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Werner Herzog – The White Diamond (2004)
Aeronautic engineer Graham Dorrington tries his hand at a journey towards the massive waterfalls of Kaieteur, in the heart of Guyana, hoping that his helium airship will make it successfully over the...
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Bohdan Kosinski – Lubelska Starówka AKA Lublin’s Old Town (1956)
About this movie: One of the most interesting films in the black series, describing reality in strongly, ironic and sarcastic manner. The aim is not only to intervene, but to expose the method of...
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Romain Goupil – Lettre pour L… (1994)
She was 18, they were in love, lived together 10 years. 20 years letter she sends him a letter. She’s sick, does not talk much about her, but asks him a question “When will you make a good movie ?”....
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Brigitte Poupart – Over My Dead Body (2012)
Dancer and choreographer Dave St-Pierre is adored by critics and audiences alike. His subversive, innovative works are taking Europe by storm. But his own body is failing him. Dave is 34 and has...
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Ben Hopkins – Hasret: Sehnsucht (2015)
A European director is commissioned to make a documentary about Istanbul. He starts to film its everyday life – but soon becomes drawn to the darker, more mysterious side of the city – its past, its...
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Elio Espana – Bob Dylan and the Band: Down in the Flood (2012)
Interesting doc about Dylan and the Band’s collaboration from 65 through 76. Interviews with Garth Hudson, John Simon, Barney Hoskyns, Syd Griffin etc. Rare footage from IOW 69, Tour 66. Sound...
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Various – The Economics of Happiness (2011)
Quote: ‘The Economics of Happiness’ features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change. The documentary describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing...
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Joris Ivens, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani – L’Italia non è un paese povero...
According to Carlos Böker’s thesis, Joris Ivens, Film-Maker: Facing Reality (“Studies in Photography and Cinematography, No. 1”, UMI Research Press, 1978): Quote: …… Ivens was approached by Enrico...
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Michael Tully – Silver Jew (2007)
IMDB member description: An intimate portrait of reclusive poet/musician David Berman and his band the Silver Jews. In the midst of their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006, David, his wife...
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George C. Stoney – All My Babies (1952)
Quote: One of the first and most important films to treat child birth as a human event and to show it fully. This documentary of a compassionate Black midwife at work in the deep South remained...
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Jeff Feuerzeig – Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King (1993)
Jad and David Fair are Half Japanese, “The World’s Greatest Underground Band” and the most unlikely pair of rock heroes as can be imagined. Half Japanese play their hearts out on rooftops and nursing...
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Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan Ivens – Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple...
On the border of North and South Vietnam, civilians live underground and cultivate their land in the dead of night, farmers take up arms, and bombs fall like clockwork. Joris Ivens and Marceline...
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Abdul Latif Salazar – Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness (2004)
Exploring the life and impact of the greatest spiritual and legal philosopher in Islamic history, this film examines Ghazali’s existential crisis of faith that arose from his rejection of religious...
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Dariush Mehrjui – Voyage au pays De Rimbaud (1983) DVD
Dariush Mehrjui did this for France 3, during his french exile. A biopic of Rimbaud, with visions of contemporary france. Starring : Pierre Bayle … Arthur Rimbaud Mathieu Joly … Arthur Rimbaud at 8...
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Heinz Emigholz – Streetscapes [Dialogue] AKA Streetscapes – Chapter 3 (2017)
A film director confides in his interlocutor. He talks about the working process, about creative blocks, about artistic crises and expressive forces. At some point, the idea takes hold that this...
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Gudie Lawaetz – Mai 68 (1974)
40 years on: Mai 68 This movie was made by Uk journalist Gudie Lawaetz only 4 years after the events took place. It was not much publicized at the time and was released in VHS a decade later. In...
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Agnès Varda – Les demoiselles ont eu 25 ans AKA The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)
A recital becomes part of the French culture; 25 years later the performers return to the village where it was first launched. 1.18B |1 h 7 min | 1280×720 | mkv...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot – Le Mystére Picasso (1956)
Plot Synopsis by Hal Erickson: Released shortly after Luciano Emmer’s documentary Picasso, H. G. Clouzot’s Le Mystère Picasso managed to attain better international bookings than the earlier film,...
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Jonas Mekas – Diaries Notes and Sketches AKA Walden (1969) (HD)
Quote: Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American “underground” cinema, shot literally miles of impromptu film on a tiny, touch-and-go Bolex camera before assembling his first “diary film” and screening...
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Paul Elliot & Sean Lamberth – The Library Music Film [+ Extras] (2018)
Paul Elliot & Sean Lamberth wrote: Library Music was composed and recorded specifically as an ‘off the shelf’ option for use in film, broadcasts and advertising. It was cheaper than commissioning...
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