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January 5th, 2014: Divorzio All Italiana aka Divorce, Italian Style (1961)
Ferdinando Cefalu (Marcello Mastroianni) is a minor Sicilian baron who is unhappy with his wife Rosalia (Daniela Rocca) and in love with his cousin Angela (Stefania Sandrelli). At this point in Italian...
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February 2nd, 2014: Yozhik v humane aka Hedgehog in the Fog
A little hedgehog goes out in a thick fog to visit his friend the bear…but in the fog, regular noises become very scary...
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March 2, 2014: The Democratic Terrorist (1992)
Cast and Crew: Pelle Berglund (Director); Stellan Skarsgård, Ulrich Tukur What It’s About: Swedish operative Carl Hamilton infiltrates an amateurish group of German terrorists in Hamburg. A loner at...
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Sunday, May 18th: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
Cast and Crew: Ang Lee (Director), Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang. What it’s About: Talented and impetuous aristocrat Yu Jen (Ziyi Zhang) is soon to see the end of her adventurous ways thanks...
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May 25th, 2014: Tôkyô Nagaremono aka Tokyo Drifter (1966)
"Phoenix Tetsu" (Tetsuya Watari) is the loyal protege of aging gangster Kurata (Ryuni Kita). Kurata decides to go straight, but his crooked rivals intervene. Tetsu takes the fall for a murder he did...
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June 12th: Cidade de Deus aka City of God (2002)
The story of the slums of Rio De Janeiro told through the eyes of two brothers.
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June 21st, 2014: My Winnipeg
Filmmaker Guy Maddin (Darcy Fehr) wants to escape his hometown, Winnipeg, but first he must exorcise his demons-by shooting reenactments of key scenes of his childhood with actors and his mother (Ann...
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June 27th, 2014: Battleship Ptoemkin
When the men of the battleship Ptoemkin are served rancid meat, the resulting protest, and treatment of the protesters by the ship's officers leads to mutiny, and uprising in Odessa, and the brutal...
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July 12, 2014: Offside (2006)
Cast and Crew: Jafar Panahi (Director) What It’s About: Teen girls disguise themselves as boys to sneak into the men-only soccer stadium in Tehran. When security forces detect the ruse, the girls end...
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July 14th, 2014: The Seventh Seal
A knight (Max von Sydow) returns to Sweden from the Crusades during a plague and plays chess against Death (Bengt Ekerot) to gain more time, traveling while he does so and observing life.
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August 8th, 2014: La Strada (1954)
Traveling strongman Zampano (Anthony Quinn) buys the simple Gelsomina (Giulietta Masina) from her starving family so that he will have an assistant. Zampano treats Gelsomina horribly and takes her for...
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August 18, 2014: Viola Bacia Tutti – a.k.a. Viola Kisses Everybody (1998)
The Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was passed on this date in 1920. Most suffragettes in film are insufferable (see, e.g., Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins), so instead celebrate...
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August 26th, 2014: Seven Samurai (1954)
Villagers threatened with starvation at the hands of bandits who demand their crop decide to hire samurai to protect them, but the wages they can offer attract only seven. Can this rag-tag group...
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September 24th, 2014: The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei)
Sibei (Hiroyuki Sanada), is a widower raising two young daughters and caring for his senile mother, while working as a clerk in a castle storehouse. Sibei, who is of the Samurai class despite his...
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October 9th, 2014: Zoku Zatôichi Monogatari aka The Tale of Zatoichi...
Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu), the blind masseuse who is also a gambler and expert swordsman, returns one year after the events of The Tale of Zatoichi to pay his respects at the grave of Hirate, the...
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October 12, 2014: Mostly Martha a.k.a. Bella Martha (2001)
Here at the League of Dead Films, we like BEER! In fact, I’m willing to bet that if we changed things up and started reviewing a different beer every day, we would have just as much insight and wisdom...
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October 21st, 2014: Chihwaseon a.k.a. Painted Fire (2002)
Cast and Crew: Im Kwon-taek (Director); Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ho-jeong, Son Ye-jin, Ahn Sung-ki What It’s About: Based on the true story of a groundbreaking 19th-century Korean painter. Jang Seung-up, who...
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December 3rd, 2014: Breathless (1960)
A small time hood (Jean-Paul Belmondo) tries to convince his American former girlfriend (Jean Serberg) to go on the lam with him after a car theft gone bad.
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December 4th, 2014: Aelita aka Aelita: Queen of Mars
After receiving radio signals from the Aelita, the Queen of Mars (Yuliya Solntseva), engineer Los (Nikolai Tseretli) builds a spaceship and journeys to Mars, where he finds an oppressive monarchy...
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December 11th, 2014: Ieri, Oggi, Domani aka Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Three very different stories of three very different couples in 1960s Italy. In each case the couples are played by Macello Mastrioanni and Sophia Loren.
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