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Frederick Wiseman – Racetrack (1985)
Synopsis RACETRACK is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading race tracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses....
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James Benning – One Way Boogie Woogie (1977)
From AllMovie Guide: “James Benning’s early films fused the “structuralist” investigations into sound-image relationships of filmmakers like Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton with an interest in...
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Michael Glawogger – Workingman’s Death (2005)
Quote: After you see this film, you’ll never complain about your job again. Subtitled something like “Five Portraits of Work in the Twenty-First Century,” Glawogger’s documentary features some of the...
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Ceyda Torun – Kedi (2016)
Synopsis: A profile of an ancient city and its unique people, seen through the eyes of the most mysterious and beloved animal humans have ever known, the Cat. Review: Gulls swarming and squeaking...
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Christopher Thompson & Alper Cagatay – How to Sell a Banksy (2012)
“Banksy’s work now reportedly changes hands for millions. But he puts up his street art for free. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you got your hands on one of these? Does it mean you’ve...
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Jacques Rozier – Paparazzi (1964)
Quote: Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers attempting to photograph her while she works on the set of Jean-Luc Godard’s film Le Mépris...
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Dziga Vertov – Kino-Pravda No. 9 (1922)
Quote: Between 1922 and 1925, a total of 23 issues of Dziga Vertov’s newsreel series Kino-Pravda (Kino-Truth) appeared (albeit irregularly and in very few copies). Vertov’s goal was to create a kind...
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Peter Guyer & Norbert Wiedmer – Sounds and Silence (2009)
The ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) record label is now in its 42nd year, and remains as mysterious and uncompromising as ever. This is primarily due to the fact that ECM is a nearly total...
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Pierre-André Boutang – L’abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze AKA Gilles Deleuze from...
Quote: Although Gilles Deleuze never wanted a film to be made about him, he agreed to Claire Parnet’s proposal to film a series of conversations in which each letter of the alphabet would evoke a...
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Emilie Thérond – Mon maître d’école AKA Farewell My Teacher (2015)
In St Just-and-Vacquières, Jean-Michel Burel, a schoolmaster of a multilevel class, begins his last school year before retirement. The teacher teaches tolerance and wisdom in the same way as spelling...
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Georges Rouquier – Farrebique ou Les quatre saisons AKA Farrebique (1946)
Quote: For one year, from 1944 to 1945, Georges Rouquier shared the life of a peasant family, his own, in the Farrebique farm in Goutrens, in the Rouergue region. He shows us life on a farm, marked by...
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Orson Welles – The Orson Welles Sketchbook (1955)
Orson Welles’ BBC series is basically a bunch of monologues by Welles, with some illustrations by Welles, about — theatre; theatre critics; voodoo magic used to kill theatre critics; bullfighting;...
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Travis Wilkerson – Machine Gun or Typewriter? (2015)
Once again, Travis Wilkerson (take a look at the credits) has worked (almost) by himself on his last film. Using the quest for a lost love as an excuse, this extremely generous film casts a wide net...
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Orson Welles – Vérités et mensonges aka F for Fake [+extras] (1973)
Quote: There were plenty of advantages to living in Paris in the early 1970s, especially if one was a movie buff with time on one’s hands. The Parisian film world is relatively small, and simply being...
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Arturo González Villaseñor – Llévate mis amores AKA All Of Me (2014)
Quote: The parts of the Planet we call Mexico and the United States share the greatest region with socio-economic-political differences. That makes it a bridge for thousands of migrants who expose...
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Alison Klayman – Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry [+Extras] (2012)
Over three years celebrated documentary filmmaker Alison Klayman followed leading contemporary artist Ai Weiwei as he prepared for exhibitions, spent time with his family and came to blows with the...
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Joaquín Jordà & Julián Marcos – Dia de muertos (1960)
The first was filmed on the Day of the Dead at Madrid’s Almudena cemetery. Leaving the grounds, the police intercepted the producers. Part of their recordings was purposely blurred so as to not be...
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Michael Wadleigh – Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (director’s cut) (1970)
from rottentomatoes: Michael Wadleigh’s WOODSTOCK: THREE DAYS OF PEACE & MUSIC finds the best rock stars of the 1960s performing at the historic Woodstock Music and Art Fair, the most celebrated...
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Carmine Amoroso – Porno e libertà AKA Porn to Be Free (2016)
Porno & libertà is a film documentary about the generation who fought against puritanism and censorship to defend freedom of speech and sexual freedom. From Italy, Denmark and France through to...
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Jennifer Peedom – Sherpa (2015)
Synopsis: A fight on Everest? It seemed incredible. But in 2013 news channels around the world reported an ugly brawl at 21,000ft as European climbers fled a mob of angry Sherpas. In 1953, New...
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