Posts Tagged ‘Documentary’

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Mar28

Llorenc Llobet Gracia: Vida en sombras / Life in Shadows (1949) + 22 curts restaurats / cortos restaurados / restored shorts (1928-1954) 3 x DVD9

by movieworld on March 28th, 2019 at 14:33
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Vida en sombras 1949
Llorenc Llobet Gracia (1911 - 1976) has always bonded intimately with the world of cinema since his father gave him, in his young age, a Pathe-Baby camera. This childhood experience is re-enacted at the beginning of Vida en sombras, the only commercial film he made, in 1948, after having developed an intense activity in amateur cinema circles.

The plot, with autobiographical tinges, is about the life of a man born literally in a stall during one of the first cinema showings in Barcelona. His fascination for Chaplin’s short-films and the Pearl White series forge his childhood and, in his yough, he devotes his time to write for cinema magazines and film everything he sees. However, the 1936 coup d’etat, ruins everything. While the protagonist, performed by Fernando Fernan Gomez, is shooting war images on the street, his pregnant wife, Maria Dolores Pradera, dies at home, fatally wounded by a burst of ammunition.
Traumatized by guilt, the protagonist decides to give up any contact with the cinema...

Director: Lorenzo Llobet Gracia (as Llobet Gracia)
Cast: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Maria Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomes
Country: Spain
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Mar26

El cine exprimental de Narcisa Hirsch / Narcisa Hirsch’s Experimental Films (1971-2011) 2 x DVD

by movieworld on March 26th, 2019 at 16:20
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El cine exprimental de Narcisa Hirsch
Narcisa Hirsch's experimental films form an important chapter in the history of the Argentine avant-garde. Exploring female identity, mortality, eroticism, and violence, her work took on the political issues of her day, connecting personal narratives to larger social histories.

Moving into filmmaking in the late sixties following her earlier work in painting, performances and happenings, Hirsch focuses on the body and corporeal experience in her work, and combines her musings on spiritual and existential questions with lyrical imagery derived largely from the interior spaces of her domestic life, the rural landscapes of Patagonia and the urban environments of Buenos Aires.

DVD9 + DVD5 | PAL | 210 min | 11.2 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Silent, Spanish
Subtitles: English
Genre: Experimental

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Mar26

Miscellanea I-VII – Sieben Filme von Heinz Emigholz (1986-2010) DVD9

by movieworld on March 26th, 2019 at 15:32
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Miscellanea I-VII
Seven Films by Heinz Emigholz

“Miscellanea" is the name I gave to films that have forced themselves upon me wanting to be made during the course of my work on other films – without a commission or funding debates. They are studies on 35mm film and HDV. The films are vessels for collections of film shots, footnotes, remarks and references, to be regarded as vanguard and memory.

For example, the films EL GRECO IN TOLEDO and ON BOARD THE USS TICONDEROGA emerged from two scenes of the film THE HOLY BUNCH from 1991, in which the images appeared only marginally as a component of the story. Yet the necessity to examine them more closely lived on beyond the limited time of a feature film. (Heinz Emigholz)

DVD9 | NTSC | 152 min | 7.42 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English, Deutsch
Subtitles: none
Genre: Documentary

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Mar26

El hombre cuando es hombre / A Man, When He Is a Man (1982) DVD5

by movieworld on March 26th, 2019 at 12:08
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El hombre cuando es hombre 1982
Valeria Sarmiento's cinema work – unique and difficult to define – is key to understanding many different fields of the film world, from experimental and feminist documentary, the films made by Chileans in exile, melodrama as the clue to accessing Latin American culture, irony and humour as reactions to different types of authoritarianism, monumental constructions throughout history, and the tyranny of manufactured consensus.

Images and the men speak for themselves in this lively, deceptive and devastating exploration of machismo in Costa Rican society, written and directed by Valeria Sarmiento.

DVD5 | NTSC 4:3 | 01:06:39 | 4.05 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English hardcoded
Genre: Documentary

Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Country: France, West Germany, Costa Rica
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Mar25

Hitler… connais pas / Hitler – Never Heard of Him (1963) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 25th, 2019 at 16:42
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Hitler... connais pas 1963
In 1963, 22-year-old Bertrand Blier invited 11 of his peers to come to a film studio and talk about their lives. The record of what was said, Hitler? Connais pas!, is a discussion of values that remains relevant and fascinating today. The footage was shot just five years prior to May 1968, and the atmosphere of that time is clearly discernible: these young people may not yet be revolutionaries, but there is clearly a ferment in the air. One young woman describes how she dances the twist every evening; a young man relates his mother's marital infidelities; another young woman describes her own sexual escapades. A bourgeois life holds no appeal for her whatsoever: that would be "a small life," like that of her parents -- and that is certainly not the way to happiness. Another young man has a very traditional attitude: a carbon copy of his father, typical of the 1950s. All he wants is a nice family, a good job, and a nice car in the driveway. Blier focused his camera on an interesting historical gray area. The aesthetics are typically 1960s: each of the twenty-somethings is filmed in isolation, sitting on a chair, under bright lights, from different angles, and in black-and-white.

Director: Bertrand Blier
Country: France
Genre: Documentary
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Mar22

Zire darakhatan zeyton / Under the Olive Trees / Through the Olive Trees (1994) DVD9, Blu-Ray

by movieworld on March 22nd, 2019 at 12:28
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Zire darakhatan zeyton / Under the Olive Trees / Through the Olive Trees (1994) DVD9
The third part in Abbas Kiarostami's masterful Koker trilogy (sometimes called the "earthquake trilogy"), Through the Olive Trees tells a fictionalized story of the shooting of the previous film, "Life and Nothing More..."

A film director is making a movie in the Iranian countryside. He recruits local actors, but when shooting begins, a problem comes to light. His male lead, a young man named Hossein (playing himself), is madly in love with his fifteen-year old female co-star, Tahereh (playing herself). Because of Hossein’s illiteracy and homelessness, a marriage is impossible, at least from the perspective of Tahereh’s grandmother (who is also her guardian). Mohamad Ali Keshavarz plays the Kiarostami-like film director who tries to sort it all out.

Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Mohamad Ali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva
Country: France, Iran
Genre: Drama
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Mar20

Jonas Mekas – The Sixties Quartet: Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1990), Zefiro Torna or Scenes from the Life of George Maciunas (Fluxus) (2002), Happy Birthday to John (1997), This Side of Paradise (1999) DVD5

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 16:13
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Jonas Mekas - The Sixties Quartet
Four films that shed light on the life, art and atmosphere of the sixties.

Jonas Mekas is a pioneer of the avant-garde and has often been called the “godfather of American avant-garde cinema.”

Mekas was born in Lithuania in 1929. In 1944 he fled his home country because of the war and went on a long and dangerous journey through Europe before settling in the US. In 1949 he bought his first 16mm Bolex camera and started filming moments of his life. In his long and eventful carrier he has made countless films, both long and short, and received awards for his work all over the world. His films are varied in form but he is perhaps most known for his “diary films”, which are made up of snapshots of his daily life. Mekas has collaborated with some of the the world’s most celebrated artists, such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Salvador Dali, Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

Mekas is man of many talents. Through the years he has done a lot of writing on cinema and he founded the magazine Film Culture with his brother Adolfas Mekas, which was to devoted to writings about the art of cinema. Mekas is also a prolific writer of poetry and is considered one of Lithuania’s greatest contemporary poets.

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Mar20

Light Years: The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell (1968-87 / 2015-18) (2018) DVD9

by movieworld on March 20th, 2019 at 15:42
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Light Years The Film Diaries of Tim Cawkwell
Tim Cawkwell was born in Oxford in 1948, and completed his studies in Latin, Greek and Ancient History at the University there in 1970. He received another education - parallel, unofficial - in the cinema, and has been watching films ever since. Between 1968 and 1987, he made films, first in 8mm then in 16mm, specializing in working directly on the film frame. He has had a career first in publishing, then in the voluntary sector, ending up as chief administrative officer (a lay position) at Norwich Cathedral. He was involved in the publication of 'The World Encyclopaedia of Film' in 1972, and published 'The Filmgoer's Guide to God' in 2004.

Drawing inspiration from the American Underground films reaching Britain at the time, The Light Years seeks to emulate the qualities of the diary, thus making the personal public. The work brings together a series of short films made on 8mm between 1968 and 1987 to create a single diary film in 25 sections with its own narrative arc as a story of self-education. The material was digitized, re-edited, and voice-over and sound added between 2015 and 2018.

DVD9 | PAL 16:9 | 193 minutes | 7.04 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: none
Genre: Experimental

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Mar19

Brian De Palma Les Annees 60: Dionysus in ’69 (1970), The Responsive Eye (1966), Woton’s Wake (1962) DVD9

by movieworld on March 19th, 2019 at 15:44
Posted In: .Other movies, Documentary, Drama, Horror

Brian De Palma Les Annee 60
William Finley who stars in Woton’s Wake and Dionysus in ’69 would work with De Palma on a total of eight films including his most recognizable role as Winslow Leach in Phantom of the Paradise. Early on in his career Brian De Palma’s fixation with voyeurism would become a central theme that he would explore time and again.

Brian De Palma Annees 60 gives his fans a chance to see some of his rarely seen early works in their best home video presentations to date. This collection of films is not representative of his later works which fans now associate him with.

Overall the films contained Brian De Palma Annees 60 may not be some of his best films to date, still they show that even early on De Palma had already developed his cinematic style.
De Palma’s willingness to take on controversial subjects and his desire to satisfy himself as filmmaker is one the main reasons he has been able to make films for nearly forty five years and this set of films showcases an artist finding his muse.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 163 min | 6.97 Gb + 3% rec
Language: English
Subtitles: Francais
Genre: Drama, Documentary, Short, Horror

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Mar18

Leipzig Filme 1986 – 1997 / Andreas Voigt’s Leipzig Films Collection (1986-1997): Alfred (1986), Leipzig im Herbst / Leipzig in the Fall (1990), Letztes Jahr – Titanic / Last Year Titanic (1991), Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung / Belief, Love, Hope (1994), Grosse weite Welt / Big Wide World (1998) 2 x DVD9

by movieworld on March 18th, 2019 at 23:27
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Leipzig Filme
On Monday, October 16, 1989, filmmakers Andreas Voigt and Gerd Kroske took their cameras to Leipzig to document the demonstrations happening there that were coinciding with East Germany's 40th anniversary events. Though the filmmakers did not have any plan at that point to shoot a film, they understood the urgency of capturing the events on film. This footage, however, was the start of director Voigt's Leipzig Films that document, from the ground up, the time shortly before, during, and immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification.

Voigt's participation in "Leipzig in Fall", the documentation of the protests in Leipzig in October and November 1989, established his international reputation. He became one of the most important younger directors to document the political changes in East Germany after unification.
Particularly his five films on the city of Leipzig function as a sensitive seismograph of the feelings of the people.

DVD9 | PAL 4:3 | 372 minutes | 7.32 Gb + 5.79 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch
Subtitles: English
Genre: Documentary

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