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Le Samourai (1967)

March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Le Samourai (1967)

Le Samouraï
AKA: The Godson(USA)
IMDb URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062229/
Year: 1967
Directed: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon, Cathy Rosier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Runtime: 1 hour, 40min
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English(sub), Turkish(srt)

Summary
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught. One night however, after killing a night-club owner, he’s seen by witnesses. His efforts to provide himself with an alibi fail and more and more he gets driven into a corner.(From IMDb)

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El Método (The Method) [2005]

March 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

El Metodo (The Method) [2005]

Title: El método
Alternative Title: The Method
IMDb URL: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/

Director ……….. Marcelo Piñeyro

Cast:

Eduardo Noriega … Carlos
Najwa Nimri … Nieves
Eduard Fernández… Fernando
Pablo Echarri … Ricardo
Ernesto Alterio … Enrique
Natalia Verbeke … Montse
Adriana Ozores … Ana
Carmelo Gómez … Julio

Runtime: 115 min
Country: Argentina | Spain | Italy
Language: Spanish | English | French

Plot Summary :

After an introduction showing the AZCA area of Madrid during a meeting of the IMF and the World Bank with accompanying anti-globalization protests, the entire film happens within a corporate building (outdoor scenes shot by Torre Europa), mostly in a closed conference room. The story tells of seven people that have been selected among several applicants for one final round to determine who will get an enviable, executive position for a mysterious corporation, Dekia. The seven applicants are submitted to a series of psychological tests – known as the “Grönholm Method” – that start eliminating the applicants one by one. It is warned at the beginning that one of the seven people is an employee of the corporation posing as an applicant to evaluate the others. As the applicants are discarded, the race for the position becomes more tense and sinister. The tests reveal the weakness of each of the characters and their attitudes to company work. In the end the mole” will be revealed and only one of them will get the desired position.

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Don’t Look Back (2009)

March 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Don't Look Back (2009)

Don’t Look Back (2009)
Ne te retourne pas
Plot/Synopsis:

Jeanne a writer, married, with two children – starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far deeper, far more disturbing is taking place. A photograph at her mother’s house sends her in search of a woman in Italy. Here, transformed into another woman, RosaMaria, she will discover the strange secret of her true identity.

References/Awards:
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075113/

Sitges – Catalonian International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
2009 Nominated Best Film
Marina de Van

Credits:

Director:
Marina de Van

Sophie Marceau … Jeanne
Monica Bellucci … Jeanne
Andrea Di Stefano … Teo / Gianni
Thierry Neuvic … Teo #2
Brigitte Catillon … Nadia / Valérie
Sylvie Granotier … Nadia #2
Augusto Zucchi … Fabrizio
Giovanni Franzoni … Enrico
Vittoria Meneganti … Enfant brune 11 ans
Francesca Melucci … Enfant blonde 9 ans
Didier Flamand … Robert
Serena d’Amato … Donatella
Adrien de Van … Le psychiatre
Thais Fischer … Léa 6 ans

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Ghosted (2009)

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Ghosted
Aka: Ai-mei (Germany) (working title)
Year: 2009
Directed: Monika Treut
Genre: Mystery
Runtime:  94 Min
Country: Germany/Taiwan
Language: German/English
Subtitles: English
Cast: Inga Busch, Huan-Ru Ke, Ting Ting Hu, Jana Schulz, Marek Harloff
Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1252595/

Synopsis / Plot

A mysterious love story between Hamburg and Taipeh. The unsolved murder of her young Taiwanese lover Ai-ling leaves the Hamburg artist Sophie Schmitt completely disoriented. She dedicates a video-installation to her and shows it in Taipei. During the opening she is approached by a mysterious journalist. Sophie is fascinated at first glance by Mei-li, the young journalist. Mei-li takes her to visit the famous Taipei night markets and tries to seduce the artist. Sophie, still mourning her lost lover, rejects Mei-li and returns immediately to Hamburg. Shortly afterwords Mei-li shows up on her doorstep, unannounced. Sophie takes her in and finally falls for her. But soon she realizes that her new lover is secretly investigating Ai-ling’s death. Strange happenings occur, sudden flashes of recollection come and go, and then Sophie finds out that there is no Mei-Li working for a Taiwanese newspaper and that no one by that name ever entered Germany. Who is the mysterious Taiwanese woman?  Written by Hyena Films

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The Vanishing (1988) Spoorloos

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Spoorloos
AKA: The Vanishing
Year: 1988
Runtime: 107 minutes
Country: Netherlands | France
Language: French | Dutch | English
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Crime | Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Director: George Sluizer

Cast: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (Raymond Lemorne) | Gene Bervoets (Rex Hofman) | Johanna ter Steege (Saskia Wagter) | Gwen Eckhaus (Lieneke)

Plot/Synopsis:

Based on Time Krabbe’s [novel] The Golden Egg, The Vanishing is a deeply disturbing psychological thriller about a young man’s search for his girlfriend after she disappears at a rest stop during a short trip. Over the course of three years, the man obsessively searches for her, using his spare time to put up posters and leave handbills, hoping that someone will give him a clue to the mystery surrounding her disappearance. The kidnapper, having watched the man for some time, is intrigued by his increasing obsession and finally contacts him. He then gives the man the opportunity to learn firsthand of his girlfriend’s fate. The film, frightening and moving with a chilling conclusion, is a small masterpiece as director George Sluizer confronts and examines the true nature of evil and obsession.Sluizer remade The Vanishing in an American version four years after the release of the original Dutch film, inexplicably changing the shocking ending which gave the original film such power.

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The Bothersome Man (2006)

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Aka:Den brysomme mannen , Vandræðamaðurinn
Year: 2006
Directed: Jens Lien
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Fantasy/Mystery
Runtime:  95 min
Country: Norway/Iceland
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: English

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808185/

Cast:
Trond Fausa Aurvaag     …     Andreas
Petronella Barker    …     Anne Britt
Per Schaaning    …     Hugo
Birgitte Larsen    …     Ingeborg
Johannes Joner    …     Håvard
Ellen Horn    …     Trulsen
Anders T. Andersen    …     Harald
Sigve Bøe    …     Liten Mann
Hanne Lindbæk    …     Vigdis
Ivar Lykke    …     Kollega 1

Plot / Synopsis

Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment – even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there’s no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to “the other side”? A new plan for escape is hatched.

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Diabolique (1954)

March 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Title: Diabolique
AKA: Les Diaboliques
Year: 1955
Directed: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Genre: Crime / Thriller / Mystery
Runtime: 1 hour, 56m
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046911/

Cast:
Jeanne Moreau: Florence Carala
Maurice Ronet: Julien Tavernier
Georges Poujouly: Louis
Yori Bertin: Véronique
Jean Wall: Simon Carala
Elga Andersen: Frieda Bencker
Sylviane Aisenstein: Yvonne
Micheline Bona: Geneviève
Gisèle Grandpré: Jacqueline Mauclair
Jacqueline Staup: Anna

Plot / Synopsis

The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by headmaster Michel Delasalle. A ruthless lothario, he becomes the target of a murder plot concocted by his long-suffering invalid wife Christina (Vera Clouzot, the director’s own spouse) and his latest mistress, an icy teacher played by Simone Signoret. A dark, dank thriller with a much-imitated “shock” ending, Diabolique is a masterpiece of Grand Guignol suspense. The simple murder plot goes haywire, and Michel’s corpse disappears, prompting strange rumors of his reappearance which grow more and more substantial as the film careens wildly towards its breathless conclusion.

The film created a sensation on its original release. It has often been likened to the films of Alfred Hitchcock in that it is still creepy even when one has seen it and knows the ending. (Many sources say that Alfred Hitchcock missed out on purchasing the rights to the Boileau and Narcejac novel by just a few hours, Clouzot getting to the authors first.) The end credit contains an early example of an “anti-spoiler message”, requesting the audience not to disclose the plot to others who have not seen the film.

The film gained additional press when only five years after its release, Véra Clouzot died of a heart attack at age 46, her character in the film having had heart problems also.

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Alphaville (France) 1965

March 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Aka : Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution
:Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Year : 1965
Runtime : 1 hour, 39m
Country : France
Language : French
Subtitles : English.srt
Genre : Mystery / Sci-Fi
Director : Jean-Luc Godard
Cast : Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff, Valérie Boisgel, Jean-Louis Comolli, Michel Delahaye, Jean-André Fieschi, Christa Lang, Jean-Pierre Léaud,  László Szabó, Howard Vernon
imdb

Synopsis :
Eddie Constantine plays Lemmy Caution, a trenchcoat-wearing secret agent. Constantine had already played this role in dozens of previous films; the character was originally created by British pulp novelist Peter Cheyney. However, in Alphaville, director Jean-Luc Godard moves Caution away from his usual twentieth century setting, and places him in a futuristic sci-fi dystopia, the technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville.

Alphaville is a 1965 black-and-white French science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Its original French title is Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution). The film stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon and Akim Tamiroff. The film won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival in 1965.

Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. Although set far in the future on another planet, there are no special effects or elaborate sets; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings represent the city’s interiors. In addition, the characters refer to twentieth century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran.

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