The Skywalk Is Gone
Description: This austere short from Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang bridges What Time Is It There? (2001) with The Wayward Cloud (2005). In the former, a Taipei watch vendor (Lee Kang-sheng)...
View ArticleLes Mistons
Description: Les Mistons, aka The Mischief Makers, was Francois Truffaut’s second film and the one that established him as an emerging talent. It’s a warm and funny look at an unruly group of boys...
View ArticleGeorge Gershwin Films Arnold Schoenberg
Description: The title describes exactly what you get here…or does it? Much of this film consists of somebody else filming George Gershwin winding his camera and occasionally not even operating it,...
View ArticleThe Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins
Description: Here’s a music documentary that’s free of talking heads droning on about how groundbreaking and influential the subject is. Instead, the focus is on the rural Texas environment that...
View ArticleA Letter to Uncle Boonmee / Phantoms of Nabua
Description: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s 2010 Palme d’Or recipient Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was just one component of the Primitive Project, which also included a multi-part...
View ArticleSimon of the Desert
Description: Simon of the Desert was the last film that Luis Buñuel made in Mexico before settling comfortably into the “late period” that birthed Belle de Jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,...
View ArticleHeavy Metal Parking Lot
Description: Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a concert film without the concert. On May 31, 1986, aspiring documentarians John Heyn and Jeff Krulik showed up to the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland on...
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