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  • Henry Ferrini – Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)

    2001-2010DocumentaryHenry FerriniUSA
    Polis Is This Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)
    Polis Is This Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place (2007)

    From imdb:
    From Postman to the Postmodern, Charles Olson remains today an original American master. The enigmatic and hulking six-foot eight Harvard historian drifts back to the hard-luck New England fishing port of his boyhood summers. There he forges transcendent vision that links his besieged town, caught between tradition and modernity, to all places – in all times.

    Viewers join Actor John Malkovich in a one hour race for meaning that stretches from antiquity to yesterday, from the local to the universal and from that which is most familiar to that which can only be imagined.Read More »

  • Paul Haggis & Dan Krauss – 5B (2018)

    Paul Haggis2011-2020Dan KraussDocumentaryUSA
    5B (2018)
    5B (2018)

    Documentary about the staff and patients of San Francisco General Hospital’s AIDS ward during the early years of the epidemic.Read More »

  • Jim Jarmusch – Permanent Vacation (1980)

    Jim Jarmusch1971-1980DramaUSA
    Permanent Vacation (1982)
    Permanent Vacation (1982)

    Jim Jarmusch’s first full length film “Permanent Vacation”, is a day in the life of a ‘beat-down’ young fellow, interested in Charlie Parker. He wanders the streets of Manhattan, engaging in detached conversations with likes of his girlfriend, strangers, and his mentally feeble mother. Using lots of long takes, the film takes it time wandering, giving it a humerous candid feel. With a soundtrack and cameo by John Lurie playing a ” vibrating bugged-out” versison of ‘Over the Rainbow’ giving it a jadded ‘beat-jazz’ feel.Read More »

  • Morrisa Maltz – The Unknown Country (2022)

    2021-2030DramaMorrisa MaltzUSA
    The Unknown Country (2022)
    The Unknown Country (2022)

    An unexpected invitation rushes a grieving young woman into a lonely road trip through the American Midwest towards the border between Texas and Mexico.Read More »

  • Gus Van Sant – Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    Gus Van Sant1981-1990CultDramaUSA
    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

    A group of drug addicts in the 1970’s help finance their habit by robbing drug stores. A highly superstitious Bob and wife Diane love to do various pharmaceutical drugs like dilaudid, morphine and cocaine. To maintain the habit, they steal from pharmacies with the help of another couple. A cop that eventually gets too close for comfort, which causes the crew to move their operation to another town. Before long, one of the crew dies of an overdose; the body has to be moved from their hotel room to their car. The problem is that there is an unexpected sheriff’s convention assembling at the hotel where they’re staying. Bob believes that one of his superstitious beliefs caused this incident and is scared into joining a methadone program. Leaving his past proves harder than he anticipated, though.Read More »

  • Nancy Buirski – Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)

    USA2021-2030DocumentaryNancy Buirski
    Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)
    Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (2022)

    Synopsis
    Follows the behind-the-scenes odyssey to get Midnight Cowboy (1969) produced, as well as the tumultuous era in which the movie was released and embraced.Read More »

  • Jim Jarmusch – Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

    Jim Jarmusch2001-2010ComedyDramaUSA
    Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)
    Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

    Quote:
    Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, Coffee and Cigarettes is a collection of 11 vignettes relating to people having conversations about anything while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. The film is a collection of 11 shorts, three of which were made prior in 2003 including the 1993 Somewhere in California segment that won Jarmusch the short film Palme D’or at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. With an all-start cast that includes Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinque Lee, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan, Alfred Molina, Issach de Bankole, Jack & Meg White of the White Stripes, RZA & GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Bill Murray. Coffee and Cigarettes is fun collection of shorts and vignettes from Jim Jarmusch.Read More »

  • Shirley MacLaine & Claudia Weill – The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir (1975)

    Claudia Weill1971-1980DocumentaryShirley MacLaineUSA
    The Other Half of the Sky A China Memoir (1975)
    The Other Half of the Sky A China Memoir (1975)

    Documentary on mainland Chinese life.Read More »

  • Gary Nelson – The Lookalike (1990)

    1991-2000Gary NelsonMysteryThrillerUSA
    The Lookalike (1990)
    The Lookalike (1990)

    A mentally disturbed woman is further tormented after discovering a girl who closely resembles her recently deceased daughter.Read More »

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