admin

April 22, 2020
0 1,520

Nicolas Rossier – Aristide and the Endless Revolution [+Extra] (2005)

Quote:A complex historical truth emerges in Nicolas Rossier’s intelligent examination revealing the oft-supressed story of the 2004 coup d’etat in…
Read More »
April 22, 2020
0 1,624

Elizabeth Price – The Woolworths Choir of 1979 (2012)

Elizabeth Price won the 2012 Turner Prize for this piece. “The Woolworths Choir of 1979 is a three-part video that…
Read More »
April 22, 2020
3 1,829

Alf Sjöberg – Iris och löjtnantshjärta AKA Iris And The Lieutenant (1946)

Handsome young cavalry officer Robert Motander is invited to a dinner with his decidedly rich family – makers of the…
Read More »
April 22, 2020
2 2,004

Rob Tregenza – Inside/Out [+Trailer] (1997)

Quote:Against the barren wintry backdrop of a psychiatric hospital, inpatients and authority figures drift through turgid psychological states. We meet…
Read More »
April 22, 2020
0 2,039

Agnès Varda – La petite histoire de Gwen la bretonne AKA The Little Story of Gwen From French Brittany (2008)

Quote:Varda shot “The Little Story of Gwen From French Brittany” over several years beginning in 1996. The documentary short follows…
Read More »
April 22, 2020
0 2,488

Aki Kaurismäki – La vie de bohème AKA The Bohemian Life (1992)

Quote:Based on the same 19th-century novel (Henri Murger’s Scenes de la Vie de Boheme) that inspired Puccini’s opera, the story…
Read More »
April 21, 2020
2 4,122

Elio Petri – Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto AKA AKA Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Quote:A paranoid police procedural, a perverse parable about the corrupting elements of power, and a candidate for the greatest predated…
Read More »
April 21, 2020
2 3,484

Francis Ford Coppola – Rumble Fish (1983)

Harvard Film Archive writes:One of the Coppola’s most overtly stylized works, Rumble Fish uses its breathtaking black and white, Koyanisqaatsi-inspired…
Read More »
April 21, 2020
2 2,208

Nelson Pereira dos Santos – Raízes do Brasil: Uma Cinebiografia de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda AKA The Roots of Brazil (2003)

Cinebiography of celebrated historian Sérgio Buarque de Hollanda, who wrote the seminal “Raízes do Brasil” in 1935, with interviews with…
Read More »