In the autumn 2006, I found out that my mother and her sister Jacqueline were extras in the movie “Z” by Costa-Gavras. They acted in the demonstration scenes and the film was filmed in Algeria in 1969. I decided to find her in the film. I recall different events from our life together that I comment in the video.
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70 critics and filmmakers discuss cinema from the age-old conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. From 1998 to 2007, Kleber Mendonça Filho has collected points of view about this relationship in Brazil, USA and Europe, using his personal experience as both filmmaker and critic.
It was originally intended to be modern Italy’s showcase urban project after WWII: the Don Bosco housing project on the southern edge of Rome. “Borgate” is Lotte Schreiber’s latest installment in her series of filmic examinations of architecture and (urban) space.
An immersion into the Stanley Kubrick’s obsessive fascination for Napoleon Bonaparte and the film he attempted to realize on the Emperor’s life.
“Arise (Zona)” comes from the feature film “A Zona”, by Sandro Aguilar and emerges up from all the cinematic dirtiness inherent to the filmic support. These images intended to emptiness and total forgetting, lead us to the ambiguity between life and death, in which narrative and temporal logic are suspended.
The film is set in five parts, five seasons that are part of the Chinese almanac. The story takes place in the jianghu, the martial arts world. Ouyang Feng has lived in the west. He left when the woman he loved chose to marry his elder brother. He ends up as an agent. When people come to him with a wish to eliminate someone who has wronged them, he puts them in touch with a swordsman who can do the job.
Nicole Brenez (professor at the Sorbonne) and Philippe Grandrieux started a serious portraying great, heroic but little known figures of the avant gard political cinema. The first film is an essay on Masao Adachi, the Japanese independant filmmaker, experimental artist, activist and revolutionary combatant, political prisoner.
An struggling young cinephile filmmaker who longs to bring back the artistic quality of the cinema classics, starts earning money as a human punching bag to work off his brother’s debts to the mob. His energy and mental condition are weakening, but his toughest battle is still to come.
Sixty-five actors portraying Hitler make an appearance in Conference Notes on Film 05, but the original is never seen. All the Conference Hitlers are from after the 1940s, and Norbert Pfaffenbichler filmed them in Super 8 and black and white from a monitor so that they match. (Olaf Moller)
Our Father expresses the anguish of the clash of two generations of women in their vision of religious life. While the grandmother restores her faith in a homemade altar to the Virgin Mary, the granddaughter shatters her belief focusing on the potential of supernatural characters in Japanese manga.
A teenager uses literary forays in search of a meaning, even if it is staged, for her presence in a world that has little or no enthusiasm for her innocent, but convoluted, existential musings.
A portrait of the filmmaker and film critic Jean -Louis Comolli. After working for Cahiers du Cinéma between 1962 and 1978, where he was editor in chief from 1966 to 1971, Comolli began directing fictions and documentaries. In the confined space of a movie studio, he is now faced with some clips from significant films and takes the viewer into his reflection and out of reality for a bit. As the director of this homage explains in the title, filming is seing with new eyes, with a new consciousness.
An impressionistic documentary of iconic postwar Hollywood actor Harry Dean Stanton. Now 86, Stanton’s career includes 200 films, among major and independent productions. Music is an important part of the documentary and a way to get to know him better too. Always a loner, quiet, he advocates his father’s motto: go straight ahead until you hit something. Huber recovers excerpts from films such as Alien, The Missouri Breaks, Cool Hand Luke and Paris, Texas to illustrate a versatile career.
A promenade through New York, the life and career of actor, Ben Gazzara who actor/director Joe Rezwin met in 1977 on the set of John Cassavetes’ Opening Night. As they walk and talk their way through the city and Gazzara’s past, visiting key places and meeting important people in his life, Ben and Joe gradually get to know each other better, and form a kind of father/son relationship. Their conversations about acting, art, fears and desires; life and death all culminate in the final Central Park sequence where Ben persuades Joe it is time to cut the cord, end the obsession with him and Cassavetes, and pursue his passion of filmmaking in his own individual way as Ben did his entire life.
A complex and fascinating voyage into the inner world of filmmaker and thinker Peter Kubelka. Born in 1934 in Vienna, his pioneering work is a treasure, organic, albeit brief. In his lessons and lectures he focuses on the essence of cinema and here we get to know a new side of him: besides being a filmmaker, Kubelka is a collector and this is, in his opinion, a continuation of his cinematographic expression. Kudláƒçek is patient in developing this inspiring portrait.
Guided by Liv Ullmann and with commentaries from a number of filmmakers for whom Bergman is and remains an important influence – such as Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese and Lars von Trier
An exact reconstruction of a scene in Bergman’s 1968 “Vargtimmen”. Frame for frame, the same shots are reproduced‚Äîwith the crucial difference that no actors are visible. The soundtrack, which had no dialogue in the original either, was taken from the firs
In a celebrity-obsessed culture, “Postface” exploit the downfall of a star’s history. A look back at the filmography of Montgomery Clift whose private life and career spiral down after a 1956 car crash that left his face scarred and partially paralyzed.