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Starring James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, Performance was made by Donald Cammell and Nicholas Roeg in 1968, but not released until 1970. When the studio backers saw the directors cut, they were so shocked by its sexual explicitness and formal radicalism that attempts were made to destroy the negative. Performance really is one [...]

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Chto delat, No. 35: Language at/of the Border (2013)

“The idea for this issue arose when we begin working on our film A Border Musical, whose screenplay is also printed here. This film is based on a study of the situation on both sides of the Russian-Norwegian border: we were interested in how a range of differences, which inevitably serve as sources of conflict [...]

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Tomáš Pospiszyl, Eric Rosenzveig (eds.): CAS: What is it? (2013) [English/Czech]

Publication documents the activities of the Center for Audio Visual Studies (CAS) at FAMU in Prague, founded in 2005. Featuring 30 works by the CAS students and alumni as well as texts by the teachers Helena Bendová, Martin Blažíček, Miroslav Petříček, Tomáš Pospiszyl, Eric Rosenzveig and Miloš Vojtěchovský Publikace CAS: Co to je? není výstavním [...]

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Eadweard Muybridge: The Stanford Years 1872–82 (1972)

Catalogue for the exhibition held at Stanford University Museum of Art in 1972.
Edited by Anita Ventura Mozley
Publisher Department of Art, Stanford University, 1972
136 pages
via Archive.org
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Metropolis Magazine (1927)

“Film programme booklet produced for the London premiere of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis at the Marble Arch Pavilion on March 21, 1927. Not only a list of cast and crew, it includes eleven short pieces on the making of the movie, commentary from the director and cast, and numerous production photographs and film stills, many attractively [...]

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Stan Brakhage: Metaphors on Vision (1963)

“Metaphors on Vision is a collection of writings on the film and, in particular, on the film as Stan Brakhage sees and makes it. Yet more significantly it is a testament of what makes mythopoeic art. Mythopoeia is the often attempted and seldom achieved result of making a myth new or making a new myth.” [...]

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Colin MacCabe: Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics (1980)

Godard: Images, Sounds, Politics is an important step in making Godard’s experiments in image and sound beyond the institutions of cinema and television visible. It reads the earlier films through the more recent work, focusing on politics, technology and sexuality. These insistent themes dominate Godard’s investigation of our representation in the image, a representation always [...]

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Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills (2003)

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a series of black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980. Witty, provocative, and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies touches a vital nerve in our culture. This book marks the first time that the entire series has been published as a unified work. Sherman [...]

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Zero Dark Thirty, the CIA and film critics have a very bad evening | Glenn Greenwald

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The stigma attached to the pro-torture CIA propaganda vehicle, beloved by film critics, results in Oscar humiliation http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/feb/25/zero-dark-thirty-cia-oscarsRelated PostsDid researchers find a new branch on the tree of life in Lake Vostok? | Ars Technica Anonymous ‘spokesperson’ to spend year in jail without trial — RT USA Heat Spike is Unprecedented in 11,000 Years

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The CIA Goes To Hollywood: How America’s Spy Agency Infiltrated The Big Screen (and Our Minds)

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AT A TIME WHEN THE CIA is still hiding the details of its extrajuridical drone strike assassination program from congressional watchdogs and the media, one would think it an awkward moment for Hollywood to confer Academy Awards on films that celebrate its secret agents.NO But apparently not. While a robust debate has emerged about Zero [...]

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Room 237

ROOM 237 is a subjective documentary feature which explores numerous theories about Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” and its hidden meanings.  This guided tour through the most compelling attempts to decode this endlessly fascinating film will draw the audience into a new maze, one with endless detours and dead ends, many ways in, but no way out.  [...]

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Sundance 2013 Review: Stunning ‘Upstream Color’ Puts Swine Before Pearls and Finds Universal Truths Along the Way

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Shane Carruth has twice broken an unspoken contract between filmmakers and audiences that says watching movies should never require you to think, work or do any of the heavy lifting. A high percentage of film-goers and way too many filmmakers signed on to this arrangement, but small numbers of each stand strong in their defense [...]

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Journal of Sonic Studies, Vol. 3: Rethinking Theories of Television Sound (2012)

“The essays collected in this special issue of the Journal of Sonic Studies are intended to rethink the existing theories of television sound by offering a reexamination of some of the most persistent accounts of television sound from the 1980s to the present. These essays examine the technological and aesthetic changes that have accompanied the [...]

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TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW

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TPB-AFK, the documentary about The Pirate Bay and its founders, is finally out. The film has been in the making for four years and follows the lives of the three Pirate Bay founders during their trials in Sweden. TPB-AFK is the first film to premiere both online and at a major film festival, and can be downloaded and shared for free.

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9 Amazing Short Films That Will One Day Be Feature Films

This week Guillermo Del Toro unleashes the creepy, intense monster movie Mama into the world. But few people know that this project was actually inspired on the creepy short from Andrés Muschietti. In fact, the original two minute and 30 second short is what made GDT support Muschietti as director of the full-length movie. And [...]

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Dead Society (2007)

Thomas Toivonen’s Dead Society (2007, 55 min) is based on an interview with prominent anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan. Using a collage of science fiction film, animal liberation front actions, footage of protest and riots, ethnographic film and much more, Toivonen presents a dark vision of the problems we face. Dead Society offers a sometimes harsh D.I.Y. [...]

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‘The Fifth Estate’ & WikiLeaks: Film About Julian Assange Leaked To Wikileaks

If you’re making a movie about WikiLeaks, this is the kind of thing you probably see coming. Julian Assange says he has obtained a leaked copy of the script for “The Fifth Estate,” a DreamWorks film about the maverick computer expert and his famed secret-busting site. In a speech before the Oxford Union debating society [...]

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Economic disparity docs occupy Sundance fest

The Sundance Film Festival is all about diversity and inclusion. Two of its documentaries are all about disparity and exclusivity – economic inequality that has left a rising gap between the super-rich and everyone else. Director Jacob Kornbluth’s “Inequality for All” is inspired by economist Robert Reich’s book “Aftershock: The Next Economy & America’s Future” [...]

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