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Harvey Berman
2011
The Wild Ride (1960)
A rebellious punk (Jack Nicholson) of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.
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A rebellious punk (Jack Nicholson) of the beat generation spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in between partying and troublemaking. He eventually kidnaps his buddy's girlfriend, kills a few police officers and finally sees his own life end in tragedy.
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Richard Leacock (1921-2011)
2011
A rare interview with Louise Brooks (1906-1985) by documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg
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The Responsive Eye, 1965
2011
MoMA 1965: The Responsive Eye
The show was the first public introduction on Optical (or "Op") art.
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The show was the first public introduction on Optical (or "Op") art.
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Antonello Branca (1935-2002)
2011
Whats Happening? 1967
Roy Lichtenstein. Allen Ginsberg, Leon Kraushar, Marie Benois, Fred Mogubgub, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso
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Roy Lichtenstein. Allen Ginsberg, Leon Kraushar, Marie Benois, Fred Mogubgub, Robert Rauschenberg, Gregory Corso
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John Huston (1906-1987)
2011
Beat the Devil
with the unforgettable Peter Lorre.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
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with the unforgettable Peter Lorre.
Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
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Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926)
2011
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
This is the movie that made Rudolph Valentino a star. Written by June Mathis it was released in 1921.
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This is the movie that made Rudolph Valentino a star. Written by June Mathis it was released in 1921.
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Steven Spielberg (b.1946)
2011
„DUEL“(1971)
Spielberg's first big movie, made for TV, has his own masterclass in suspense. There are perhaps 5 minute dialog the rest is the hunt between a truck and a business commuter.
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Spielberg's first big movie, made for TV, has his own masterclass in suspense. There are perhaps 5 minute dialog the rest is the hunt between a truck and a business commuter.
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Philip Stapp
2011
Symmetry (1966)
'Symmetry' (1966) 10m, dir. Philip Stapp Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of Japanese "ukiyo-e" illustration.
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'Symmetry' (1966) 10m, dir. Philip Stapp Stapp was one of the greatest animators working in the 1950-1975 era, using stylized, often pointillist abstract imagery, in a floating world sometimes surrealist, at other times reminiscent of Japanese "ukiyo-e" illustration.
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Gerald McDermott (b.1941)
2011
The Stonecutter (1960)
McDermott made this, his first commercial film at the age of 19, an extremely complex animation short featuring approximately 2000 animation cels presented in six minutes.
Influenced by Klee and Matisse, McDermott used silk-screen as well as traditional painting techniques in crafting ethnographic folk tale animation shorts.
With films that are startling in intensity, and majestic in execution, McDermott is clearly one of the outstanding animators of his generation, despite having an output consisting solely of only five films, all of which are under 12 minutes in length. After retiring from film animation at the age of 32, McDermott began producing animated children’s books, eventually becoming one of the world’s best-known authors of books for young readers, winning numerous awards in the process.
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McDermott made this, his first commercial film at the age of 19, an extremely complex animation short featuring approximately 2000 animation cels presented in six minutes.
Influenced by Klee and Matisse, McDermott used silk-screen as well as traditional painting techniques in crafting ethnographic folk tale animation shorts.
With films that are startling in intensity, and majestic in execution, McDermott is clearly one of the outstanding animators of his generation, despite having an output consisting solely of only five films, all of which are under 12 minutes in length. After retiring from film animation at the age of 32, McDermott began producing animated children’s books, eventually becoming one of the world’s best-known authors of books for young readers, winning numerous awards in the process.
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Gene Kearney (1930–1979)
2011
Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1966)
Alienation, angst, and schizophrenia are powerful themes addressed by Kearney in this forgotten masterpiece.
From a story by Conrad Aiken.
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Alienation, angst, and schizophrenia are powerful themes addressed by Kearney in this forgotten masterpiece.
From a story by Conrad Aiken.
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Paul Julian/Les Goldman
2011
Hangman (1964)
A cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like quality to Julian's animation.
Great musical score by Serge Hovey
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A cynical look at how humankind loves to feed others into the death machine, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting geometric planes lend a Chirico-like quality to Julian's animation.
Great musical score by Serge Hovey
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The Kiss (1896)
2011
May Irwin (Beatrice Byke), John C. Rice (Billy Bilke).
This is the first ever moving picture image of a kiss. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. There is a longer Edison film of a kiss, filmed in 1900, that has at times been confused with this one.
Scene from the New York stage comedy, The widow Jones, in which Irwin and Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York world newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896. Filmed April 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
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This is the first ever moving picture image of a kiss. It was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. There is a longer Edison film of a kiss, filmed in 1900, that has at times been confused with this one.
Scene from the New York stage comedy, The widow Jones, in which Irwin and Rice starred. According to Edison film historian C. Musser, the actors staged their kiss for the camera at the request of the New York world newspaper, and the resulting film was the most popular Edison Vitascope film in 1896. Filmed April 1896, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
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Frank Ross, Mervyn LeRoy
2011
The House I Live In
was a 1945 short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and actor Frank Sinatra to oppose anti-Semitism and prejudice at the end of World War II. It received a special Academy Award in 1946.
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was a 1945 short film written by Albert Maltz and made by producer Frank Ross and actor Frank Sinatra to oppose anti-Semitism and prejudice at the end of World War II. It received a special Academy Award in 1946.
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Stephen Frears (b.1941)
2011
„The Burning“ (1967) by Stephen Frears . The movie shows the violents beetwen black and white in sout afrika apartheid.
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Yoshinao Satoh (b.1961)
2011
Papers (制作) by Yoshinao Satoh
A brilliant structuralistic animation made with japanese newspapers
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A brilliant structuralistic animation made with japanese newspapers
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Elitsa Ganeva (b. 1986)
2011
Two movies from Elitsa Ganeva aka Foxe, „beginning“ and „v“.
In „beginning“ a couple drifting trought a town like searching for forgotten words. The man with the camera, an endless story of modern times, intellectual and his model, mind visions as blue screen, short cuts, a moment of pleasure if you can find it.
„v“ is a serie of portraits as a kind of self-discovery. circling in a room around a woman, suggest a borderline situation.
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In „beginning“ a couple drifting trought a town like searching for forgotten words. The man with the camera, an endless story of modern times, intellectual and his model, mind visions as blue screen, short cuts, a moment of pleasure if you can find it.
„v“ is a serie of portraits as a kind of self-discovery. circling in a room around a woman, suggest a borderline situation.
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Tim Burton (b.1958)
2010
One of Burton's first films, Vincent, is a six minute stop motion animation about a young boy who wants to be Vincent Price. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust
2010
A film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II - has received its public debut on British television. Fifteen minutes of the black-and- white film, which was shot by the armed forces after the war, were televised Tuesday night by the Independent Television News.
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Jorge Luis Borges (b.1899)
2010
The Mirror Man
is an excellent documentation about one of the great South American writers of the last century.
Directed by Philippe Molins
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is an excellent documentation about one of the great South American writers of the last century.
Directed by Philippe Molins
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Billy Wilder (1906-2002)
2010
Death Mills (Todesmühlen) (1945)
Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi extermination camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder.
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
2010
Carnival of Souls (1962) by Herk Harvey
Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following.
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her.
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Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following.
Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her.
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Night Tide (1961)
2010
Dennis Hopper as a sailor who falls in love for Mora (Linda Lawson) who works as a mermaid in a sideshow.
Directed by Curtis Harrington With Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir US 1961, 35mm, b/w, 84 min.
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Directed by Curtis Harrington With Dennis Hopper, Linda Lawson, Gavin Muir US 1961, 35mm, b/w, 84 min.
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Arev Manoukian
2010
Nuit Blanche
Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.
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Nuit Blanche explores a fleeting moment between two strangers, revealing their brief connection in a hyper real fantasy.
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Luke White
2010
Tide by Luke White
A boy and his father live a harsh existence against a desolate backdrop. Whilst the father is stranded, the boy's physique allows him to pass through a small tunnel leading to a place very different from their own. He brings back footage to satisfy his fathers desire to re-live memories of when he too could make this journey. Tide is the story of a father's obsession that will ultimately lose him the respect of his son, and in turn his companionship.
2009
Dur: 11min46
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A boy and his father live a harsh existence against a desolate backdrop. Whilst the father is stranded, the boy's physique allows him to pass through a small tunnel leading to a place very different from their own. He brings back footage to satisfy his fathers desire to re-live memories of when he too could make this journey. Tide is the story of a father's obsession that will ultimately lose him the respect of his son, and in turn his companionship.
2009
Dur: 11min46
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Wyatt Denny
2010
Alice & the White Hair by Wyatt Denny
Another interpretation on Lewis Carrolls novel Alices Adventures.
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Another interpretation on Lewis Carrolls novel Alices Adventures.
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The Atomic Cafe
2010
1982 documentary on the bombing of Hiroshima, Nagasaki as well as Cold War propaganda afterwards.
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Doll Face
2010
A machine with a doll face mimics images on television screen in search of a satisfactory visage. Doll Face presents a visual account of desires misplaced and identities fractured by our technological extension into the future.
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Raoul Walsh
2010
Thief of Bagdad (1924) one of the first movies made in color.
with Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong
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with Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong
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Marie Menken (1910-1970)
2010
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger (1958 - 61)
"There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, glass beads, luminous paint, so the camera was a natural for me to try—but how expensive!" - Marie Menken
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"There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, glass beads, luminous paint, so the camera was a natural for me to try—but how expensive!" - Marie Menken
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Luca Gennari
2010
The Secret Cinema of Jerzy Treblinka
Italian futurism corresponding with wild backwards nature when a nymph put the cyclops eye back to the peepers memory. playful summer days and „blow up“ is a thought out of time like the pictures of this sensitive movie.
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Italian futurism corresponding with wild backwards nature when a nymph put the cyclops eye back to the peepers memory. playful summer days and „blow up“ is a thought out of time like the pictures of this sensitive movie.
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YELLOW LINE
2010
by Logo Video
The story of Linea Gialla, the first Italian Onlus
created and managed by homeless people,
the first non-governmental organization, whose president is a woman who sleeps in a train station.
The whole movie tells the story of the people who dreamt of it and made it.
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The story of Linea Gialla, the first Italian Onlus
created and managed by homeless people,
the first non-governmental organization, whose president is a woman who sleeps in a train station.
The whole movie tells the story of the people who dreamt of it and made it.
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2010
Let Her - Mood Collection with Elodie Yung
Directed by Paul Mignot
"Let Her" is one of the four movies shot for "MOOD collection"
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Directed by Paul Mignot
"Let Her" is one of the four movies shot for "MOOD collection"
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Jason Moola
2010
The Door
The Night club door as a metaphor for life. Sometimes you cross a line and you can't turn back...
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Sean Christensen
2010
Empty House
With an emphasis on connecting emotionally with the audience on a deep and subconscious level, 'Empty House' is an experimental documentary that focuses on the residue of memories trapped in physical objects and the rooms in which we live.
Shave
A short about the first time I ever saw my father without his mustache.
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OPRÉ / Twenty120 by Justin Harder
2010
In the age of opulence,
I lay a choppy lake.
Poisonous mistakes will over take this current I make,
drifting,....
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I lay a choppy lake.
Poisonous mistakes will over take this current I make,
drifting,....
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Cyanide Breathmint by Walter A. Bell
2010
... We shot Cyanide Breathmint at the National Black Theatre in Harlem, New York on an empty floor in their studios on world-renown W.125 St.
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Born That Way by Tony McNeal
2010
When ex-con and hard-as-nails, Jake Green, finally gets a chance to see his daughter after six months, he takes her out for a quick bite only to wind up in the middle of an armored car heist.
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Black Cab, by Andy Guest
2010
The black cab moves slowly through the dark streets of the capital city, trawling the pavements, awaiting his next customer. He pulls up at a popular celebrity haunt to pick up a famous passenger and take him on a fateful journey through London....
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Khoda by Reza Dolatabadi
2010
What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda.
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The Forest by David Scharf
2010
Antonia is a 12 year old girl. She often has daydreams, in which she wanders of in to a magical far away forest, were she hides from the problems of the real world. One day, however, her father takes drastic measures and she has to face a decision.
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Turbo, by Jarrett Lee Conaway
2010
TURBO is a high adrenaline short film in the tradition of The Karate Kid and Tron. It tells the story of Hugo Park (Justin Chon, Twilight) a troubled youth whose only outlet for angst is a 4D fighting videogame called “Super Turbo Arena”.
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Hans Richter (1888-1976)
2010
Dreams That Money Can Buy 1947
Is like a whow`s who of international dada and surrealist artist`s like Marcel Duchamp (Writer), Man Ray (Director/Writer), Max Ernst (Director/Writer), Alexander Calder (Director/Writer), Hans Richter (Director/Writer), Fernand Léger (Director/Writer).
This experimental film written won the Award for the Best Original Contribution to the Progress of Cinematography at the 1947 Venice Film Festival.
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Visite à Picasso (1950)
2010
Visite à Picasso (1950), by Paul Haesaerts
‘Visite à Picasso’ (1950) 20m, dir. Paul Haesaerts A poetic treatment which includes the artist painting on glass while facing the camera, shot at Picasso's home in Vallauris, accompanied by some fairly moody organ music in this very dark, but captivating film. The artist here takes on the character of an eminence-grise, an alchemist engulfed in the "sol y sombra" of his laboratory-studio, filmed in gorgeous black and white.
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Imamura Shōhei (1926-2006)
2010
The Ροrחοgraphers (1966)
Introduction to AnthropologySυbυ makes pοrnοgraphic films. Ηe sees nοthing wrοng with it. They are an aid tο a repressed sοciety, and he υses the mοney tο sυppοrt his landlady, Ηarυ, and her family. Ϝrοm time tο time, Ηaru shares her bed with Sυbυ, thουgh she belieνes her dead hυsband, reincarnated as a carp, disapprονes. Directοr Shοhei Ιmamυra has always delighted in the kinky explοits οf lοwlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds sυbνersiνe hυmοr in the bizarre dynamics οf Ηaru, her Οedipal sοn, and her daυghter, the trυe οbϳect οf her pοrnοgrapher-bοyfriend’s οbsessiοn. Ιmamυra's cοmic treatment οf sυch tabοοs as νοyeυrism aחd incest sparked cοntrονersy when the film was released, bυt The Ροrnοgraphers has ουtlasted its critics, and nοw seems frankly ahead οf its time.
I am interested in the relationship of the lower part of the human body and the lower part of the social structure on which the reality of daily Japanese life obstinately supports itself.
The Japanese did not change as a result of the Pacific War—they haven't changed in thousands of years!
—Shohei Imamura
Françoise Sagan
2010
Encore un Hiver (1979)
This wonderful film focuses on an older woman waiting on a park bench on a cold winter day for a lover who returns every year. Directed by Françoise Sagan, author of Bonjour Tristesse.
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Carson "Kit" Davidson
2010
Help, My Snowman's Burning Down (1964)
Fourteen international awards, including an Academy Award, Nomination and the Special Prize of the Jury, Cannes Intl Festival. Presents a surrealistic and humorous satire on the Madison Avenue image of the world through advertis
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Lutz Dammbeck, Das Netz
2010
"The Net" (Das Netz, 2003), an independent film directed by Lutz Dammbeck
EMAF Award 2004
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Buster Keaton (1895-1966)
2010
Samuel Beckett's Film
Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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Samuel Beckett’s only venture into the medium of cinema.
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye.
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F.W. Murnau (1888-1932)
2010
Faust 1926
F.W. Murnau's telling of the classic German legend, 'Faust' is a masterpiece to behold. From both the technical and story standpoint, the film excels and despite being nearly eighty years old, Faust still stands tall as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of all time. F.W. Murnau has become best known among film fans for 'Nosferatu', but this is unfair to the man. While Nosferatu is something of an achievement; it pales in comparison to this film in every respect. Faust is far more extravagant than Murnau's vampire tale, and it shows his technical brilliance much more effectively. The story is of particular note, and it follows a German alchemist by the name of Faust. As God and Satan war over Earth, the Devil preaches that he will be able to tempt Faust into darkness and so has a wager with God to settle things. Satan sends Mephisto to Earth to offer Faust an end to the plague that is making it's way through the local population, and eternal youth, in return for Faust's soul...
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Jan Švankmajer
2010
Food (1992)
Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others.
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Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934 in Prague) is a Czech surrealist artist. His work spans several media. He is known for his surreal animations and features, which have greatly influenced other artists such as Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, The Brothers Quay and many others.
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František Vláčil (1924-1999)
2010
The White Dove (Holubice) 1960 (76 min.)
Kamera: Jan Čuřík
The White Dove (Holubice) is an acclaimed Czech drama from director František Vláčil follows a bird struggling to complete its homeward migration across Europe and the effect that caring for the dove has on an artist, an ailing boy, and a young girl.
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David Cronenberg
2010
From the Drain (1967)
The film is centered on two men in a bathtub; it is implied that they are veterans of some past conflict but revealed that they are currently in a mental institution. The first man is paranoid about the drain of the tub, the second indifferent to it. After the conversation between the two men progresses, a vine-like tendril emerges from the drain to strangle the first man. The second shows no emotion to this sudden turn of events and the film ends.
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Margueritte Duras (1914-1996)
2010
Les Mains Négatives 1978
Les Mains Négatives shows the travellings across the streets of Paris at daybreak of a voice speaking of love. This declaration is sent out to the ones who have been left behind. It speaks to immigrant workers, the homeless, the clandestine population in a Paris still asleep with its historical buildings and monuments as a backdrop for a love declaration outside of real time.
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Gigi Gaston
2009
Je Suis Perdue
a film by Jean-Luc Goddard
Josh Gosfield Presents Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston, consisting of record art, snapshots, magazines covers, songs and films detailing the rise and fall of this controversial and elusive chanteuse. The reason for Gigi's elusiveness: She never existed! Gosfield, a prodigiously talented painter, photographer, illustrator and videographer, created an entire audiovisual history of the singer who puts the "no-no" in yé-yé! Source: Gaylord on wfmu.
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a film by Jean-Luc Goddard
Josh Gosfield Presents Gigi Gaston: The Black Flower Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston, consisting of record art, snapshots, magazines covers, songs and films detailing the rise and fall of this controversial and elusive chanteuse. The reason for Gigi's elusiveness: She never existed! Gosfield, a prodigiously talented painter, photographer, illustrator and videographer, created an entire audiovisual history of the singer who puts the "no-no" in yé-yé! Source: Gaylord on wfmu.
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Dinner With Henry (1979)
2009
Dinner With Henry (1979)
Director: Richard Young
Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog
It's a classic question: Name a famous person, living or dead, you'd like to have dinner with. I imagine that a number of readers of this blog would say 'Henry Miller.' Indeed, he had a reputation for holding court at the dinner table, regaling his fellow eaters with opinions and reminiscences.
Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.
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Ludmila Terni
2009
Short film done by Ludmila Terni.
Music done by Luiz Henrique Bozzo.
There are two movie`s from Ludmila Terni i really adore.
The first movie seems to be a reminiscence on the novel, Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye), 1928, by George Bataille. Somebody called this book the chamber music of pornographie. The visualls oscillate between surrealismus and neorealismus. There is a woman and a man, a boy and a girl. They are in a bathroom at defferent times. And there is an eye... . could be seen to much.
The second called Angela and shows an erotic cage of adolescene, with loads of symbols arised from paintings of Balthus.
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Music done by Luiz Henrique Bozzo.
There are two movie`s from Ludmila Terni i really adore.
The first movie seems to be a reminiscence on the novel, Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye), 1928, by George Bataille. Somebody called this book the chamber music of pornographie. The visualls oscillate between surrealismus and neorealismus. There is a woman and a man, a boy and a girl. They are in a bathroom at defferent times. And there is an eye... . could be seen to much.
The second called Angela and shows an erotic cage of adolescene, with loads of symbols arised from paintings of Balthus.
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Frank Reitenspieß (b.1962)
2009
The Murder (1987)
Musik for this piece made by Harald Blüchel, formerly known as Cosmic Baby
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The Shooter
2009
Philosophy through celluloid. An old oriental proverb "To will is human … To succeed is divine" is instilled into the mind of an Ex-Soviet Spy. As a drop off leads to a life and death encounter, he is lead to the realization that control is simply an illusion and that destiny is beyond our control.
Director: Michael L. Suan
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Director: Michael L. Suan
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Empty House
2009
'Empty House' is an experimental documentary that focuses on the residue of memories trapped in physical objects and the rooms in which we live.
Director: Sean Christensen
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Director: Sean Christensen
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Ghosts of the Civil Dead (1988)
2009
is the story of a modem Maximum Security Prison. It has been extensively researched and is firmly based on actual events that have occurred in prisons in America and Australia in recent years.
Directed by John Hillcoat
Written by Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, John Hillcoat, Hugo Race, Evan English
Cast: David Field, Make Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey, Dave Mason, Nick Cave
Sound: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
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"I was 16 when they put me in prison. Emotionally I'm still 16. Prison is the only world I've ever known. All my dreams are dreams of violence."
Directed by John Hillcoat
Written by Gene Conkie, Nick Cave, John Hillcoat, Hugo Race, Evan English
Cast: David Field, Make Bishop, Chris DeRose, Kevin Mackey, Dave Mason, Nick Cave
Sound: Nick Cave, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey
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William Eggleston
2009
Stranded in Canton
In 1973, photographer William Eggleston picked up a Sony PortaPak and took to documenting the soul of Memphis and New Orleans.
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
2009
A classic silent film dedicated to Berlin shot in 1927 by Walter Ruttmann.
(Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927, 50 mins, B&W, silent)
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(Berlin: die Sinfonie der Großstadt, 1927, 50 mins, B&W, silent)
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"The Dream" (1990), Norman Stone
2009
is a monologue concerning a utopian vision of heaven on earth and was adapted by Murray Watts from "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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The story is about a man who dreams he has been transported to an unspoiled Garden of Eden where he finds solutions to the world's problems. Irons noted that he was taken with the role because "what that man goes through is momentous, as momentous as anything any of us could ever go through."
Director: Norman Stone
Staring: Jeremy Irons
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Robert Bresson
2009
Une femme douce
Robert Bresson's Une femme douce is a spare, elegant and poignant story of isolation, miscommunication, and emotional cruelty. An early transaction between the two characters foreshadows the tragedy of the film.
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Kenneth Anger
2009
Scorpio Rising (1963), Lucifer Rising (1970), Inauguration Of The Pleasure Dome (1966)
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Christopher Walken
2009
Weapon of Choice (2001)
Christopher Walken performs a swing-from-the-rafters solo in an empty hotel lobby...
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Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983)
2009
was a pioneer film animator who did much of her work in visual music. She was one of the first female experimental filmmakers in the U.S. From 1934 until 1953, she made 14 short, musical abstract films, working in New York. Many of these were seen in regular U.S. movie theaters, such as Radio City Music Hall, often before a prestigious film. Several of her films were also called "Seeing Sound" films
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"1895" by Priit Pärn
2009
The amazing true story of the invention of cinema, and the subsequent delay of all other inventions. Estonian animator Priit Pärn made this film in 1995, the 100th birthday of the cinematographe.
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Intolerance by D.W. Griffith
2009
Director D.W. Griffith's expensive, most ambitious silent film masterpiece Intolerance (1916) is one of the milestones and landmarks in cinematic history.
Many reviewers and film historians consider it the greatest film of the silent era.
The mammoth film was also subtitled: "A Sun-Play of the Ages" and "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages." Griffith was inspired to make this film after watching the revolutionary Italian silent film epic Cabiria (1914) by director Giovanni Pastrone.
Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes, and more than 3,000 extras.
The film consisted of four distinct but parallel stories that demonstrated mankind's intolerance during four different ages in world history.
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Dagie Brundert
2009
The Palm Tree Song Line
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"I walk through Los Angeles. I see palm trees everywhere, those long tall skinny ones, I love them. And I start to sing".
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Fritz Lang (1890-1976)
2009
Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931)
A masterpiece with a great performance by Peter Lorre.
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Tod Browning (1882-1962)
2009
Directed by Tod Browning (1882-1962)
Written by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon based on the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins
Starring Wallace Ford (Phroso the Clown), Leila Hyams (Venus), Olga Baclanova (Cleopatra), Henry Victor (Hercules), Harry Earles (Hans)
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Written by Willis Goldbeck & Leon Gordon based on the story “Spurs” by Tod Robbins
Starring Wallace Ford (Phroso the Clown), Leila Hyams (Venus), Olga Baclanova (Cleopatra), Henry Victor (Hercules), Harry Earles (Hans)
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Holger Meins (1941-1974)
2009
Oskar Langenfeld (1967)Film by Holger Meins about a tuberculosis-afflicted homeless
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Gilbert & George
2009
No Surrender, 8th May 2007
"All the hidden remarks - 'the curiously besuited couple', 'the tedious twosome' - that's all coded language for 'I'd prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery'," Gilbert and George declare over tea with Alan Yentob in their favourite East End café.
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"All the hidden remarks - 'the curiously besuited couple', 'the tedious twosome' - that's all coded language for 'I'd prefer not to have two poofs exhibiting in this gallery'," Gilbert and George declare over tea with Alan Yentob in their favourite East End café.
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Coil
2009
Horseplay
2009
Horseplay
Is a short 16mm documentary about the New Zealand painter Philip Trusttum. The film presents a brief snap-shot of the artist and his surroundings at his farm in Waimate. The approach of the documentary makes no attempt to disguise the role of the filmmaker. In this way it pays homage to the Direct Cinema tradition. The film uses hand-held camera, voyeuristic shots and off-camera audio. The film was made in 1990 by: Peter Bannan; Vivienne Stone; Peter Evans; Robert Sarkies; Michael Brown; Simon Perkins; Philip Trusttum; Lee Trusttum; Peter Leech; James Wallace.
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Simon Perkins, Paul Swadel
2009
A Little Death
is a 16mm short film drama jointly created by Simon Perkins and Paul Swadel (and crew), produced by James Wallace Productions. The film explores spatial problems through character and camera choreography. The film has been shown extensively throughout Aotearoa/New Zealand as well being screened at the Hamburg Short Film Festival. The film was an evolution of the 'Into The Void' project.
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Bill Karn
2009
Five Minutes To Live (1961)
Johnny Cash gives a surprising performance as a guitar playing, sadistic psycho-killer.
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George Landow
2009
Film In Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc (1965-66)
The 'imperfections' of filmmaking, which are normally suppressed, are at the core of a work that uses a brief loop made from a Kodak colour test.
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Edie Sedgwick
2009
Ciao Manhattan
(1972)
Filmed Easter Sunday 1967 - 1970 Directors: David Weisman, John Palmer Cast includes: Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Baby Jane Holzer, Viva, Jean Margouleff, Pat Hartley, Brigid Berlin
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(1972)
Filmed Easter Sunday 1967 - 1970 Directors: David Weisman, John Palmer Cast includes: Edie Sedgwick, Isabel Jewell, Paul America, Baby Jane Holzer, Viva, Jean Margouleff, Pat Hartley, Brigid Berlin
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A Mini-Epic
2009
Chamber of Perverse Torture
Sarah and Yumi are top-secret sex slaves for a high-ranking government official. They spend their days in a bizarre play-pen/torture chamber/slave-labor station, where they produce pro-war polo shirts by hand and live in constant fear. Yumi, having lived in the cell the longest, is almost completely brainwashed and paralyzed, but Sarah still possesses enough spunk to try to escape. Her impulsive scheme is thwarted by a few terrifying obstacles... will Sarah's inner courage be enough to save the day? Written by Anonymous at imdb
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