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Buta
Azerbaijan, 2012, 98 min.
A seven-year-old boy living in a mountain village dreams of creating a mountaintop “buta” (a symbol meaning “love”) sculpture out of stones. Ilgar Najaf’s simple and elegant tale illustrates how art, love and life are inextricably intertwined.... more
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Dreamers
France, 2012, 90 min.
The script comes first! Explore the poetic journey from ideas and words to images, through the insights of some of the best filmmakers on the planet, including Jacques Audiard, Guillermo Arriaga, James Gray, Emir Kusturica and John Boorman.... more
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The End of Time
Canada, 2012, 114 min.
A meditative, free-associative but entirely engrossing contemplation of the nature of time by the innovative non-fiction filmmaker Peter Mettler. Detroit, Big Island, India and CERN are just some of his philosophical pit-stops. Go with the (lava) flow.... more
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Filmistaan
India, 2012, 117 min.
In this engagingly optimistic comedy, Sunny, an irrepressible Indian wannabe-actor, is mistaken for an American and kidnapped by Pakistani terrorists. Discovering his captors share his love for Bollywood movies, Sunny finds that cinema is his best escape route.... more
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The Final Member
Canada, 2012, 75 min.
Forget Hollywood, the funniest comedy of the year may be this documentary about the Icelandic Phallological Museum. That’s right, a penis museum. Join “Siggi” Hjartarson on his quest to find the one thing that will make his museum complete – a human penis.... more
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Goltzius and the Pelican Company
United Kingdom, 2012, 127 min.
Peter Greenaway’s stunningly visual, sexually provocative 16th-century tale focuses on a Dutch engraver who runs afoul of the authorities when his reenactments of lustful scenes from the Old Testament go beyond the pale in their carnality. F. Murray Abraham co-stars. Warning:sexually explicit scenes... more
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Love, Marilyn
USA, 2012, 105 min.
A dozen contemporary actresses (including Glenn Close, Viola Davis and Marisa Tomei) read from Marilyn Monroe’s recently discovered private papers in Liz Garbus’s multi-faceted, beautifully-made portrait of the quintessential twentieth century sex symbol.... more
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Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine)
Mexico, 2012, 95 min.
Bathed in some of the most beautiful and iconic images from Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, one of the most legendary cameramen of all times, supplemented by commentary from 40 directors of photography from difference countries and generations.... more
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Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
USA, 2011, 89 min.
Take a thoroughly enjoyable ride with this American original – the writer, editor, journalist, raconteur, celebrity George Plimpton. Did I leave anything out, George?... more
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Renoir
France, 2012, 111 min.
Set on the Côte d’Azur, Gilles Bourdos’s lyrical, visually gorgeous period piece examines the effects teenaged model Andrée (Christa Theret) has on the lives of Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) and his soon-to-be filmmaker-son Jean (Vincent Rottiers).... more
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Room 237
USA, 2012, 104 min.
Stanley Kubrick’s enigmatic masterpiece The Shining goes under the microscope courtesy of 5 brilliant – but possibly insane – interpretations from its most obsessive fans. Could it really be about the genocide of the Indians? And why did he change that room number to 237?... more
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Smiling Through the Apocalypse - Esquire in the 60s
USA, 2012, 98 min.
An intimate and engaging portrait of Harold Hayes, the brilliant editor of Esquire magazine in its 1960s peak, who fostered the leading lights of the New Journalism, including such talents as Tom Wolfe, Gore Vidal, William F Buckley and Norman Mailer.... more
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What is this Film Called Love?
United Kingdom, 2012, 77 min.
The Story of Film director Mark Cousins free associates brilliantly in this passionate, poetic and deeply personal essay about Sergei Eisenstein, Mexico, travel and spirituality - an “ad-lib”, filmed on a flip camera in three days, for a budget of $20.... more
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