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Deborah Stratman – The BLVD (1999)
Synopsis: An experimental documentary about the street drag racing scene on Chicago’s near West Side. This is a rambling, textured…
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Gerhard Lamprecht – Die Buddenbrooks (1923)
Quote:Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family.The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also…
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Apolline Traoré – Frontières AKA Borders (2017)
Four women from different regions develop friendships during a bus journey across West Africa, as they accomplish an everyday journey…
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Aleksandr Dovzhenko – Zemlya AKA Earth [84 min.] (1930)
Quote:Dovzhenko’s “film poem” style brings to life the collective experience of life for the Ukranian proles, examining natural cycles through…
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W.S. Van Dyke – San Francisco (1936)
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally…
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Julien Duvivier – Tales of Manhattan (1942)
Brief Synopsis:An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it…
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Suneil Sanzgiri – Letter from Your Far-Off Country (2020)
Shot with 16mm film stock that expired in 2002—the same year as the state-sponsored anti-Muslim genocide in Gujarat—and filmed amid…
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Stanislaw Lenartowicz – Zimowy zmierzch AKA Winter Twilight (1957)
Winter Twilight by Stanislaw Lenartowicz is one of the films that presaged the emergence of the Polish Film School as…
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Fred Zinnemann – Behold a Pale Horse (1964)
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his…
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