Ken Russell – The Planets (1983)
IMDB wrote: “The Planets” brings visual life to the classic Horst score with images that move beyond the graphic descriptions of the planets. It evokes thoughts of the solar system as it pertains to...
View ArticleEmelie Mahdavian – Bitterbrush (2021)
In the remote and rugged mountains of the American West, two young women contemplate the future as they work alone herding cattle. Bitterbrush.2021.720p.HULU.WEB-DL.H.264-NOGRP.mkvGeneralContainer:...
View ArticleEverardo González – Una jauría llamada Ernesto AKA A Wolfpack Called Ernesto...
Combines true stories to create its titular character, and parallels with the manufacturing of a gun. The two stories’ convergent paths twist in a double helix of violence which leaves one person dead...
View ArticlePaul Poet – Ausländer raus! Schlingensiefs Container AKA Foreigners Out!...
Quote: Foreigners Out! Schlingensief’s Container documents an experiment which provoked national political hysteria. In the summer of 2000, the German performance artist Christoph Schlingensief placed...
View ArticleRobert B. Weide & Don Argott – Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021)
Recounting the extraordinary life of author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 25-year friendship with the filmmaker who set out to document it....
View ArticlePeter Greenaway – Four American Composers (1983)
AMG plotIt makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero’s Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers,...
View ArticleJudy Irving – Pelican Dreams (2014)
Judy Irving (“The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”) follows a wayward California pelican from her “arrest” on the Golden Gate Bridge into care at a rehab facility and explores nesting grounds, Pacific...
View ArticleJohn Smith – Being John Smith (2024)
Quote: “An autobiographical reflection on his unassuming name leads the filmmaker down a wayward path through family photographs, personal archives, and internet searches. Alternately wry and wistful,...
View ArticleVarious – I Ruhrområdet AKA Im Ruhrgebiet (1967)
Synopsis The Ruhr, a present heavy with anger: the issue of resistance, of fighting against fascism, of the workers’ movement. There is also the question of the overwhelming rage that can surge up...
View ArticleBruno Monsaingeon – David Oïstrakh: artiste du peuple? aka David Oistrakh:...
David Fyodorovich Oistrakh (September 30, 1908 – October 24, 1974) was a renowned Soviet classical violinist. Oistrakh collaborated with major orchestras and musicians from many parts of the world,...
View ArticleRaymond Depardon – Jean-Luc Godard à la Cinémathèque française (1985)
Quote: In 1986, the Cinémathèque française celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Throughout the year, filmmakers and personalities from the world of cinema (from Bette Davis to Wim Wenders, from Elia...
View ArticleAlain Cavalier – Georges de La Tour (1998)
“Since a long time I have been linked to the painter Georges de La Tour. His paintings helped me in making my films. Even more, in a precise way they crossed my personal life. The film I shot about La...
View ArticleLuca Guadagnino – Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams (2020)
The life of Italian shoemaker Salvatore Ferragamo, who created shoes for Hollywood stars during the silent film era and for iconic films of the period....
View ArticleNicola Graef – Ich. Immendorff (2008)
He is one of Germany’s most important artists, a man who has spent his life intervening, provoking, polarizing. No other contemporary artist has succeeded in capturing the German psychic landscape on...
View ArticleFrédéric Sojcher – Cinéastes à Tout Prix AKA Born to Film (2004)
Quote: Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix) RousseauWith winning merriment and generous clips, Frédéric Sojcher’s Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix) explores the oeuvre of three Belgian pioneers of...
View ArticleDávid Mikulán & Bálint Révész – Kix (2024)
Synopsis This urban odyssey begins with a chance meeting on the streets of Budapest, when the two filmmakers run into Sanyi, a charismatic, unruly 8-year-old who constantly tests boundaries and...
View ArticleMark Cousins – The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018)
Visionary cinema historian Mark Cousins (THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY) charts the unknown territory of the imagination of one of the twentieth century’s most revolutionary artists. Granted...
View ArticleDavid Tedeschi – Beatles ’64 (2024)
Captures the band’s electrifying 1964 US debut amid fan frenzy. With rare behind-the-scenes footage, it chronicles their unprecedented rise to global superstardom after performing on The Ed Sullivan...
View ArticleSteve Humphries – Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)
This is a documentary upon which The Magdalene Sisters by Peter Mullan was made. It shows testimonies of Martha Cooney, Christina Mulcahy and the others. Basically, if you have seen the movie there is...
View ArticleRicky D’Ambrose – The Sky Is Clear And Blue Today (2019)
An American director, hired by German television to make a film about 9/11, re-stages a controversial photograph taken along the Brooklyn waterfront soon after the collapse of the World Trade Center....
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