Yuri_Andreyevich (Level 13)

The documentary is split into two chapters (1. Prayer from the Eiffel Tower and 2. The Return of the Fantomas). The spring of 1962 was the first peacetime spring the French had since the start of WWII in 1939. Now with the Algerian War at an end Marker takes his ...

Anyone familiar with the 1980 BBC collection of Shakespeare Tragedies will feel right at home here. Like the Tragedies the production value is low, usually only 1 or 2 indoor sets per episode, but that's not what is on display here. It's all about the performers. I've seen Cate Blanchett's ...

One reviewer I read called it a pictorial without obvious purpose. I can agree with that, yet at the same time it's one of those films that get you thinking so profoundly that I found myself watching it a second time. The movie's premise is that travelogues and notes were ...

My first foray into the mysterious and mesmerizing filmography of the ever reclusive Chris Marker. I was wondering how long I would be able to sit through a film of nothing but stills. I became too captivated to care as the movie progressed. In fact, I was a little upset ...

The Sixth Side of the Pentagon - 3/5 - Short documentary covering the 100,000 protesters that gathered in Washington DC in 1967 to call for an end to the Vietnam war. A melting pot of college students, hippies and war veterans all joining forces in an attempt to storm the ...