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Chris Olsen - The Boy Who Cried
In the movies since he was an infant, Chris Olsen appeared in films by some of the best directors of the 50's. Even though he never became a famous child actor, he was in a handful of the most iconic fifties movies. He "retired" at the age of fourteen. Looking back on his life...Watch Movie
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Hench
Toby and Oskar are henchmen - glorified body movers who hold their client's kidnapping victims in their dark basement until the ransom arrives. When the ransom for their latest victim, Gretchen, never arrives, their lives slowly begin to turn upside down. As she drives a wedge between our two...Watch Movie
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Draw Hard
DRAW HARD is a documentary about illustrator and comic book artist John G. In Cleveland, his artwork is everywhere, but most don't know the face behind the gritty imagery of "The Lake Erie Monster" comic series and Melt Bar and Grilled. In this short documentary, director Jon Nix turns his camera...Watch Movie
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I, Dalio
The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, also appears in Renoir's GRAND ILLUSION. In both films he plays a character who is Jewish, as Dalio was in real life. In fact, in most of the French films he's in the 1930s, he almost always plays...Watch Movie
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The Hands That Shaped Me
This short twelve minute music film is a collaboration between filmmaker Mark Pellington and the New York rock band The Indecent. Focusing on a true story of loss and dissonance, the film features the triplets Emily, Maddie and Bo Brout. The film is part musical eulogy and...Watch Movie
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Our Stars
Stars of the 1940s and 1950s, were they cast for their mutual affinities or for their commercial appeal? If and when they were re-starred years later, did the magic still work? Did sparks still fly? The movie business, a machine that manufactured romance and desire at the same time that it...Watch Movie
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Stinking Heaven
Married couple Jim and Lucy run a commune for sober living out of their suburban New Jersey home. The motley members eat, bathe and work together selling homemade "health tea" out of their van. Although there's constant bickering and plenty of fires to be put out, Jim and Lucy have managed to...Watch Movie
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Alpha
In a not-so-far-away future, Alpha, a conforming bourgeois woman, refuses to provide shelter to a mysterious Fugitive, for fear of putting her controlled life in danger. The Fugitive is captured and Alpha is arrested and taken to the Forest, where the authorities throw the castaways and the...Watch Movie
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Diamond Tongues
Edith Welland dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. Things get worse when the ex-boyfriend she broke up with to focus on her career takes up acting on a whim and immediately books a leading role. When Edith can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she...Watch Movie
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Christmas, Again
For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Devoid of any holiday spirit, he struggles to stay awake during the long, chilly nights in his trailer, while the daytime traffic keeps him...Watch Movie
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Remembering the Pentagons
REMEMBERING THE PENTAGONS is a slow, rhythmic journey into filmmaker Azadeh Navai's earliest childhood memories. With an old 16mm Bolex and a hand-made pinhole camera, Navai returns to Tehran and Esfahan, Iran, where the perceptions and recollections of places, emotions and...Watch Movie
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Time
TIME blurs the line between documentary and fiction, questioning the system of filmmaking itself, while also addressing the root of another system entirely: The American Correctional System. Through a collection of conversational portraits filmmaker Theodore Collatos presents a group of male...Watch Movie
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Sunday Ball
Eryk Rocha's SUNDAY BALL focuses on a fourteen-team, annual soccer championship among favela teams in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Set in the Sampaio neighborhood (close to the Maracana Stadium, where the 2014 World Cup final was held), the film brings audiences up-close to a final match between two...Watch Movie
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Hafford's Saloon
This is a short video I made while doing research for my new feature, TOMBSTONE RASHOMON. It was shot on the streets of Tombstone and in a Western movie set, Old Tucson. It details, in real time, how long it took the Earp Brothers and Doc Holliday to walk from their saloon...Watch Movie
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La Artefacta
Nicola Costantino is one of Latin America's most controversial and admired visual artists. With often macabre imagery rooted in a violence that pervades the history of Argentina, she is known for provocative works, such as lifelike casts of animals, soap constructed out of fat liposuctioned from...Watch Movie
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The Circle Closes
An examination of four different films, which to varying degrees, center on a prop or an object or an item that crosses various characters lives and passes from hand to hand in THE CIRCLE CLOSES. The story in each film is, to a certain extent, told from the point of view of...Watch Movie
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Max and James and Danielle...
Max Ophuls, James Mason and Danielle Darrieux: the legendary director and two of his favorite actors. Mason and Darrieux were each in several Ophuls projects but were never together in an Ophuls film (although they should have been). What might that movie have been like? It’s...Watch Movie
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The Quantified Self
The story of a family fixated on perfection is depicted in THE QUANTIFIED SELF. Their pursuit of perfection rests on collecting data about themselves; data that can be tracked and ultimately improved. All their efforts to be the best family possible mean that they use...Watch Movie
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Debra Paget, For Example
Debra Paget was a contract player for 20th-Century Fox, whom they groomed and coached for stardom. But she never quite caught on. Maybe the movies weren't interesting enough. Or maybe she didn’t stand out from the rest of the pack. Or the studio didn’t take enough care in...Watch Movie
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Tree Begins Life, Indians Still Live Here
A display of a fallen red cedar at Olympic National Park headquarters proclaims in 1349 "Indians live here." TREE BEGINS LIFE INDIANS STILL LIVE HERE produces a meditation on the territories of the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest, and invites an alternative...Watch Movie
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Contact Zones
"FRONTIER JOURNALS V interrogates the anthropological concept of 'cultural contact zones' (the physical spaces where two cultures meet) in order to observe the seemingly strange practices of the tourists and pedestrians that encounter totem poles in a variety of public spaces. At numerous sites...Watch Movie
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4th of July on Quileute Tribal Lands
In a strange twist of irony, Americans celebrate their independence on the sovereign lands of the Quileute People. An ambient soundscape coupled with the opening shot of an adjoining RV park work in unison to reveal an alien invasion on the shores of Quileute Tribal Lands.Watch Movie
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Ruined Heart
What happens when you take one of the most punk rock filmmakers on the planet, Khavn de la Cruz (a filipino lo-fi maestro who elevates shambolic to an art form) and put him together with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Japanese acting icon Asano Tadanobu? RUINED HEART is what...Watch Movie
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Cyan Eye
A cabin deep in a remote forest lures four women into a trap with its French punk rock spell. Its forbidden fruit turns the beauties into beasts, savage monsters under the control of the hypnotic sound. Only one can elude the trance. But... can she escape the horrors of the house and save her...Watch Movie
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Greetings to the Ancestors
Set between Swaziland and South Africa, in a region still struggling with the divisions produced by an apartheid government, GREETINGS TO THE ANCESTORS documents the dream lives of the territory's inhabitants as the borders of consciousness dissolve and expand. Equal parts...Watch Movie
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Right Now, Wrong Then
Quite by accident, film director Chunsu arrives in town a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon Heejung. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And...Watch Movie
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He Hated Pigeons
A slow-burning odyssey about love and loss featuring newcomer Pedro Fontaine in the title role of Elias, a young man who travels from the Northern Atacama Desert to the southern Patagonian edge of Chile on a cathartic journey of the spirit, and to fulfill the wish of his...Watch Movie
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Even the Walls
EVEN THE WALLS is a short documentary about the members of a public-housing neighborhood grappling with the forces of gentrification. Traveling throughout the changing landscape of a once tight-knit community, and weaving in and out of personal vignettes, the film explores the diversity of...Watch Movie
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The Apoplectic Walrus
Joanna wanted a film on the collages of Max Ernst, and I wanted to make a tribute to the two men who most influenced my film work at the beginning: Max Ernst (collage) and Luis Bunuel (surrealism in cinema). I had written a book of about one-hundred pages in the surrealist...Watch Movie
