Jon Bang Carlsen – Hotel of the Stars (1981)
Quote: Along the northern edge of Hollywood on Franklin Avenue, there is a hotel where movie stars used to stay, but whose glory days are long gone. Celebrities no longer go there, and the new guests...
View ArticleBing Wang – Fu yu zi AKA Father and Sons (2014)
Synopsis: “In 2011, Cai took his two sons to his workplace, a factory in Fuming, where he worked as a stone caster, and found a school for them. Ever since, they have been living in a hut owned by the...
View ArticleChris Marker – Si j’avais quatre dromadaires AKA If I Had Four Dromedaries...
Composed entirely of still photographs shot by Marker himself over the course of his restless travel through twenty-six countries, If I had four camels stages a probing, at times agitated, search for...
View ArticleTravis Collins & Amélie Ravalec – Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay...
Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay traces the development of one of music’s most quietly influential genres from the post-industrial cities of Europe to America’s avant-garde scene, and...
View ArticleOlivier Smolders – La légende dorée (2015)
Collector of cursed musicians, unreasonable murderers, fairground freaks, paranoid revolutionaries, flatulists and suicidal hermits, a psychiatric patient presents a gallery of the historic figures he...
View ArticleMorgan Dews – Must Read After My Death (2007)
Synopsis: A grandmother dies and leaves behind hours of secret film and audio recordings as well as an envelope with the words “Must read after my death”, which reveal a dark history for her family to...
View ArticleFilippos Koutsaftis – Arkadia Haire (2015)
Synopsis The director brings the viewer on a journey to a place that is haunted, in present day, by the myth of a mysterious inscription. The viewer can see the film maker depict fractional images of...
View ArticleLuc Schaedler – Watermarks: Three Letters from China (2013)
Synopsis: Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments: in the deceptively idyllic Jiuxiancun...
View ArticleDaphne Matziaraki – 4.1 Miles (2016)
Synopsis: A coast guard captain on a small Greek island is suddenly charged with saving thousands of refugees from drowning at sea. Review: 4.1 miles – the distance between Turkey and Greece. It might...
View ArticleJim Jarmusch – Gimme Danger (2016)
An in-depth look at the legendary punk band, The Stooges. http://nitroflare.com/view/56A56E443BA0DAA/gimme.danger.2016.limited.720p.bluray.x264-cadaver.mkv...
View ArticleMarguerite Duras – Marguerite Duras: Worn out with Desire…to Write (1985)
Quote: She was the sort of woman who spared neither herself nor others—and arguably qualifies as 20th-century France’s greatest femme de lettres. In this interview, the late novelist and filmmaker...
View ArticleDon Askarian – Paradzhanov (1998)
One of the several documentaries dedicated to the great master Sergei Paradjanov, died in 1990. On this occasion, who is behind the camera is the acclaimed director of Armenian origin Don Askarian....
View ArticleNigel Williams – Arena: George Orwell [5 Parts] (1984)
Part One: Such Such Were the Joys ‘From a very early age, perhaps the age of 5 or 6, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer …One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on...
View ArticleOrlando von Einsiedel – The White Helmets (2016)
Oscar winner for BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT) As daily air strikes pound civilian targets in Syria, a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble....
View ArticleTed Bourne & Mary Robertson & Banks Tarver – Trumped: Inside the Greatest...
In a behind-the-scenes look at the biggest political upset in recent history, Mark Halperin, John Heilemann and Mark McKinnon offer unprecedented access and never-before-seen footage of candidate...
View ArticleAlice Diop – Vers la tendresse (2016)
This film is an intimate exploration of the male territory of a city commuter. By following the wanderings of a band of young men, we walk a world where female bodies are only virtual and ghostly...
View ArticleTony Stone – Peter and the Farm (2016)
Synopsis: Peter Dunning is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land’s 38 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children,...
View ArticleEryk Rocha – Cinema Novo (2016)
Cinema Novo is a movie-essay that investigates poetically the most important movement of Latin America cinema, through the thoughts of its main auteurs: Nelson Pereira dos Santos, Glauber Rocha, Leon...
View ArticleJem Cohen – This Is a History of New York (1987)
One of Jem Cohens first films (his third), conducted on Super 8 camera in 1987-88, consisting of impressionistic shots of urban development and decay. An impressive short piece (not least considering...
View ArticleMiguel Gonçalves Mendes – José e Pilar (2010)
“The Elephant’s Journey”, in which Saramago narrates the adventures and antics of an elephant transported from the court of King John III of Portugal to that of the Austrian Archduke Maximillian, is...
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