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Peter Whitehead – The Benefit of the Doubt (1967)
Quote:Following this success, Whitehead was invited to film a controversial new play, US, by radical theatre director Peter Brook. Building on the provocative question of Britain’s relationship to...
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Suha Arin – Agacin Türküsü AKA The Ballad of the Wood (1987)
Another fantastic Süha Arın documentary, lovingly in-depth, about various types of ancient craftsmanship that are dying out in the modern world. It’s an episode from the series Old Houses, Old...
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Xu Tong – Fortune Teller (2010)
StorylineLi Baicheng is a charismatic fortune teller who services a clientele of prostitutes and marginalized figures whose jobs, like his, are commonplace but technically illegal in China. He...
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Ben Shapiro – Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012)
Gregory Crewdson is a photographer, yet once you’ve encountered his work, it’s hard not to think of him as a film director. That’s because each and every one of Crewdson’s photographs has the...
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Unknown – Przed Bitwa o Warszawe AKA Before the Battle of Warsaw (1945)
Quote:One of the few examples of Polish film production of the operation of entering Warsaw by the Soviet troops (with the Polish Army units) Quote:This short film depicting Bolesław Bierut and Michał...
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Peter Rowe – Splatter: The Architects of Fear (1986)
Quote:What is this piece of SOV madness? A not entirely convincing special effects how-to video? A fake documentary on a zombie/mutant sleazefest set in the year 2002? Who knows! 1.04GB | 1h 17m |...
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Hugh Burnett – Warsaw Ghetto (1965)
From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:This secret Nazi film – unforgettable documentary of a vanquished world – was photographed just before the Ghetto’s total destruction and either never...
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Steven Cantor & Peter Spirer – Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann...
Blood Ties: The Life and Work of Sally Mann is a 1994 short documentary film directed by Steven Cantor and Peter Spirer. It was premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an...
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Dina Mande – Tin City (2019)
In the heart of Paso Robles Wine Country there is a concentrated village-a wine region within a wine region-populated by rebellious, creative winemakers, brew and cider masters and distillers working...
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Gordon Parks – Moments Without Proper Names (1987)
Gordon Parks (1912-2006) was a Renaissance man talented in many mediums, from photography and film to writing, music, and painting. He may be best known for directing the movie Shaft (1971) and...
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John Akomfrah – The Last Angel of History (1996)
This cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction, estrangement, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement, cultural...
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Jürgen Böttcher – Der Sekretär AKA The Secretary (1967)
Quote:Presentation of a commited State Party (Socialist Unity Party of Germany) secretary at the Chemicals Combine in Buna. A former miner and small farmer rises to a leading political position –...
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Hans Rolf Strobel & Heinrich Tichawsky – Notizen aus dem Altmühltal aka Notes...
A sociological essay on a Bavarian region where the economic miracle is left out. The documentary emphasises the declining populations due to migration and notes how such places come with “a lot of...
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Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville – Six fois deux/Sur et sous la...
Quote:In this radically unconventional television series, Godard and Miéville analyze the political economy of personal and mass media communications in relation to society, culture, family and the...
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Frank Farrell – Hackers 95 (1995)
Hackers ’95 is a 90 minute part documentary, part spoof. Phon-E and R.F. Burns cover the hacker related goings on of 1995. SummerCon 95, Defcon 3, Operation Cyber Snare, Area 51, and more are covered....
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Peter Whitehead – Wholly Communion (1966)
Quote:On 11 June 1965, the Royal Albert Hall played host to a slew of American and European beat poets for an extraordinary impromptu event – the International Poetry Incarnation – that arguably...
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Aleksandr Rastorguev – Chistyy chetverg AKA Maundy Thursday (2003)
Film offers an unexpected perspective on the everyday life of Russian soldiers during the Chechen war. Not far from Grozny, an old steam locomotive and several wagons standing on the reserve tracks...
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Giancarlo Soldi – Diabolik sono io AKA Diabolik Is Me (2019)
Synopsis:‘Giancarlo Soldi’s docufilm […] focuses on the mysterious disappearance of the first designer to give a face to the famous Italian comic book hero.Despite being the first designer to give...
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François Reichenbach – Le Paris des mannequins (1962)
Céline G. Arzatian wrote:A photo shoot on the roofs and in the streets of Paris, under the astonished eyes of the inhabitants. “The gaze is the way to be amazed again,” says François Reichenbach. A...
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Frederick Wiseman – Essene (1972) (HD)
In contrast to the oppressive rigour of Wiseman’s earlier subjects – including High School (1968) and Basic Training (1971) – this investigation into an organised social structure is tender and...
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