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Documentary
We Are the Lambeth Boys (1958) Karel Reisz, Jon Rollason, Tony Benson, Adrian Harding
Part of the British ‘Free Cinema’ movement, which included Lindsay Anderson’s ‘Every Day Except Christmas’ (daily life at Covent Garden fruit/vegetable market) Read More »
Diary (1983) David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Yael Perlov
Shot over a ten-year period, Diary is not only the political, professional, and personal diary of a man, but is a testimony on the turbulent reality of a war-torn country, Israel. Read More »
Sibérie (2011) Bruno Dumont, Joana Preiss
A couple on a trip with two small cameras to make a movie. On board the Trans-Siberian, they exchange about love, desire, cinema. Read More »
Days of Glory AKA Giorni di gloria (1945) Giuseppe De Santis, Umberto Barbaro, Umberto Calosso, Donato Carretta
The film shows the life of the antifascist partisans, the events that led to the liberation of Rome Read More »
1/3 des yeux (2004) Olivier Zabat
1/3 of the eyes is a poetic documentary on the contradictory forces present in our society and in every human being. Read More »
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973) Richard Schickel, Sydney Pollack, King Vidor
King Vidor is unusual in the series “The Men Who Made the Movies” in that of all the directors, as a person. Read More »
Isabelle Huppert: A Gypsy Life AKA Isabelle Huppert, une vie pour jouer (2001) Serge Toubiana, Isabelle Huppert
Serge Toubiana followed Isabelle Huppert and her lifestyle for one year. Read More »
Shinjuku Boys (1995) Kim Longinotto, Jano Williams, Gaish, Tatsu, Kazuki
A film about love and gender. This documentary is set in the New Marilyn night club in Tokyo, Japan Read More »
Divorce Iranian Style (1998) Kim Longinotto, Ziba Mir-Hosseini
A documentary about real divorce cases in Iran’s tribunals. Read More »
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) Ken Burns, Jack Johnson, Keith David, Samuel L. Jackson
The story of Jack Johnson is huge. The first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908 to 1915, he was rowdy, smart, rebellious, and proud. Read More »
Forever (2006) Heddy Honigmann, Yoshino Kimura, Bertrand Beyern, Camille Solari
Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Read More »
The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife (1991) Nick Broomfield, Eugene Terre’Blanche, J.P. Meyer
From the award-winning Director Nick Broomfield, The Leader, His Driver, and the Driver’s Wife portrays the sinister Read More »
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2016) Simon Sheridan, Dexter Fletcher, David Sullivan, Dudley Sutton
Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington – Britain’s most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s. Read More »
My Own Breathing AKA Sumgyeol – Najeun moksori 3 (1999) Young-Joo Byun
Some Korean women were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. Read More »