DOCUMENTARIES
BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY
Alexandra Dean (US)
Known as one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood, it was virtually unknown that she had a mind far more extraordinary than her public image. In BOMBSHELL, THE HEDY LAMARR STORY (2017), director Alexandra Dean weaves together live interviews with Lamarr’s children, friends and Hollywood figures; newsreels and still photographs; graphs, diagrams, and animation; as well as newly-discovered audio interviews of Lamarr telling in her own words the background story about her life both on and off the silver screen.
CINERAMA'S RUSSIAN ADVENTURE
Leonid Kristy, Roman Karmen, Boris Dolin, Oleg Lebedev, Solomon Kogan & Vassily Katanian (US / USSR)
Photographed over an eight-year period by Russia’s top filmmakers, Cinerama’s Russian Adventure brings together some of the most exquisite, jaw-dropping, and beautiful sequences from over six Soviet Kinopanorama productions (the Russian equivalent of three-panel Cinerama). The film’s locations stretch from one end of Russia to the other, from…
Various Directors
Presented by Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films, DISCOVERING CINEMA is a two-disc DVD set comprised of LEARNING TO TALK (2003) and MOVIES DREAM IN COLOR (2004), both produced by Lobster Films/Histoire. Film historians Eric Lange and Serge Bromberg compiled materials from their own Lobster Films collection and material from archives…
Martina Kudláček (Austria)
"Kubelka's films play and work with the flow of time, compressing the continuous now and presence. His films digest the manifold things of the universe: the elemental energies of light and dark; movement and stillness; the life of animals and patterns of landscape; gesture and dance. With another mode of time Kudláček shared…
2013 - BEST BOX SET
HENRI STORCK: IMAGES D'OSTENDE - THE OSTEND FILMS
Henri Storck (Belgium)
Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. An eyewitness of his times, he made socially engaged films, but also poetic and experimental short films, films on art and a…
HENRI STORCK: MISÈRE AU BORINAGE - THE SOCIAL FILMS
Henri Storck (Belgium)
MISÈRE AU BORINAGE brings together Storck's Social Films, including the 1933 title work co-directed with Joris Ivens, which has become a classic of the "cinema of reality", with which Storck was most closely associated. In 1937 he made LES MAISONS DE LA MISÈRE, denouncing slum housing in the same pamphleteering style, and in 1938 LE PATRON...
HENRI STORCK: SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE - PEASANT SYMPHONY
Henri Storck (Belgium)
Henri Storck (Ostend 1907 - Brussels 1999) lived through the whole history of cinema, passing from silent to sound, and from experimental to commercial films. He is recognised as a pioneer of Belgian cinema and a key figure in documentary. From 1924 to 1944, the old project of making a feature film comes true. SYMPHONIE PAYSANNE consists of four parts that…
HENRI GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO (L'ENFER D'HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT)
Serge Bromberg & Ruxandra Medrea Annonier (France)
In 1964, director Henri-Georges Clouzot (QUAI DES ORFEVRES, LE CORBEAU, THE WAGES OF FEAR, LES DIABOLIQUES, THE MYSTERY OF PICASSO) chose Romy Schneider, aged 26, and Serge Reggiani, 42, to star in L'ENFER (INFERNO), an enigmatic and original project granted an unlimited budget due to the enthusiastic interest in the project by investors...
2016 - PERSONAL CHOICE (Lorenzo Codelli, Juror)
JORNAL PORTUGUÊS: 1938-1951
(Portugal)
The newsreel series JORNAL PORTUGUÊS (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel Society" (SPAC), under the technical supervision of António Lopes Ribeiro. It was conceived and employed as part of the propaganda machinery of Salazar's regime.
MAGNUM BEGYNASIUM BRUXELLENSE
Boris Lehman (Belgium)
¨A living chronicle of the residents of the Béguinage neighborhood – so named because it is situated on the site of the former Brussels béguinage. Designed as an encyclopaedic inventory, the film comprises around thirty chapters, each imbricated with the other, like so many pieces of a puzzle, or resembling a termite mound with many intersecting galleries. It takes place within the space and interstices of a day, starting at dawn and ending at night.¨ -Boris Lehman
MARGOT DIAS: ETHNOGRAPHIC FILMS 1958-1961
Margot Dias (Netherlands)
Between 1958 and 1961, the anthropologist Margot Dias (1908-2001) shot 28 films in Mozambique and Angola, which belong to the Film Archive of the National Museum of Ethnology (Museu Nacional de Etnologia). These films were made within the "study Missions on the Ethnic Minorities of the Portuguese Overseas Territories" headed by Jorge Dias and represent one of the first uses of ethnographic film within Portuguese anthropological studies.
2018 - BEST REDISCOVERY OF A FORGOTTEN FILM and PERSONAL CHOICE (Philippe Garnier, Juror)
MARQUIS DE WAVRIN-DU MANOIR À LA JUNGLE (FROM THE MANOR TO THE JUNGLE)
Grace Winter & Luc Plantier (Belgium)
Known for a long time as Belgium's greatest explorer, the Marquis de Wavrin was also a writer, a talented photographer and a filmmaker. Using footage shot on his numerous journeys in Latin America he made successful films such as In the SCALP COUNTRY (1931) and AMONG THE INDIAN SORCERERS (1934). This edition also includes the unpublished documentary MARQUIS DE WAVRIN. FROM THE MANOR TO THE JUNGLE (2017), as well as AT THE HEART OF UNKNOWN SOUTH AMERICA…
MARTINA KUDLÁČEK: NOTES ON MARIE MENKEN
Martina Kudláček (US)
"Martina Kudláček has made a name for herself creating bio-docs on experimental cinema personalities such as, Maya Deren (IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN) and Alexander Hammid (AIMLESS WALK) (TFF 2005). Kudláček latest brings into focus the underground film icon Marie Menken, best known for her role as a a protagonist in Andy Warhol's CHELSEA GIRLS (1966).
NANOOK OF THE NORTH / THE WEDDING OF PALO
Robert Flaherty & Dr. Knud Rasmussen (US / Denmark)
Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Artic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. He was not trained as an anthropologist, but Flaherty wisely guides our...
PETER VON BAGH: FINNISH SUITE
Peter von Bagh, (Finland)
Peter von Bagh is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and critic. His extensive and unique body of works include some 50 films and 30 books. The FINNISH SUITE includes three documentary feature films which make up an important part of von Bagh's works in the 21st century. HELSINKI, FOREVER (2008) is a portrait and city symphony…
SAVED FROM THE FLAMES
Various Directors
SAVED FROM THE FLAMES presents a unique and wonderful collection of 54 rare and restored short films from the inflammable years of cinema. Movies were once made on nitrate film stock, which has a chemical composition similar to gunpowder and is highly vulnerable to fire and decay. This remarkable seven-hour anthology, organized in eight thematic…
THIS IS CINERAMA
Robert L. Bendick (US)
On the evening of September 30, 1952, the shape and sound of movies changed forever with the introduction of Cinerama, the widescreen process that used three cameras and three projectors on a curved screen 146° deep.
In celebration of the 60th Anniversary of its premiere, THIS IS CINERAMA is presented exactly as seen by…
VIENNA 1900. PICTURES OF A METROPOLIS
Various Directors (Austria)
The Cinematic City It is not the canonical “Vienna films” -- the big budget romances and operettas of the 1930s and 1950s-that provide the focus for this DVD, but rather a collection of rare film documents from the collection of the Austrian Film Museum.
WINDJAMMER: THE VOYAGE OF THE CHRISTIAN RADICH
Louis de Rochemont III & Bill Colleran (Norway / US)
Embarking from Oslo, Norway, the ship sets out across the Atlantic with a storm-tossed stop in Madeira, where New Year’s festivities entice the young crewmen to enjoy Portuguese musical celebrations and heart racing rides in basket sleds down steep cobblestone streets. After that, it is on to Willemstad, Curacao, where young sailors take part in Dutch festivities.