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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.
Following the photographer in China, this film captures Edward Burtynsky as he creatures highly detailed large-format images of the effects of industry on our natural world.
MORE ›As photographer Phil Toledano obsesses over his mortality, he stages elaborate shoots to enact the myriad dark ways he might age, deteriorate, and die.
MORE ›What started in 1980 as a Seven Up!-like survey of married life in the old Czech republic turns into an intimate testament to one woman’s…
MORE ›A hundred and sixty Russian cameramen from across the Soviet Union chronicle a single fighting day during World War II.
MORE ›Along a famed pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain, one woman’s calling is to sit by the narrow thoroughfare greeting and counting the travelers as they pass by.
MORE ›If you are not familiar with the work of performance artist Marina Abramović, prepare to be riveted. Abramović is known for stretching the limits of…
MORE ›In this epic, exhaustively researched documentary, Kevin Macdonald explores the reasons why music legend Bob Marley, who died in 1981 at the age of thirty-six,…
MORE ›Finding inspiration in nature, Durham artist Martha Heine weaves large wall tapestries of rich colors and textures. Now battling cancer, Heine will be completing her…
MORE ›By cultivating a close relationship with the press, Martha Mitchell signaled that she was not content to simply play Washington hostess and sit in the…
MORE ›Martin Scorsese pays tribute to the Italian documentary filmmaker Vittorio De Seta. Seven short documentaries will be screened and discussed by Mr. De Seta and…
MORE ›From her magical screen presence to her tenacity in matters of business, Mary Pickford was a powerful force in silent cinema. Already the family breadwinner…
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