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Mikael Kristersson – Falkens öga AKA Kestrel’s Eye (1998)
Quote:From a bird’s point of view atop a 13th century church, the human world seems alien and weirdly self-absorbed. People ride bikes, jog, attend weddings and churches and make an elaborate ritual...
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Victor von Plessen – Kopfjäger von Borneo aka Headhunters of Borneo (1936)
Baron Victor von Plessen’s “Kopfjäger von Borneo” (1936) is a magnificent early ethnographic film. A painter, ornithologist and ethnographer, von Plessen (1900-1980) apparently was an independent...
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Natalia Chojna – Historia polskiego filmu dokumentalnego AKA History of...
Quote:History of Polish documentary 1896-2016 is a collection of lectures by renowned experts, richly illustrated with film examples and curiosities, which presents the history of Polish non-fictional...
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Carlos Benpar – Cineastes contra magnats AKA Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
This is the first of a series of two documentaries concerning the way the cinema industry is not respecting the author works as they were conceived, in the many ways this can be done. This first...
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Pedro Costa & Thierry Lounas – Où gît votre sourire enfoui? AKA Where Does...
Documentary about Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. While Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub assemble the third version of “Sicilia!”, Pedro Costa films a “reassembly comedy.” Behind their...
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Bing Wang – Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks – Part 3: Rails (2003) (DVD)
Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks is a nine hour, three part documentary about the decline of Chinese state-run heavy industry. In 1999 Wang Bing, not long graduated from Beijing’s Film Academy, arrived...
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Benjamin Berman – The Amazing Johnathan Documentary (2019)
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician – “The Amazing Johnathan” – becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate...
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Paul McGuigan – Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett (2019)
“If the work Adrian Dunbar is best known for – the police drama Line of Duty – left us with the tantalising riddle about the identity of the master criminal H, his new documentary tries to unmask an...
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Gillian Wearing – Arena: Everything is Connected – George Eliot’s Life (2019)
Gillian Wearing’s Arena documentary Everything is Connected (BBC Four) is a quietly innovative biography of an author whose works still resonate with their readers and the country within which she...
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Midge Costin – Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (2019) (HD)
By OWEN GLEIBERMANFilm Review: ‘Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound’A lively movie-love documentary looks at the history of sound design in Hollywood, as innovated by artists of technology like...
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Lilyan Sievernich – John Huston and the Dubliners (1988)
‘John Huston and the Dubliners” is a valentine to the late director and a relatively standard production film about his making of ”The Dead.” Much time is devoted to the actors’ understandably...
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Lindsay Anderson – Free Cinema, 1956 – ? An Essay on Film by Lindsay Anderson...
A documentary about the history of the Free Cinema movement, made by one of it’s greatest proponents, Lindsay Anderson, to commemorate British Film Year in 1985. Produced by Kevin Brownlow and David...
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Richard Schickel – Woody Allen: A life In Film (2002)
A series of interviews with Woody Allen interlaced with clips from his films. IMDB review by Alex V.: This feature-length Woody Allen interview sees him plough through his films at almost breakneck...
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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...
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Jean-Gabriel Périot – Une jeunesse allemande AKA A German Youth (2015)
Quote:At the end of the 1960s the post-war generation began to revolt against their parents. This was a generation disillusioned by anti-communist capitalism and a state apparatus in which they...
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Jon Nguyen & Rick Barnes & Olivia Neergaard-Holm – David Lynch: The Art Life...
David Lynch takes us on an intimate journey through the formative years of his life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces...
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Jean-Gabriel Périot – Une jeunesse allemande (2015) (DVD)
La Fraction Armée Rouge (RAF), organisation terroriste d’extrême gauche, également surnommée « la bande à Baader » ou « groupe Baader-Meinhof », opère en Allemagne dans les années 70. Ses membres, qui...
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Petra Costa – Democracia em Vertigem AKA The Edge of Democracy (2019) (HD)
Synopsis:A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis, the personal and political fuse in The Edge of Democracy to explore one of the most dramatic periods in Brazilian history. Combining...
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Andrey A. Tarkovskiy – Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer (2019)
The documentary recounts Tarkovsky’s life and work, letting the director tell the story himself, as he shares with us his memories, his view of art and his reflections on the destiny of the artist and...
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Carol Dysinger – Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) (2019)
Synopsis:Learning To Skateboard In A Warzone (If You’re A Girl) is the story of young Afghan girls learning to read, write-and skateboard-in Kabul. 553MB | 40 min 13 s | 960×540 | mkv...
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