The three-part documentary “jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy” filmed and directed by Coodie & Chike about the life of rapper, record producer and fashion designer Kanye West was released on Netflix. It features a detailed collage of natural moments and off-screen narration by Coodie, who knew Kanye from when he wasn’t famous yet and started filming […]
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我的镜头 – (Chinese Portrait) is a great documentary film by Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai (So Long, My Son) from the year 2018. It features around 60 finely composed shots filmed over seven years showing people or the director himself in different locales and situations in China standing still and looking into the camera while life
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The 2020 Chinese-American Documentary film 76 Days directed by Hao Wu, Weixi Chen and an anonymous third is available on YouTube and Dogwoof. It documents the situation in a Wuhan Hospital in China shortly after the beginning of the first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of the city in February 2020 that lasted for 76 days. In
The great nonverbal documentary film “Cow” by British filmmaker Andrea Arnold that premiered last year at Cannes is now finally available for streaming on Mubi. The film is an intimate portrait of a milking cow and follows her in her everyday life on a farm in the UK. It’s style is naturalistic and contemplative with
This is a list of all the new films I enjoyed in 2021.
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A list of the most interesting films of 2021 that I’m excited to see soon.
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A list of some really great films I revisited recently.
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The 1950 US Western film The Gunfighter directed by Henry King is a great early example of the deconstruction of Wild West heroism. Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) stars in the main role as infamous gunslinger Jimmy Ringo growing older and wishing to leave his lifestyle behind and just settle down and reunite with
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The Battle of Algiers is a 1966 Italian-Algerian war film by Gillo Pontecorvo. It depicts the fight of rebels against the French government in Algeria’s capital during the Algerian War that took place between 1954-1962. It was shot in the city and features a newsreel look in black and white with documentary-style editing to heighten
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Hearts of Darkness is a US documentary film about the chaotic and wild production of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 cinematic masterpiece Apocalypse Now. It was mainly shot and narrated by Coppola’s wife Eleanor and later edited and finished by George Hickenlooper and Fax Bahr who premiered it at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. The footage
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