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Showing posts with label documentary. Show all posts

Showing posts with label documentary. Show all posts

Saturday, June 26, 2010

I Lived, But ...

Kazuo Inoue's documentary on the director Yasujiro Ozu, I Lived, But ... (1983), is a stunning achievement. It represents a comprehensiv...

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

The Game of Their Lives

Daniel Gordon's documentary The Game of Their Lives (2002) tells the incredible story of North Korea's national football team's ...

Thursday, June 10, 2010

24 Realities per Second

Nina Kusturica and Eva Testor's documentary on Michael Haneke, 24 Realities per Second (named after a famous quote by the director), cou...

Monday, March 8, 2010

Tokyo-Ga

Wim Wenders' Tokyo-Ga (1985) is a documentary about his journey to Tokyo to find out whether the Japan (and Tokyo) portrayed in Yasujiro...

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

A Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov's A Man with a Movie Camera (1929) is an experimental silent film, the next logical step after Eisenstein's Battleship ...

Saturday, February 27, 2010

Voyage in Time

Andrei Tarkovsky's and Tonino Guerra's documentary, Voyage in Time (1983), takes a look at Tarkovsky's journey in Italy when he ...

Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Kon Ichikawa Story

Shunji Iwai's documentary The Kon Ichikawa Story (2006) chronicles the life of the legendary Japanese director, Kon Ichikawa (the direct...

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