Narrative Films
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IN OUR DAY2024 Aging / Gerontology Asian Studies Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Films of Hong Sangsoo Narrative Films Performing Arts With his 30th feature film, Hong demonstrates a new level of mastery of his art, using long, deceptively elaborate shots to articulate the simplest of pleasures: an inter-species encounter, the discovery of a new drink, a game of rock paper scissors. Kim and Ki lead an outstanding cast of the most natural of performers. In Our Day is a film to drink of deeply, to share with friends, and afterward, to reflect on what matters most. |
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THREE MONKEYS [narrative]2024 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Psychology & Psychiatry Family Relations
Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys is a moving, visually unforgettable triumph from the Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Thear Tree)
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HERE (narrative)2024 Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Environmental Studies Science
Director Bas Devos offers another Brussels city symphony. With a quiet grace that’s becoming a trademark, he and his team capture both the longing of contemporary urban life and the potential for enchantment that still exists in spaces shared by strangers from different worlds.
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TYPHOON CLUB (4k restoration)2023 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Media Studies Narrative Films
Winner of the Grand Prix at the first Tokyo International Film Festival in 1985, Typhoon Club is widely regarded as the seminal film of director Shinji Somai’s career. A work of raw, elemental power, it follows an ensemble of junior high students in a provincial town, beset by a summer-y malaise as a typhoon looms. The 10th best Japanese film of all time, according to Japan’s Kinema Junpo poll.
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P.P. RIDER2023 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Media Studies Narrative Films
From acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Shinji Sômai comes an exuberant farce tinted with deep shades of melancholy and real violence, P.P. Rider is an ode to the dreams of youth against authority. Adapted from a comic strip-like scenario by Leonard and Chieko Schrader, it’s a film of unparalleled freedom, and a testament to Somai’s ability to inject his work with the potent marrow of life.
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TRENQUE LAUQUEN (parts 1 and 2)2023 Cinema Studies Latino Studies Biology Narrative Films Spanish Language Directed by Women
A selection of the New York Film Festival, director Laura Citarella directs a labyrinthine tale of obsessive pursuit and the quest for personal freedom.
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WALK UP2023 Asian Studies Cinema Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
In his ninth film for Hong Sangsoo, Kwon Haehyo plays Byungsoo, a film director who goes with his daughter to a building owned by an old friend, Hong fills the building spaces with a profusion of everyday details spanning art, love, career, religion, dietary decisions and home renovations.
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THE NOVELIST'S FILM2023 Cinema Studies Asian Studies Narrative Films Films of Hong Sangsoo
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. For his 27th feature, Hong Sangsoo holds a mirror up to his own artistic process and asks what exactly it is we’re looking for from a work of art.
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HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH2023 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Europe Narrative Films Directed by Women
The film follows Ida, who, after a stirring encounter with the French Foreign Legion, sets sail with her own corps of five men, none of whom speak the same language, to trace the route of this fabled troop.
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DRIFT2023 Directed by Women Cinema Studies Narrative Films
In her dynamic and entrancing directorial debut, Helena Wittmann takes us on a transatlantic voyage unlike any other, scrambling our senses and inviting us to surrender to the ocean's ever-undulating surface.
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THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT2023 Cinema Studies Family Relations Narrative Films Sociology
The Strange Little Cat assembles seemingly unspectacular details into an exciting choreography of everyday life, a carefully staged chain reaction of actions and conversations, turning an apartment into a universe.
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IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE2023 Cinema Studies Narrative Films Asian Studies Performing Arts Films of Hong Sangsoo
In her first role for Hong, Lee Hyeyoung, a prominent theater and screen actress in South Korea, makes a captivating return to the big screen. With In Front of Your Face, Hong suggests that perhaps the most important things in this life are also the most immediate.
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