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26 Bathrooms is a witty, light little film that must be seen by those who appreciate Greenaway’s darker, more allegorical works. Simultaneously satiric and celebratory, the lighter side of his humanism washes through this quirky quasi-documentary of our most fundamental bodily needs and the spaces we create to fulfil them.Read More »
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For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate “villain”-the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the genocide upon which the United States was built. For more than four decades, these films glorified “Manifest Destiny” and the conquest of so-called “wild” lands, with little regard for those who stood in the way. It wasn’t until the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s that a shift occurred. A new wave of films, such as Little Big Man and Soldier Blue, emerged, offering more authentic portrayals of Native Americans and acknowledging the horrific massacres they endured.Read More »
Jim Tudor, screeanarchy.com
Margarette von Trotta found Ingmar Bergman a long time ago. She recollects as much in her new documentary about the iconoclast Swedish filmmaker, Searching for Ingmar Bergman, an excellent, excellent effort which she goes ahead and stars in. She was a young lady, living in late-1950s Paris, when her Nouvelle Vague-obsessed cohorts dragged her to a screening of Bergman’s first internationally acclaimed masterpiece, The Seventh Seal. Read More »
In 1933, two bold and visionary directors dared to make a film that eclipsed everything that had gone before. When King Kong was released, the Hollywood film was celebrated as an artistic and technical revolution and became the first myth created by the young artform of cinema.Read More »
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From his first film depicting his boyhood life in the Canary Islands, Richard “Ricky” Leacock has been obsessed with capturing on film the feeling of “being there.” This curiosity led him to technological innovations and breakthrough films that fueled the emerging “direct cinema” movement. In 1948, he shot Louisiana Story with Robert and Frances Flaherty and he has worked with other cinéma vérité pioneers like Robert Drew and D. A. Pennebaker on films like Primary, Happy Mother’s Day, and Monterey Pop.Read More »
Mike Figgis’s enthralling documentary about the turbulent life and career of Ronnie Wood, legendary rock guitarist and long-time member of The Rolling Stones.Read More »
Les équilibristes, a film by Nico Papatakis with Michel Piccoli, inspired by Jean Genet, was broadcast in two parts on October 11 and 18, 1991, on La Sept. It was on this occasion that Philippe Grandrieux made this short film for the antenna of La Sept, consisting of an interview with Nico Papatakis and the reading of extracts from Jean Genet’s text, “Le tightrope walker”, read by the actress Ann-Gisel Glass.Read More »
A journey through the eventful life of Leonora Carrington: from her entry into the surrealist group in Paris, the confinement in a psychiatric hospital in Spain, the exile in Lisbon and New York, and until her final settlement in Mexico.
Today she is considered one of the most outstanding artists of the 20th century, a pioneer of feminism, the defense of animals and the world of magic.Read More »
Trip from Vienna to China, the hazmat suits on the aeroplane and the layers of tape sealing off each room in the quarantine hotel conjure up images of crime scenes or medical thrillers.Read More »