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1) Manhatta
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Manhatta documents the look of early-20th-century Manhattan. With the city as subject, the film consists of 65 shots sequenced in a loose non-narrative structure, beginning with a ferry approaching Manhattan and ending with a sunset view from a skyscraper. The primary objective of the film is to explore the relationship between photography and film; camera movement is kept to a minimum, as is incidental motion within each shot. Each frame provides...
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1924.
Language
English
Description
Ballet Mécanique is a Dadaist post-Cubist art film conceived, written, and co-directed by the artist Fernand Léger in collaboration with the filmmaker Dudley Murphy (with cinematographic input from Man Ray). It has a musical score by the American composer George Antheil. However, the film premiered in a silent version on 24 September 1924 at the Internationale Ausstellung neuer Theatertechnik (International Exposition for New Theater Technique)...
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 6:40 minutes; production assistance Man Ray, Marc Allégret; new music by Gustavo Matamoros; preserved by Det Danske Filminstitut. Thought provoking and offensive are possible ways to interpret the ten optical discs and corresponding puns displayed in the film. The word play fo French syllogisms gleefully collides with the protruding-receding optical illusions of the rotating spheres. Julien Levy called the...
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1929.
Language
English
Description
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 24fps, 8:53 minutes; new music by Donald Sosin; preserved by Gosfilmofond of Russia. The most fantastic effects were secured in shooting sheer heights ... It was partly the architectural wonder of New York that made the film so stirring, but, really, it was the artist's touch that moved one, the catching of mood, line, color, and feeling in the strange, walled city.-_Marguerite Tazelaar_
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
35mm 1.33:1 black & white silent 20fps, 10:18 minutes; production assistance Jay Leyda; music by Colin McPhee composed and performed in 1931, now considered lost; new music adapted from Issac Albeinez's_Tango in D_by Eric Beheim; courtesy of the filmmaker.
Series
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Français
Description
In 1917, in a German camp, a group of French prisoners - including the aristocratic Boieldieu, Maréchal the foreman and the Jewish banker Rosenthal - prepare to escape. At the last moment, they are moved to a fortress commanded by Von Rauffenstein, who becomes friendly with Boieldieu.
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white with color tint silent 18fps, 6:07 minutes; completed by Lawrence Jordan; new music vintage circus organ; courtesy of Lawrence Jordan. Cornell's editing tactic is to seduce through the use of dislodged movie tropes. Hence the viewer is cut loose from any normal meanings to pursue the snippets of clips and fragments taken from long-forgotten obscure movies. One is encouraged to let the Cornellian montages wash over them in...
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white intentionally silent 16fps, 8:09 minutes; courtesy of the filmmaker. Photographer Rudy Burckhardt shows us the ebb and flow of people rushing about Manhattan. Equally exhilarating in his novel approach to snap images quickly on the run, a method he inaugurated and that continues to the present day. In film, he added slow and fast motion, split-screens and superimpositions to his repertory.
9) 1941
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1941.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 4 minutes; music by Igor Stravinsky; preserved by Bruce Posner and Anthology Film Archives at Cineric, Inc. from camera original; courtesy of the filmmaker. The December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor motivated painter-filmmaker Francis Lee to produce these abstract images evocative of the horrors of war. Splattered wet paint and broken light bulbs allude to the senseless destruction. The potent visuals are reinforced by the driving...
10) Cecile Is Dead!
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Santa Relli (Jour de Fête) plays a young woman named Cécile, who keeps coming to Quai des Orfèvres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed...until Cécile winds up dead. Maigret must crack the mystery in this stylish film noir from director Maurice Tourneur (Lorna Doone).
11) Picpus
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Whilst moving into her new Paris apartment, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Soon more corpses pile up near the metro station Picpus and the eponymous street: a clairvoyant, a blind man, a doctor, a real estate agent. These people have certainly got something in common, but what can it be? Maigret is summoned to investigate in this thrilling whodunit from director Richard Pottier (Fanfare d'Amour).
13) Without Love
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
1945.
Language
English
Description
Academy Award winners Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star as a married couple who believe they have found the secret to wedded bliss: They share common passions but have decided to live together WITHOUT LOVE. Washington, D.C. World War II. Pat Jamieson (Tracy--Father of the Bride, Inherit the Wind) and Jamie Rowan (Hepburn--The African Queen, The Philadelphia Story) have both loved and lost. Independently, they have decided to forgo romance for...
14) Lured
Series
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
British police are after a serial killer who lures his female victims through newspaper personal ads and sends cryptic poem clues to the cops.
15) T-Men
Series
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
35mm enlarged from 16mm with 2K digital insert from 16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 12:27 minutes; production assistance Miriam Arsham, Alexander Hammid; with Chao-li Chi; music a mix of Chinese classical flute and drums recorded in Haiti by Maya Deren; preserved by Bruce Posner and Anthology Film Archives at Cineric, Inc. and Trackwise from camera original, optical negative and composite prints with funding provided by the Women's Film Preservation...
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1951.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white sound, 14 minutes; production Farallone Films; with Anna Halprin, Welland Lathrop, John Graham; music by William O. Smith._Game Little Gladys, The Gardner's Son; Princess Printemps_and_The Aging Balletomane_. Delightful and sentimental, the interludes date back to silent cinema full of playful mime and dreamy reverie. As such the vignettes offer a welcome antidote to the high-mindedness of most avant-garde films.
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37.1 color sound, 9:27 minutes; acted & recited by Anaïs Nin from Nin's_House of Incest;_ production, photography Ian Hugo; abstract color effects Len Lye, Ian Hugo; electronic music by Louis & Bebe Barron. "I remember my first birth in water," reads Anaïs Nin in her husband Ian Hugo's aquatic fantasy formed of "hieroglyphs of a language in which our unconscious is trying to convey important, urgent messages." The mix of charged language...
19) Eaux d'artifice
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
1953.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 black & white tinted color sound, 12:57 minutes; with Carmilla Salvatorelli; music "Winter" movement of_The Four Seasons_by Antonio Vivaldi; courtesy of the filmmaker. The Villa d'Este sculpture gardens frame the nocturnal exploits of a Baroquely-dressed masked figure darting about a waterworks of gushing fountains in "a Hide and Seek in a night-time labyrinth." Jets of water form a mesmerizing erotic fantasy paying homage to abstract...
20) Evolution
Series
Publisher
Filmmakers Showcase
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
16mm 1.37:1 color sound, 8:01 minutes I try to leave the imagination of the spectator as free as possible by using purely invented, abstract forms rather than representational forms. In watching these films it is not necessary to search for hidden meanings or to try to associate these invented forms with familiar objects. The spectator may simply relax and look at the films as one would listen to music in order to fully respond to them. - _Jim Davis_...
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