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!Women Art Revolution
Lynn Hershman Leeson | | An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art, !Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. More... |
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10 on Ten
Abbas Kiarostami | | Included on the TEN DVD, 10 ON TEN is a feature-length cinematic master-class in which Abbas Kiarostami discusses his filmmaking. More... |
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The Acid House
Paul McGuigan | | A surreal triptych adapted by TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh from his own collection of short stories. Combining a vicious sense of humor with hard-talking drama, THE ACID HOUSE plunges the viewer into increasingly bizarre situations. More... |
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Act of God
Jennifer Baichwal | | From the director of Manufactured Landscapes. Accidents, chance, fate and the elusive quest to make sense out of tragedy underpin director Jennifer Baichwal’s captivating new work, an elegant cinematic meditation on the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning. More... |
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Afghan Star
Havana Marking | | After 30 years of Taliban and wartime rule, pop culture is creeping back into Afghanistan in the form of Afghan Star, an enormously popular American Idol–type contest. Filmmaker Havana Marking follows the dramatic stories of four of the contestants, giving us a new, and more human, look at this troubled part of the world. More... |
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Aimée & Jaguar
Max Färberböck | | An unforgettable film about love, passion and the triumph of the human spirit. In the darkest days of World War II a dangerous love affair blossoms between two women: Lilly (aka “Aimée”), a married woman and an exemplar of Nazi motherhood, and Felice (aka “Jaguar”), a member of the Jewish underground. This award-winning film brings their incredible true story to life. More... |
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Archangel
Guy Maddin | | This weird, wild and extraordinary film is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel during World War I. More... |
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The Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu
Tezuka Osamu | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. A collection of animated works by Tezuka Osamu (1928 – 1989), known as the “god of manga” and the “father of anime.” Includes Osamu’s most legendary works, Pictures at an Exhibition and Legend of the Forest. More... |
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Ballets Russes
Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine | | This entrancing ode to the revolutionary twentieth-century dance troupes known collectively as the Ballets Russes treats modern audiences to a rare glimpse of the singularly remarkable merger of performers, choreographers, composers and designers who transformed the art of dance for generations to come. More... |
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Bill Cunningham New York
Richard Press | | A fascinating, funny and often poignant portrait of a most unique individual: octogenarian New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, a man who moves among the high society of Manhattan but whose only wealth is his own humanity and unassuming grace. More... |
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Billy the Kid
Jennifer Venditti | | Jennifer Venditti's award-winning documentary is a provocative coming-of-age story—an odyssey into the soul of an American teenager. More... |
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The Book of the Dead
Kihachiro Kawamoto | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. In this ravishing film of mystical beauty, master animator Kihachiro Kawamoto’s tour de force adventure tale tells the story of a young noblewoman in 8th-century Japan who leaves her home to follow the apparition of an executed prince. More... |
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Brakhage
Jim Shedden | | This definitive, impressionistic portrait of cinematic visionary Stan Brakhage (1933-2003) features vintage and contemporary interviews with the filmmaker and tons of clips from some of his most notable works. More... |
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Calendar
Atom Egoyan | | In this beautiful and evocative film Atom Egoyan himself stars as a photographer sent to Armenia to document historic churches for a calendar commission. He takes along his wife as a translator but their relationship begins to unravel as she becomes more and more drawn to her ethnic roots and to their Armenian guide. More... |
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Caravaggio
Derek Jarman | | Derek Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. Starring Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton (MICHAEL CLAYTON) and Sean Bean (THE LORD OF THE RINGS). First time on DVD in the USA. More... |
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Careful
Guy Maddin | | A gorgeous new transfer of Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece. In a 19th-century Alpine village the wary residents must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. More... |
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Cell 211
Daniel Monzón | A politically taut and fast-paced prison thriller, Cell 211 was the
winner of 8 Goya Awards (Spain’s Oscars) including Best Film, Actor, Director and Screenwriter. More... |
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Chain Camera
Kirby Dick | | From Kirby Dick, director of the Oscar-nominated TWIST OF FAITH. An expressive and poignant audio-visual chain letter that doubles as a portrait of 21st-century young America. More... |
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China: A Century of Revolution
Sue Williams | | As seen on PBS, this award-winning six-hour documentary series on the history of 20th-century China uses never-before-seen footage and remarkable first-hand interviews to document the epic struggle of the Chinese people to build a unified, modern nation. More... |
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Chris & Don. A Love Story
Guido Santi, Tina Mascara | | The true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood and American portrait artist Don Bachardy. A joyful celebration of a most extraordinary couple. More... |
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Climates
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | | Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. More... |
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The Collected Shorts of Jan Svankmajer
Jan Svankmajer | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. A stunning collection of films from one of cinema's most consistently surprising, wildly imaginative, and remarkable surrealists of our time. More... |
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Le Combat dans l’île
Alain Cavalier | | A hidden gem of the French New Wave, Alain Cavalier’s Le Combat dans l’île is as coolly modern as it is tensely gripping. Filled with thrilling plot twists, jazzy gun battles and stormy betrayals, this scintillating neo-noir unfolds against a backdrop of 1960s political turmoil. More... |
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The Corporation
Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott | | One of the most successful political documentaries of all time, THE CORPORATION is a timely, critical inquiry that invites CEOs, whistle-blowers, brokers, gurus, spies, players, pawns and pundits on a graphic and engaging quest to reveal the corporation's inner workings, curious history, controversial impacts and possible futures. More... |
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Cowards Bend the Knee
Guy Maddin | | Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, COWARDS BEND THE KNEE is jam-packed with enough kinetically photographed action to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, the mythomaniacal Maddin casts 'himself' (actually, Darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper made lily-livered by mother and daughter femme fatales. More... |
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Daddy and the Muscle Academy
Ilppo Pohjola | Tom of Finland is one of the major icons of the gay world.
Tom's erotic drawings of uniformed and leather-clad beefcake have become a permanent fixture of 20th-century iconography. This definitive documentary of the man and the artist combines interviews with Tom himself, commentary from his "leather men," hundreds of original drawings and steamy fantasy scenes inspired by his work. More... |
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Daddy Longlegs
Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie | | With Daddy Longlegs, Josh and Benny Safdie have crafted a realistic fairy tale that captures the magic—and perils—of parenthood, invoking memories of their inventive dad from their own childhood. More... |
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Derrida
Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman | | One of the most influential and iconoclastic figures of the 20th century, French philosopher and father of “deconstruction” Jacques Derrida has single-handedly altered the way we look at history, language, art and film. More... |
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Diva Dolorosa
Peter Delpeut | | A mesmerizing collage of early Italian film clips from the director of LYRICAL NITRATE. Peter Delpeut captures the spirit of the diva dolorosa, the Italian silent film heroine who teetered dangerously between a capricious indulgence in sexual passion and a hysteric remorse at her own cruelty. A beautiful, vibrantly-tinted compilation film. More... |
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Divan
Pearl Gluck | | As a teenager, filmmaker Pearl Gluck left her Orthodox Jewish clan in Brooklyn for secular life in Manhattan. Years later, in order to mend the breach with her family, she travels to Hungary to retrieve a turn-of-the-century family heirloom. Nimbly clever and intensely illuminating, DIVAN is a visual parable that offers the possibility of personal reinvention and cultural re-upholstery. More... |
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Dottie Gets Spanked
Todd Haynes | | Another dazzling suburban phantasm from writer-director Todd Haynes, DOTTIE GETS SPANKED is a stylized, bittersweet nod to his childhood fascination with I Love Lucy. More... |
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Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary
Guy Maddin | | After garnering widespread acclaim with his mini-masterpiece THE HEART OF THE WORLD, red hot cult auteur Guy Maddin (THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD) has taken on the world’s most adapted horror tale and concocted his most original and ravishingly stylized cinematic creation yet. More... |
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The Draughtsman's Contract
Peter Greenaway | | A re-release of the Peter Greenaway classic. Greenaway became a director of international renown with this witty, stylized, erotic country-house murder mystery set on an apparently idyllic 17th-century estate. Extravagant costumes, a twisted plot, elegantly barbed dialogue and a score by Michael Nyman make the film a treat for ear, eye and mind. More... |
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The Essential Egoyan Box Set
Atom Egoyan | | THE ESSENTIAL EGOYAN: a four-disc set with four feature films and three rare shorts—plus audio commentaries, deleted scenes, photo essays, video interviews, behind-the-scenes material and a documentary—from Atom Egoyan, the four-time Cannes Film Festival winner and Oscar-nominated writer and director of THE SWEET HEREAFTER, EXOTICA and CHLOE. More... |
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Examined Life
Astra Taylor | | Filmmaker Astra Taylor (Zizek!) accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. More... |
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The Exquisite Short Films of Kihachiro Kawamoto
Kihachiro Kawamoto | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. A collection of short films from one of the world’s greatest stop-motion animators: Kihachiro Kawamoto. More... |
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Fados
Carlos Saura | | A ravishing fusion of cinema, song, dance and instrumental numbers, Fados completes the musical trilogy of award-winning Carlos Saura (Flamenco, 1995; Tango, 1998). Using Lisbon as a backdrop, he explores Portugal’s most emblematic musical genre (fado) and its haunting spirit of saudade (melancholy). More... |
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Family Viewing
Atom Egoyan | | Winner of numerous awards at major film festivals, FAMILY VIEWING (1987) established Egoyan as one of the most striking new directors of our time. In this black comedy a young man discovers that his childhood home videos have been erased to make room for his father’s homemade sex tapes. More... |
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Farewell, Home Sweet Home
Otar Iosseliani | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. Winner of the Prestigious European Critics Award (Prix FIPRESCI), Otar Iosseliani's Farewell, Home Sweet Home is a stunningly poetic, surrealist comedy of family manners and class consciousness. More... |
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A Film About a Woman Who...
Yvonne Rainer | | Yvonne Rainer’s landmark film is a meditation on ambivalence that plays with cliché and the conventions of soap opera while telling the story of a woman whose sexual dissatisfaction masks an enormous anger. More... |
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Flag Wars
Linda Goode Bryant, Laura Poitras | | Filmed over four years, FLAG WARS is a clear-eyed look inside the conflicts that surface in one inner-city Columbus, Ohio, community. A rare and extraordinarily intimate account of the social and human consequences of capitalism and the pursuit of the “American Dream” told through the lives of residents in a community confronted by gentrification. More... |
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The Forbidden Quest
Peter Delpeut | | A pair of landmark films by found-footage maestro Peter Delpeut that showcase the inimitable beauty and fragility of the cinematic medium. THE FORBIDDEN QUEST reconstructs found footage to tell a Shackleton-esque adventure story in the tradition of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. More... |
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Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor & Other Fantastic Films
Koji Yamamura | | 15 animation films from Koji Yamamura, considered one of the greatest independent Japanese animators of his generation. More... |
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The Gleaners and I
Agnès Varda | | Grande Dame of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda's award-winning "wandering-road documentary" begins with the famous Jean-François Millet painting of women gathering wheat left over from a harvest. Her fascinating and poignant investigation leads us from forgotten corners of the French countryside to off-hours at the green markets of Paris, following those who insist on finding a use for that which society has cast off. More... |
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Glitterbox: Derek Jarman x 4
Derek Jarman | | Containing four feature-length films never before released on DVD in the US: THE ANGELIC CONVERSATION (1985), CARAVAGGIO (1986), WITTGENSTEIN (1992) and BLUE (1993) as well as the posthumous Jarman film GLITTERBUG (1994). More... |
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Greenaway: The Early Films
Peter Greenaway | | A two-disc box set containing eight early films by Peter Greenaway. Contains both GREENAWAY: THE SHORTS and GREENAWAY: THE FALLS. More... |
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Greenaway: The Falls
Peter Greenaway | | Peter Greenaway’s magnum opus THE FALLS details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)—a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds, flying, and bizarre invented languages. More... |
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Greenaway: The Shorts
Peter Greenaway | | Six highly inventive early films from the brilliant and controversial director Peter Greenaway. More... |
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Harlan - In the Shadow of Jew Süss
Felix Moeller | | A searing portrait of one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious filmmakers: Veit Harlan, director of the anti-Semitic propaganda film Jew Süss. An eye-opening examination of World War II film history as well as the story of a German family from the Third Reich to the present, one that is marked by reckoning, denial and liberation. More... |
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The Heart of the World
Guy Maddin | | Commissioned for the 25th Anniversary of the Toronto International Film Festival, Maddin’s acclaimed, award-winning short THE HEART OF THE WORLD is a brilliant, breathless parody of silent Soviet propaganda films. More... |
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The Horse Boy
Michel Orion Scott, Rupert Isaacson | | An intensely personal yet epic spiritual quest, THE HORSE BOY follows one Texas couple and their autistic son as they trek on horseback through the breathtaking steppes of Mongolia in an attempt to find healing for him. Based on Rupert Isaason’s bestselling memoir of the same name. More... |
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I Remember Me
Kim A. Snyder | | Fueled by the same rage at an unresponsive system that has inspired many a great social documentary, filmmaker Kim Snyder has taken up the fight for the more than 800,000 people living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) in the U.S. today. More... |
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Martina Kudlácek | | Deemed "Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body," Maya Deren is arguably the most important and innovative avant-garde filmmaker in the history of American cinema. Documentarian Martina Kudlácek has fashioned not only a fascinating portrait of this groundbreaking and influential artist, but a pitch-perfect introduction to her strikingly beautiful and poetic body of work. More... |
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The Inner Tour
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | | Controversially divisive in the Israeli press for its sympathetic portrayal of Palestinian citizens, THE INNER TOUR is a fascinating and humanistic portrait of ordinary people caught up in one of the most emotionally painful and seemingly intractable national conflicts of our time. More... |
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Into Great Silence
Philip Gröning | | An impressionistic and meditative chronicle of a year in and around the Grand Chartreuse, a monastery in the French Alps. This definitive two-disc, director authorized special edition boasts a breathtaking 16:9 anamorphic transfer and contains a whole disc of extras, including behind-the-scenes footage, additional scenes (including a segment on the preparation of the Carthusian’s world-famous Chartreuse liqueur), a guide to the monastery, extensive audio and photo galleries, and much more. More... |
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Irma Vep
Olivier Assayas | | Hong Kong action diva Maggie Cheung (Ashes of Time Redux, In the Mood for Love) plays herself in haute auteur Olivier Assayas’ spiky satire of the French film industry. More... |
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James' Journey to Jerusalem
Ra'anan Alexandrowicz | | A cannily droll mix of social commentary and modern fable, Israeli filmmaker Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's debut feature follows the adventures of young James, a devout wide-eyed Christian attempting a pilgrimage from his African village to the Holy Land. More... |
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Jellyfish
Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen | | Winner of the Camera d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, JELLYFISH tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. More... |
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Journeys from Berlin/1971
Yvonne Rainer | | To explore the ramifications of terrorism, Yvonne Rainer employs an extended therapy session--in which an American woman speaks to a series of psychiatrists--to evoke the daily experiences of power and repression. More... |
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Kristina Talking Pictures
Yvonne Rainer | | Yvonne Rainer continued her preoccupation with the contradictions between public and private personas with this story of a female lion tamer from Budapest who comes to New York to become a choreographer. More... |
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La Captive
Chantal Akerman | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. From acclaimed director Chantal Akerman and inspired by Proust’s La Prisonniere, La Captive is an elegant meditation on desire, obsession, love, and possession. More... |
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Last Train Home
Lixin Fan | | Each year in China more than 130 million migrant workers travel home for the New Year's holiday—the one time they’ll reunite with family all year. The mass exodus constitutes the world’s largest human migration. Amid this chaos, director Lixin Fan focuses on one couple who embark upon a two-day journey to see their children. More... |
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Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Jennifer Baichwal | | One of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century, writer, composer and wanderer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is profiled by a filmmaker who has been obsessed with his genius since age nineteen. Set against the dramatic landscape of North Africa, the mystery of Bowles (famed author of THE SHELTERING SKY) begins to unravel in Jennifer Baichwal's poetic and moving portrait. More... |
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Lives of Performers
Yvonne Rainer | | A stark and revealing examination of romantic alliances, LIVES OF PERFORMERS examines the dilemma of a man who can’t choose between two women and makes them both suffer. More... |
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Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine
Marion Cajori, Amei Wallach | | A film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. More... |
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Lumumba
Raoul Peck | | Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as MALCOLM X and JFK, Raoul Peck's award-winning LUMUMBA is a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. More... |
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Lunacy
Jan Svankmajer | | The latest provocation from surrealist master Jan Svankmajer (LITTLE OTIK) is a “philosophical horror film,” loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. More... |
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Lyrical Nitrate
Peter Delpeut | | A pair of landmark films by found-footage maestro Peter Delpeut that showcase the inimitable beauty and fragility of the cinematic medium. Comprised of deteriorating turn-of-the-20th-century clips recovered from the attic of an Amsterdam movie house, LYRICAL NITRATE is a moving tribute to the birth of film art. More... |
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The Man from London
Bela Tarr | | Another existential dazzler from one of cinema’s most stunning and austere filmmakers. A lonely railway worker's life is suddenly thrown into chaos after he stumbles upon a deadly business transaction that leaves him with a money-stuffed suitcase and a guilty conscience for a crime he didn’t commit. More... |
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The Man Who Envied Women
Yvonne Rainer | | Around a familiar theme--the breakup of a marriage--Yvonne Rainer constructs an honest, graceful and wickedly funny account of a self-satisfied womanizer, Jack Deller, the man “who almost knows too much about women.” More... |
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Manufactured Landscapes
Jennifer Baichwal | | An award-winning feature documentary on the work of internationally renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. The film follows him as he travels through China photographing the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. More... |
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Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick | | Funny, provocative and surprisingly accessible, MANUFACTURING CONSENT explores the political life and ideas of world-renowned linguist, intellectual and political activist Noam Chomsky. From the co-director of THE CORPORATION. More... |
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Mid-August Lunch (Pranzo di Ferragosto)
Gianni Di Gregorio | | This international smash hit from the makers of Gomorrah is an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. More... |
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Monday Morning
Otar Iosseliani | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. The charmingly eccentric and humorous Monday Morning is Otar Iosseliani’s unmistakable homage to Jacques Tati. More... |
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Mondovino: The Complete Series
Jonathan Nossiter | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. The ultimate series about wine and wine culture. Ten Hour-long Episodes on 4 DVDS. More... |
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Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Julie Anderson, CC Goldwater, Tani Cohen | | Producer, narrator and granddaughter CC Goldwater takes viewers on a cinematic journey into the life of Barry Goldwater in MR. CONSERVATIVE: GOLDWATER ON GOLDWATER, a film which reveals Goldwater as a man either glorified or vilified by the American public. More... |
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MURDER and murder
Yvonne Rainer | | Yvonne Rainer's ground-breaking film is a middle-aged love story between Mildred, a life-long lesbian, and Doris, who is in love with a woman for the first time. More... |
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My Country, My Country
Laura Poitras | | Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature. An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation, principally Dr. Riyadh, an Iraqi medical doctor, father of six and Sunni political candidate. Unfolding like a narrative drama, MY COUNTRY, MY COUNTRY follows the agonizing predicament of one man caught in the tragic contradictions of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and its project to spread democracy in the Middle East. More... |
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Next of Kin
Atom Egoyan | | In Atom Egoyan's debut feature, a catatonically unhappy young man undergoes video-therapy with his domineering parents. At the clinic, he comes across the videotapes of a troubled Armenian family, who twenty years earlier gave up their infant son to a foster home. This sly comedy explores the unexpected outcome of Peter presenting himself as this family’s long lost son. More... |
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Night and Day
Hong Sang-soo | | A sharp and deeply funny masterpiece from acclaimed Korean director Hong Sang-soo, about a married man in his early forties who impulsively flees to Paris and stumbles into the emotional lives of two very different but beautiful Korean expats. More... |
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Night Waltz: The Music of Paul Bowles
Owsley Brown | | An insightful illumination of author Paul Bowles' original and lesser-known career as an avant-garde composer, Owsley Brown's NIGHT WALTZ is an elegant and soulful document of discovery. More... |
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The Oath
Laura Poitras | | From the director of the Oscar-nominated My Country, My Country, The Oath is a spectacularly gripping documentary that unspools like a great political thriller. It’s the crosscut tale of two men whose fateful meeting propelled them on divergent courses with Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo and the U.S. Supreme Court. More... |
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Paris Was a Woman
Greta Schiller | | In the early decades of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed artistic capital of the world. Cultural titans Gertrude Stein, Colette, Djuna Barnes, painter Marie Laurencin, publishers and booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner were all part of the between-the-wars Left Bank inner circle. More... |
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The Patterns Trilogy
Jamie Travis | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. A collection of short films from Jamie Travis, whose darkly ironic comedies have established him as filmmaker with a distinctive cinematic vision. More... |
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Philippe Garrel x 2
Philippe Garrel | | A special edition two-disc set of two of the most important works by French auteur Philippe Garrel: I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar and Emergency Kisses. Both crafted in a poetic, meditative style, these films perfectly demonstrate the eloquent emotional agility of one of France’s most essential post-New Wave directors. More... |
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
The Quay Brothers | | The breathtakingly beautiful, long-awaited second feature by the Quay Brothers, master animators turned manipulators of live actors in uncanny puppet-show environments. In a world of minutely artificed trompe l’oeil, opera singer Malvina is spirited away to a remote island by her menacing admirer Dr. Droz. More... |
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A Place Called Chiapas
Nettie Wild | | In 1994, the Zapatista National Liberation Army, made up of impoverished Mayan Indians from the state of Chiapas, took over five towns and 500 ranches in southern Mexico. The government deployed its troops and at least 145 people died in the ensuing battle. Filmmaker Nettie Wild travelled to the country’s jungle canyons to film the elusive and fragile life of this uprising. More... |
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Poison
Todd Haynes | | A remastered anniversary edition of the first feature directed by the Oscar®-nominated filmmaker of Far from Heaven, I’m Not There and the HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce. A groundbreaking American indie and a thrilling work of immense visual invention. More... |
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Police, Adjective
Corneliu Porumboiu | | A double prize-winner at Cannes, Police, Adjective is the latest whip-smart comedic masterpiece from internationally acclaimed Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest). More... |
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Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate
Kirby Dick | | In this groundbreaking cult documentary from 1985, director Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated, Derrida) weaves a fascinating study of the curious role of a sex surrogate in the (then) recently established discipline of sexual therapy. More... |
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Privilege
Yvonne Rainer | | A genuinely subversive movie about menopause. Out of a subject that has been virtually invisible on film, Yvonne Rainer has fashioned a witty, risky work about sexual identity and the unequal economies of race, gender and class. More... |
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Prom Night in Kansas City
Hali Lee, Peter von Ziegesar | | A haunting, fascinating and funny exploration of America’s most enduring coming-of-age ritual. More... |
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Promised Lands
Susan Sontag | | Promised Lands is famed writer and critic Susan Sontag’s sole documentary project (and her third directorial effort), shot in Israel on the fly in the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. More... |
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Queen to Play
Caroline Bottaro | | Oscar winner Kevin Kline and the luminous Sandrine Bonnaire square off in this stylish and sophisticated dramedy of newfound passions and mid-life triumphs, set on the postcard-perfect isle of Corsica. More... |
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The Quintessential Guy Maddin
Guy Maddin | | This four-disc DVD set boasts five of director Guy Maddin’s most hallucinatory and hilarious fever-dreams: ARCHANGEL, CAREFUL, TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS, DRACULA and COWARDS BEND THE KNEE. More... |
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Ram Dass Fierce Grace
Mickey Lemle | | Best known for his 1971 bestseller BE HERE NOW, which was a spiritual touchstone of the era, Ram Dass is an inspiration to people across the globe. Filmmaker Mickey Lemle intersperses vivid archival footage from hippiedom's glory days with intimate glimpses of Ram Dass today, as he continues to remake his life since being - in his words - "stroked" in 1997. More... |
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Regular Lovers
Philippe Garrel | | Revered French auteur Philippe Garrel’s achingly beautiful memorial to the events of May ’68 and the poignant confusion felt by those who tried to keep the spirit of revolt alive. More... |
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The Saltmen of Tibet
Ulrike Koch | | Shot under extreme conditions in one of the world's most remote locations, THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a work of sublime beauty and epic scale. Documenting the ancient traditions and day-to-day rituals of a Tibetan nomadic community, filmmaker Ulrike Koch transports us into a realm untainted by the tides of foreign invasion or encroaching modernity. More... |
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Satin Rouge
Raja Amari | | A Tunisian widow takes an unlikely journey of self-discovery in Raja Amari's sumptuous and sensual SATIN ROUGE. While investigating a suspected liaison between her headstrong teenaged daughter and a cabaret musician, Lilia becomes drawn to an exhilarating nightclub netherworld of Rubenesque belly dancers and nocturnal pleasure-seekers. More... |
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Scared Sacred
Velcrow Ripper | | How do humans find meaning in the face of overwhelming horror and tragedy? SCARED SACRED is a critically acclaimed documentary that takes audiences on a journey to the “Ground Zeros” of the world, searching for stories of hope and significance. More... |
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See the Sea
François Ozon | | The mesmerizing first feature from Francois Ozon (SWIMMING POOL). Sasha is a young mother staying on an idyllic island with her baby, awaiting her husband’s return from Paris. Her solitude is broken by the appearance of a brooding backpacker who asks to camp outside her cottage. With its stunning cinematography and ominous pacing, SEE THE SEA provocatively uncovers the dark undercurrents swirling beneath curiosity and attraction. More... |
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Short Cut to Nirvana
Maurizio Benazzo, Nick Day | | This enthralling, insightful, uplifting and often hilarious documentary journeys to the heart of the largest gathering of humanity on Earth: the Kumbh Mela. The huge festival has been held in India every 12 years for over two millennia, but is little known in the West--until now. The film spectacularly captures the spiritual bliss, eternal wisdom and joy that envelop both the festival’s pilgrims and world-renowned gurus in attendance. More... |
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The Short Films of the Quay Brothers
The Quay Brothers | | This new and definitive collection features thirteen of the Quay Brothers’ masterpieces - some, like In Absentia, never before released in any home video format - on a two-disc special edition DVD remastered from new high definition materials. Will include a large selection of extras – including audio commentaries on selected films and an extensive booklet. More... |
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Since Otar Left...
Julie Bertuccelli | | Winner of the prestigious Critics' Week Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and featuring a trio of stunning performances, Julie Bertuccelli's exquisite SINCE OTAR LEFT... is a bittersweet tale of deception and affection. More... |
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Sophie Scholl-The Final Days
Marc Rothemund | | The true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine is brought to thrilling life in the multi-award winning drama SOPHIE SCHOLL-THE FINAL DAYS. Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, SOPHIE SCHOLL stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the young coed-turned-fearless activist. More... |
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Speaking Parts
Atom Egoyan | | Haunting images and obsessive sexuality merge in the film which confirmed Atom Egoyan’s status as one of the most talented directors of his generation. This disquieting and enthralling postmodern thriller entwines its characters in a dangerous web of psycho-sexual desire. More... |
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Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
Gonzalo Arijón | | One of the greatest survival stories of all time is finally told by the survivors themselves, brilliantly crafted by their childhood friend and master filmmaker, Gonzalo Arijon. If this is a story that you think you know, think again. More... |
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Strangers
Erez Tadmor, Guy Nattiv | | A chance encounter in Berlin sparks an improbable, passionate affair between an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman in this critically acclaimed, bittersweet drama. More... |
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A Summer Dress
François Ozon | | This charming short film from Francois Ozon (SWIMMING POOL) is included on the SEE THE SEA DVD. More... |
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Summer Holiday
Radu Muntean | | From acclaimed Romanian director Radu Muntean (Tuesday, After Christmas), Summer Holiday is a funny and bittersweet drama of male mid-life crisis and personal discovery. More... |
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The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet’s Struggle for Freedom
Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam | | In The Sun Behind the Clouds, Tibetan filmmaker, Tenzing Sonam, and his partner, Ritu Sarin, take a uniquely Tibetan perspective on the trials and tribulations of the Dalai Lama and his people as they continue their struggle for freedom in the face of determined suppression by one of the world’s biggest and most powerful nations. More... |
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The Taisho Trilogy
Seijun Suzuki | | A three-disc box set containing three masterpieces by maverick auteur Seijun Suzuki: Zigeunerweisen (1980), Kagegro-za (1981) and Yumeji (1991) More... |
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Tales from the Golden Age
Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Razvan Marculescu | | This hilariously surreal omnibus film, directed by five of Romania's most talented young filmmakers, reimagines the most popular, comic and bizarre urban legends from the harrowing final fifteen years of the Ceausescu regime. More... |
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Ten
Abbas Kiarostami | | Celebrated Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami once again casts his masterful cinematic gaze upon the modern sociopolitical landscape of his homeland, this time as seen through the eyes of one woman as she drives through the streets of Tehran over a period of several days. More... |
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The Shock Doctrine
Michael Winterbottom, Mat Whitecross | | A brilliant skewering of modern economics in the tradition of Inside Job and The Corporation from acclaimed filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross, and based on Naomi Klein's provocative bestselling book of the same name. More... |
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Three Monkeys
Nuri Bilge Ceylan | | After his critically acclaimed mood pieces Distant and Climates, Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience and nuance. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, Three Monkeys tells a twisty, noirish tale set in motion by a hit-and-run accident. More... |
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Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project
Jack Youngelson, Peter Sutherland | | TIERNEY GEARON: THE MOTHER PROJECT is a moving and complex portrait of an artist, her inspirations and unconventional family relationships. The mixture of art and family can almost be too close for comfort, but like much of Gearon’s photographs there is subversive beauty that arises out of the incongruity between ordinary moments and madness. More... |
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Tomorrow We Move
Chantal Akerman | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. From celebrated director Chantal Akerman comes a sly tale of rootlessness, familial burdens, unavoidable but unachievable writing assignments, and the occasional black cloud. More... |
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Towards Zero
Pascal Thomas | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. A smart, sexy and thrilling updating of one of Agatha Christie’s best works. More... |
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A Town Called Panic
Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar | | Hilarious and delightfully wacky, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children and adults alike. Based on the Belgian cult TV series Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the craziest events. More... |
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Travellers & Magicians
Khyentse Norbu | | One of Himalayan Buddhism’s most revered lamas, Khyentse Norbu weaves parallel fable-like tales about two men who seek to escape their mundane lives. This is the first feature film ever shot in the tiny Kingdom of Bhutan. More... |
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The Tree
Julie Bertuccelli | | The luminous Charlotte Gainsbourg stars in Julie Bertuccelli’s achingly beautiful follow-up to her sleeper hit Since Otar Left. Closing Night Film at Cannes in 2010, The Tree is a mystical drama of loss and rebirth in the Australian countryside. More... |
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Trouble the Water
Tia Lessin, Carl Deal | | Academy Award nominee and Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, TROUBLE THE WATER takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. Tia Lessin and Carl Deal tell the story of an aspiring rap artist and her husband who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. More... |
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Try to Remember: The Fantasticks
Eli Kabillio | | On the eve of The Fantasticks’ final Off-Broadway performance, documentary filmmaker Eli Kabillio takes a wistful look back at the show’s genesis, its creators and, above all, its continued worldwide popularity. More... |
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Tulpan
Sergey Dvortsevoy | | Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian Sergey Dvortsevoy’s first narrative feature is a gorgeous mélange of tender comedy, ethnographic drama and wildlife extravaganza. More... |
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The Turandot Project
Allan Miller | | In 1997, Oscar-winning documentarian Allan Miller embarked on a film project with renowned conductor Zubin Mehta and celebrated Chinese film director Zhang Yimou as they joined forces in a production of Puccini's opera Turandot in Florence. Before the year was out, an extraordinary opportunity arose: to stage Turandot in its original setting in the Forbidden City of Beijing. More... |
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Twilight of the Ice Nymphs
Guy Maddin | | The most elaborate and surreal fantasia from the master of all things libidinal. Starring Shelley Duvall, Frank Gorshin, and Alice Krige, this tale of lusty delirium and unrequited love is set in a supremely sensual dream world which pulses with ethereal, vibrating colors and bizarre flourishes of art direction. More... |
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Twisted Desires (Box Set)
Tatsumi Kumashiro | A three-disc box set of remastered editions of three 1970s Nikkatsu classics from “the King of Nikkatsu Roman Porno” Tatsumi Kumashiro. Includes SAYURI ICHIJO: FOLLOWING DESIRE (1972), YAKUZA JUSTICE: EROTIC CODE OF HONOR (1973) and TWISTED PATH OF LOVE (1973).
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Up The Yangtze
Yung Chang | | The award-winning documentary in which the Three Gorges Dam forms an unsettling backdrop to a richly detailed narrative of life inside contemporary China. More... |
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Vision - from the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Margarethe von Trotta | | The story of twelfth-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen—a Christian mystic, author, counselor, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, channeller, visionary, composer and polymath—directed by New German Cinema legend Margarethe von Trotta and starring Barbara Sukowa. More... |
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We Feed the World
Erwin Wagenhofer | | A KIMSTIM COLLECTION RELEASE. An award-winning, visually stunning, globe-trotting exposé of our modern agricultural system. More... |
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What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann
Steven Cantor | | A rare glimpse of an eloquent and brilliant artist: WHAT REMAINS follows one of the world’s preeminent photographers, Sally Mann, as she creates her new seminal work: a photo series revolving around various aspects of death and decay. More... |
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The Windmill Movie
Alexander Olch | | What if someone wrote your autobiography? Would it be true? What if someone took the images of your life and made a film? Culling from a 200-hour trove of footage, filmmaker Alexander Olch has cleverly invented an autobiography-by-proxy of his mentor, legendary documentary and experimental filmmaker Richard P. Rogers. More... |
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Wittgenstein
Derek Jarman | | A visually stunning and profoundly entertaining work about modern philosophy and the dark genius that revolutionized it. This self-tortured eccentric, who preferred detective fiction and the musicals of Carmen Miranda to Aristotle, is a fitting subject for Derek Jarman’s irreverent imagination. First time on DVD in the USA. More... |
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The World
Jia Zhangke | | This stunning film by Jia Zhangke (called “the world's greatest filmmaker under 40” by The Village Voice) is set in a Beijing theme park where lavish shows are performed amid scaled-down replicas of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, St. Mark’s Square, the Pyramids and even the Twin Towers. More... |
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Writer of O
Pola Rapaport | | The story behind the the scandalous 1954 novel Story of O: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that shocked the world. In 1994 Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered Parisienne book editor, revealed herself as the writer of O. Pola Rapaport explores Aury’s inspiration, recreating the world of ’50s literary Paris and setting it against dramatic sequences that bring the infamous book to life. More... |
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Young & Restless in China
Sue Williams | | A riveting and poignant journey, YOUNG & RESTLESS IN CHINA tracks the lives of nine ambitious young Chinese professionals who are struggling to make it in this very tumultuous and rapidly changing society. From the director of CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION More... |
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A Zed and Two Noughts
Peter Greenaway | | Peter Greenaway’s third feature is as perversely comic and teasing as it is shocking. Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums it is set in motion when a car collides with a swan outside Rotterdam Zoo. More... |
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Zizek!
Astra Taylor | | The author of works on subjects as wide-ranging as Alfred Hitchcock, 9/11, opera, Christianity, Lenin and David Lynch, Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important--and outrageous--cultural theorists working today. This captivating, erudite documentary explores the eccentric personality and esoteric work of this incomparable academic and writer who has been called “the Elvis of cultural theory”. More... |
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