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- The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
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on Jun 24, 2007 | 1 user.
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- Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
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- Leni Riefenstahl
- "Leni Riefenstahl's classic piece of historical filmmaking, filmed during the 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremburg, Germany is considered by many to be one of the most important and controversial films ever made.
The film, realized by Paul Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Reich Minister for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, was created to influence all of Germany to support the "power" of the Nazi Party. All during World War II in every theatre in Germany, either part or all of Triumph of the Will was shown.
Funded entirely by the NSDAP (the Nazi Party), Hitler hired the young actress/director Leni Riefenstahl to direct. Money was unlimited, so Riefenstahl was eating and sleeping in the editing room with hundreds of thousands of feet of film for several months. All of the shots in Triumph are carefully constructed. Sets were specially built to accommodate cameras and Hitler was filmed separately from the crowds so Riefenstahl could edit together a film that would manipulate imagery and seduce the mind.
An historically significant and, at times, horrifying manipulative exercise in propaganda for the Nazi regime, Triumph of the Will continues to be controversial over sixty years after its original release. This historical document has been unavailable in Germany for many decades and Leni Riefenstahl has since come under fire for her personal relationship with Adolph Hitler. spending her life in the shadow of collaborating with the Nazi Party." -
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 2 users.
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- Winged Migration ( Special Edition )
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- Jacques Perrin
- "Witness as five film crews follow a rich variety of bird migrations through 40 countries and each of the seven continents. With teams totalling more than 450 people, 17 pilots and 14 cinematographers used planes, gliders, helicopters and balloons to fly alongside, above, below and in front of their subjects. The result is a film of staggering beauty that Entertainment Weekly hailed as 'Mesmerizing!' and the Los Angeles Times applauded as 'Breathtaking! As lofty as it is exhilerating!' Open your eyes to the wonders of the natural world as you fly along with the world's most gorgeous birds through areas as remote as the Arctic and the Amazon and as populated as Paris and New York City. See Why USA Today found it to be 'one of the most beautiful films to come out this year!"
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 2 users.
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- The White Diamond
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- Werner Herzog
- "Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog follows enigmatic airship engineer Dr. Graham Dorrington as he embarks on a trip in the heart of Guyana to test his new helium-filled invention above the rainforest. Dubbed the 'white diamond' on account of its unique teardrop shape, the expedition begins with some early mishaps but is soon airborne high above the treetops. With every success though, Dorrington is haunted by a similar expedition twelve years ago that killed his friend as they were testing an airship much like the 'white diamond.' Herzog magnificently captures Dorrington's struggles to atone for what he calls 'a stupid, meaningless accident' while at the same time presenting stunning never-before-seen images of the true beauty of nature."
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 1 user.
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- In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger
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- Jessica Yu
- "Henry Darger, an elderly recluse, spent his childhood in an Illinois asylum for feeble-minded children and his adulthood working as a janitor. He lived a quiet, nearly solitary existence, but his imaginary life was exciting, colorful, and sexually provocative. When he died in Chicago in 1973, his landlady discovered in his room 300 paintings, some over 10 feet long, and a 15,000-page illustrated novel(In the Realms of the Unreal), which told the epic story of the virtuous Vivian Girls, seven angelic sisters who lead a rebellion against godless, child-enslaving men. Featuring Dakota Fanning and Larry Pine as narrators and imaginative animation of Darger's work, Oscar winning Jessica Yu brings to life one of the twentieth century's greatest self-taught artists."
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 1 user.
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- Microcosmos
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- Claude Nuridsany
- "MicroCosmos captures the fun and adventure of a spectacular hidden universe revealed in a breathtaking, close-up view unlike anything you've ever seen! Your family will marvel at a pair of stag beetles deuling like titans amid the thunderous clashing of their horns. The kids will stare bug-eyed as a magnificent army of worker ants race to stock their larder...while trying to avoid becoming some feisty pheasant's dinner. And you'll have a front-row seat to witness an amazing transorfmation from caterpillar to butterfly, the remarkable birth of a mosquito, and several other minute miracles of life. With its tiny cast of thousands, MicroCosmos leaves no doubt that 'Mother Nature remains the greatest special effects wizard of all!"
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 1 user.
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- Night and Fog - Criterion Collection
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- Alain Resnais
- "Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek. One of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard) contrast the stillness of the abandoned camps' quiet, empty buildings with haunting wartime footage. With Night and Fog, Resnais investigates the cyclical nature of man's violence toward man and presents the unsettling suggestion that such horrors could come again."
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 1 user.
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- Wordplay
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- Patrick Creadon
- "Wordplay is a journey into the world of Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor at The New York Times. Known to millions as National Public Radio's "Puzzle Master," Shortz has spent his entire lifetime studying, creating and editing puzzles, and has built a huge following along the way. Meet Shortz's diehard fans--including President Bill Clinton, Senator Bob Dole, The Daily Show's John Stewart, filmmaker Ken Burns, The Indigo Girls, and Yankee ace pitcher Mike Mussina--and discover why over 50 million Americans do crosswords every week."
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 1 user.
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- For All Mankind - Criterion Collection
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- Al Reinert
- "In July 1969, the space race ended when Apollo 11 fulfilled President Kennedy's challenge of 'landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.' No one who witnessed the lunar landing will ever forget it. Breathtaking both in the scope of its vision and the exhiliration of the human emotions it captures, For All Mankind is the story og 24 men who travelled to the Moon--told in their words, in theor voices, using the images of their experiences."
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 1 user.
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- Grizzly Man
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- "In this mesmerizing film, acclaimed director Werner Herzog explores the life and death of amateur grizzly bear expert and wildlife preservationist Timothy Treadwell, who lived unarmed among grizzlies for 13 summers."
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on Jun 23, 2007 | 2 users.