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[the-cineasts]

“Django (1966) is a weary gunman dragging a coffin through muddy border towns, where soldiers drink, prostitutes wait indoors, and frightened locals move carefully between gunfire, rain, and collapsing wooden buildings near the Mexican border.”

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Directed by

Sergio Corbucci

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Screenplay by

Sergio Corbucci

Piero Vivarelli

Franco Rossetti

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Starring

Franco Nero

Loredana Nusciak

José Bódalo

Ángel Álvarez

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Cinematography

Enzo Barboni

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Edited by

Eugenio Alabiso

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Music by

Luis Bacalov

.

Production companies

B.R.C. Produzione Film

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Distributed by

Euro International Film

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Release date

6 April 1966

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Running time

91 minutes

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Country

Italy

Spain

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Language

Italian

[the-cineasts]

5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) is a quiet, emotionally precise look at how distance and time wear down relationships. Told in three chapters, Makoto Shinkai focuses on small moments rather than dramatic turns, letting separation do the work. Its meticulous animation heightens the sense of longing, making it a restrained, melancholic study of love that slowly fades.

.

Directed by

Makoto Shinkai

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Screenplay by

Makoto Shinkai

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Starring

Kenji Mizuhashi

Yoshimi Kondou

Satomi Hanamura

.

Cinematography

Makoto Shinkai

.

Edited by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Music by

Tenmon

.

Production company

CoMix Wave Films

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Distributed by

Toho

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Release date

3 March 2007 (Japan)

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Running time

63 minutes

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Country

Japan

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Language

Japanese

[the-cineasts]

“Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) is in a rural asylum during winter, a woman waits for her brother, joins daily routines, walks stone paths, watches other patients, and listens to distant conversations while uncertainty lingers around her place there.”

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Directed by

Bruno Dumont

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Screenplay by

Bruno Dumont

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Starring

Juliette Binoche

Jean-Luc Vincent

Robert Leroy

Emmanuel Kauffmann

Marion Keller

Armelle Leroy-Rolland

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Cinematography

Guillaume Deffontaines

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Edited by

Bruno Dumont

Basile Belkhiri

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Music by

Johann Sebastian Bach

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Production companies

3B Productions

Arte France Cinéma

C.R.R.A.V. Nord-Pas-de-Calais

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Distributed by

ARP Sélection

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Release date

13 March 2013 (France)

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Running time

97 minutes

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Country

France

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Language

French

[the-cineasts]

Meeting People Is Easy (1998) is a documentary following Radiohead through airports, hotels, backstage rooms, and interviews during the OK Computer tour, where long drives, fluorescent lighting, and repetitive press routines slowly wear down conversations, faces, and moments of silence.

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Directed by

Grant Gee

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Screenplay by

Grant Gee

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Starring

Radiohead

Thom Yorke

Jonny Greenwood

Ed O’Brien

Colin Greenwood

Philip Selway

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Cinematography

Grant Gee

.

Edited by

Grant Gee

.

Music by

Radiohead

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Production companies

EMI

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Distributed by

EMI

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Release date

30 November 1998

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Running time

95 minutes

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Country

United Kingdom

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Language

English

[the-cineasts]

Normal People (2020) is a tender, quietly devastating portrait of young love, where Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie Macdonald trace the fragile bond between two Irish students drifting through intimacy, insecurity, and class divides. Intimate and restrained, the series captures longing, miscommunication, and emotional vulnerability with disarming honesty.

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Created by

Sally Rooney

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Based on the novel by

Sally Rooney

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Directed by

Lenny Abrahamson

Hettie Macdonald

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Screenplay by

Sally Rooney

Alice Birch

Mark O’Rowe

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Starring

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Paul Mescal

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Cinematography

Suze Lavelle

Kate McCullough

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Edited by

Nathan Nugent

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Music by

Stephen Rennicks

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Production companies

Element Pictures

Screen Ireland

BBC Three

Hulu

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Release date

26 April 2020

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Running time

12 episodes

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Country

Ireland

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Language

English

[the-cineasts]

About Dry Grasses (2023) is a patient, introspective portrait of isolation and moral ambiguity, where Nuri Bilge Ceylan stretches time and dialogue into tense exchanges, revealing fragile egos and shifting truths with quiet, lingering discomfort.

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Directed by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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Screenplay by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Ebru Ceylan

Akın Aksu

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Starring

Deniz Celiloğlu

Merve Dizdar

Musab Ekici

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Cinematography

Cevahir Şahin

Kürşat Üresin

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Edited by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

.

Music by

Various artists

.

Production companies

NBC Film

Memento Production

Arte France Cinéma

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Distributed by

Memento Films International

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Release date

19 May 2023 (Cannes)

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Running time

197 minutes

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Country

Turkey

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Language

Turkish

[the-cineasts]

Jeanne la Pucelle (1994) is a patient, austere study of faith and destiny, where Jacques Rivette observes Joan’s journey with restraint, clarity, and quiet intensity, grounding history in lived gestures and moral weight.

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Directed by

Jacques Rivette

.

Screenplay by

Jacques Rivette

Christine Laurent

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Starring

Sandrine Bonnaire

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Cinematography

William Lubtchansky

.

Edited by

Nicole Lubtchansky

.

Music by

Jordi Savall

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Production companies

Pierre Grise Productions

La Sept Cinéma

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Distributed by

Pierre Grise Distribution

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Release date

1994

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Running time

336 minutes

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Country

France

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Language

French

[the-cineasts]

Wuthering Heights (2011) strips Emily Brontë’s gothic romance down to wind, mud, and raw feeling. Andrea Arnold shoots the Yorkshire moors with tactile immediacy, turning the landscape into a living force. With sparse dialogue and intense physical presence, the film becomes a harsh, elemental portrait of obsession, class cruelty, and feral love.

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Directed by

Andrea Arnold

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Screenplay by

Andrea Arnold

Olivia Hetreed

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Based on the novel by

Emily Brontë

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Starring

Kaya Scodelario

James Howson

Solomon Glave

Shannon Beer

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Cinematography

Robbie Ryan

.

Edited by

Nicolas Chaudeurge

.

Music by

Various artists

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Production companies

Ecosse Films

HanWay Films

Film4

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Distributed by

Artificial Eye

.

Release date

2 September 2011 (Venice)

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Running time

129 minutes

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Country

United Kingdom

.

Language

English

[the-cineasts]

5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) is a quiet, emotionally precise look at how distance and time wear down relationships. Told in three chapters, Makoto Shinkai focuses on small moments rather than dramatic turns, letting separation do the work. Its meticulous animation heightens the sense of longing, making it a restrained, melancholic study of love that slowly fades.

.

Directed by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Screenplay by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Starring

Kenji Mizuhashi

Yoshimi Kondou

Satomi Hanamura

.

Cinematography

Makoto Shinkai

.

Edited by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Music by

Tenmon

.

Production company

CoMix Wave Films

.

Distributed by

Toho

.

Release date

3 March 2007 (Japan)

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Running time

63 minutes

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Country

Japan

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Language

Japanese

[the-cineasts]

Love Exposure (2008) is a wild, excessive collision of romance, religion, perversion, and violence, where Sion Sono turns chaos into cinema, shocking, hilarious, exhausting, and strangely sincere across four unforgettable hours.

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Directed by

Sion Sono

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Screenplay by

Sion Sono

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Starring

Takahiro Nishijima

Hikari Mitsushima

Sakura Ando

Yasuhisa Furuhara

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Cinematography by

Mutsuo Naganuma

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Edited by

Junichi Itō

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Music by

Various artists

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Production companies

Omega Project

Nikkatsu

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Distributed by

Phantom Film

.

Release date

31 January 2008

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Running time

237 minutes

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Country

Japan

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Language

Japanese

[the-cineasts]

“Django (1966) is a weary gunman dragging a coffin through muddy border towns, where soldiers drink, prostitutes wait indoors, and frightened locals move carefully between gunfire, rain, and collapsing wooden buildings near the Mexican border.”

.

Directed by

Sergio Corbucci

.

Screenplay by

Sergio Corbucci

Piero Vivarelli

Franco Rossetti

.

Starring

Franco Nero

Loredana Nusciak

José Bódalo

Ángel Álvarez

.

Cinematography

Enzo Barboni

.

Edited by

Eugenio Alabiso

.

Music by

Luis Bacalov

.

Production companies

B.R.C. Produzione Film

.

Distributed by

Euro International Film

.

Release date

6 April 1966

.

Running time

91 minutes

.

Country

Italy

Spain

.

Language

Italian

[the-cineasts]

“Django (1966) is a weary gunman dragging a coffin through muddy border towns, where soldiers drink, prostitutes wait indoors, and frightened locals move carefully between gunfire, rain, and collapsing wooden buildings near the Mexican border.”

.

Directed by

Sergio Corbucci

.

Screenplay by

Sergio Corbucci

Piero Vivarelli

Franco Rossetti

.

Starring

Franco Nero

Loredana Nusciak

José Bódalo

Ángel Álvarez

.

Cinematography

Enzo Barboni

.

Edited by

Eugenio Alabiso

.

Music by

Luis Bacalov

.

Production companies

B.R.C. Produzione Film

.

Distributed by

Euro International Film

.

Release date

6 April 1966

.

Running time

91 minutes

.

Country

Italy

Spain

.

Language

Italian

[the-cineasts]

5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) is a quiet, emotionally precise look at how distance and time wear down relationships. Told in three chapters, Makoto Shinkai focuses on small moments rather than dramatic turns, letting separation do the work. Its meticulous animation heightens the sense of longing, making it a restrained, melancholic study of love that slowly fades.

.

Directed by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Screenplay by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Starring

Kenji Mizuhashi

Yoshimi Kondou

Satomi Hanamura

.

Cinematography

Makoto Shinkai

.

Edited by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Music by

Tenmon

.

Production company

CoMix Wave Films

.

Distributed by

Toho

.

Release date

3 March 2007 (Japan)

.

Running time

63 minutes

.

Country

Japan

.

Language

Japanese

[the-cineasts]

.

Created by

Sally Rooney

.

Based on the novel by

Sally Rooney

.

Directed by

Lenny Abrahamson

Hettie Macdonald

.

Screenplay by

Sally Rooney

Alice Birch

Mark O’Rowe

.

Starring

Daisy Edgar-Jones

Paul Mescal

.

Cinematography

Suze Lavelle

Kate McCullough

.

Edited by

Nathan Nugent

.

Music by

Stephen Rennicks

.

Production companies

Element Pictures

Screen Ireland

BBC Three

Hulu

.

Release date

26 April 2020

.

Running time

12 episodes

.

Country

Ireland

.

Language

English

[the-cineasts]

“Damnation (1988) is set in a rain-soaked industrial town where a man drifts between a bar, a mine, and a singer, repeating small routines, lingering in mud, smoke, and quiet, uneasy conversations that never resolve.”

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Directed by

Béla Tarr

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Screenplay by

Béla Tarr

László Krasznahorkai

.

Starring

Miklós Székely B.

Valéria Varga

György Cserhalmi

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Cinematography

Gábor Medvigy

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Edited by

Ágnes Hranitzky

.

Music by

Mihály Víg

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Production companies

Társulás Filmstúdió

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Distributed by

Mokép

.

Release date

1988

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Running time

116 minutes

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Country

Hungary

.

Language

Hungarian

[the-cineasts]

Wuthering Heights (2011) strips Emily Brontë’s gothic romance down to wind, mud, and raw feeling. Andrea Arnold shoots the Yorkshire moors with tactile immediacy, turning the landscape into a living force. With sparse dialogue and intense physical presence, the film becomes a harsh, elemental portrait of obsession, class cruelty, and feral love.

.

Directed by

Andrea Arnold

.

Screenplay by

Andrea Arnold

Olivia Hetreed

.

Based on the novel by

Emily Brontë

.

Starring

Kaya Scodelario

James Howson

Solomon Glave

Shannon Beer

.

Cinematography

Robbie Ryan

.

Edited by

Nicolas Chaudeurge

.

Music by

Various artists

.

Production companies

Ecosse Films

HanWay Films

Film4

.

Distributed by

Artificial Eye

.

Release date

2 September 2011 (Venice)

.

Running time

129 minutes

.

Country

United Kingdom

.

Language

English

[the-cineasts]

5 Centimeters Per Second (2007) is a quiet, emotionally precise look at how distance and time wear down relationships. Told in three chapters, Makoto Shinkai focuses on small moments rather than dramatic turns, letting separation do the work. Its meticulous animation heightens the sense of longing, making it a restrained, melancholic study of love that slowly fades.

.

Directed by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Screenplay by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Starring

Kenji Mizuhashi

Yoshimi Kondou

Satomi Hanamura

.

Cinematography

Makoto Shinkai

.

Edited by

Makoto Shinkai

.

Music by

Tenmon

.

Production company

CoMix Wave Films

.

Distributed by

Toho

.

Release date

3 March 2007 (Japan)

.

Running time

63 minutes

.

Country

Japan

.

Language

Japanese