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Wednesday, November 01, 2006
EXCELLENT CADAVERS Opens in San Francisco After its successful runs in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, the acclaimed film EXCELLENT CADAVERS opens at the Roxie Cinema this Friday, November 3. Based on the book by Italian-American author Alexander Stille and featuring the photos of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, EXCELLENT CADAVERS chronicles the recent history of the Mafia and its integral—and seemingly ineradicable—relationship to postwar Italian politics.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Award-Winning Film JUSTICE Receives U.S. Theatrical Premiere Maria Ramos' critically-acclaimed film JUSTICE, winner of several international prizes, premieres at Film Forum in New York on October 18, 2006. The early reviews of this searing vérité look at Brazilian Criminal Courts have been great, with Time Out giving it four stars, and comparing Ramos to Wiseman and Ozu, and New York Magazine hailing it as, "a detailed blueprint of the favelas’ justice system...with artful character studies that reveal complicated motivations." JUSTICE plays for one week only, so buy your tickets online now! Tags: Brazil, prison, vérité Monday, October 02, 2006
OUT OF PLACE: MEMORIES OF EDWARD SAID Premieres in New York and Chicago The definitive documentary film memoir of Edward Said will receive its U.S. Theatrical Premiere in New York on Wednesday, October 11 at Anthology Film Archives. It will then receive its Chicago premiere on Saturday, November 4 at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Tags: Edward Said, biography, Middle East Thursday, September 21, 2006
Two New Releases Added This Week Including Rare Chris Marker Short Films We added two more titles to our website this yesterday, including CHRIS MARKER'S BESTIARY, a collection of five short films about animals. The other addition, HOTHOUSE, explores the evolution of Palestinian prisoner society into a democratic community and the impact of this shift on Palestinian politics outside of prison. This brings the total number of New Releases for September, 2006 to 39! This diverse collection of titles, the most we've ever added at once, has something for everyone who needs a audiovisual resource, or for anyone who just loves docs. Tags: Chris Marker, Israeli prisons, Hamas Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Nobel Prize Winner Naguib Mahfouz Dies We were saddened last week by the news that the great writer Naguib Mahfouz passed away at the age of 94. The first and only Arab winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, he, according to the Business Standard, would have found much to satirise at his own funeral. Mahfouz was given full state honours—his coffin was draped in a flag, borne in a horse-drawn carriage past a military guard of honour while the President and Prime Minister paid their last respects. But the ordinary people whose lives Mahfouz had documented in works like The Cairo Trilogy were excluded from the funeral for reasons of security. The report quoted Amal, one of Mahfouz’s many loyal readers: “He doesn’t want a state funeral… Did he write for the flag? Did he write for the horses? He wrote for the poor. We should walk in his funeral.” In NAGUIB MAHFOUZ: THE PASSAGE OF THE CENTURY Mahfouz granted rare access to make this revealing documentary with and about him. At the age of 88, half-blind, hard of hearing, and crippled by a recent assassination attempt, Mahfouz weaves the threads of his life together with his view of society, his childhood, his discovery of literature (Egyptian and Western), the city of Cairo (which he left only three times in his life), Islamic fundamentalism, the evolution of Egypt, the role of women, and the future of civilization. Tags: The Cairo Trilogy, Mahfouz, Nobel Prize Wednesday, August 30, 2006
OUR DAILY BREAD Selected to Screen at the 2006 New York Film Festival We're very pleased to announce that the feature documentary OUR DAILY BREAD has been selected to screen at the prestigious New York Film Festival. This acclaimed, international prize winning film reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture. In a series of visually stunning, continuously tracking, wide-screen images that seem right out of a science-fiction movie, we see the places where food is cultivated and processed: surreal landscapes optimized for agricultural machinery, clean rooms in cool industrial buildings designed for maximum efficiency, and elaborate machines that operate on a 'disassembly line' basis. Tags: New York Film Festival, Agribusiness, Factory Farming Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Acclaimed, Controversial, Classic Irish Film Has U.S. Theatrical Premiere Screening for the first time in the U.S.—in a newly restored version—the landmark film ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN is a captivating portrait of Ireland in the Sixties. In 1967, inspired by the French ‘New Wave,’ the Paris-based, Dublin-born journalist Peter Lennon decided to make a film about his native land. Featuring the photography of legendary cinematographer Raoul Coutard it was the last film screened at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival before the festival was stopped in solidarity with the then-erupting May ‘68. ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN premieres August 17 at Anthology Film Archives. Tags: Ireland, Dublin, Coutard, Sixties Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Prizes and Screenings at the Upcoming Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival We've just been informed that we have six films screening at the SVA Film Festival this November, and that three have won prizes! This festival is part of the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. LA SIERRA was given the Award of Excellence, the highest honor the SVA bestows on a film. THE DEVIL'S MINER was given an Award of Commendation, while COMPADRE won the Fieldwork Prize, “since the problems it depicts are so like those of many anthropologists in the field, and so rarely discussed.” Additionally, TO BE SEEN, THE HUMAN HAMBONE and BRULY BOUABRE'S ALPHABET will be honored with screenings at this largest meeting of anthropologists in the world! Tags: anthropology Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Four Recent Release to Screen at 2006 American Sociology Association Convention We're proud to announce that four acclaimed documentaries will screen at the upcoming annual American Sociology Association Convention in Montreal. BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND THE ROOSTER'S CROW is a case study of the troubling connections between corporations, Western consumption, and the 3rd World. MADEMOISELLE AND THE DOCTOR is a comprehensive examination of the current international debate about the right to die. TO BE SEEN is a study of visual culture, of urban culture and an exploration of an age-old urban cultural phenomenon, street art. Last, AMERICA'S BRUTAL PRISONS exposes the violence occurring inside prisons throughout America, where prisoners are routinely abused, even tortured, by prison guards. Tags: American Sociology Association, criminal justice, urban culture, assisted suicide, oil Monday, June 05, 2006
US Theatrical Premiere set for EXCELLENT CADAVERS Opening Wednesday, July 12, 2006, at Film Forum in New York City, EXCELLENT CADAVERS is the dramatic investigation of the history of the Mafia in Sicily. Tags: Film Forum Mafia Sicily documentary film Wednesday, May 10, 2006
New Subject Page Films, Videos & DVDs for Business Ethics We've created a new Business Ethics Subject Page for this increasingly important field of study and practice. The new page features twenty-one titles covering a variety of issues.From the acclaimed film A DECENT FACTORY—which follows Nokia's new "ethical management consultant" on a trip to a supply factory in China—to SELLING SICKNESS—a highly-praised exploration of the unhealthy relationships between the pharmaceutical industry, advertisers, the FDA, and consumers—this collection of films covers many of the crucial ethical issues facing businesses today. Wednesday, April 19, 2006
PROTEUS Wins Prestigious Award from the American Historical Association At last month's Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, the largest historical society in the United States, PROTEUS: A NINETEENTH CENTURY VISION was awarded the prestigious 2005 John E. O'Connor Film Award for its outstanding interpretation of history through the medium of film. PROTEUS: A NINETEENTH CENTURY VISION, a multi-layered, animated exploration of the 19th century's fascination with the undersea world, about the intersection of spirituality, art and science, is according to Science Magazine, "A Truly Stunning Film! Lebrun successfully fuses his selection of images and text to bring to life the drama behind this 19th century vision of nature."
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Shui-Bo Wang Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced its 2006 U.S. and Canadian Fellows recently, and filmmaker Shui-Bo Wang was among those honored. The Foundation provides fellowships for advanced professionals in natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, creative arts. Shui-Bo's first film, SUNRISE OVER TIANANMEN SQUARE, a stunning autobiography of his youth during the historic upheavals of the 1960s, '70s and '80s, was nominated for an Academy Award in 1999. His second film, SWING IN BEIJING, is a feature documentary on the underground art scene in China, and the new release THE CHOSE CHINA is his third film.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Review in Prestigious Journal International Sociology Praises Doc on Pierre Bourdieu The "seminal" (Leonardo Reviews) documentary film SOCIOLOGY IS A MARTIAL ART was recently reviewed in International Sociology, the most prestigious peer-reviewed journal in the discipline. The reviewer, Yves Labarge of Laval University, called the film, "A living portrait... the finest documentary a social scientist could ever dream of... Important... Vital... Should be part of every college or university library." Click here to go to our new Current Concerns page, a listing of videos on issues in the news. |
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