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Vincent Carelli & Tatiana Almeida & Ernesto de Carvalho – Martírio (2016)
Synopsis:The great reclaiming march for the sacred Guarani Kaiowá territories through Vincent Carelli’s filming, who recorded the birthplace of the movement in the 1980s. Twenty years later, touched...
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Jean-Claude Rousseau – Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre (1983)
Jeune femme à sa fenêtre lisant une lettre1983, 45 min, super-8 “Through the window, we cannot distinguish the scene: a street, a canal, a view of Delft, perhaps a port. We are on the inside, with the...
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Helke Misselwitz – Wer fürchtet sich vorm schwarzen Mann AKA Who’s Afraid of...
A close-up of Berlin coal carriers from Prenzlauer Berg. No portrayal of heroic workers or progress here. Instead, bright, deeply-felt sketches of rough men and their resolute female boss. 1.69GB |...
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Louise Traon – Les Gants blancs AKA The White Gloves (2014)
Louise Traon never films Manoel De Oliveira directly. Instead, she chooses to avoid him, skirt round him, skim past him and keep her distance, yet all the while drawing close to the art of cinema...
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Manfred Kirchheimer – Canners (2015)
Quote:Manfred Kirchheimer’s deeply humane Canners takes to the streets in an ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread by diligently collecting New York City’s bottles and cans. He talks to...
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Ruben Östlund – Gitarrmongot aka The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)
Quote:The Guitar Mongoloid(Sweden)By GUNNAR REHLINA Trianglefilm release of a Hinden/Lanna-Ateljeerna production. (International sales: Hinden/Lanna-Ateljeerna, Stockholm.) Produced, directed, written...
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Manthia Diawara & Ngugi Wa Thiong’o – Sembène: The Making of African Cinema...
Quote:This rich documentary follows the legendary Senagalese filmmaker Sembene Ousmane from the Pan African Film Festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso back to the streets of Dakar and his Galle Ceddo...
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Sumiko Haneda – Usuzumi no sakura AKA The Cherry Tree with Gray Blossoms (1977)
The poignant focal point for this film is a cherry tree that is over 1400 years old. Beginning with the tree, the director then explores the families and environment around the tree. The editing and...
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John C. Joseph – Gravity Is My Enemy (1977)
IMDB:A look at artist Mark Hicks of Manhattan Beach, California, a quadriplegic since falling out of a tree at age 14. His work is examined, along with a discussion of his being a student at UCLA,...
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Georges Franju – Le sang des bêtes AKA Blood of the Beasts (1949)
An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the...
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Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa – Jerry & Me (2013)
Quote:Iranian-American filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeedvafa traces her journey from growing up as young girl in Tehran to adjusting to life in America, while she reflects on how the films of Jerry Lewis spoke...
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Tony Silver – Style Wars [+commentary] (1983)
STYLE WARS has become an emblem of the original, embracing spirit of hip hop as it exploded into the world from underground tunnels, uptown streets, clubs and playgrounds. New York’s legendary kings...
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Clélia Cohen – Emmanuelle, la plus longue caresse du cinéma français AKA...
SynopsisIn 1974, the French erotic film “Emmanuelle” broke audience records: almost 350 million viewers worldwide and a twelve-year run on the Champs Elysées in Paris. After the success of the...
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Luis Ospina – Un tigre de papel AKA A Paper Tiger (2008)
The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is like an adventure novel that is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary...
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Teo Hernandez – Citron pressé au Blue Bar (Souvenirs Cannes) AKA Squeezed...
QuoteAccording to Hernández, the banner of the Cannes Festival shows its three premises: glory, money and politics. He presented a film on that date and makes Citron pressé au Blue Bar as a critic and...
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Stefan Jarl – Samernas land AKA Land Of The Lapps (1994)
Quote:This short film is only thirteen minutes long, but it is a razor-sharp depiction of civilization pushing out Europe’s last wilderness in Northern Sweden. The white man is hunting ptarmigan,...
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James Benning – From Bakersfield to Mojave (2021)
SynopsisA document of one of the most famous 66 miles of railroad track in the world including the Tehachapi Loop. ReviewAfter his 2007 RR, filmmaker James Benning set his camera up by the railroad...
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Carlos Nader – A Paixão de JL AKA JL’s Passion (2015)
In January 1990, at the age of 33, the artist José Leonilson starts registering an intimate journal in a tape recorder. His views on events that shook both Brazil, such as the resignation of former...
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Various – The World at War (1973)
Quote:When this epic series was first broadcast in 1973 it redefined the gold standard for television documentary; it remains the benchmark by which all factual programming must judge itself....
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Larry Gottheim – Horizons (1973)
One of the greatest if all-too-often overlooked landscape films in American cinema, Larry Gottheim’s HORIZONS displays a sensitivity to the seasons that seems more in keeping with Henry David...
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