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Allie Light & Irving Saraf – In the Shadow of the Stars (1991)
Quote: Oscar-winning documentary covering the performers who are often overlooked when people go to the opera. “In the shadow of the stars” is basically referring to the people performing their jobs,...
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Jerzy Kawalerowicz – Austeria aka The Inn (1983)
WIki says Austeria takes place during the opening days of World War I, in the Austro-Hungarian province of Galicia. Tag (Franciszek Pieczka) is a Jewish innkeeper whose inn (austeria means inn in the...
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Justin Remes – Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis (2015)
Conducting the first comprehensive study of films that do not move, Justin Remes challenges the primacy of motion in cinema and tests the theoretical limits of film aesthetics and representation....
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Various – Screening the Poor 1888-1914 [compilation] (1888-1914)
Quote: Around 1900, the issues of poverty and poor relief were the source of heated controversy. This DVD illustrates in seven chapters how examinations of the ‘Social Question’ were presented in...
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Christian Petzold – Yella (2007)
Christian Petzold’s drama deals with a woman, who leaves her hometown for a promising job and a new life, but is haunted by the truths of the past. As her marriage to Ben broke and her professional...
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Frederick Wiseman – Racetrack (1985)
Synopsis RACETRACK is about the Belmont Race Track, one of the world’s leading race tracks for thoroughbred racing. The film highlights the training, maintaining and racing of thoroughbred horses....
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Ming-liang Tsai – Wu Wu Mian AKA No No Sleep (2015)
No No Sleep’ sees Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang revisiting Lee Kang Sheng’s walking monk, this time in Tokyo. But rather than spend all his time on the city streets, Tsai eventually transplants...
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Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz – Ich seh, Ich seh AKA Goodnight Mommy (2014)
In the heat of the summer. A lonesome house in the countryside between woods and corn fields. Nine-year-old twin brothers are waiting for their mother. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic...
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Fred L’Epee & Kenneth Gentry – The White Widow (2015)
“The White Widow” is a psychotropic visual arts film representing the themes of mythology, mysticism, and the existential struggle. The realm is that of the subconscious, the alterations of...
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Fred L’Epee – Bipolar (2015)
Bipolar (2014) Film by Fred L’Epee In collaboration with Kenneth Gentry and Ed Alvarado. “The theme of bipolarity is seen through various means: the natural and the man-made; production and...
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Leni Riefenstahl – Der Sieg des Glaubens AKA Victory of the Faith (1933)
Der Sieg des Glaubens (English: The Victory of Faith) is the first documentary directed by Leni Riefenstahl, who was hired despite opposition from Nazi officials that resented employing a woman — and...
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Leni Riefenstahl & Béla Balázs – Das blaue Licht AKA The Blue Light (1932)
Synopsis Junta is hated by the people in the village where she lives, especially by the women, who suspect her of being a witch. Only she can climb the nearby mountains to a cave high up, whence a...
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The Criterion Collection – Criterion Designs (2014)
A lavishly illustrated coffee-table book celebrating thirty years of artwork from the Criterion Collection. The most exciting names in design and illustration today apply their talents to some of the...
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Martina Kudlácek – Im Spiegel der Maya Deren AKA In the mirror of Maya Deren...
With IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN, documentary filmmaker Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only fascinating portrait of a groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her...
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Catherine Breillat – 36 fillette (1988)
Quote: Perhaps in stark reaction to the soft porn delusions of Hamilton’s work, Breillat decided to approach the subject of a young adolescent’s sexual education with a clarity and honesty rarely...
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Cosmotropia de Xam – Malacreanza: From The Diary Of A Broken Doll (2014)
Cosmotropia de Xam is back with more “arthouse horror” with his latest feature, MALACREANZA: FROM THE DIARY OF A BROKEN DOLL. JASON COFFMAN wrote: This film, his follow-up to DIABOLIQUE, is touted as...
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Howard Hawks & Richard Rosson – Scarface (1932)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] Completed in mid-1930, Scarface, based on Armitage Trail’s novel of the same name, might have been the first of the great talkie gangster flicks, but it was held up for release...
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Richard Rush – Psych-Out (1968)
Quote: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney...
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Nicolas Humbert – Step Across the Border (1990)
from imdb, “This film is a snapshot of the life of Fred Frith, an English-born multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor. It finds him in Europe, Japan, and the US, working and playing with a...
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Isamu Hirabayashi – Soliton (2014)
A man walks, step by step, through the grass, first in black-and-white, later in pale colour. We see nothing of his face, just his boots and legs, clad in camouflage trousers and filmed from above. In...
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