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Caveh Zahedi – I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore [+Extras] (1994)
Quote:I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore is a real-life documentary comedy about a filmmaker who takes a road trip to Las Vegas with his father and half-brother in an attempt to prove the existence of...
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JR, Agnès Varda – Visages, villages aka Faces Places (2017)
Quote:Agnès Varda and JR have things in common: a passion for and the exploration of images in general, and more precisely, for places and for ways of showing, sharing, and exhibiting them. Agnès...
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Aki Kaurismäki & Mika Kaurismäki – Saimaa-ilmiö AKA The Saimaa Gesture (1981)
from cinematikSaimaa-ilmiö is probably the first properly made rock film made in Finland. Such basics as including the songs in their entirety, shooting with multiple cameras, reducing interviews to a...
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Alain Resnais – Le chant du Styrène AKA The Song of Styrene (1958)
Quote:From a plastic bowl to petroleum, we trace back through the complete industrial process that leads to the manufacture of plastic objects. The force of the commentary composed in alexandrine...
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João Vladimiro – Lacrau (2013) (HD)
SYNOPSISThe viper is deaf and the scorpion can’t see, so it is and so shall be, the same way the countryside is peaceful and the city bustling and the human being impossible to satisfy. Lacrau demands...
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Octavio Getino & Fernando E. Solanas – La hora de los hornos AKA The Hour of...
Nicole Brenez for BFI wrote:Made in Argentina in 1968, The Hour of the Furnaces (La hora de los hornos) is the film that established the paradigm of revolutionary activist cinema. “For the first...
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Howard Alk – The Murder of Fred Hampton (1971)
Quote:Chicago native Howard Alk helped found Second City in 1959 and made a name for himself in the ’60s and ’70s as a documentary cinematographer, editor, and director. His debut feature, American...
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Mark Cousins – A Story of Children and Film (2013)
Quote:The world’s first movie about kids in global cinema. It’s a passionate, poetic portrait of the adventures of childhood ? its surrealism, loneliness, fun, destructiveness and stroppiness ? as...
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Sharon Grimberg – American Experience: McCarthy (2020)
“McCarthy,” a new two-hour documentary chronicling the remarkable rise and precipitous fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose zealous anti-communist crusade would test the limits of...
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Alexander Leith – Age of the Image (2020)
From the IntroductionEvery age is said to have its genius. The 18th century is often called the age of philosophy. The 19th century is the age of the novel. But our own age is undoubtedly an age of...
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Makoto Satô – Self and Others (2001)
SynopsisIn 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflected in Gocho’s photographic images has become more profound over time since his death and...
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Gary Weis – 80 Blocks from Tiffany’s (1979)
synopsisThe gangs in the South Bronx (about 80 blocks from Tiffany’s in more ways than one) are handled with kid gloves in this one-hour treatment by Gary Weis. The more articulate members of the...
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Jürgen Böttcher – In Georgien AKA In Georgia (1988)
Quote:In 1986 and 1987, Jürgen Böttcher and his crew travelled to Georgia to film this fascinating country and its people. Böttcher, the painter, was particularly interested in the art of Georgian...
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Hartmut Bitomsky – B-52 (2001)
Quote:”The B-52 is a very large aircraft,” a crew member says in the straightforward new documentary ”B-52,” which begins a two-week run today at Film Forum. Several clean-cut Air Force personnel give...
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Sofia Bohdanowicz & Deragh Campbell – MS Slavic 7 (2019)
A woman who has trouble articulating herself finds a place of her own in researching the letters of her great-grandmother in this entrancing character study. Quote:NOVEMBER 17, 2019 6:41 AMby STEPHEN...
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Babis Makridis – Birds (or how to be one) (2020)
Cineuropa wrote: Following on from L [+] (2012) and Pity [+] (2018), Babis Makridis is returning to the International Rotterdam Film Festival, within the Voices line-up, with Birds (Or How To Be One),...
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Terry Zwigoff – Crumb (1994)
Quote:A very intimate documentary depicting the controversial, underground cartoonist Robert Crumb along with most of his immediate family, riddled with psychological issues and sicknesses, mental...
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Olivier Nicklaus – Vadim Mister Cool (2016) (DVD)
VADİM MİSTER COOLWith his most recent documentary, Vadim Mister Cool (2016), Parisian writer/director Olivier Nicklaus examines the life and career of another Parisian writer/director, the notorious...
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Peter Davis – Hearts and Minds [+ Commentary] (1974)
Academy Award for Best Documentary (1975). “We weren’t on the wrong side. We were the wrong side.” A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis’s landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly...
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Godfrey Reggio – Powaqqatsi (1988)
Quote:Five years after Godfrey Reggio stunned audiences with Koyaanisqatsi, he again joined forces with composer Philip Glass and other collaborators for a second chapter. Here, Reggio turns his...
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