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A long-hidden, personal doc about leaving a beloved house by the late, revered Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira. Release: Visita ou ...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of years to look at the image of the Amazonian ...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more than a century of cinema. A hallucinated ...

As the city of Paris and the French people grow in consumer culture, a housewife living in a high-rise apartment with her husband and two ...

Part 1 of Godard’s 8 part examination of the history of the concept of cinema and how it relates to the 20th century. Release: Histoire(s) ...

Commissioned by French television, this is a short documentary on the neo-classical statues found throughout Paris, predominantly on the walls of ...

Basically an artist is also a terrorist, the protagonist thinks in an unguarded moment. And if he is a terrorist after all, then he might just as ...

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the utterly ...

“Histoire(s) du cinema” is an unique piece of art : you could see it as an essay about cinema, art and history, as well as a ...

Iggy Pop reads and recites Michel Houellebecq’s manifesto. The documentary features real people from Houellebecq’s life with the text ...

A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From the military coup in Brazil to China’s ...

The surrealist painter René Magritte questions the objective reality and emphasizes the arbitrariness of the relationship between an object, its ...

CREMASTER 4 (1994) adheres most closely to the project’s biological model. This penultimate episode describes the system’s onward ...

A complex, evocative portrait of Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney, the pastor of Ars, whose humble and loving life led to sanctification. Release: Ars ...

“A refined film essay about the loneliness, wisdom and humility of old women. The film, most valued by Jan Špáta, was awarded the Grand ...