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  • Joy Dietrich & Tenzin Phuntsog – Rituals of Resistance (2018)

    Joy Dietrich2001-2010DocumentaryTenzin PhuntsogUSA
    Rituals of Resistance (2018)
    Rituals of Resistance (2018)

    A Tibetan-American filmmaker explores modes of resistance to Chinese occupation by speaking with activists in exile across three generations in disparate parts of the world. Ultimately a portrait of transgenerational trauma is revealed through personal testimonies of resilience in the face of oppression.Read More »

  • Ty Hodges – Miles from Home (2006)

    2001-2010DramaTy HodgesUSA
    Miles from Home (2006)
    Miles from Home (2006)

    Plagued by bad influences, bad choices and bad people, Miles finds himself in a seemingly hopeless set of circumstances. When a beautiful friend with an equally beautiful spirit shows him how to find his faith, Miles learns to trust a force greater than himself to face and overcome impossible odds.Read More »

  • Bent Christensen – The Only Way (1970)

    1961-1970Bent ChristensenDramaUSAWar
    The Only Way (1970)
    The Only Way (1970)

    Amazon
    In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark s Jews remain free. The Nazi s agreed. In October, 1943, the agreement was broken…This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark s valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death! For the Danes, this was THE ONLY WAY.Read More »

  • Various – Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)

    Various2001-2010Drama
    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
    Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)

    This series of vignettes offers ruminations on time, fate and other human mysteries, Each of the film’s seven directors conjures a scenario that speaks to some facet of universal experience.

    Kaige Chen … (segment “100 Flowers Hidden Deep”)
    Víctor Erice … (segment “Lifeline”)
    Werner Herzog … (segment “Ten Thousand Years Older”)
    Jim Jarmusch … (segment “Int. Trailer Night”)
    Aki Kaurismäki … (segment “Dogs Have No Hell”)
    Spike Lee … (segment “We Wuz Robbed”)
    Wim Wenders … (segment “Twelve Miles to Trona”)Read More »

  • André S. Labarthe – Wassily Kandinsky (1985)

    1981-1990André S. LabartheDocumentaryFrance
    Wassily Kandinsky (1985)
    Wassily Kandinsky (1985)

    Colour, form, area this is the formula of the greatest pioneer of abstract painting. Kandinsky came to art late in life, but his impact through Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) and Bauhaus paved the way for modern art. In 1913, he created one of the first abstract pictures, the theoretical basis of which was inspired by his essay Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art). Accompanied by Mussorgsky’s Pictures From An Exhibition, Labarthe goes on a sensual journey which makes the soul resound with colours and forms.Read More »

  • Richard Quine – How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

    Richard Quine1961-1970ComedyUSA
    How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
    How to Murder Your Wife (1965)

    Jack Lemmon is a happily unmarried man with all the creature comforts one could desire including a wonderful butler who takes care of all his material needs. At a bachelor party for a friend, Lemmon gets drunk and wakes up married to an Italian woman who speaks nearly no English. It totally alters his life. He even changes the cartoon he writes and shifts it from a secret agent to a household comedy. When he begins to have trouble with all of these changes he starts to plot that at least his secret agent cartoon will return to order and plans, in his daily comic strip, killing his wife. When she disappears, the cartoons are used as evidence at his trial.Read More »

  • Brad Leong – Palo Alto, CA (2007)

    Brad Leong2001-2010ComedyDramaUSA
    Palo Alto, CA (2007)
    Palo Alto, CA (2007)

    Palo Alto, CA is a movie starring Aaron Ashmore, Johnny Lewis, and Justin Mentell. On their last night of Thanksgiving break, four old friends, now all college freshmen, realize their small town has more meaning than they ever imagined.Read More »

  • Camillo Mastrocinque – Il peccato di Anna AKA Anna’s Sin (1953)

    Camillo Mastrocinque1951-1960DramaItaly
    Il peccato di Anna (1953)
    Il peccato di Anna (1953)

    A unique film for its time, Anna’s Sin is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Othello set in Rome of the early 1950s. In particular, Anna’s Sin stages an interracial relationship at the moment of the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, Pan-Africanism and anti-colonial struggle. Originally debuting in Italy in 1952, Anna’s Sin was released in the U.S. in 1954 and later re-released in 1961 as an interracial exploitation film. For many years, Anna’s Sin was an out-of-circulation, “lost” film, with The Wisconsin Historical Society Archives in Madison, Wisconsin holding a rare English-dubbed version. In 2017, the UCLA Film & Television Archives digitized a 35mm print of the film held by the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research and are pleased to organize a virtual screening of this rarely seen work.Read More »

  • Mareike Wegener – Mark Lombardi – Kunst und Konspiration AKA Mark Lombardi – Art and Conspiracy (2012)

    2011-2020DocumentaryMareike WegenerPoliticsUSA
    Mark Lombardi Kunst und Konspiration (2012)
    Mark Lombardi Kunst und Konspiration (2012)

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    A film about the American artist Mark Lombardi who created graphic artwork laying out the powers and opaque network of the global elites from the economic and finance sectors, as well as terrorists; and whose masterpieces crossed wires with the FBI after the attacks on September 11th. Lombardi had hung himself one year earlier in his New York studio. Who was this Mark Lombardi, a man whose work was so explosive that even terrorist hunters were using it as research? The film portrays an incredibly brilliant artist who took on the social function of a watchdog by using public information and arranging it to expose the grand illegal practices in the globalized world.Read More »

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