Serge Leroy / Claude de Givrey / Bernard Revon / Guy Seligman – Les salades...
• Portrait of François Truffaut This excerpt from Serge Leroy’s 1961 documentary François Truffaut shows the newly celebrated filmmaker discussing his influences and beginnings along with Les Mistons...
View ArticleAndré Sauvage –Études sur Paris (1928)
André Sauvage’s Études sur Paris has long takes, improvised shots, no special effects, music or plot—essentially unwatchable to devotees of today’s wiz-bang, graphics-heavy documentary vocabulary....
View ArticleAdam Curtis – The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (2004)
BBC documentary in three parts written and produced by Adam Curtis on the history and influence of the ideologies of Islamic fundamentalism and neoconservatism Part 1 Baby It’s Cold Outside...
View ArticleRainer Werner Fassbinder – Theater in Trance (1981)
Quote: Rainer Werner Fassbinder visits for two weeks the “Theater der Welt” festival 1981 in Cologne. 30 companies showed in over 100 performances their own visions of a new theater. Framed by...
View ArticleJohn T. Davis – Hobo (1991)
A hobo works and wanders, a tramp dreams and wanders, and a bum drinks and wanders. Irish director John T Davis stashes a camera in his bedroll, catches out, and rides the rails from Minneapolis to...
View ArticleIsaki Lacuesta – Cravan vs. Cravan (2002)
In Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon’s Remembrance of Things to Come, a thoughtful and illuminating survey of Denis Bellon’s photo-reportage between the two world wars, the filmmakers provide a...
View ArticleBen Rivers – Trees Down Here (2018)
To build and create in a way that is open rather than closed: this stated ideal, heard at the beginning, is good for both art and architecture, and holds also for the film itself in its mysterious,...
View ArticleStefan Jarl – Dom kallar oss mods AKA They Call Us Misfits (1968)
Description: They Call Us Misfits follows a group of teenagers as they become recipients, then victims, of Sweden’s welfare-state economy. The group eschews traditional social values, engaging in...
View ArticleStefan Jarl – Ett Anständigt Liv aka A Decent Life (1979)
Description: IMDB – This anti-drug film is the second in the “Mods trilogy” the first is “They call us Mods”.It´s the same persons as in the first film: The very young people has now grown up but now...
View ArticleStefan Jarl – Det Sociala Arvet AKA The Social Contract (1993)
review(s): Almost 15 years has passed between “A Decent Life” and “The Social Contract”, the third and final part of Stefan Jarls mods trilogy. Stoffe has been dead for many years and his son is...
View ArticleDavid Markey – 1991: The Year Punk Broke (1992)
In August of 1991 New York’s Sonic Youth invited Los Angeles filmmaker David Markey along on a two week summer festival tour of Europe. Along the way they would cross paths with Dinosaur Jr., Babes In...
View ArticleStig Björkman – Ingmar Bergman – Bilder från lekstugan AKA Ingmar Bergman –...
Images from the Playground Short film, 2009 Behind-the-scenes compilation film directed by Stig Björkman. Depicting Ingmar Bergman on the set, both behind and in front of the camera. The film...
View ArticleAbel Ferrara – Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009)
“cinando.com” wrote: Napoli, Napoli, Napoli, Abel Ferrara’s new project, is not only a portrait of the city itself, but a deep sight into its humanity, vital and brutal, passionate and cruel at the...
View ArticleBernardo Bertolucci – La via del petrolio (1967)
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before...
View ArticleElizabeth Lennard – Tokyo melody: un film sur Ryuichi Sakamoto (1985)
from IMDB: Documentary directed by French photographer Elizabeth Lennard featuring the eclectic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto during the recording sessions of his 1984 album “Illustrated Musical...
View ArticleJane Gillooly – Suitcase of Love and Shame (2013)
Tender, erotic, and pathetic, this reconstructed narrative examines the obsession to chronicle the details of an adulterous affair. Suitcase of Love and Shame is a mesmerizing collage woven from 60...
View ArticleRoberto Roberti – Napoli che canta AKA When Naples sings (1926)
From il cinema muto italiano 1923-1931: Si tratta di una antologia di canzoni napoletane, interprete dai maggiori cantanti dell’epoca, i quali seguirono alcune prime visioni, cantando direttamente...
View ArticleMani Kaul – Siddeshwari (1990)
Summary from The Hindu: On paper, Siddheshwari, like so many films commissioned by the Films Division, is a cine-profile, of the Hindustani singer Siddheshwari Devi. However, Kaul turns the genre...
View ArticleJill Orschel – Sister Wife (2009)
Quote: An interview with a Mormon Fundamentalist who shares a husband with her younger sister. 125MB | 720×416 | avi http://nitroflare.com/view/57531AF824513E3/Sister_Wife_%282009%29.avi...
View ArticleJan Troell – 92,8 MHz Drömmar i söder AKA 92,8 MHz Dreams in the South (2000)
Press comment: Not unexpectedly Troell´s contribution to the group-project facing the new millenium -“Swedish stories” – is outstanding. Here the lives of ordinary people on the countryside on...
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