Frederick Wiseman – In Jackson Heights (2015)
Quote: Jackson Heights, Queens is one of the most culturally diverse communities in the US where 167 languages are spoken. IN JACKSON HEIGHTS explores the conflict between maintaining ties to old...
View ArticleClaude Jutra – Wow (1970)
Quote: Three girls and six boys from the Montreal middle class give of the universe of a certain youth a true, different image from the one we might have imagined. Drugs, love, sex, freedom,...
View ArticleEvangelia Kranioti – Exotica, Erotica, Etc. (2015)
Quote: ” Sailors are like terrorists. They arrive in ports with a bomb called love and throw it. And do you know what happens? The bomb explodes when they go away and they never come back, destroying...
View ArticleEduardo Williams – El auge del humano AKA The Human Surge (2016)
Quote: A 3-country observation of the millenials in Argentina, Mozambique, and the Philippines. Leo Goldsmith for Cinema Scope wrote: Williams’ cinema is one of vectors: across borders, networks, and...
View ArticleVlatko Gilic – In continuo (1971)
SIlver Bear Berlin Festival Winner – Best Short FIlm In continuo (1971), koji je nagrađen kao Najbolji kratki film na Berlinskom filmskom festivalu te godine, za koga se – bez sumnje – može reći da je...
View ArticleVlatko Gilic – Dan vise AKA A Day More (1972)
“Dan više” is about a mudbath near the small Serbian town of Bujanovac that is famous for healing illnesses. People cover themselves from head to toe in mud and then float on the water: Vlatko Gilić...
View ArticleFrederick Wiseman – High School (1969)
Quote: Documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman takes us inside Northeast High School as a fly on the wall to observe the teachers and how they interact with the students. The principle of editing in...
View ArticleAdam Curtis – The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom (2007)
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by British filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of...
View ArticleMark Cousins – Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)
This hypnotic documentary by cinephile par excellence Mark Cousins takes a brave – but increasingly rewarding – abstract angle by seeking through aesthetic rather than conventional exposition to...
View ArticleRaoul Ruiz – De grands événements et des gens ordinaires AKA Of Great Events...
Quote: In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in the 11th arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’...
View ArticleWiktor Grodecki – Not Angels But Angels (1994)
Quote: Interviews with a procurer and with nineteen boys and young men who are prostitutes in Prague. The youths range in age from 14 to 19. They hustle at the central train station and at clubs. Most...
View ArticlePol Cruchten – Voices from Chernobyl AKA La supplication (2016)
This film does not deal with Chernobyl, but rather with the world of Chernobyl, about which we know very little. Eyewitness reports have survived: scientists, teachers, journalists, couples, children…...
View ArticleJohn Gianvito – Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010)
Keith Ulich wrote: John Gianvito’s new documentary, the first of two films focusing on decommissioned, and hazardous, U.S. military bases-one named Clark, the other Subic-in Pampanga province,...
View ArticleDavid Bickerstaff – The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch (2016)
Quote: The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch features the exhibition ‘Jheronimus Bosch – Visions of Genius’ at Het Noordbrabants Museum in the southern Netherlands, which brought the majority of...
View ArticleThierry Demaizière & Alban Teurlai – Rocco (2016)
A behind-the-scene account of the porn world and its stars as they’ve never been seen before – and the no-holds-barred portrait of a true giant. Rocco Siffredi is to pornography what Mike Tyson is to...
View ArticleBing Wang – Ku Qian (2016)
Furiously developing Eastern China has been inhabited by enlarging number of immigrants. In search for better tomorrow, they become violent and corrupted....
View ArticleNicolas Klotz & Elisabeth Perceval – Mata Atlantica (2016)
Quote: A young girl disappears in a forest in the heart of São Paulo, Brazil. http://nitroflare.com/view/69C8182E4BA3FD7/Mata.Atlantica.2016.720p.WEB-DL.x264.AAC2.0-pirata00.mkv Language(s):Portuguese...
View ArticleRobert Kramer – Sous le vent AKA Leeward (1991)
Quote: The film is part of the television series “La culture en chantiers” (“Culture under Construction”). In the form of a video letter, this film goes up the Seine. Starting with the traces of the...
View ArticleChris Marker – Lettre de Sibérie AKA Letter from Siberia (1957)
Review from senses of cinema: Pick any recent book on documentary and you’re likely to find mention of Chris Marker’s oeuvre, usually characterising him as an essayist or even perhaps a poetic...
View ArticleNikolaus Geyrhalter – Homo sapiens (2016)
Quote: Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to be a human being. What will remain of our lives after we’re...
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