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Ubu films – Ubu Films – Sydney Underground Movies 1965-1970 [Volume 1 & 2]
Quote: UBU Films was a Sydney-based independent film-making co-operative which operated from 1965 to around 1970. Its members produced many of the most important experimental and underground films...
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Theodoros Angelopoulos – O thiasos aka The Traveling Players (1975)
Here is an excellent overview of the film that provides a ton of background information that greatly helps in understanding this outstanding film. from Jump Cut, no. 10-11, 1976, pp. 5-6 copyright...
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Frédérique Devaux & Michel Amarger – Cinexperimentaux #9: Stephen Dwoskin...
Stephen Dwoskin was born in New York in 1939 and began making independent shorts there in 1961. In 1964 he followed his research work to London where he settled and participated in the founding of the...
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Till Kleinert – Der Samurai (2014)
A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild...
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Bent Hamer – 1001 Gram (2014)
Quote: When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale....
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Pere Portabella – Nocturno 29 (1968)
Synopsis: Nocturno 29 begins where “Don’t Count on your Fingers” left off: facing a blank screen and the materialness of the projection. It goes in depth into the future Eisenstein-like structure of...
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Djordje Kadijevic – Leptirica AKA The Butterfly (1973)
Yugoslavian vampire horror film Directed by Djordje Kadijevic in 1973 Cast: Mirjana Nikolic, Petar Bozovic , Slobodan Perovic, Vasja Stankovic This is a Yugoslavian female vampire horror film of the...
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Robert Lepage – La Face cachée de la lune AKA The Far Side of the Moon...
Synopsis: Forty-something Quebeçois Philippe Roberge is floundering in his life. He believes that no one listens to him or takes him seriously. A graduate student in Philosophy of Scientific Culture,...
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Ben Safdie & Joshua Safdie – Heaven Knows What (2014)
Based on the experiences of Arielle Holmes — a homeless teenager with a ferocious Jersey accent — the film stars Holmes as Harley, a fictionalized version of herself: a heroin-hooked panhandler unable...
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Ariane Mnouchkine – Molière (1978)
Plot Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-73) was perhaps the greatest playwright of French history. His comedies have been performed, adapted and re-adapted continually from his day to ours not only...
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Jennifer M. Bean, Anupama Kapse, Laura Horak – Silent Cinema and the Politics...
In this cross-cultural history of narrative cinema and media from the 1910s to the 1930s, leading and emergent scholars explore the transnational crossings and exchanges that occurred in early cinema...
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Chinlin Hsieh – Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)
Synopsis In 1982 a small group of Taiwanese filmmakers reinvented Asian cinema, among them, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang. Travelling from Europe to Latin America to Asia, Flowers of Taipei sets out to...
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Jean-Marie Straub – La madre (2012)
The texts in Cesare Pavese’s “Dialoghi con leucò” have a stake in the old and the new alike. It is the lively tension, the bridge between myth and modernity of these texts that deeply touches us and...
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Nicholas Ray – 55 Days at Peking (1963)
from rottentomatoes: Samuel Bronston produced this extravagant blockbuster, shot in Super Technirama 70. Nominally directed by Nicholas Ray (who makes a brief appearance as the U.S. ambassador), Ray...
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Craig Zobel – Z for Zachariah (2015)
Description: In the wake of a disaster that wipes out most of civilization, two men and a young woman find themselves in an emotionally charged love triangle as the last known survivors....
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Kira Muratova – Melodiya dlya sharmanki AKA Melody for a Street Organ (2009)
Quote: Kira Muratova, the grande dame of Eastern European cinema returns with her richest, most imposing vision of societal decay and personal efflorescence since The Aesthenic Syndrome encapsulated a...
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Yuliya Solntseva – Zacharovannaya Desna AKA The Enchanted Desna (1964)
Jonathan Rosenbaum’s comments on first seeing the film: May 26, 1972: A screening of Julia Solntseva’s THE ENCHANTED DESNA (1964) at the Cinémathèque. Here is another Russian masterpiece that, like...
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Eugène Green – La Sapienza (2014)
Synopsis: Named for the famous seventeenth-century Roman church Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, which was designed by the legendary architect (and Bernini rival) Francesco Borromini, LA SAPIENZA echoes...
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Raya Martin & Mark Peranson – La última película (2013)
In this documentary within a narrative-and vice versa-a grandiose filmmaker (Alex Ross Perry) arrives in the Yucatán to scout locations for his new movie, a production that will involve exposing the...
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Sergei M. Eisenstein – Drawings (1961)
Рисунки. Dessins. Drawings. by Sergei M. Eisenstein Hardcover: 228 pages Publisher: Publishing House “Iskustvo” (Art) (May 30, 1961) Language: Russian, English, French Product Dimensions: 62 x 94.8...
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