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Louis Lumière – Débarquement du congrès de photographes à Lyon (1895)
Débarquement du congrès de photographes à Lyon Maths Jesperson on IMDb wrote: Members of the French Photographic Society arrive from a riverboat to their congress venue in Neuville-sur-Saône on a...
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Maurice Tourneur – La Main du Diable aka Carnival of Sinners (1943)
A man arrives at an isolated mountain inn clutching a small box. The man is panic-struck when, during a sudden blackout, the box disappears. To the assembled guests at the inn he tells his tragic...
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Hsiao-Hsien Hou – Xi meng ren sheng AKA The Puppetmaster (1993)
In the first half of this century, young Li Tienlu joines a travelling puppet theatre and subsequently makes a career as one of Taiwan’s leading puppeteers. During World War II the Japanese rulers of...
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Stephen Poliakoff & Charles Sturridge – Runners (1983)
RUNNERS (1983) Produced in 1983, it was originally headed for a cinema release but apparently that never happened and it ended up being shown as a TV movie only. In Stephen Poliakoff’s first film...
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Thomas Arslan – Der schöne Tag aka A Fine Day (2001)
Synopsis: A Fine Day is, after the films Geschwister and Dealer, the third part in a trilogy about the living conditions of Turkish youth growing up in Germany. Deniz is 21-years-old, lives in Berlin,...
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Gabriel Mascaro – Boi Neon AKA Neon Bull (2015)
Quote: We tend to view sex as a private, forbidden theater that’s detached from the remainder of life, rather than the origin of our life that courses through other acts. Films reflect this sentiment,...
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Arthur Maria Rabenalt – Am Abend nach der Oper AKA In the Evening After the...
Quote: This totally forgotten film is adapted from a story by Franz Nabl who also provided the basis for Der verzauberte Tag. The story is about a rich murderer (Siegfried Breuer) who killed his wife...
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Sabine Bürger, Steve Roden & Machinefabriek – Lichtung (2010)
Synopsis The ‘Lichtung’ exhibition was a three-way project centered around an audio-visual installation. The American visual and sound artist Steve Roden and the Dutch sound artist and musician Rutger...
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Johan van der Keuken – De Weg naar het Zuiden AKA The Way South (1981)
The coronation of Queen Beatrix on the eve of May Day in 1980 provides a salient point of departure for Johan van der Keuken’s The Way South, a cultural interrogation into the intertwined...
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Johan van der Keuken – To Sang Fotostudio + Leven met je ogen aka Living with...
Description: Those familiar with van der Keuken’s films are aware of his extraordinary capacity to observe with a camera, to make the everyday magical and to slowly reveal the marvelous complexity of...
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John Berger and Susan Sontag – To Tell A Story [Voices] (1983)
““Somebody dies,” says John Berger. “It’s not just a question of tact that one then says, well, perhaps it is possible to tell that story,” but “it’s because, after that death, one can read that life....
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Dominik Graf – Die Freunde der Freunde AKA The Friend of Friends (2002)
Synopsis: Set in the boarding school milieu, the film depicts the meeting of shy Gregor and mysterious Billie. Billie has a son, her husband is in jail. Arthur, Gregor’s friend, is a serial Lothario,...
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John Berger and Noam Chomsky – Times of Crisis (2014)
Exclusive material from writer, artist, critic John Berger and a virtual response and conversation with Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. This event took place at...
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Nacer Khemir – Looking for Muhyiddin (2014)
A man (played by the filmmaker Nacer Khemir) returns home to Tunisia to bury his mother. After the burial, his father gives him an “amana” to be handed to a certain Sheikh named Muhyiddin. Taken by...
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Magdalena Szymków – Mój dom AKA My House Without Me (2012)
Quote: Two women, one house. An intimate story about a Pole and a German placed by war on enemy sides and their parallel lives accidentally brought together. The film reflects on the concepts of...
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Juho Kuosmanen – Hymyilevä mies AKA The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki...
Quote: The true story of Olli Mäki, the famous Finnish boxer who had a shot at the 1962 World Featherweight title. Immensely talented and equally modest, Olli’s small town life is transformed when he...
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Kaige Chen – Da yue bing AKA The Big Parade (1986)
Synopsis: Army volunteers train for places in China’s 1984 National Day parade, where they are expected to be a perfect marching unit. Review: Walter Goodman, NYT wrote: From the impressive overhead...
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Cristi Puiu – Sieranevada (2016)
Plot: Three days after the terrorist attack on the offices of Parisian weekly Charlie Hebdo and forty days after the death of his father, Lary, a doctor in his forties is about to spend the Saturday...
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John Berger and Michael Silverblatt – Conversations 1 and 2 (2002)
John Berger is a storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, whose body of work embodies his concern for, in Geoff Dyer’s words, “the enduring mystery of great art and the...
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Iván Zulueta – Arrebato AKA Rapture (1979)
Synopsis: Madrid,1980. Jose Sirgado, a labouring bohemian b-movie filmmaker finishes editing the sequel to a previous film. Visibly displeased he journeys home to his girlfriend strung out on heroin....
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