Documentary

The story of the album art design studio, Hipgnosis, who created some of the most iconic album covers of all time.Read More »

A review of pivotal but underreported events that shaped America’s history during the 20th century.

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Oliver Stone’s ‘Untold History’
Missed opportunities, roads not taken—these are the central themes of Stone’s new documentary.
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Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and steam. In plain view. Or framed, as through a balustrade. A crane promotes the city’s upward progress, as an ironworker balances on a high beam. A locomotive in a railway yard prepares to depart, while an arriving ocean liner jostles with attentive tugboats. Fading sunlight is reflected in the waters of the harbor… The imagery is interspersed with quotations from Walt Whitman, who is left unnamed.Read More »

Second film in the Renoir documentary trilogy directed by Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon.

A quote from “Projections of Memory: Romanticism, Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film” by Richard I. Suchenski:
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Frederick Wiseman chronicles everything and everyone that appears in the world’s most famed park.Read More »

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Directed by Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan • 2022 • Armenia

A group portrait that captures the hybrid nature of modern-day Armenia, Vahagn Khachatryan and Aren Malakyan’s dreamlike documentary explores the gaps between fantasy and reality in the lives of four characters. Karen is a farmer from the provincial north on a quest to find the perfect wife. Melania is an ageing lift operator in a Yerevan hospital who dreams of becoming an astronaut. Amasia and Sona are two queer teenage girls hiding from the unforgiving world below in their rooftop “fort”. Blending observational documentary with a range of impressionistic techniques, the directorial duo show their homeland to be a country on the brink of painful but necessary transformation.Read More »

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Growing Up Female is the very first film of the modern women’s movement. Produced in 1971, it caused controversy and exhilaration. It was widely used by consciousness-raising groups to generate interest and help explain feminism to a skeptical society. The film looks at female socialization through a personal look into the lives of six women, age 4 to 35, and the forces that shape them–teachers, counselors, advertising, music and the institution of marriage. It offers us a chance to see how much has changed–and how much remains the same.Read More »

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From the early nineties an electronic music culture emerged in The Hague, the Netherlands. This film travels back and forth in time, alongside the artists and styles while connecting the characteristics of this period.Read More »

Det Danske Filminstitut wrote:
Per Kirkeby og Jørgen Leth om filmen: “Det skal være en smuk film, som helt reelt skildrer naturen, og som også udnytter associationer, der er knyttet til Dyrehaven som begreb. Skelettet er årstidernes skiften, skildret i billeder. Med “billeder” menes enkelte billeder uden anden indbyrdes kontinuitet end den, som selve rammen, årstidernes skiften, giver. Ind i dette skelet bygger vi rent romantiske billeder som et associationsfelt, der ligesom rummer den historiske side af Dyrehaven. Dyrehaven er jo ikke en hvilkensomhelst skov, men en skov, som optager en stor plads i landets kunstneriske bevidsthed.”Read More »