director: Lee Chang-dong; Writer: Lee Chang-dong; Stars: Kyeong-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin)
A look at the political history of Korea through the eyes of a man who has just committed suicide.
Playing Away (Country: UJ, US; Year: 1987; Director: Horace Ové; Writer: Caryl Phillips; Stars: Norman Beaton, Robert Urquhart, Helen Lindsay, Nicholas Farrell, Brian Bovell, Gary Beadle, Suzette Llewellyn, Trevor Thomas, Stefan Kalipha, Bruce Purchase, Joseph Marcell, Sheila Ruskin, Mark Barratt, Valerie Buchanan, Jim Findley)
Satire, centring on a charity cricket match for charity between posh Suffolkers and a West Indian team from Brixton.
Sleepwalk (Country: US, West Germany; Year: 1986; Director: Sara Driver; Writer: Kathleen Brennan, Sara Driver, Lorenzo Mans; Stars: Suzanne Fletcher, Ann Magnuson, Dexter Lee, Stephen Chen, Tony Todd, Richard Boes, Ako, Harvey Perr, Jim Stark, Joe Dell'Olio, Rebecca Wright, Steve Buscemi, Barbara Klar, Linda Yablonski, Sally Venue)
A single mother Nicole is hired by a mysterious teacher to translate an equally mysterious manuscript.
Twenty Years Later (Country: Brazil; Year: 1984; Director: Eduardo Coutinho; Writer: Eduardo Coutinho; Stars: Eduardo Coutinho, Tite de Lemos)
Twenty years after his film about a man murdered by police for organizing farm workers in northeast Brazil was shelved due to the 1964 military coup, Eduardo Coutinho returned to its material for this essay film.
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