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    Jean Cocteau

    Jean Cocteau is a preeminent figure in 20th century French culture. A major contributor to the...

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    Drawing Restraint 9 (2006)

    The film concerns the theme of self-imposed limitation and continues Matthew Barney's interest...

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    Lost Highway (1997)

    Anonymous videotapes presage a musician's (Bill Pullman) murder conviction; a gangster's...

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    Eraserhead (1978)

    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable...

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    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    Bizarre events frustrate an ambassador (Fernando Rey), his wife (Delphine Seyrig) and friends,...

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    Nagisa Oshima

    Nagisa Oshima was the originator and most famous director of the Japanese New Wave. His...

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    Belle Toujours (2007)

    38 years after the original story, Henri Husson thinks he sees Séverine one night in a concert. He...

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    4 (2006)

    Four episodes depiciting life in Moscow and in the country. The opening of the film sets the whole...

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    Southlander (2003)

    Chance, a hapless Los Angeles musician is searching for the coveted Moletron synthesizer through the...

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    The Wayward Cloud (2007)

    Hsiao-Kang, now working as an adult movie actor, meets Shiang-chyi once again. Meanwhile, the city...

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    Alice (1988)

    Animated remake of "Alice in Wonderland."

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    Wind With the Gone

    Soledad is a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, but is tired of her job. She steals a taxicab and drives...

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    What Is It? (2006)

    What Is It? is a bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly comic film from the visionary mind of...

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    Faust (1994)

    Inventive, operatic presentation of the story of the German magician and astrologer held to have...

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    Naked Lunch (1991)

    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally...

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    Prospero's Books (1991)

    Shakespeare's exiled duke (John Gielgud) tells his tale in calligraphy in this version of ``The...

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    Themroc (1972)

    This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal...

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    One Piece!

    A series of 14 short mini-narratives, each focusing on a character in an everyday situation, who is...

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    Cremaster 5 (1997)

    As an opera plays, the Queen of Chain sings and executes the grand gestures of romantic suffering...

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    Period Piece

    Women from diverse cultural backgrounds, aged from 8-84, openly share poignant stories about the...

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    Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

    This magical tale recounts the adventures of Julie and the flamboyant Celine, a kind of White Rabbit...

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    Dandy Dust

    Dust, a split-personality cyborg of fluid gender, zooms through time and space in search of his/her...

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    Lunacy (2006)

    In eighteenth-century France (albeit one full of deliberate anachronisms) a young man, Jean Berlot,...

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    Les Favoris de la Lune (1984)

    Director Otar Iosseliani hit the nail on the head when describing Favorites of the Moon as "an...

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    The Holy Mountain

    "The Alchemist" is a man who assembles a group of people from all walks of life and...

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    La Citta Delle Donne (1981)

    A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.

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    Cremaster 3 (2003)

    The third film of a five-part art-installation epic -- it's part-zombie movie, part-gangster...

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    The Testament of Orpheus (1961)

    The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.

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    Cowards Bend the Knee (2004)

    While at an abortion clinic, a man falls for a woman who is madly in love with her dead father.

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    Careful (1993)

    Strange passions run amok in the alpine village of Tolzbad, whose residents live in obsessive...

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