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- Aki Kaurismäki - The filmmaker of Leningrad Cowboys Go America and the new release The Man Without a Past (winner of the Grand Prix du Jury at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival) is the subject of this portrait.
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- Blockade - Made entirely from footage discovered in Russian archives, and featuring a meticulously reconstructed soundtrack, this film vividly re-creates the 900 day siege of Leningrad during World War II. (new September, 2006)
- Born in Flames - The seminal futuristic tale of women by Lizzie Borden.
- Bright Leaves - The new film from Ross McElwee, director of SHERMAN'S MARCH. The renowned filmmaker and native Carolinian journeys across the social, economic, and psychological landscapes of tobacco and family in North Carolina.
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- The Case of the Grinning Cat - In his newest film, French cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on French and international politics, art and culture at the start of the new millennium. (new September, 2006)
- Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman - A self-portrait by experimental narrative and feminist Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman.
- Children of Fate - Thirty years in the life of a gutsy Sicilian woman who battles poverty, crime, and an abusive husband to keep her family together.
- Chris Marker's Bestiary - Five Chris Marker's short films devoted to animals collected together and available for the first time! (new September, 2006)
- Chronicle of a Summer - Paris, 1960. The seminal cinéma vérité film by Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin. From a simple starting point - asking Are you happy, sir? - this true landmark in film history explores the possibilities to film the inner truths of peoples lives.
- Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures - Two young men travel the dusty wilderness roads of Northeastern Brazil in the early 1940s, stopping in towns and villages to sell the new miracle drug, aspirin. (new September, 2006)
- Cinema, Of Our Time - A collection of films, cinematic profiles really, about some of the great filmmakers of the 20th century.
- A Crime to Fit the Punishment - Visits blacklisted Hollywood filmmakers who came together to make the seminal labor film, SALT OF THE EARTH.
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- Ducktators - A unique look at the use of cartoons during World War II.
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- Eisenstein - A vivid portrait of the places and events which fostered Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein's genius.
- Electric Shadows - An elegant short about film projectionists trying to keep cinema alive in their province of Sichuan, China.
- Eric Rohmer: With Supporting Evidence - A portrait of French filmmaker Eric Rohmer, patriarch of the New Wave and fomer editor of Cahiers du Cinema, who discusses his films and his appoach to cinema.
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- 49 UP - The seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago, inspired by the Jesuit maxim "Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man." (new August, 2006)
- From The East - Chantal Akerman retraces a journey from the end of summer to deepest winter, from East Germany, across Poland and the Baltics, to Moscow. ** One of the 10 Best Films of the 1990s - J. Hoberman, Artforum
- The Future Is Not What It Used To Be - A fascinating profile of Erkki Kurenniemi, an early inventor of electronic synthesizers and microcomputers, whose career represents a surprisingly natural blend of music, film, computers, robotics, science and art.
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- Gao Rang (Grilled Rice) - The story of the North Vietnamese combat cameramen who filmed the Indo-Chinese & Vietnam Wars, and founded Vietnamese cinema.
- The Global Film Initiative (2004) - An exciting series of ten feature films from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East that promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema.
- The Global Film Initiative (2005) - An exciting series of ten feature films from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East that promote cross-cultural understanding through the medium of cinema.
- A Grin Without A Cat - Chris Marker's epic film-essay on the worldwide political wars of the 60's and 70's: Vietnam, Che, May '68, Prague, Chile, and the fate of the New Left.
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- Hairway to the Stars - An early short from the director of THREE KINGS.
- HHH - The acclaimed filmmaker of the masterpiece Flowers of Shanghai, Hou Hsiao-hsien returns to the haunts of his youth to talk to childhood friends and discuss his films.
- History Lessons - Experimenting with the form of historical documentary, an entertaining pastiche of cultural celluloid artifacts, appropriated historical footage, and dramatically composed skits focusing on lesbian life and revelry pre-Stonewall.
- History of a Committed Cinema - A lively critique of western (Hollywood) cinema, for Nicaraguan filmmakers.
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- If You Only Understood - A Cuban film director's search for an actress to star in his new musical comedy exposes issues of racism and other conflicts in Cuban society.
- An Injury To One - Reconstructs the long-forgotten murder of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana, and draws a connection between the unsolved murder of Little, and the attempted murder of the town itself.
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- Kumar Talkies - In Kalpi, a small city in northern India, Kumar Talkies is the only movie theater in town. This film juxtaposes life in the village, with the world of rebellion and romance on the silver screen.
- Kuxa Kanema - The story of Mozambique's National Institute of Cinema (INC) - a history of the birth and death of local cinema, and the birth and death of an ideology.
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- La Commune - The new film by Peter Watkins. A 5 hour 45 minute event. Based on a thorough historical research into the Paris Commune of 1871, this film leads to an inevitable reflection about the present.
- The Last Bolshevik - Chris Marker's tribute to Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin.
- Light Keeps Me Company - An intimate and moving portrait of the life and work of famed cinematographer Sven Nykvist by his son.
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- The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin - Reunites Peter Lennon and cinematographer Raoul Coutard, who recount the making of their then controversial but now classic documentary on Ireland in the Sixties.
- Mao, the Real Man - Portrait of the Chairman using only facts, newsreel footage, and historic documents - to create a total, and wholly believable, fabrication
- Margarette's Feast - In an ode to classic silent films, a working-class everyman in Brazil escapes from his desperate life through the power of imagination.
- Matamata and Pilipili - Reclaims an important episode in the history of Congolese popular culture, the Matamata and Pilipili series of colonial-era film comedies, while exploring the complex terrain of colonial relationships and media representations.
- Middletown - This classic series, created by Emmy and Academy Award winner Peter Davis, explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana.
- Mille Gilles - The thought and ideas of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze, and his impact on creative work and communities around the world.
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- The New Wave By Itself - A beautiful time capsule of the French New Wave in action. Shot in 1964; includes fascinating conversations with Chabrol, Rouch, Godard, Rivette, Truffaut, Varda, and others.
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- On Snow's Wavelength, Zoom Out - A documentary on artist Michael Snow, regarded as one of the great innovators and theoreticians of the film medium, as informative and enjoyable as it is beautifully constructed.
- One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich - Filmmaker Chris Marker’s homage to his friend and colleague, Andrei Tarkovsky. A unique and intimate portrait of the legendary Russian filmmaker.
- 100 Children Waiting for a Train - Poetically tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality - and a different world - through the cinema.
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- A Painful Reminder - A visual record of the actual liberation of concentration camps, put together with Alfred Hitchcock's help.
- Proteus - Animated exploration of the 19th century's fascination with the undersea world, and portrait of biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the sea depths an ecstatic fusion of science and art.
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- Rats in the Ranks - A fascinating portrait of how politics really works, captured by two of Australia's most distinguished filmmakers.
- Remembrance of Things to Come - Reminiscent of Resnais, Ivens, even Kubrick, but in its deployment of still photographs (as in La Jetée), its theme of history and memory, its subject-skipping montage and rapid shuttle of wit and philosophy it's pure Marker.
- Resident Exile - An Iranian in Houston during the hostage crisis.
- Robert Bresson - French director Robert Bresson discusses his personal and contentious ideas about filmmaking in this intimate documentary portrait, filmed in 1965.
- Rocky Road to Dublin - The last film screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 1968. A provocative, biting portrayal of 1960s Ireland: the stultifying educational system, the repressive, reactionary clergy, and the myopic cultural nationalism.
- Ross McElwee DVD Collection - This new collection includes six of McElwee's best films, four of which have never been available on DVD. (new January, 2006)
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- Sermons and Sacred Pictures - Profiles Reverend L.O. Taylor, a Baptist minister and inspired photographer/filmmaker who documented the fabric of black American life prior to the civil rights movement.
- Shadow Kill - The story of a hangman in pre-independence India, who feelings of guilt and unhappiness result from his realization that the executions are a result of politics and not justice.
- Sherman's March - Starts out as an historical documentary tracing General Tecumseh Sherman's disastrous march through the South, but somehow metamorphoses into an hilarious record McElwee's own calamitous quest for romance.
- Something to Do with the Wall - The fall of the Berlin Wall as could only be seen through the perspective of Ross McElwee and Marilyn Levine.
- Space Coast - How an LBJ-era boomtown became a recession ghost town: the darkly hilarious story of Cape Canaveral and three of its local eccentrics.
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- Taking Pictures - Explores the issues and pitfalls of filming across a cultural boundary - through interviews with Australian filmmakers and by sampling their powerful award-winning documentaries about Papua New Guinea.
- The 3 Rooms of Melancholia - An award-winning, stunningly beautiful revelation of how the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in Chechnya.
- Ticket to Jerusalem - Jabber, a Palestinian, escapes the troubles on the West Bank by showing films to his community. But trouble is all he gets when he tries to organize a screening in Jerusalem.
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- Uniform - Filmed on a shoestring budget in the city of Xi'an, Shaanxi province, this deceptively simple first feature perfectly illustrates a Chinese saying "the clothes enter before the person."
- The Universal Clock - Is there an alternative to run-of-the-mill TV? The film introduces us to Peter Watkins, who for the last three decades has proven that quality TV may be made without compromise.
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- A Visit to Ogawa Productions - Nagisa Oshima - the 'New Wave' Japanese director - visits the filmmaking collective led by Shinsuke Ogawa, to discuss the social and cinematic philosophy of one of Japan's best-known documentary film collectives.
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- The Way Things Go - 100 feet of physical interactions, chemical reactions, and precisely crafted chaos worthy of Rube Goldberg or Alfred Hitchcock - a discussion starter for sure.
- Whisky - An inspired and beautifully assured tragic-comedy about Jacobo, a sixty-year-old owner of a small, outdated sock factory in Uruguay.
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