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David Bickerstaff – The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch (2016)
Quote: After 500 years Bosch’s paintings still shock and fascinate us. Delve into the vivid imagination of this true visionary. Who was Hieronymus Bosch? Why do his strange and fantastical paintings...
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Laura Poitras – Risk (2016)
Quote: The story of WikiLeak’s editor-in-chief Julian Assange as seen by documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras. Quote: I like to think that the premiere of Risk started with a small, covert call to...
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Benoît Jacquot – Jacques Lacan: la psychanalyse 1 (1974)
Quote: In 1973 Benoit Jacquot shot two films on Jacques Lacan, Psychanalyse I and II, broadcast on French television the same year. Les Éditions du Seuil published the text the following year; the...
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Josh & Benny Safdie – Shorts from “Josh & Benny Safdie Collection” (2006 – 2012)
We’re Going to the Zoo (2006) Quote: This is a story about a real life brother and sister and their journey to the zoo. On their way, they accidentally pick up a hitchhiker. The Back of Her Head...
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Semyon Aranovich & Aleksandr Sokurov – Altovaya Sonata. Dmitriy Shostakovich...
Quote: The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many archives, at one time censored by the Soviet...
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Kasper Collin – I Called Him Morgan (2016)
On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common-law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz...
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Joshua Oppenheimer – Early Works – A Collection of 12 Films (1995 – 2003)
Quote: Joshua Oppenheimer is one of the world’s most renowned documentary filmmakers. His multi award-winning films The Act of Killing (2012) and The Look of Silence (2014) have challenged and...
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Xiong zaixia – Yi Ge Ren De Zi Mu aka Zen for Subtitle (2017)
Synopsis What does subtitle translation mean in my eyes? I have devoted my youth and effort of 4 years of campus life and 2 years of work life. When I have given up translating subtitle, I want to...
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John Ford & Otto Brower – Sex Hygiene (1941)
Searching for John Ford by Joseph McBride wrote: Shot quickly at Fox and ready for use by March 1941, the black and white Sex Hygiene is suitably horrifying but also somewhat tongue in cheek. Coing...
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Rebecca Baron – Detour de Force (2014)
Detour de Force presents the world of thoughtographer Ted Serios, a charismatic Chicago bell hop who, in the mid-1960’s produced hundreds of Polaroid images from his mind. Constructed from 16mm...
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Eric Steel – Kiss the Water (2013)
Quote/ “I read the obituaries in The New York Times first thing every day. I know I am not alone in this. It is a melancholy devotion, and slightly occult, and allows me to wander outside my own skin,...
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Nick Broomfield – Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (1995)
Synopsis: A documentary crew from the BBC arrives in L.A. intent on interviewing Heidi Fleiss, a year after her arrest for running a brothel but before her trial. Several months elapse before the...
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Masao Adachi – Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma AKA Serial Killer (1969)
Midnight Eye wrote: A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing...
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Sheldon Renan – The Killing of America (1981)
Severin Films wrote: “AUSTERE AND REMARKABLE…A battering-ram cavalcade of race riots, genuine assassination footage and interviews with killers that strikes a powerful chord.” – The Guardian “A...
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Jean-Luc Godard – JLG/JLG – autoportrait de décembre AKA JLG/JLG...
Quote: Director Jean-Luc Godard reflects in this movie about his place in film history, the interaction of film industry and film as art, as well as the act of creating art. Quote: Jean-Luc Godard at...
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Ulrich Seidl – Safari (2016)
Ulrich Seidl follow wealthy tourists going on safari to kill often endangered species. Some determinedly searching for trophies, others to enjoy. Even if every prey comes at a price, they always find...
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Ben Rivers & Ben Russell – A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (2013)
Synopsis: A Spell follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian...
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Jean Rouch – Jaguar (1967)
“Plot Synopsis by Dan Pavlides Three people from the country travel to the big city to seek employment in this documentary that contrasts primitive and modern life in Nigeria. After they have money,...
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Raoul Ruiz – Les divisions de la nature AKA The Divisions of Nature (1981)
Synopsis: ‘Les divisions is a documentary about the Château de Chambord and the title comes from the Divisione of Johannes Scotus (Erigena), the ninth century Irish philosopher (who was a ‘realist’,...
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Agnès Varda – Mur murs AKA Mural Murals (1981)
Quote: After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color and vitality, Mur...
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