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threeASFOUR
Jul
threeASFOUR is a fashion label from New York City established in 1998. The new line was in cooperation with Yoko Ono, showed on New York Fashion Week.
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Frankie Teardrop
Nov
Song by Suicide
Video by Walter Robinson,
Edit DeAk & Paul Dougherty.
A film-video hybrid that combines superimposed projector manipulations and high-end video post-production, finished in 1978.
Included in MOMA permanent collection and Rolling Stone's "Book of Rock Video."
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Strange Fruit
Nov
This film won 4th place at the 2006 National History Day. It is the story of Billie Holiday and Abel Meeropol in their quest to shed light on racial injustice, especially lynching, in America. A film directed and produced by Daniel Weidlein.
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Jim Jarmusch
Nov
Tom Waits & Iggy Pop in Coffee and Cigarettes
Coffee and Cigarettes is a 2003 independent film directed by Jim Jarmusch. The film consists of eleven short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread.
In this segment musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits pretend to play themselves, smoke cigarettes to celebrate that they quit smoking, drink some coffee and have an awkward conversation.
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Erich von Stroheim
Nov
Newsreel footage of Erich von Stroheim's crew making the trek to Death Valley to film the final sequence of 'Greed'.
(for my opinion, one of the best movie`s ever made)
Directed by Eric von Stronheim.
Running time approx. 4 hours.
Made in 1924.
The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions.
The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film Foolish Wives was publicized by MGM as costing over a million) [1]. After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations [2], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. The film was then removed from von Stroheim's control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final version so that it could be screened in a reasonable time frame. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed by a janitor cleaning a vault who thought they were not important film rolls and threw them in an incinerator (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost films" in cinema history. The released version of the film was a box-office failure, and was fiercely panned by critics. In later years, even in its shortened form, it was recognized as one of the great realistic films of its time. Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Greed can be seen in the Goldwyn Pictures film Souls for Sale.
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(for my opinion, one of the best movie`s ever made)
Greed
Directed by Eric von Stronheim.
Running time approx. 4 hours.
Made in 1924.
The story of the making of the movie has become a Hollywood legend. Under the aegis of the Goldwyn studio, von Stroheim attempted to film a version of the book complete in every detail. To capture the authentic spirit of the story, he insisted on filming on location in San Francisco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Death Valley, despite harsh conditions.
The result was a final print of the film that was an astonishing ten hours in length, produced at a cost of over $500,000 — an unheard of sum at that time (though Stroheim's 1921 film Foolish Wives was publicized by MGM as costing over a million) [1]. After screening the full-length film once to meet contractual obligations [2], Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the studio that acquired Goldwyn during production, forced von Stroheim to edit the film to a more manageable length, and, with the assistance of fellow director Rex Ingram and editor Grant Whytock, he reluctantly trimmed the film to about four hours. The film was then removed from von Stroheim's control and cut further, despite his protests. Even key characters were removed from the final version so that it could be screened in a reasonable time frame. Existing prints of Greed run at about two hours and twenty minutes. The hours of cut film were destroyed by a janitor cleaning a vault who thought they were not important film rolls and threw them in an incinerator (although it appears that much of it survived until at least the late 1950s), and this film is known as one of the most famous "lost films" in cinema history. The released version of the film was a box-office failure, and was fiercely panned by critics. In later years, even in its shortened form, it was recognized as one of the great realistic films of its time. Rare behind-the-scenes footage of Greed can be seen in the Goldwyn Pictures film Souls for Sale.
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Nagisa Ôshima (b.1932)
Nov
In the Realm of the Sense (1976)
Originally released in 1976, Nagisa Oshima’s In the Realm of the Senses is still banned for obscenity in its director’s native country, Japan. Based on an infamous 1936 incident in which Sada Abe erotically strangled her lover, cut off his penis and testicles, and carried them around until her arrest, Oshima’s film does more than just attack the mores of Japanese society. It also breaks down notions of obscenity. Read More
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Daisies
Nov
Sedmikrásky
DAISIES is an exercise in revolutionary modernism, anarch-dadaist in spirit and form.
Director: Vera Chytilová
Writers: Vera Chytilová, Ester Krumbachová
Starring: Jitka Cerhová, Ivana Karbanová
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Werner Herzog (b.1942)
Aug
Herz aus Glas (Deutschland 1976)
Script: Herbert Achternbusch
A "mystik" movie by Werner Herzog. Based on the story about a bavarian prophet from the 18th century, who lived on the german site of bohemia, called Mühlhiasl. Some of the actor`s performe mostly under hypnosis.
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Liquid Sky (1982)
Aug
by Slava Tsukerman
The eclectic site of New York`s 80`s. A low budged production in tradition of Midnight Movies about the glamoures people around St.Marks Place together in a weird sophistic, "every one is a star", scene. Seems like a visual reminiscence to Klaus Nomi and Ziggi Sturdust playing Doctor Schiwago behind the forbidden door of warhol`s factory just a minute before aids become the main focus for the next years.
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Robert Mapplethorpe
Aug
Black White and Gray
In their many years together as artist and collector, model and mentor, wealthy curator Sam Wagstaff and bête noire photographer Robert Mapplethorpe had many dual portraits taken. But even though these photographs are clear and intelligible, the relationship between these two talented and influential men never has been.
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Aug
Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the 'William Blake of film'. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks became essential influences to contemporary art superstars like Andy Warhol, Federico Fellini and Matthew Barney.
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Michael Hutchence
Jun
Dogs in Space
First 10 minutes of 'Dogs In Space' directed by Richard Lowenstein
and the song Rooms for the memory by Michael Hutchence
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