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What would make a seven-year-old knowingly risk his life? Why would anyone yearn to become a bullfighter? And why, in particular, would the filmmaker’s father…
MORE ›Ever wondered why anyone would want to become a bullfighter? What would make a seven-year-old knowingly tackle his mortality at such a young age? Victoria…
MORE ›“Once you know how important fighting for your kid is, you can’t do anything else but fight for them,” is the statement that begins Daresha…
MORE ›A stop-motion animation about the filmmaker’s mother, whose tremendous thirst for freedom compelled her to go into the big wide world.
MORE ›Rarely does a documentary film affect viewers so viscerally as Man and Dog does. This straight-forward treatment of the daily work of a North Carolina…
MORE ›Rodeo like never imagined before: skillful filmmaking and a pulsing disco beat bring out the fetishistic ritual of rodeo preparation. The camera sees riding the…
MORE ›Man of Aran exemplifies Flaherty’s career-long efforts to develop a highly personal approach to the documentary, establishing dramatic structure based on a selected “family.” Working…
MORE ›In 1974, young Frenchman Philippe Petite held New York City in thrall when he balanced for nearly an hour on a high wire suspended 1,350…
MORE ›A much-lauded independent fiction film about a former Pakistani rock star, now selling coffee and bagels on the streets of Manhattan and struggling to reclaim his life.
MORE ›Hard, Fast, Intense, Go. A father passionately drives his son to achieve success in wrestling. But the match actually stands in for the competition of…
MORE ›Hard, fast, intense, go. A father relentlessly pushes his son to become a champion wrestler. But his grueling training sessions mirror preparations for a graver…
MORE ›What was it like to be the only Jew in a small town on the west coast of Norway in the 1920s and 1930s? This…
MORE ›“This movie is so carefully constructed in a metric form it is almost as though he had a musical metronome when he built this movie…
MORE ›Filmed in Moscow and Odessa, The Man with the Movie Camera exemplifies the montage of aesthetic of the Soviet vanguard of the 1920’s. It belongs…
MORE ›What do the American flag, the Shroud of Turin and a Japanese cherry blossom tree have in common? They are all examples of “mana,” the…
MORE ›Astonishing visual richness and a disquieting sense of menace drive the story of the current kidnapping epidemic in Brazil. The film explores the country’s systemic…
MORE ›This spellbinding film dissects the painstaking search for Osama bin Laden, which originated
with the “Sisterhood,” a remarkable team of CIA analysts.