Nicolas Rey – Les soviets plus l’électricité (2002) (DVD)
This art-film is an imaginary documentary film about a man who sets off from Paris to Siberia in search of his father’s past: His father was a communist who had voluntarily gone from France to the...
View ArticleRoberto Saura, Luis Barrios, Manel Iglesias – El partido del siglo: Puskas...
Puskás started his career in Hungary playing for Kispest and Budapest Honvéd. He was top scorer in the Hungarian League on four occasions, and in 1948, he was the top goal scorer in Europe. During the...
View ArticleEmmanuel Gras – Bovines (2011)
Synopsis :In the fields, we see them, extended on the grass or grazing peacefully. Large placid beasts that we thought we knew because they are livestock. Lions, gorillas, bears have our attention,...
View ArticleAlain Resnais – Toute la Memoire du Monde aka All the Memory of the World (1956)
With Toute la mémoire du monde, Resnais is setting the basis of his cinematographic project about places of memory. Within 20 minutes, Resnais is surgically, methodically analyzing the national...
View ArticleRon Mann – Imagine the Sound (1981)
Quote:This award-winning film is an art exposition brought to life. In paying tribute to the seveteran jazz pioneers, it adds an important chapter to the history of the jazz documentary and Paul Bley....
View ArticleStephen Nomura Schible – Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)
One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s career spans from techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning composer and anti-nuclear activist. This intimate portrait explores Sakamoto’s...
View ArticleCong Feng – Dr. Ma’s Country Clinic (2008)
Synopsis:In the arid mountains of the remote and inaccessible Huangyangchuan, Gansu Province, a simple small countryside clinic welcomes the local sick and injured. Ma Bingcheng is a respected country...
View ArticlePedro Costa – No Quarto da Vanda AKA In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Quote:For the extraordinarily beautiful second film in his Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa jettisoned his earlier films’ larger crews to burrow even deeper into the Lisbon ghetto and the lives of its...
View ArticleBBC – Hooligans (2006)
The film follows England fans from Frankfurt to Gelsenkirchen and infiltrates groups of troublemakers.A record 170,000 England fans travelled to Germany for the cup and the majority were peaceful...
View ArticleLaure Flammarion & Arnaud Uyttenhove – Somewhere to Disappear (2010)
Publisher’s synopsis:Somewhere to Disappear is a 57 minute documentary in which Alec Soth is the hero.For his project “Broken Manual” Alec undertakes to write a guide that will provide the basic tips...
View ArticleSiebren de Haan & Lonnie van Brummelen – Episode of the Sea (2014)
A document of a contemporary North Sea fishery and the fishermen’s struggle with a changed public perception, fluctuating regulations, and excessive global competition, while parallels are drawn...
View ArticleLéa Pool – Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011)
Breast cancer has become the poster child of corporate cause-related marketing campaigns. Countless women and men walk, bike, climb and shop for the cure. Each year, millions of dollars are raised in...
View ArticleAnna Azevedo & Renata Baldi & Eduardo Souza Lima – Rio de Jano (2003)
Meet Rio de Janeiro… through the eyes of Jano!Jean Leguay, working under the pseudonym Jano, is a pop French visual artist. He teamed up with Bertrand Tramber to create his first comic, ‘Kebra’, for...
View ArticleCharlie Tyrell – My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes (2018)
A short documentary that follows director Charlie Tyrell as he tries to uncover a better understanding of his deceased father through the random objects he inherited, including a pile of VHS dirty...
View ArticlePier Paolo Pasolini – Sopralluoghi in Palestina per il vangelo secondo Matteo...
Synopsis:Director Pier Paolo Pasolini visits the original sites of the Gospel: Lake Tiberius, the Jordan River and Jerusalem., looking for the locations for The Gospel According To St. Matthew. 702MB...
View ArticleEric Rohmer – Cinéastes de notre temps: Le celluloïd et le marbre (1965)
An extremely rare episode of Cinéastes de notre temps directed by Eric Rohmer based of a series of articles written in Cahiers du cinema in the 1950s. 407MB | 1:25:13 | 512×384 | mp4...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard – Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinéma (2004)
NYT wrote:Cinematic visionary and provocateur Jean-Luc Godard offers a typically challenging look at his favorite creative medium in the wake of the 20th Century in this ambitious blend of film,...
View ArticlePete Tombs & Andrew Starke – Mondo Macabro: Turkish Pop Cinema (2005)
Quote:An informative 23-minute Mondo Macabro documentary on Turkish Pop Cinema, featuring interviews with living legend Cuneyt Arkin and director Yilmaz Atadeniz among others, along with plenty of...
View ArticleRuth Beckermann – Waldheims Walzer AKA The Waldheim Waltz (2018)
A film about truth and lies or “alternative facts”. About individual and collective consciousness. “Waldheim no, Waldheim no” shouts a crowd in the center of Vienna in 1986. Ruth Beckermann was one...
View ArticleAleksandr Medvedkin – Noch Nad Kitaem AKA Night Over China (1971)
Description: Soviet documentary “defending the Chinese people from their enemies, the Maoists”. NB: The film clearly documents the activities of the Red Guards although it never mentions them by name....
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