Manfred Blank & Wolf-Eckart Bühler – Leuchtturm des Chaos AKA Pharos of Chaos...
Sterling Hayden, the semi-retired actor, war hero, and writer passes his days living on a barge in France. He enjoys telling anecdotes, until finally opening up about his alcoholism, loneliness,...
View ArticleKeisha Rae Witherspoon – T (2019)
A film crew follows three grieving participants of Miami’s annual T Ball, where folks assemble to model R.I.P. T-shirts and innovative costumes designed in honor of their dead. T screened at Sundance...
View ArticleReece Auguiste – Twilight City (1989)
Quote:The graceful and moving essay film Twilight City is one of the Black Audio Film Collective’s sharpest and most sensual evocations of contemporary Afro-Caribbean life. The film blends a dreamlike...
View ArticleMitsuo Sato & Kyoichi Yamaoka – Yama—Yararetara Yarikaese AKA Yama—Attack to...
Quote:This extraordinary documentary is an unflinching record of the workers’ struggle during Japan’s economic rebirth in the 1980s, centered on Tokyo’s Sanya “yoseba”—a slum community dating from the...
View ArticleTomislav Mrsic – Pula povjerljivo AKA Pula Confidential (2003)
Excellent documentary about the history of Yugoslavian Film Festival in Pula and ex-Yu cinema in general. Produced by HTV Croatian Television. The festival was originally started in 1954 and within a...
View ArticleJohn Gianvito – Her Socialist Smile (2020)
Gianvito’s portrait of Keller can be seen as a continuation and expansion of his PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND, which recalled certain protagonists of the progressive movement in the US,...
View ArticleGô Shibata – Gi aiueosu: Tazan no ishi o motte onore no tama o migakubeshi...
Quote:Using their sound and film equipment like musical instruments, the members of the band GUI AIUEO:S create an audiovisual work of art. On their journey, they search for UFOs, meet odd hermits,...
View ArticleTai Kato – The Ondekoza (1981)
Original Title in Japanese: ざ・鬼太鼓座This documentary narrates the beginnings of the founding members of ondekoza who are a group of young musician living communally on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture....
View ArticleLois Patiño – Costa da morte (2013)
Costa da Morte is a region in Galicia (Spain), which was considered as the end of the world during the Roman period. Its dramatic name comes from the numerous shipwrecks that happened along history in...
View ArticleJocelyne Saab – Beyrouth, Ma Ville AKA Beirut, My City (1983)
Quote:Beirut, My City finds Saab and her collaborator, the playwright and director Roger Assaf, returning to the shell of her former home following Israel’s 1982 invasion, finding small glimmers of...
View ArticleAbel Ferrara – The Projectionist (2019)
SynopsisThis documentary portrait of theater operator Nicolas “Nick” Nicolaou moves from 1970s Times Square adult film houses through decades of city regulation, chain takeovers, and cultural shifts,...
View ArticleAgnès Varda & Laura Obiols – Les plages d’Agnès AKA The Beaches of Agnes (2008)
Synopsis:At nearly 80, Agnès Varda explores her memory – growing up in Belgium, living in Sète, Paris, and Noirmoutier, discovering photography, making a film, being part of the New Wave, raising...
View ArticlePierre Creton – Va, Toto! (2017)
Toto est un marcassin accueilli par Madeleine. La bête va grandir, dans les cœurs, mais sur ses pattes aussi. Vincent affectionne les singes, dont il part retrouver les facéties en Inde. Et le pauvre...
View ArticleJames Benning – On Paradise Road (2020)
Filmed at Benning’s home in Val Verde during the first month of the pandemic, the film is a portrait of that time. 372MB | 1h 15m | 1920×1080 | mkv...
View ArticleWim Wenders – Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Plot:Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro’s takeover of Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder, who travelled to Havana in order to bring the...
View ArticleFernando Birri – El siglo del viento AKA Century of the Wind (1999)
SynopsisThe book EL SIGLO DEL VIENTO, the third part of a trilogy about the history of Latin America, is not a traditional historical work. The Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano (1940)...
View ArticleShinsuke Ogawa – Sanrizuka: Gogatu no sora Sato no kayoiji AKA Sanrizuka: The...
The seventh and final film in Shinsuke Ogawa’s groundbreaking Sanrizuka Series chronicling the agrarian resistance to the construction of Chiba Prefecture’s Narita International Airport. 1.50GB | 1h...
View ArticleNina Hedenius – Det speglar i mitt öga AKA My Eye Is Reflecting (1992)
Independent filmmaker Nina Hedenius Det speglar i mitt öga [My Eye Is Reflecting] is a poetic film on the act of seeing and on the details that rarely gets our attention. The film is a collage of...
View ArticleAgustina Comedi – El silencio es un cuerpo que cae (2017)
Agustina discovers that her late father, previous to his marriage and family life, was involved with insurgent leftist groups during the era of the Argentinian military dictatorship, had a long term...
View ArticleMasao Adachi – Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma AKA Serial Killer (1969)
Quote:A horrifying series of murders, committed by a teenaged killer in 1968, prompted a group of filmmakers to chart his path, capturing the things he might have seen before committing his crimes....
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