Kategorie: film
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Yesterday’s Future.
The film ‘Gagarin’ by Fanny Liatards and Jérémy Trouilh tells the story of the last days of a French social housing estate. One resident refuses to give up, which is why he dreams himself into his own utopia
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Paris In a Ferrari.
On an August morning in 1976, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through the heart of Paris.
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Empire of Light.
“Film. It’s just static frames, with darkness in between,” Toby Jones’ projector operator character says at one point in a voiceover. But if run at 24 frames per second, an illusion of light and motion results on the cinema screen. “An illusion of life, so you don’t see the darkness.” (Empire of Light, Director Sam…
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Beat Street.
Harry Belafonte interview on producing “Beat Street” movie about early 80s New York City hip hop culture. Includes brief „Beat Street“ clips. It is widely regarded as the best film about the 80s breakdancing scene. (1984).
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Birdman.
Birdman director Alejandro G. Iñárritu originally conceived the film as a comedy filmed in a single shot set in a theatre following the character of Riggan Thomson, a faded actor famous for playing a superhero named Birdman in a film trilogy from 1989 to 1992. While the film used camera tricks and illusion to make…
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Périphérique compressed.
When you are in the Banlieue of Paris, and there is a massive strike. What to do?Video by Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber. March 25, 2023. 12:05 pm – 12:45 pm
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Gerry.
Two friends, both named Gerry, drive in silence through a seemingly endless landscape. When they see the sign “Wilderness” they get out and start hiking to see a “thing” at the end of the trail. They walk, talk, smoke and run – but when they decide they’ve had enough, they realize that they are lost.…
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Die große Flatter
This mini-series by Marianne Lüdcke (1979) tells the story of the friendship between two teenagers, Joachim, called Schocker, and Richy, who live with their families in a poor settlement on the outskirts of West Berlin. Problems with parents and friends, alcoholism and unemployment determine their everyday lives. They dream of one day being able to…
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Rize.
Rize is a 2005 American documentary film by David LaChapelle, and starring Lil‘ C, Tommy the Clown and Miss Prissy. It documents the culture and competition surrounding two dance forms known as Clowning and Krumping.
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From here to here.
Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation follows two and a half days in the life of Aloysious Parker in New York, a young wanderer with no home, no school, and no job. At the age of sixteen, Allie drifts into and out of strange encounters with other misfits; almost all of them exiles from the daily, working…
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Long Distance Runner.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime. The boy experiences social alienation and turns to long-distance running as a method of both…
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Bande de filles.
This film focusses on the life of Marieme a teenage girl who lives in a rough neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris. The film discusses and challenges conceptions of race, gender and class.
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En Place.
En place prolonge d’une certaine façon la réflexion entamée dans le premier long-métrage de l’acteur (coréalisé avec John Wax) à travers la trajectoire fulgurante de Stéphane Blé, un éducateur de banlieue venu dynamiter le jeu politique français en passant la barre du premier tour de l’élection présidentielle. le monde »»
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東京オリンピック
Tokyo Olympiad (東京オリンピック), is a 1965 Japanese documentary film directed by Kon Ichikawa about the 1964 Summer Olympics. The film was considered a cinematographic milestone in documentary filmmaking.
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Landscape Theory.
»Masao Adachi […] decided to film the story of a 19-year-old boy who murdered four people in four different cities for no apparent reason. To do so, in A.K.A. Serial Killer he created a new approach: fukeiron, or landscape theory. […] The film, with a voiceover by Adachi and a free jazz score, relates the life…
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Le Monde de Demain.
An arte-series about the beginnings of French hip-hop in the 1980s recounted through the birth of the group NTM and the career of the DJ Dee Nasty and the graffiti artist Lady V.
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Sonne und Beton.
»Sonne und Beton« is a coming-of-age and crime film directed by David Wnendt in 2023 about four classmates break into their school in Berlin-Gropiusstadt, hoping to solve their money problems.The film premiered at the Berlinale in February 2023 and was released in German theaters on March 2, 2023.
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La Haine.
La Haine is a 1995 French crime drama film written and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz. Starring Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui, the film chronicles a day and night in the lives of three friends from a poor immigrant neighbourhood in the suburbs of Paris.