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Robert Gardner – Screening Room: Ricky Leacock (1972)
Quote: From his first film depicting his boyhood life in the Canary Islands, Richard “Ricky” Leacock has been obsessed with capturing on film the feeling of “being there.” This curiosity led him to...
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Laurent Herbiet – King Kong, le coeur des ténèbres AKA King Kong – The Heart...
In 1933, two bold and visionary directors dared to make a film that eclipsed everything that had gone before. When King Kong was released, the Hollywood film was celebrated as an artistic and...
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Margarethe von Trotta & Bettina Böhler & Felix Moeller – Auf der Suche nach...
Jim Tudor, screeanarchy.com Margarette von Trotta found Ingmar Bergman a long time ago. She recollects as much in her new documentary about the iconoclast Swedish filmmaker, Searching for Ingmar...
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Clara Kuperberg & Julia Kuperberg – Bearing Witness, Native American Voices...
imdb wrote: For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate “villain”-the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a...
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Peter Greenaway – Inside Rooms: 26 Bathrooms, London and Oxfordshire, 1985...
From the IMDB: 26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen by those who appreciate Greenaway’s darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side...
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Jean Cocteau – La villa Santo Sospir (1952)
PLOT: Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend’s villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by...
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Oliver Laxe – París #1 (2008)
Synopsis A group of friends share a cinematographical experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple- to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be...
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Richard Dindo – Aragon, le roman de Matisse (2004)
In 1941, the writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet fled the Nazi-occupied zone of France, arriving in Nice. There they met and befriended Henri Matisse. Aragon resolved to write a book about the grat...
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Tim Kirkman – Dear Jesse (1997)
Quote: Inspired by the first-person documentaries of Ross McElwee, DEAR JESSE is gay filmmaker Tim Kirkman’s filmed “letter” to the notoriously anti-gay Senator Jesse Helms. Shot during the 1996...
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Michael Boehlke, Carsten Fiebeler – OstPunk! Too much Future (2006)
Tells the story of punk in the GDR. OstPunk!.Too.much.Future.2006.DVDRip.x264.AC3.2.0-Oi!.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1 h 32 minSize: 1.90 GiBVideoCodec: x264Resolution: 716x572 ~>...
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Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Battaggia, Fabrice Aragno, Nicole Brenez –...
Quote: Last meeting with Jean-Luc Godard. This documentary shows the filmmaker in preparation for “Scénario”, his unfinished testamentary film, before closing with a moving scene: the final appearance...
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Marie Clémence Andriamonta-Paes – Fahavalo, Madagascar 1947 (2018)
from imdb: They were called fahavalo – enemies – because they rebelled in 1947 against French colonial authorities in Madagascar. Today, filmmaker Marie-Clémence Andriamonta Paes takes us where the...
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Mura Dehn – The Spirit Moves: A History of Black Social Dance on Film (1982)
A three part archival film documentary that traces the evolution of African American dance. Pt. 1: First half of the 20th Century; Pt. 2: Savoy Ballroom of Harlem; Pt. 3: Postwar era. “The Spirit...
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William Wyler – The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944)
Quote: Documentary about the 25th and last bombing mission of a B17, the “Memphis Belle”. The “Memphis Belle” took part in a great bombing raid on sub-pens in Wilhelmshafen, Germany. On their way they...
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Gala Hernández López – For Here Am I Sitting in a Tin Can Far Above the World...
imdb: A dream of an economic crisis crashing the cryptocurrency market. Thousands cryogenically frozen, awaiting better times....
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Oliver Laxe – Grrr! nº8: Suena la trompeta, ahora veo otra cara (2007)
Oliver Laxe presents at the 2010 Quinzaine des Realisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight) in Cannes his first feature, Todos vós sodes capitáns, wining the Fipresci Award. This is one of his first short...
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Gregory Bateson & Margaret Mead – Trance and Dance in Bali (1952)
Quote: Margaret Mead narrates an elaborate ritual performance. The ritual is reenacting a local mythological story, which is briefly described before the film. The basic story is that a king denies to...
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Alex Braverman – Thank You Very Much (2023)
Documentary about performance artist and “song and dance man” Andy Kaufman. Thank.You.Very.Much.2023.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-BYNDR.mkvGeneralContainer: MatroskaRuntime: 1h 39mnSize: 3.50...
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Gerald Peary – For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism...
SYNOPSIS Directed and written by Gerald Peary, Boston Phoenix critic and one-time Acting Curator of the Harvard Film Archive, For the Love of Movies offers a 100-year history of film criticism...
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Joël Santoni – La Course en Tête AKA The Head of the Field (1974)
A documentary film that looks at the racing and private life of professional road and track bicycle racer Eddy Merckx and which is one of the pillars of films about cycling....
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