February 2012
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Feb 29th
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Feb 29th
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Andrei Tarkovsky's The Killers
a-bittersweet-life: Based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway, The Killers is a student film Andrei Tarkovsky made with his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. It was Tarkovsky’s first film.    
Feb 29th
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Inside The Actors Studio - Martin Scorsese
Feb 28th
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Feb 28th
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Feb 27th
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Inside The Actors Studio - Robert De Niro
Feb 27th
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Inside The Actors Studio - Al Pacino
Feb 27th
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Feb 26th
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Kurosawa interviewed by Nagisa Oshima
Feb 26th
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Feb 26th
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Feb 25th
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Wes Anderson interviews Peter Bogdanovich
Filmmaker Wes Anderson (“The Royal Tenenbaums” ) interviews Peter Bogdanovich (“The Last Picture Show, “Paper Moon”) about Bogdanovich’s film “They All Laughed,” the film Bogdanovich calls his personal best.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 21st
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Feb 21st
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Cineastes de notre temps: Luis Buñuel (1964)
Cinéastes de notre temps: Luis Buñuel 1964 - 38 min Generic MPEG-4 | 640x496 | Mp3 ] ± 420 MB
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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“A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock”, PT2. A few highlights: Hitch’s view of the future of theatre (some virtual reality/hypnotism hybrid), his reasoning for making realistic fantasies, and his excellent answer to the awful question “What is happiness to you?”
Feb 20th
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Alfred Hitchcock takes us inside his creative process in this fascinating 1964 program from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. “A Talk with Alfred Hitchcock” is part interview, part master class in the craft of telling stories on film.
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Tarantino’s Masterclass, Cannes 2008
Tarantino masterclass by filmfestivals-com Following in the footsteps of Martin Scorsese in 2007, and also Stephen Frears, Nanni Moretti, Wong Kar Wai and Sydney Pollack, Quentin Tarantino was invited on May 22, 2008 at the Cannes Masterclass to speak to the Festival’s audience about his professional experiences as a filmmaker and screenplay writer. Tarantino held a thousand-strong audience...
Feb 18th
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Feb 17th
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Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
The documentary, produced by the American Film Institute, consists of a series of interviews with several filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, King Vidor, Peter Bogdanovich, Samuel Fuller, David Lynch, Paul Schrader, and some others. Basically they discuss the concept of maverick filmmaker in relation to the Hollywood cinema. It contains lots of clips from such film classics as “The...
Feb 17th
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Gary Oldman Plans To Return Behind The Camera
When asked why he never followed up his 1997 directorial debut “Nil By Mouth” Oldman answered, “Well, I tried to funnily enough. I tried to follow it with a film [I wrote] about a sex addict. And he was married and had a mistress and all the machinations of that and it was very, very, very difficult to finance. I couldn’t get the money or at least I couldn’t get the money to do it the way I...
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Signs of Life (Werner Herzog, 1968)
Herzog’s full-length debut w/ the famous Chicken scene. “Try to look a chicken in the eye with great intensity, and the intensity of stupidity that is looking back at you is just amazing,” he marvels while gesturing as a professor might while making a salient point during a lecture. And that’s before he gets to his thoughts on hypnotizing chickens: “They are very prone to hypnosis, and...
Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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The Great Ecstasy of the Woodcarver Steiner — Werner Herzog (1974) “Possibly the best sports documentary ever made This starts out looking like a more or less standard TV documentary about a ski-jumper. Over time, however, it somehow gets stranger and stranger, until the ending, that somehow, incomprehensibly, left me totally out of breath. The film works on so many levels: It’s a...
Feb 13th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 11th
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Eric Rohmer, Nadja in Paris (1964)
French New Wave directory Eric Rohmer made this 1964 short film about a woman who is a student in Paris and likes to walk around exploring the city and herself. Incredible simplicity. Part 2: (Source: candlelightstories)
Feb 9th
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Feb 6th
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  Paul Newman and Clint Eastwood hanging out sometime in the 1970s (it’s a shame they were never in a movie together).  (Source: filmdetail) 
Feb 5th
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Feb 5th
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seedy: Film Quarterly - Complete Archive (1945 -... →
c-d: https://rapidshare.com/files/3355861507/Film_Quarterly.part1.rar https://rapidshare.com/files/1018053019/Film_Quarterly.part2.rar pass:worldscinema.com Journal Description Quote: Film Quarterly, published since 1958, provides readers with insightful analyses of film,…
Feb 5th
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Remembering Ben Gazzara, 1930 - 2012
Very rare documentary showing some real insight into the creative modus operandi of the Il maestro John Cassavetes (includes priceless moments with all-time screen icons Peter Falk & Ben Gazzara).
Feb 4th
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Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary
Raiding The Lost Ark: A Filmumentary By Jamie Benning from jambe davdar on Vimeo. After the success of Star Wars Begins, filmmaker Jamie Benning embarked upon a new adventure. This time turning his attention to the first film in the Indiana Jones Trilogy (yes, trilogy!). Raiding the Lost Ark, A Filmumentary is the culmination eight months of reading, trawling, interviewing and editing. This...
Feb 4th
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Feb 1st
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“You never show reality, you only show its manipulated image”
–   Michael Haneke - My Life (2009/Arte) Download
Feb 1st
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Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008)
  Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes (2008)
Feb 1st