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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This interview is another meaningful addition to the original Shoah project by French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann that was released in 2001. It features the eye witness account of Yehuda Lerner, a Jewish prisoner of the Sobibor extermination camp during World War II that participated in a revolt, which enabled him to flee from the camp
Sobibor, 14 Octobre 1943, 16 Heures – ★★★★½ Read More »
In 1979, Claude Lanzmann interviewed Maurice Rossel as part of his Shoah documentary project, who was an official of the International Red Cross during the Second World War. Rossel is known for his visit of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp and erroneously reporting that the living conditions of the Jewish prisoners there were almost normal and life in the camp
Un Vivant Qui Passe (A Visitor from the Living) – ★★★★ Read More »