A Gentle Woman - Une femme douce - (Robert Bresson, 1969)

A young woman kills herself, leaving no explanation to her grief-stricken pawnbroker husband. We learn in flashback about how they met, married, and how she failed to adapt her lifestyle to his. Disgusted with his attempts to dominate her, she considered murdering him, but found herself unable to do it.

Dominique Sanda's debut. It was shortly after the release of this movie that she went from being Dominique Varaigne to Dominique Sanda. In a 1987 interview with a French publication, she explained, "Only a few things can give you as much pleasure as choosing your own name."

Director

Robert Bresson

Writers

Fyodor Dostoevsky (short story), adapted by Robert Bresson

Stars

Dominique Sanda, Guy Frangin, Jeanne Lobre

Subtitled in English.

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10870259518118

Martyrs of Love - Mučedníci lásky (1966)

Featuring pop stars Karel Gott and Marta Kubišová (who later became the director’s second wife) in lead roles, with cameos by the two girls from Chytilová’s Daisies and director Lindsay Anderson as traffic policeman, Martyrs of Love is the most perfect embodiment of Němec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. The nearly dialogue-free music comedy about three timid lovers, which combines aesthetics of 1920s silent slapstick cinema with romantic music of the 1960s, cemented the director’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.

A movie from former Czechoslovakia

Director: Jan Nemec. 

Writers: Ester Krumbachová, Jan Nemec.

Stars: Petr Kopriva, Marta Kubisová, Hana Kuberová, Jan Klusák, Karel Gott, Vladimír Preclík.

Subtitled in English

LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10746953927334

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Shoot the Moon ( Alan Parker, 1982)

A fifteen year marriage dissolves, leaving both the husband and wife, and their four children, devastated. He’s preoccupied with a career and a mistress, she with a career and caring for four young children. While they attempt to go their separate ways, jealousy and bitterness reconnect them.

Director: Alan Parker.

Writer: Bo Goldman.

Stars: Albert Finney, Diane Keaton, Karen Allen, Peter Weller, Dana Hill, Viveka Davis, Tracey Gold, Tina Yothers, George Murdock, Leora Dana, Irving Metzman, Kenneth Kimmins, Michael Alldredge, Robert Constanzo, David Landsberg, Lou Cutell, James Cranna, Nancy Fish, Jeremy Schoenberg, Aesop Aquarian, Jim Lange, Georgann Johnson O-Lan Jones, Helen Slayton-Hughes, Robert Ackerman, Eucine Suarez, Hector Morales, Morgan Upton, Edwina Moore, Kathryn Trask, Bill Reddick, Bonnie Carpenter, Margaret Clark, Jan Dunn, Rob Glover.

1982 Cannes Film Festival – Nominated for the Palme d’Or.

1983 BAFTA Film Awards – Nominated for Best Actor (Albert Finney).

1983 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (Diane Keaton).

1983 Golden Globes – Nominated for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Albert Finney).

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/10607016086132

Optional English subtitles are available for this film, to enable them click on the subtitles icon (to the left of the cogweel icon), and they will be turned on.

Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York ( Sidney Furie, 1975)

Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate. Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one-night stand…

Director: Sidney J. Furie.

Writers: Kenny Solms, Gail Parent (novel).

Stars: Jeannie Berlin, Roy Scheider, Rebecca Dianna Smith, Janet Brandt, Sid Melton, Charles Woolf, Leda Rogers, Jack Bernardi, Allen Secher, Lynne Pope, Jon Miller, Noble Willingham, Richard Rasof, Evelyn Russell, Don Carrara, Sharon Chatten, Karen Anders, Craig Littler, Sandy Helberg, John Morgan Evans, Charles Walker.

Music by: Michel Legrand.

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/10868657752742

Optional English subtitles are available. To enable them click on the subtitles icon (to the left of the cogweel icon), and they will be turned on.

Eternity and a Day - Mia aioniotita kai mia mera (1998)

Alexander, an old writer, is ill and prepared to die. He says his goodbyes and recalls his life with his wife long ago. While driving his car he saves a street kid, an illegal immigrant from Albania, from being arrested. Later in the day, by chance, he sees the same boy being abducted, and follows in his car. Although he is preoccupied with his own regrets, he puts death on hold to find a way to help the boy.

1998 Cannes Film Festival – Winner of the Palme d’Or.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos 

Writers: Theodoros Angelopoulo (as Theo Angelopoulos), Tonino Guerra (co-writer), Petros Markaris (co-writer), Giorgio Silvagni (co-writer).

Stars: Bruno Ganz, Isabelle Renauld, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Achileas Skevis, Alexandra Ladikou, Despina Bebedelli, Eleni Gerasimidou, Iris Chatziantoniou, Nikos Kouros, Alekos Oudinotis, Nikos Kolovos.

Subtitled in English.

LINK:  https://ok.ru/video/2521158650534

Ballad of Orin - Hanare goze Orin - (1977)

Ballad of Orin follows the hardscrabble life of a wandering outcast goze (blind female musician) in early 20th-century Japan. Cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa and director Masahiro Shinoda interviewed surviving goze of the time to capture “a sense of the ideal beauty that these blind women had inwardly visualized.

The film takes place during the first decades of the 20th century, following the story of Orin, blind from birth, from childhood on. The film is told largely from her perspective, from a woman's perspective, which is rare in film, especially Japanese films.

Now I decided to avoid post Japanese movies on my Revista Cine TV channels.They are usually removed ruthlessly by YouTube and a strike to the channel. Here on blog is safer. 

Director: Masahiro Shinoda. 

Writers: Keiji Hasebe (screenplay), Tsutomu Minakami (author-story), Masahiro Shinoda (screenplay).

Stars: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka, Kirin Kiki, Toshiyuki Nishida, Tôru Abe, Keiko Nakamura, Ako Tomizawa, Rie Yokoyama, Jun Hamamura, Takako Minekawa, Izumi Hara, Kaoru Kobayashi, Taiji Tonoyama, Mansaku Fuwa.

English Subtitled.

MOVIE LINK: https://ok.ru/video/10468547168934