Documentary

Exploring Hitchcock’s iconic style through his early film “Blackmail,” an insight into the director’s emerging techniques and themes during the transition to talkies, showcasing elements that would define his later masterpieces.Read More »

The entrancing love story of Billie and Lucas, a young Brussels couple. The film paints a candid portrait of the formative but also uncertain facets of every (first) love.Read More »

A fictional Alfred Hitchcock narrates an explanation of some of the lesser known cinematic techniques he used in his movies, richly illustrated with clips from his entire 50-year career.Read More »

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“It’s a story about a country on the edge of Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea and lashed by the north winds. Once a powerful state of northern Germany in the 16th Century, dispossessed of half its territory during the Napoleonic Wars, it regained its power in the 19th Century under William I.Read More »

An examination of the work and lives of actresses in the Iranian film industry prior to the 1979 revolution, featuring myriad interviews and rare film clips.Read More »

A documentary about Orson Welles’s unfinished three-part film about South America.Read More »

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Guy Debord’s answer to the criticism regarding his previous film, “The Society of the Spectacle”–a film adaptation of his Situationist manifesto, and a sharp commentary on contemporary society and the power of the image untethered from its original context.Read More »

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The Glacier Fox is an exciting documentary filmed in the frozen regions of Northern Japan. Director Korey Kurahara, who apparently was weaned on Disney’s True Life Adventures, strikes just the right balance between reality and artifice. His “cast” consists of a family of wild foxes, each with his or her own distinct personality. The film explores the foxes’ efforts to survive the elements and their ever-threatening environment. The Glacier Fox runs 90 minutes, and “runs” is just the right word to describe the breathless pace of this movie. — Hal EricksonRead More »

The “stone in the mouth” is the scar taht the mafia makes on affiliaded man’s corpse who betrayed.
The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosvelt. The american “Cosa Nostra” applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same “omertà”, same power and same terror.
Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist e writer, uses fragments footage,film clips,(Salvatore Giuliano
by Franco Rosi, Paisà by Roberto Rossellini) and really current news to make this image ok mafia.Read More »