Films

Russian Documentary State Funeral features excellent Archival Footage

Moscow, March 1953: in the days following the death of Joseph Stalin, countless citizens flooded the Red Square to mourn their leader’s loss and witness his burial. Though the procession was captured in detail by hundreds of cameramen, their footage has remained largely unseen until now. Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa uses excellently shot archival footage […]

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Gunda – ★★★

The American-Norwegian documentary film Gunda, directed, co-written and co-edited by Russian director Viktor Kossakovsky is now showing in cinemas. The nonverbal film observes the life of pigs, chicken and cows on rural farms in an aesthetic style. It gained broader attention when Joaquin Phoenix stepped in as executive producer. It is interesting to get so

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Senna – ★★★★½

Senna is a 2010 British-French documentary film by the very talented director Asif Kapadia depicting the life and death of Brazilian Formula One Race Driver Ayrton Senna. It focues on his career in Racing from 1984 until his death in 1994. It is the first film in Kapadia’s excellent documentary trilogy about young prodigies rising

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