Commissioned by the Porto City Council, Painéis do Porto is a visual essay on the city, gathering sequences filmed between the river and downtown, commented with poems by authors like Vasco de Lima Couto, Egito Gonçalves, Rosália de Castro, Pedro Homem de Mello, Fernando Pessoa and Reis himself.Read More »
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The film portrays unemployed people who buy cheap fruit and vegetables at the wholesale market to resell them on the streets of Frankfurt. Without police permission, the traders are constantly on the run with their wooden carts. Parts of the film were shot at the fairground next to the wholesale market hall. Newspaper and lottery ticket sellers, propagandists offering their wares for a few pennies, convey the mood of a time when hardship made people inventive.Read More »
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Tadeusz has devoted his life to photography, especially photo reportages. Now he has grown old and passes on his art to Michal, a highly motivated 15-year-old. They go on a trip together, travelling through Polish villages in their van with the built-in dark chamber, portraying the people they meet. Their black-and-white photos add up to a visual travel diary. Piotr Stasik has found his own poetic way of capturing the work of Tadeusz Rolke, who used to work for “Spiegel” and “Stern”: as a documentary road movie that also seems to be a trip through time. From the start this enterprise radiates an old-fashioned quality. And this is not just about the good old analogue image. When the developed photos are strung across the empty market square on a clothesline, they enable simple encounters that could never happen on Facebook.Read More »
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Ella Bergmann-Michel abandoned her last film, Wahlkampf 1932 (Last Election), about the 1932 election campaign in Frankfurt, for political reasons. During filming, she was arrested and some of the footage was destroyed. Only fragments of the film remain.Read More »
A teenagers prison in the middle of the countryside, in the South of Chile. Every night the teenagers are attacked by recurrent nightmares. The film is an exploration about the link between their lives, their crimes and their nightmares, about the influence of a territory on their dreams.Read More »
The artistic life of Jacques Tati, from his beginnings as a mime to his last film. A low-budget first feature film, which struggled for a year to find a distributor, before becoming a huge hit… The creation of an eccentric character, who immediately entered the annals of cinema… A Special Jury Prize at Cannes and an Oscar in Hollywood … Then a massive project. A gigantic set, a three-year shoot, a storm, impatient bankers, a lens seized in the middle of filming, a mortgaged house. And in the end, a masterpiece… as well as a financial wreck. His company was liquidated, his films were placed in receivership… But he never stopped creating.Read More »
1963: The Mondo Libero newsreel by Gastone Ferranti and other material found in Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and England became, for Pier Paolo Pasolini, the basis for a lyrical and polemical analysis of the social phenomena and conflicts affecting the modern world, from the Cold War to the Economic Boom, with commentary consisting of a “poetical voice” (Giorgio Bassani) and a “prosaic voice” (Renato Guttuso).
While Pasolini was working on editing “La Rabbia”, the producer, with either political and/or commercial motives, decided to turn the movie into a four-handed work, and entrusted Giovannino Guareschi with a part of it, following the well known journalist-like scheme “seen by right, seen by left.”
Pasolini reacted with irritation to this forced co-habitation, but in the end he acquiesced, giving up the first part of his movie to make room for Guareschi’s segment.Read More »
A rare documentary on the filmmaker John Waters, of such movies as Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, and Hairsparay.
About an hour, quality is poor I guess, looks like a vhs source, nothing that is distracting.Read More »
