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THE ECLIPSE [aka ROSE HOBART]
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THE ECLIPSE - JOSEPH CORNELL - PARACME
Arguably the most celebrated "found footage" film in existence, Joseph Cornell found a second-hand 16mm print of the early-1930s Pre-Code adventure epic EAST OF BORNEO and re-edited the footage to sho...
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November 30, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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RÉVE D'OR [GOLDEN DREAM]
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RÊVE D'OR - LAWRENCE JORDAN - PARACME
In 1894, a young Frenchman named Pierre Louys, a Greek scholar, published a volume of prose poems, titled SONGS OF BILITIS, Bilitis being an imaginary Greek poet of his own concoction. "One woman env...
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November 21, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Tomo + Miki Nishikawa fundraiser
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Donate to Help Support Tomonari Nishikawa & His Family, organized by Friends of Tomonari Nishikawa
Dear Community, We are starting this fundraiser to suppor… Friends of Tomonari Nishikawa needs your support for Help Support Tomonari Nishikawa & His Family
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November 15, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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TOKYO-EBISU
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TOKYO-EBISU - TOMONARI NISHIKAWA - PARACME
JR (Japan Railway Company) Yamanote Line is one of the Japan's busiest lines, consisting of twenty-nine stations and running as a loop. TOKYO-EBISU shows the views from the platforms of ten stations i...
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November 15, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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THE WORLD IN REVIEW
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WORLD IN REVIEW - LEO HURWITZ - PARACME
"Soon there will be shown to the workers of New York the evidence gathered by the keen eyes of our cameras. This evidence is totally unlike anything shown in newsreels taken by capitalist concerns, Wh...
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November 10, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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DAY OF THE DEAD
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DAY OF THE DEAD - SERGEI EISENSTEIN - PARACME
Sergei Eisenstein's ill-fated trip to Hollywood and then Mexico influenced many American film enthusiasts. Of all the beautiful images captured by Eisenstein in Mexico, some of the most fascinating in...
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October 30, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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AMERICA TODAY
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AMERICA TODAY - LEO HURWITZ - PARACME
The stark compilation of newsreels entitled AMERICA TODAY represents a key work in the origins of American social documentary film. Under the direction of Leo Hurwitz, the images—primarily photographe...
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October 20, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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NATIVE LAND
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NATIVE LAND - LEO HURWITZ - PARACME
Since the founding of our country, the American people have had to fight for the freedom in every generation. NATIVE LAND is a document of America's struggle for liberty in recent years. It was in thi...
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October 15, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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October 11, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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HOMMAGE
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HOMMAGE - LAWRENCE JORDAN - PARACME
Everything new is old again (with Lawrence Jordan and Erik Satie in another visual-and-audible collaboration across the decades).
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October 11, 2024 at 12:35 AM
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LULLABY
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LULLABY - BORIS DEUTSCH - PARACME
A Lithuanian-born artist, Boris Deutsch worked as an industry set designer for three years before making LULLABY, his single foray into filmmaking. Like his paintings, it treats a Jewish theme express...
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October 5, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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MANHATTA
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MANHATTA - PAUL STRAND - PARACME
In the second decade of the twentieth century, artists Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand collaborated on an abstract film of New York. Although neither was a filmmaker, their short lyric film has had a ...
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September 30, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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SKYSCRAPER SYMPHONY
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SKYSCRAPER SYMPHONY - ROBERT FLOREY - PARACME
The hard-edged SKYSCRAPER SYMPHONY stands in contrast to other New York scenic newsreels produced throughout the 1920s. Robert Florey's camera looks straight up the domineering concrete behemoths in s...
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September 26, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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THE LOVE OF ZERO
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THE LOVE OF ZERO - ROBERT FLOREY - PARACME
Robert Florey, a French cineaste, and William Cameron Menzies, a top art director, combined talents to show the influence of THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI (1920) and other European film experiments whic...
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September 21, 2024 at 1:10 AM