Icarus Films
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Nostalgia For the Light
For his new film master director Patricio Guzmán, famed for his political documentaries travels ten thousand feet above sea level to the driest place on earth, the Atacama Desert, where atop the mountains astronomers from all over the world gather to observe the stars. The sky...Watch Movie
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Remembrance of Things to Come
Fascinated with the effect of photography on memory (and on the future), Chris Marker and Yannick Bellon look at the work of Bellon's mother, photojournalist Denise Bellon in this, one of Marker's final film essays. With a title reminiscent of Marcel Proust's tome on memory,...Watch Movie
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The Last Bolshevik
Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin, THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between...Watch Movie
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The Case of the Grinning Cat
In his newest film, French documentarian and cinema-essayist Chris Marker reflects on French and international politics, art and culture at the start of the new millennium. In November 2001, the filmmaker became intrigued, as did many other Parisians, by the sudden appearance...Watch Movie
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The Seasons in Quincy
Prolific artist, philosopher, writer, storyteller and "radical humanist" John Berger is the focus of this vivid four-part cinematic portrait. In 1973, he moved from urban London to the tiny Alpine village of Quincy. THE SEASONS IN QUINCY: FOUR PORTRAITS OF JOHN BERGER examines...Watch Movie
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Three Cheers for the Whale
THREE CHEERS FOR THE WHALE chronicles the history of mankind's relationship with the largest and most majestic of marine mammals, and graphically exposes their slaughter by the fishing industry. Chris Marker's co-director, Mario Ruspoli, descendant of an aristocratic Italian...Watch Movie
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Far from Vietnam
Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, FAR FROM VIETNAM is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam, made, per Marker's narration, "to...Watch Movie
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Salvador Allende
A leftist revolutionary or a reformist democrat? A committed Marxist or a constitutionalist politician? An ethical and moral man or, as Richard Nixon called him, a "son of a bitch?" In SALVADOR ALLENDE, acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán returns to his native country...Watch Movie
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Chantal Akerman, From Here
In CHANTAL AKERMAN, FROM HERE, the renowned Belgian filmmaker sits down for an hour-long conversation about her entire body of work. Throughout, the camera holds steady from outside an open door. The long, unbroken shot, and the frame-within-a-frame pay homage to Akerman's own...Watch Movie
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Stolen Art
In New York City in 1978, an unknown Czech artist by the name of Pavel Novak held an exhibit at WX Gallery entitled "Stolen Art," which featured paintings by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Gustave Courbet, Vincent van Gogh and other great masters, all reproduced with astonishing accuracy by...Watch Movie
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El Sicario, Room 164
The term sicario goes back to Roman Palestine, where a Jewish sect, the Sicarii, used concealed daggers (sicae) in their murders of Romans and their supporters. In modern language, a sicario is a professional killer or a hit man. In an anonymous motel room on the U.S./Mexico...Watch Movie
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The Sixth Side of the Pentagon
On October 21, 1967, over 100,000 protestors gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam. It was the largest protest gathering yet, and it brought together a wide cross-section of liberals, radicals, hippies, and Yippies. Che Guevara had been...Watch Movie
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Three Sisters
One of his generation's most important documentary filmmakers, director Wang Bing is at the height of his powers in THREE SISTERS. The film introduces viewers to ten-year-old YingYing, six-year-old Zhenzhen and four-year-old Fenfen, who live alone in Xiyangtang, a tiny rural village in the high...Watch Movie
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Sex, Lies, and Tabloids!
SEX, LIES AND TABLOIDS! charts the rise and fall of tabloid papers including the New York Post, The Sun, and notorious supermarket tabloids like the National Enquirer and The Star. In the beginning, they were upstarts. Papers that shamelessly pandered stories about sex...Watch Movie
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The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
This award-winning, stunningly beautiful documentary reveals how the Chechen War has psychologically affected children in Russia and in Chechnya. Divided into three episodes or 'rooms,' the film is characterized by an elegantly paced observational style, which uses little...Watch Movie
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Dong
Noted Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong gives voice to the greatest themes in the opening film of filmmaker Jia Zhangke and his "Trilogy of Artists," a provocative documentary on the artistic process, the human condition and "Asia's state of mind" (as the director writes). A member of the Cynical...Watch Movie
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The Ister
In 1942, at the height of World War II, Martin Heidegger, the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, delivered a series of lectures on "The Ister," Friedrich Hölderlin's poem about the Danube River (which referred to the waterway by its ancient Greek name). Heidegger had achieved...Watch Movie
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'Til Madness Do Us Part
Within the gates of an isolated mental institution in southwest China's Yunnan province, patients are confined to one single floor of a building. Once locked in, with little contact from the outside world, anything goes. The facility's inmates have been committed for different...Watch Movie
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Disco and the Atomic War
Against an inventive canvas of archival footage, cleverly staged scenes and interviews with former Cold Warriors who still speak in the dated jargon of the era, Estonian compatriots reminisce about growing up during the duck-and-cover days behind the Iron Curtain. As it turns...Watch Movie
