Pather Panchali 1955 ‘পথের পাঁচালী’
Directed by Satyajit Ray
Impoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. Alone, his wife, Sarbojaya, looks after her rebellious daughter, Durga, and her young son, Apu #Cinemastodon#India#Film
Black Pit of Dr. M 1959 ‘Misterios de ultratumba’
Directed by Fernando Méndez
Two doctors make a pact in which they swear that the first to die will return - if possible - to tell the other how to get a glimpse of the afterlife while still alive. #mexico#film#cinema#nw
Goodbye, Dragon Inn 2003 ‘不散’
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
On a dark and rainy night, a historic #Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 “Dragon Inn”. As the film plays, the lives of the theater’s various employees and patrons intersect, and two ghostly actors arrive to mourn the passing of an era.#Taiwan#Cinema#Cinemastodon#Film
Hiroshima Heartache 1962 ‘その夜は忘れない’
Directed by Kōzaburō Yoshimura
17 years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a reporter looks for the bomb’s effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn’t able to move on. #Film#Japan
Black Wind 1965 ‘Viento negro’
Directed by Servando González
The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite #film#mexico#cinema#movies#blackandwhite
A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman’s back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare... #japanese#cinema#film#japan#cinemastodon#movies
Un homme qui dort 1974
Directed Georges Perec, Bernard Queysanne
A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him. #Cinemastodon@france#Film
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 ‘Նռան գույնը’
Directed by Sergei Parajanov
The life of the revered 18th-century #Armenian#poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the life of the #artist from childhood up to his death, the movie addresses in particular his relationships with women, including his muse. The production tells Sayat-Nova’s dramatic story by using both his poems and largely still camerawork, creating a work hailed as revolutionary #Cinema#Movie#Art#Cinematography