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| Touted as "a movie about people who do stuff that is not normal," Frank Zappa's Baby Snakes chronicles a late-'70s Halloween stand in New York City (a zany enough proceeding in its own right) with digressions throughout the first half for backstage antics, band interviews, and some outlandish clay animation from Bruce Bickford, with whose work Zappa was obviously smitten.
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| | Bailey on
| With his standing among the artistic community Bailey was given unprecedented access to his subjects - photographer Cecil Beaton, Italian film director and pop art legend . The latter documentary was infamously banned by the Appeal Court when a complaint was lodged about its content by then sportcaster and Record Breakers host Ross McWhirter.
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| | Georgi and the butterflies
| 'Het is als een luchtkasteel; het bestaat niet, maar het belangrijkste is dat ik hem heb gebouwd.' Sinds 1986 staat dr. Georgi Lulchev aan het hoofd van een psychiatrische inrichting voor mannen in het Bulgaarse dorpje Podgumer. Met een onverwoestbaar doorzettingsvermogen en optimisme zoekt hij naar manieren om zijn patienten bezig te houden en wat extra inkomsten te genereren.
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| | Amando de Ossorio
| Biographical TV documentary about the life and career of Spanish horror film director Amando de Ossorio. It includes interviews with some people who worked in his films (Jack Taylor, Modesto Pérez, Lone Fleming, Esperanza Roy). Also with Paul Naschy (Spanish horror star), Rafael Calvo (young Galician director who wrote a book about Ossorio) and Carlos Aguilar (film critic).
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| | Nanook of the North
| Director Robert Flaherty records Eskimo hunter Nanook and his family in one stunning sequence after another, telling a one-of-a-kind story of survival against the frigid sub-zero Hudson Bay region of Canada. This timeless Robert Flaherty classic in the original director's cut, digitally mastered at the visually correct speed from beautiful source material and dramatically enhanced with a new orchestral score by Timothy Brock.
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| | Crazy love
| A decades-long bizarre courtship of Linda Pugach by her mildly insane husband Burt. Making great use of archival footage, the filmmakers really hit their stride near the end, when laying out the skewed romantic timelessness which pervades the Pugach's interactions. The film does take some time to build viewer interest but when it does get particularly interesting near the end, rarely does studying the brilliant intricacies of human irony feel more poetic.
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| | John's NOT mad
| Filmed as a QED documentary by the BBC, John's Not Mad made a huge impact on the nation and brought the relatively unknown condition of Tourette Syndrome into the public domain. The documentary follows John Davidson, a 15 year old schoolboy from Galashiels who suffers from the most severe form of this complex neurological disorder. This fascinating and inspiring film explores the way in which John, his family and the local community deal with his extreme condition.
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| | Hearts of Darkness
| Even at the time Apocalypse Now was completed, back in 1979, Coppola likened its genesis to the Vietnam war itself: 'It was crazy... we had access to too much money and too much equipment, and little by little we went insane'. This documentary is entirely in agreement with that verdict. Assembled from later interviews and from some 60 hours of footage shot on location in the Philippines (much of it by Coppola's wife Eleanor), the documentary lists a catalogue of disasters: problems with weather and the Filipino government; massive over-expenditure; Martin Sheen's heart attack; actors spaced out on whatever drugs were available; and an elephantine Brando refusing to play a fat character. At once anecdotal and revealing, this excellent film both illuminates the catastrophes that beset one particular project, and shows, by way of comparison, exactly what American film has foregone since the '70s.
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| | Born into brothels
| Oscar-winning documentary by Zana Briski about the children of Calcutta's sex trade workers. Director Zana Briski went to Calcutta to photograph the children of sex-trade workers who carve out a Spartan existence among abject squalor. These children, some as young as 5, are forced to look after each other and dodge the blows of a society still based on a caste system of which they, or rather their parents, occupy the bottom rung.
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| | When we were kings
| This is a truly gripping documentary about the life of Ali leading up to the now lengendary "Rumble in the Jungle" with George Forman. The film is fascinating and also sad, as we see the champ in his hayday where he had all the athletic genius, rage and grace. Never has the world of Boxing had such an iconic figure that stood up against the Vietnam war, and segrigation. It's all here on this brilliant movie to understand why Ali will go down in history as sometimes the most loved, reviled, and contversial international sports hero's of our time. A knockout!
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| | The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
| Met een meesterlijk gevoel voor cinematografie filmt Joris Ivens Award winnaar Pirjo Honkasalo in The 3 Rooms of Melancholia kleine en grote kinderen op drie plaatsen in de voormalige Sovjet-Unie: een militaire academie nabij St.Petersburg, een huiskamer in Tsjetsjenië en een weeshuis in Ingoesjetië. Het resultaat is een adembenemend drieluik dat wars van misplaatste sentimentaliteit een generatie van oorlogskinderen laat zien, voor het leven getekend door de oorlog in Tsjetsjenië.
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| | Genghis Blues
| The extraordinary odyssey of a U.S. musician of Cape Verdean ancestry to Tannu Tuva, in central Asia, where nomadic people throat sing more than one note simultaneously, using vocal harmonics. A bluesman, Paul Pena, blind and recently widowed, taught himself throat singing and was by chance invited to the 1995 throat-singing symposium in Kyzyl.
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| | Stranded
| Oktober 1972, een vliegtuig met daarin 45 leden van een Urugyaans rugbyteam stort neer in de Andes. Hun strijd om in leven te blijven op een hoogte van 4.000 meter en dat gedurende 72 dagen is één van de meest indrukwekkendste overlevingsverhalen aller tijden. Vijfendertig jaar na het ongeval herenigt filmregisseur Gonzalo Arijón alle 16 overlevenden op de plek des onheils om hun ongelofelijke verhaal te filmen. Hij maakt er indrukwekkende filmopnames met veel respect voor de onuitputtelijke moed van de groep die veel tegenslagen had te overwinnen.
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| | Hearts of Darkness
| Even at the time Apocalypse Now was completed, back in 1979, Coppola likened its genesis to the Vietnam war itself: 'It was crazy... we had access to too much money and too much equipment, and little by little we went insane'. This documentary is entirely in agreement with that verdict. Assembled from later interviews and from some 60 hours of footage shot on location in the Philippines (much of it by Coppola's wife Eleanor), the documentary lists a catalogue of disasters: problems with weather and the Filipino government; massive over-expenditure; Martin Sheen's heart attack; actors spaced out on whatever drugs were available; and an elephantine Brando refusing to play a fat character. At once anecdotal and revealing, this excellent film both illuminates the catastrophes that beset one particular project, and shows, by way of comparison, exactly what American film has foregone since the '70s.
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| | Maya Deren: experimental films
| Maya Deren wrote articles and books, made avantgarde films, conducted "lecture study demonstrations", received a Guggenheim (1947) for creative work in motion pictures, and created a scholarship for experimental filmmakers, the Creative Film Foundation. Without these efforts postwar avantgarde film would have lost an inspirational voice. In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase a used 16 mm Bolex camera. She used this camera to make her first and best-known film, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), in Los Angeles in collaboration with Hammid. Meshes of the Afternoon is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. Originally a silent film with no dialogue, music for the film was composed by Deren's third husband Teiji Ito in 1952.
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| | When the levees broke
| Spike Lee-directed documentary about Hurricane Katrina, the catastrophic natural disaster that hit New Orleans on 29 August 2005. Like many others who watched the unfolding drama on television news, Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganised response of the emergency and recovery effort. The film is structured into four 'acts', each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's devastation of the city of New Orleans.
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| | The Bridge | In the USA today, suicide is far more common than homicide, with someone taking their own life every eighteen minutes, and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge confirmed as the most popular suicide destination in the world. Inspired by an article written by Tad Friend of the New Yorker , entitled 'The Fatal Grandeur of the Golden Gate Bridge'. Eric Steel's Documentary encapsulates the combination of suffering and the search for release of those desperate enough to find themselves on the precipice of The Bridge in 2004.
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| | The Staircase
| Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, presents a gripping courtroom thriller, offering a rare and revealing inside look at a high-profile murder trial. In 2001, author Michael Peterson was arraigned for the murder of his wife Kathleen, whose body was discovered lying in a pool of blood on the stairway of their home. "The staircase" is an engrossing look at contemporary American justice that features more twists than a legal bestseller.
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| | Dreaming by Numbers
| Verscholen tussen de winkeltjes en woonhuizen in de oude Napolitaanse volksbuurt bevindt zich het kantoortje van de lotto. Voor de vele klanten die hier komen is dit de plek waar alle hoop, dromen en fantasieen samenkomen. De een speelt zijn leven lang dezelfde getallen, de ander laat de keuze voor de cijfes afhangen van een droom, een toevallige gebeurtenis of ontmoeting. In Dreaming by Numbers worden verhalen met veel compassie en in een oorgstrelende zwart-wit fotografie vastgelegd.
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| | Murder on a Sunday morning
| A gripping, edge of your seat whodunit, "Murder On a Sunday Morning" catapulted to the top of must see lists everywhere when it emerged to win the Academy Award for best documentary feature. Jacksonville, Florida, May 2000. Mary Ann Stephens is shot in the head at point blank range in front of her husband. Two hours later, Brenton Butler, a 15 year old black male, is arrested walking down a nearby street. Mr. Stephens identifies him. Brenton signs a confession. Did Brenton write his own confession? Where is the concrete evidence? And most importantly, can the police be lying?
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