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Shot in the summer of 1975 as General Franco lay dying, Saura’s masterpiece takes its title from a sinister Spanish proverb: 'raise ravens and they'll pluck out your eyes.'A subtle yet unmistakable indictment of the family as a repressive force in Spanish society, Cría cuervos centres on an eight-year-old orphan (the spellbinding Ana Torrent from Erice's The Spirit of the Beehive) who believes herself to have poisoned her cold, authoritarian father (Héctor Alterio), a high-ranking military man whom she blames for the death of her adored mother (Geraldine Chaplin). Looking forward to Pan's Labyrinth, Cría cuervos is one of cinema's most hauntingly vivid depictions of a child's fantasy-imbued reality. Darkly unsettling, deeply touching and comic by turns, this landmark of Spanish cinema - premiered shortly after the dictator’s death - exposes a stifling world in which talk of sex or the Civil War is still largely taboo.
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Date Found: June 10, 2011
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July 15, 2011
Bobby Fischer against the World is a feature documentary that uses the narrative tension of the 1972 match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer to explore the nature of genius, madness, and the game of chess itself. This film tells the stranger-than-fiction story of the rise and fall of an ...
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July 15, 2011
When an ageing Hobo (Hauer) jumps from a freight car in a new city hoping for a fresh start in life, he soon realizes he has well and truly reached the end of the line. He finds himself trapped in an urban hell, an anarchic world overrun by murderers, rapists, paedophiles, petty crooks, ...
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July 15, 2011
When an ageing Hobo (Hauer) jumps from a freight car in a new city hoping for a fresh start in life, he soon realizes he has well and truly reached the end of the line. He finds himself trapped in an urban hell, an anarchic world overrun by murderers, rapists, paedophiles, petty crooks, ...
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July 15, 2011
Set in an isolated region in Northeast Turkey, Honey (Bal) arrives at Yusuf’s childhood when six year old Yusuf has just started primary school and is learning how to read and write.  His father Yakup works as a honey-gatherer, a risky trade which involves climbing up ...
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July 15, 2011
Set in an isolated region in Northeast Turkey, Honey (Bal) arrives at Yusuf’s childhood when six year old Yusuf has just started primary school and is learning how to read and write.  His father Yakup works as a honey-gatherer, a risky trade which involves climbing up ...
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