Cinema Documentary

F for Fake (1974) (The Criterion Collection/Masters of Cinema) [3 DVD9s] Movies

Posted by mook45 at Jan. 10, 2011

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BBC - Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood (1995) Movies

Posted by Tutorial at Dec. 11, 2019

"Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood" commemorates the birth of an art that would transform the 20th century. This six-hour series is narrated by critically acclaimed actor/director Kenneth Branagh with music composition by Carl Davis, Philip Appleby and Nic Raine.

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Dragon Ray Motion Pictures - Lai Man-Wai: Father of Hong Kong Cinema (2001) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 18, 2017

This feature-length documentary on early Chinese film pioneer Lai Man-wai (Li Minhui) premiered at the 2001 Hong Kong International Film Festival, and has now been released on DVD. Directed by Choi Kai-kwong, it is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the origins of Hong Kong and Chinese cinema. Lai Man-wai, born in Japan in 1893 and educated in Hong Kong, became arguably the central figure in the birth in Chinese cinema.

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Zadig Productions - A History of Israeli Cinema (2009) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Sept. 15, 2020

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than 70 years of Israeli film with commentary from filmmakers, scholars and critics — including Amos Gitai, Joseph Cedar, Avi Mograbi, Yehuda Ne’eman, Menachem Golan, Moshe Ivgy, Ronit Elkabetz and Zeev Revach.

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Soul Power (2008) [Masters of Cinema #87] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Oct. 15, 2011

Soul Power is a vérité documentary – compiled entirely from footage shot in 1974 – of the astonishing back-to-Africa 3-day music festival “Zaire ‘74”. It was held in Kinshasa ahead of the biggest boxing event of all time: the Muhammad Ali–George Foreman “Rumble in the Jungle”. Directed by Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, editor of Leon Gast’s Oscar-winning (Best Documentary) When We Were Kings, and sourced from the same archival pool, Soul Power features a legendary line-up of African and African-diaspora musicians – all of whom are at the very peak of their creative powers. Alongside Ali’s wit and wisdom – profoundly lyrical in its own right – vibrant street scenes of downtown Kinshasa, and “fly-on-the-wall” footage of the festival’s staging, rehearsals, and jams, the three nights of concerts (lensed by Albert Maysles and a host of other legendary cameramen) offer electrifying performances by James Brown, B.B. King, Bill Withers, Sister Sledge, Miriam Makeba, The Spinners, Big Black, The Crusaders, Celia Cruz, and many more.

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L'Argent (1928) (Masters of Cinema) [2 DVD9s] Movies

Posted by mook45 at Oct. 12, 2010

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METROPOLIS (1927) - (Eureka - The Masters of Cinema Series) (2005) Movies

Posted by edi1967 at June 10, 2011

Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is perhaps the most famous German film of all time, and certainly one of the most influential of all silent films. In its lifetime it has been: drastically re-edited (shortly after release); unseen for decades; revisioned with a modern music score in the 1980s; and thanks to the work of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung and

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Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-1998) [Re-UP] Movies

Posted by Someonelse at Aug. 9, 2015

A philosopher and a culture critic who chose to work in the film medium, Jean-Luc Godard appeared on the international scene both as a writer for the Cahiers du Cinema as well as a leading representative of the French New Wave movement. His unconventional approach to everything from film structure to editing and sound, infuses his films with a playful iconoclasm and an idiosyncratic identity. His intellectual preoccupations are often centered around political themes (capitalism, democracy), sociology (the conventions, conformism and Faustian aspects of modernity), existentialism (human identity) etc. For over 45 years, Godard's metalinguistic experimentation with the elements of cinema, from jump-cuts to whispered voice-overs, has established him as one of the most persistently probing, thought-provoking and influential film-makers in history.

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BSkyB - Cinema Komunisto (2010) Movies

Posted by notbanned at June 29, 2013

Serbian director Mila Turajlic explores the golden age and excess of Yugoslavian cinema during the leadership of revolutionary leader and film fanatic Josip Broz Tito.Speaking with Leka (Aleksandar) Konstatinovic, the projectionist who showed Tito a film every teatime for 32 years, the documentary explores how the Marshall ploughed vast amounts of state money into countless films as well as the world class studios he built in the hills above Belgrade.During these years, Yugoslavia welcomed stars including Sophia Loren and Orson Welles, while Richard Burton starred as Tito himself in the statesman's biopic. Backed by Tito, who approved the majority of film scripts himself, directors had free rein to destroy real bridges and blow up the military's tanks. They could also draw their cast from the country's national army with some soldiers serving their entire tour duty as extras.Featuring the bittersweet memories of those involved in Tito's ambitious plans, this documentary explores many of the movies made during that time, including the nation's most expensive film, The Battle of Neretva.

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British Film Institute - 100 Years of Polish Cinema (1995) Movies

Posted by notbanned at Aug. 11, 2019

The British Film Institute commissioned Krzysztof Kieslowski to make a documentary celebrating the centenary of cinema, and the latter passed the task onto his assistant at the time, Pawel Lozinski.

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