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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The 10-part US Series “The Underground Railroad” by the acclaimed director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight; 2016 / If Beale Street Could Talk; 2018) is available for streaming on Prime Video. It is an adaption of the Pulitzer Winning historical fiction novel of the same name by Colson Whitehead and follows Cora and Caesar trying to flee
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The US-Drama “Sound of Metal” is a great feature-length debut written and directed by Darius Marder about dealing with unpredictable changes in life. The film follows Ruben (Riz Ahmed), who is the drummer of a metal-duo with his girlfriend and singer Lou (Olivia Cooke). Together they are living their dream, touring the country and playing
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“Time” is a great American documentary film produced and directed by Garrett Bradley. It follows Sibil Fox Richardson, fighting for the release of her husband Rob, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence. It is a deeply personal journey with the family, edited from over 100 hours of home-videos Sibil recorded over the 18 years
A list of noteworthy Amazon Studios Films.
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The US science fiction mystery film “The Vast of Night” is a fine little debut film by director Andrew Patterson and is available on Prime Video. The film is set in the 50’s in New Mexico, where a young switchboard operator and a radio disc jockey discover a mysterious audio frequency that could be extraterrestrial
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Amazon Prime Video now feautures the most visually beautiful and finest art house film of 2019, “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” by Celine Sciamma from France. A historical drama about the relationship of a young aristocrat and a painter who is supposed to portray her. The framing, the light, the colours and the faces
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The 2017 biographical film “A Prayer Before Dawn” by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is now available on Prime Video and is one of the greatest smaller international films I discovered that year. It is based on the experiences of British Billy Moore, a drug-addicted Muay Thai boxer who lives in Thailand and is jailed for drug dealing.
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