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Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther

1939

Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther

1939
5.2
An amateur documentary focused on the community of Cologne, Minnesota, circa 1939.
Maria-Conception-Action: Hermann Nitsch

1970

Maria-Conception-Action: Hermann Nitsch

1970
3.6
A performance of Hermann Nitsch's "7th Abreaction Action", which was initially banned by police, is put on the following morning instead. The action consists of gutting a lamb, pouring the innards over a recumbent woman, mating with a dildo, crucifixion and a concluding scuffle. The action is accompanied by electric organ, percussion and recorded music.
Jan 69

2004

Jan 69

2004
5.8
Soviet Elegy

1989

Soviet Elegy

1989
4.9
In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting Yeltsin had fallen down from the assembly of the Communist Party deities, and participated in the earthly life through connections of different kinds.
Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

1997

Lucky Three: An Elliott Smith Portrait

1997
7
Described as "a cross between a video and a documentary, but actually being neither of the two", singer/songwriter Elliott Smith plays three acoustic songs in this Jem Cohen-directed short film.
Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

2000

Conan Unchained: The Making of 'Conan'

2000
6.7
Nearly all the cast and crew are on hand to give stories and memories about the making of the film. Plenty of detail on every aspect of the film from pre-production to opening night is covered.
Close-Up Long Shot

1996

Close-Up Long Shot

1996
6.1
Hossain Sabzian and some of his associates discuss his character, his life-long obsession with cinema and his attitude towards the film he starred in, "Close-Up" (1990).
Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

2001

Cleopatra: The Film That Changed Hollywood

2001
7.2
Documentary about the making of 20th Century Fox's 1963 film "Cleopatra," then the most expensive film of all time.
Mysteries of Love

2002

Mysteries of Love

2002
7.1
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet
Numbered

2012

Numbered

2012
7.2
An estimated 400,000 people were tattooed with serial numbers at Auschwitz, of whom only a few thousand survive today. This intimate and visually rapturous documentary details the current lives of some of these survivors, their memories of the camps, and their relationships with the numbers. Numbered is an emotionally affecting portrait of memory and history, and their enduring presence in individual lives.
Brando

2007

Brando

2007
6.8
The life and legacy of Marlon Brando and how he changed acting.
Recipes For Disaster

2008

Recipes For Disaster

2008
6.8
Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil diet, yet without having to give up their a middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don't do, or that we can't help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.
Inocente

2012

Inocente

2012
7.3
INOCENTE is a personal and vibrant coming of age story about a young artist's determination never to surrender to the bleakness of her surroundings. At 15, Inocente refuses to let her dream of becoming an artist be caged by being an undocumented immigrant forced to live homeless for the last nine years. Color is her personal revolution and its sweep on her canvases creates a world that looks nothing like her own dark past. INOCENTE is both a timeless story about the transformative power of art and a timely snapshot of the new face of homelessness in America: children. The challenges are staggering, but the hope in her story proves that the hand she has been dealt does not define her, her dreams do.
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

2010

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

2010
7
The epic story of how the film The African Queen (1951), directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, was shot on real African locations, barely overcoming all kinds of hardships and disasters.
Speed: In Search of Lost Time

2012

Speed: In Search of Lost Time

2012
7.8
It’s a paradox. Never before in history we have worked more efficiently. Never before we have saved time with more sophisticated technologies. Anyway, nearly all of us are feeling an increasing pressure of time. It seems that the same technology that has been invented to make our life better and easier, is now enslaving us. Why?
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container

2002

Foreigners Out! Schlingensief's Container

2002
6.6
FOREIGNERS OUT! SCHLINGENSIEFS CONTAINER is a thrilling, insightful, funny chronicle and reflection of one of he biggest public pranks and acts of art terrorism ever committed. Austria 2000: Right after the FPÖ under Jörg Haider had become part of the government, the first time an extreme right wing party became state officials after WW2, infamous German shock director Christoph Schlingensief showed a very unique form of protest. Realising public xenophobia and the new hate politics in the most drastic ways possible, he installed a public concentration camp right in the middle of Vienna's touristic heart, right beside the picturesque opera where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. And it was no concentration camp you had ever feared to return from the old times, but one that cynically reflected our new multimedia culture. Satirising reality TV shows, "Big Brother" especially, a dozen asylum seekers were surveilled by a multitude of cameras, could be fed and watched by.
Belmondo, itinéraire...

2011

Belmondo, itinéraire...

2011
7.7
Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
All About 'The Birds'

2000

All About 'The Birds'

2000
7.2
A wonderfully informative 80-minute documentary combining current interviews with archival materials and scenes from the film. Hitchcock's daughter Pat, production designer Robert Boyle, screenwriter Evan Hunter, matte artist Albert Whitlock's colleagues Syd Dutton and Bill Taylor, storyboard artist Harold Michelson, Hitchcock collaborator Hilton Green, actors Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright and Rod Taylor, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich, author Robin Wood, makeup artist Howard Smit, and composer Bernard Herrmann biographer Steven Smith all contribute valuable input to Hitchcock's memorable classic.
Inside Nazi Germany

1938

Inside Nazi Germany

1938
5.9
Short documentary film in the newsreel series 'The March of Time'.
Kuningas Litmanen

2012

Kuningas Litmanen

2012
6.9
The film aims to reveal what the general public has been unable to see: the modest and mysterious inner world of Jari Litmanen. In addition to reviewing the stages of the great soccer player and "artist's" own life, the film also examines the experiences and thoughts of other people connected to his life, such as his teammates and supporters, about Jari Litmanen, soccer, and life itself.