Mermaid (1964)

RecommendedJapanAnimated Short FilmOriginal Title: 人 魚Writer/Director: Tezuka OsamuTezuka’s animated short film is an allegorical gem in which a boy, in a country where the freedom to daydream is prohibited, is sectioned when he tells his parents of his sightings/imaginings of the titular (fictional?) character. Iain.St...

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David Cronenberg

Transfer (1966) From the Drain (1967) Stereo (1969) Crimes of the Future (1970) Letter from Michelangelo (1971) Tourettes (1971) Jim Ritchie Sculptor (1971) Scarborough Bluffs (1972) The Lie Chair (1975) Shivers (1975) The Italian Machine (1976) Rabid (1977) Fast Company (1979) The Brood (1979) Scanners (1981) Videodrome (1983) The Dead Zone (1983)...

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Mikhail Kalatozov

Salt for Svanetia (1930) Nail in the Boot (1931) Courage (1939) Wings of Victory (1941) Moscow Music Hall (1943) Hostile Whirlwinds (1953) True Friends (1954) The First Echelon (1955) The Cranes Are Flying (1957) The Unmailed Letter (1959) I Am Cuba (1964) The Red Tent (19...

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Charles Burnett

Several Friends (1969) The Horse (1973) Killer of Sheep (1977) My Brother's Wedding (1983) To Sleep with Anger (1990) The Glass Shield (1994) When It Rains (1995) Nightjohn (1996) The Wedding (1998) Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) The Annihilation of Fish (1999) Olivia's Story (2000) Finding Buck McHenry (2000) Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) Warming by...

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Guy Maddin

The Dead Father (1986) Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) Archangel (1990) Careful (1992) The Hands of Ida (1995) Sissy Boy Slap Party (1995) Odilon Redon or The Eye Like a Strange Balloon Mounts Toward Infinity (1995) Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997) The Cock Crew (1998) Maldoror: Tygers (1998) Hospital Fragment (1999) The Heart of the World (2000) Dracula: Pages from...

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Memory (1964)

RecommendedJapanAnimated Short FilmOriginal Title: のまれれWriter/Director: Tezuka OsamuAtomic clouds mutate into glasses of beer, and aliens with drawers for mouths tell tales about how the (now extinct) human race used to worship toilet bowls, in this silly, irreverent, and (unsurprisingly) rather lightweight yet very entertaining look at the role that memory plays in our everyday lives, from Japanese animator Tezuka. Iain.St...

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Richard Linklater

Woodshock (1985) It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988) Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991) Slacker (1991) Dazed and Confused (1993) Before Sunrise (1995) SubUrbia (1996) The Newton Boys (1998) Waking Life (2001) Tape (2001) Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003) The School of Rock (2003) $5.15/Hr. (2004) Before Sunset (2004) Bad News Bears (2005)...

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