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Universal Horror

1998

Universal Horror

1998
7.1
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
Moscow Clad in Snow

1909

Moscow Clad in Snow

1909
6.4
The film is in four parts. First, the camera pans the Kremlin and Marshal's Bridge. Sleds are parked in rows. Horse-drawn sleighs run up and down a busy street. Next, we visit the mushroom and fish market where common people work and shop. In Petrovsky Park are the well-to-do. Men are in great coats. A file of six or seven women ski past on a narrow lane. Last, there's a general view of Moscow. A slow pan takes us to a view above the riverfront where the film began.
Westinghouse Works

1904

Westinghouse Works

1904
5.5
Billy Bitzer filmed 21 short actualities inside the Pittsburgh Westinghouse Works in April and May of 1904. Audiences of the day would have been treated to footage of factory panoramas, women winding armatures and turbines being assembled. These industrial films were produced for the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company.
Walker

2012

Walker

2012
6.1
In 2012, the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited Tsai Ming-Ling to make the opening short film. Having grown up with Hong Kong's popular culture, Tsai Ming-Liang decided to pay homage by making a "Walker" film, contrasting the Walker's slowness with the frenzied pace of Hong Kong's cosmopolitan life. The film ends with a song by Hong Kong actor and singer Samuel Hui, who was Tsai Ming-Liang's idol during his youth. The film was invited to be the closing short film for the Cannes Film Festival in 2012.
The Steel Road

1929

The Steel Road

1929
5.8
Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.
Case Study: Heroin

1969

Case Study: Heroin

1969
4.4
A man talks about heroin abuse and withdrawal.
Case Study: Amphetamines

1969

Case Study: Amphetamines

1969
4.6
A man talks about his addiction to amphetamines and illustrates his struggle by his sudden inability to fix a radio.
The Spanish Earth

1937

The Spanish Earth

1937
6.5
Joris Ivens’s advocacy documentary for the Republican cause intercuts a besieged Madrid with a nearby village digging an irrigation canal, linking the war to bread, land, and survival. Produced by the writers’ collective Contemporary Historians, edited by Helen van Dongen, scored by Marc Blitzstein, and narrated in its U.S. version by Ernest Hemingway (after an initial Orson Welles track), it blends frontline reportage with persuasion against Franco’s forces and their German–Italian backers.
Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter

1897

Serpentine Dance by Mme. Bob Walter

1897
5.3
Mme. Bob Walter performs the serpentine dance.
Bathing in a Stream

1897

Bathing in a Stream

1897
4.4
A group of kids play in a stream.
Palms

1994

Palms

1994
5.7
A portrait of people who live on the margins of life and exist outside normal society.
The Perfect Human Diet

2012

The Perfect Human Diet

2012
5.8
"The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - the #1 killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the first time, the authentic human diet. Film audiences finally have the opportunity to see what our species really needs for optimal health and are introduced to a practical template based on these breakthrough scientific facts.
Vinyl

2000

Vinyl

2000
7.3
Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig analyzes the phenomenon of record collecting.
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema

1997

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 2a: Only Cinema

1997
6.5
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98); a monumental collage, constructed from film fragments, texts and quotations, photos and paintings, music and sound, and diverse readings; a critical, beautiful and melancholic vision of cinematographic art.
Juvenile Court

1973

Juvenile Court

1973
7
JUVENILE COURT shows the complex variety of cases before the Memphis Juvenile Court: foster home placement, drug abuse, armed robbery, child abuse, and sexual offenses. The sequences illustrate such issues as community protection vs. the desire for rehabilitation, the range and the limits of the choices available to the court, the psychology of the offender, and the constitutional and procedural questions involved in administering a juvenile court.
Crossroads

1976

Crossroads

1976
6.9
The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 1995.
The Belovs

1992

The Belovs

1992
4.5
Portrait of a troubled peasant family. The film tells the story of two times widow Anna Belova who lives together with her brother Mikhail. Blending the two personalities, Kosakovsky characterizes the true Russian soul: she is the rational worker, honest and strong - he is the drunken poet, the idealist, his philosophy fades into radical nonsense time after time.
Out in the Silence

2009

Out in the Silence

2009
5.6
There may not be any secrets in a small town, but there is an expectation of silence. In A Town Called Oil City, the return of a native son to announce his same sex wedding and help a gay teen who is being tormented at school offers a chance to change the way things have always been done.
Karin's Face

1986

Karin's Face

1986
6.1
A film based on the pictures from Ingmar Bergman's personal photo album, especially the pictures of his mother Karin.
With Byrd at the South Pole

1930

With Byrd at the South Pole

1930
6.5
With Byrd at the South Pole (1930) is a documentary film about Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd and his 1st quest to the South Pole beginning at the Little America-Exploration Base. The film's soundtrack consists mostly of music and sound effects, with narration read by Floyd Gibbons. The film won at the 3rd Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.