Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Vitalina Varela - A Text by Yannick Haenel

VITALINA VARELA

by Yannick Haenel

2022


(translated from the French by Craig Keller)


My friends, before it leaves the big screen, rush to see Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela: this is very important. We can all agree: the cinema in its near totality has turned to shit, is soulless, has sold out to that hysterical movie-trailer factory which only produces images of our tolerance for junk. But a few filmmakers find unscathed images: images that, through their political dignity, through their poetic rectitude, cut themselves off from tawdry hell; among these filmmakers, there is Pedro Costa.


Vitalina Varela deboards a plane barefoot. A chorus of cleaning-women inform her that she’s arriving too late; her husband has been buried three days prior. “Go back home,” the chorus intones. But Vitalina Varela was waiting for more than twenty years in Cape Verde for her husband, emigrated to Portugal, to send her a plane ticket. She’s here, and she’s here to stay; she’ll reside in the dead man’s house; will enter the unveiling of this darkness that grips Cova da Moura, that gerry-rigged poverty-stricken neighborhood on the outskirts of Lisbon, which seems a necropolis. 


The roof is rotting, the door won’t close all the way, men walk inside without knocking. Vitalina Varela gets dressed at nighttime; the whites of her eyes tear through the darkness: anger is a form of resistance.


Between life and death there opens a gap where pain speaks. This is where it all takes place: cinema is possible here, like poetry. A knife comes closer to our throats at every instant: we are expendable; the women and men escaping execution are devoted. After Buchenwald and Dachau, Robert Antelme had this to say: “We can no longer tolerate being touched; we feel ourselves to be sacred.” Vitalina, since her period of mourning and her revolt, is sacred — separate: she speaks to the dead, to her dead one. 


Those women and men who have been sacrificed by Western horror, the victims of colonial dump-off, like the Black workers from Cape Verde such as Vitalina, live at the heart of this chasm in which light and dark tear themselves apart. Pedro Costa films from this darkness that is the state of sacrificed light; and all the splendor of the film comes from the arrivals of light that deliver themselves from the dark background. When the heart thinks, darkness vanishes into thin air. A different house is constructed in the blue pleasure of the mountains. Repairing the roofing is an act of love.


A sick and trembling priest, whose church has been abandoned, tells Vitalina that the world has broken since Judas’s kiss. The cheek he kissed remains obscure: “It’s from these shadows that we’ve been made,” he says. But the nocturnal density enveloping Vitalina’s body in her house lends her an aura: she belongs to the light of the other cheek: that which has not been touched by Judas. It’s the radiant cheek: its light is the political force that gives back life to the sacrificed. •


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Sunday, January 02, 2022

Ancestral Teacher of a Generation (aka The Grandmaster)

Stand and Deliver

Horizontal; vertical: Those are the two characters that make up the word "kung fu," as we are told by Ip Man (Tony Leung), the real life martial arts master of the wing chun style and eventual mentor to Bruce Lee. Ancestral Teacher of a Generation [Yi dai song shi, also known as The Grandmaster (its English title appears at the end of the credits), 2013] exists in three different cuts of various lengths and unique content: a Hong Kong cut, an American cut (presided over by Harvey Weinstein, with Wong's supposed sign-off), and the domestic Chinese cut, which is the longest and, according to those who've studied all three versions, the richest. As Wong mastered the wuxia with Ashes of Time, so too in The Grandmaster does he present the most exciting kung-fu-movie-cum-dynastic-epic in years. But whereas Ashes of Time made jaw-dropping use of a lysergic color palette, The Grandmaster is all blacks, beiges, silvers, and whites — the falling rain 'steels' the image in this story that spans the 1930s to the '50s. Lessons:

"A bird that has no perch to sit on." — We've heard this phrase before, in Days of Being Wild

"I have two hands, but wing chun has eight kicks."

"A tiger never quits the mountain."

"As life as in chess, a move once made stays on the board."













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The Books I Read in 2021


My Brooklyn Writer Friend

by Greg Gerke

2015


Let Me Tell You What I Mean

by Joan Didion

2021 (1968-2000)


Small Fry

by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

2018


Holzfällen

[Timber-Felling]

by Thomas Bernhard

(translated by David McLintock)

1984


Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

1839


Balloon Pop Outlaw Black

by Patricia Lockwood

2012


No One Is Talking About This

by Patricia Lockwood

2021


Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

by Quentin Tarantino

2021


See What I See [Expanded Edition]

by Greg Gerke

2021


Harmonium [Second Edition]

by Wallace Stevens

1923/1931


Harlem Shuffle

by Colson Whitehead

2021


A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

by George Saunders

2021


Images en parole

[Images in Words]

by Anne-Marie Miéville

2002


Caderno de rodagem: ‘Vitalina Varela’

[Shooting Notebook: ‘Vitalina Varela’]

by Pedro Costa, et al

2021


Fear Stalks the Land!: A Commonplace Book

by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood

2021


The Haitian Chronicles

by Douglas Turner Ward

2020


“A Christmas Carol” and Other Christmas Writings

by Charles Dickens

1835-1854


The Old Curiosity Shop

by Charles Dickens

1841


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Saturday, January 01, 2022

The Films I Saw in 2021

First Seen of the Year: ‘Salut les Cubains’ [Salut, Cubans / Here’s to the Cubans] [Agnès Varda, 1964]

Last Seen of the Year: ‘Unconquered’ [Cecil B. DeMille, 1947]


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Die 1000 Augen des Dr. Mabuse [The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse] [Fritz Lang, 1960]

2046 [Wong Kar-wai, 2004]

À bout de souffle [Breathless] [Jean-Luc Godard, 1960]

L’albero degli zoccoli [The Tree of Wooden Clogs] [Ermanno Olmi, 1978]

All I Desire [Douglas Sirk, 1953]

Les amants du Pont-Neuf [The Lovers of the Pont-Neuf] [Leos Carax, 1991]

The Amazing Plastic Lady [Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark, 1995]

Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer [Andrei A. Tarkovsky, 2019]

Annette [Leos Carax, 2021]

Ansiktet [The Face] [Ingmar Bergman, 1958]

Anticipation of the Night [Stan Brakhage, 1958]

Anvil: The Story of Anvil [Sacha Gervasi, 2008]

Apache [Robert Aldrich, 1954]

Apocalypse Now {Final Cut} [Francis Ford Coppola, 1979/2019]

A propósito de Buñuel [Speaking of Buñuel] [José Luis López-Linares and Javier Rioyo, 2000]

Arsenic and Old Lace [Frank Capra, 1944]

Attack [Robert Aldrich, 1956]

Auteur on the Campus: Jack Arnold at Universal! [Daniel Griffith, 2021]

Battling Butler [Buster Keaton, 1926]

The Beatles: Get Back [Peter Jackson, 2021]

The Beatles: Let It Be [Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1970]

Beau travail [Nice Work] [Claire Denis, 1999]

Beeswax [Andrew Bujalski, 2009]

Being the Ricardos [Aaron Sorkin, 2021]

Bergman Island: Ingmar Bergman on Fårö Island Cinema and Life [Marie Nyreröd, 2004]

Beyond Therapy [Robert Altman, 1987]

Il bidone [The Swindle] [Federico Fellini, 1955]

Bijo to ekitai-ningen [The Beauty and the Liquid People] [Ishirō Honda, 1958]

The Black Cat [Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934]

Black Panthers {English-Language Version} [Agnès Varda, 1968]

Blonde Cobra [Ken Jacobs, 1963]

Blow Out [Brian De Palma, 1981]

The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins [Les Blank with Skip Gerson, 1968]

The Boat [Buster Keaton with Edward Cline, 1921]

Le bonheur [Happiness] [Agnès Varda, 1964]

Bride of Frankenstein [James Whale, 1935]

Bringing Up Baby [Howard Hawks, 1938]

Broken Lullaby [Ernst Lubitsch, 1932]

Brother to Brother [Rodney Evans, 2004]

Bullfighter and the Lady [Budd Boetticher, 1951]

Bu san [Inseprable Bonding] / Good Bye Dragon Inn [Tsai Ming-liang, 2003]

Capitalism: Child Labor [Ken Jacobs, 2006]

Capitalism: Slavery [Ken Jacobs, 2006]

Cet obscur objet du désir [That Obscure Object of Desire] [Luis Buñuel, 1977]

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie [The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie] [Luis Buñuel, 1972]

Chaval [Mario Ruspoli, 1971]

Le Chavalanthrope [Mario Ruspoli, 1972]

Cheun gwong tsa sit [Spring Light Bursts Forth] [Wong Kar-wai, 1997/2021]

Chung-hing sam lam [Chungking Jungle] [Wong Kar-wai, 1994/2021]

Cinema 70 n.5: Luchino Visconti [Marcella Curti Gialdino, 1970]

Cinema senza tempo: Giulietta Masina, la forza di un sorriso [Timeless Cinema: Giulietta Masina: The Power of a Smile] [Sandro Lai, 2006]

Les cinq cents balles [Five Hundred Bills] [Melvin Van Peebles, 1961]

Citizen Kane [Orson Welles, 1941]

Clorae and Albie [Joyce Chopra, 1975]

College [Buster Keaton, 1927]

Colorado Territory [Raoul Walsh, 1949]

Commuters [Claudia Weill and Eliot Noyes, 1970]

Conjuring the Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story [Martin Scorsese, 2019]

Crash [David Cronenberg, 1996] 

Creature from the Haunted Sea [Roger Corman, 1961]

Les créatures [The Creatures] [Agnès Varda, 1966]

Cristo si è fermato a Eboli [Christ Stopped at Eboli] [Francesco Rosi, 1979]

Curb Your Enthusiasm: Season 10 [Larry David, et al, 2019]

Daguerréotypes [Agnès Varda, 1976]

Daguerreotypes, objets photographiques [Daguerreotypes: Photographic Objects] [Agnès Varda, 2005]

The Damned (Götterdämmerung) [Luchino Visconti, 1969]

Dance, Girl, Dance [Dorothy Arzner, 1940]

A Dandy in Aspic [Anthony Mann, 1968]

A Day in the Death of Donny B. [Carl Fick, 1969]

Deadbeat [Adele Franck, 2020]

Defending Your Life [Albert Brooks, 1991]

De l’origine du XXIe siècle pour moi [On the Origin of the XXIst Century for Me] [Jean-Luc Godard, 2000]

Le dernier verre [The Last Drink] [Mario Ruspoli, 1964]

Desire [Frank Borzage, 1936]

The Devil Inside Her [Zebedy Colt, 1977]

Dial M for Murder {2D Version} [Alfred Hitchcock, 1954]

Disputed Passage [Frank Borzage, 1939]

Django [Sergio Corbucci, 1966]

Djävulens öga [The Devil’s Eye] [Ingmar Bergman, 1960]

Doctor X [Michael Curtiz, 1932]

Donovan: “I Am the Shaman” [David Lynch, 2021]

Dont Look Back [D. A. Pennebaker, 1967]

Don’t Look Up [Adam McKay, 2021]

Don’t Play Us Cheap [Melvin Van Peebles, 1972]

Dos monjes [Two Monks] [Juan Bustillo Oro, 1934]

Dune: Part One [Denis Villeneuve, 2021]

Duo luo tian shi [Fallen Angels] [Wong Kar-wai, 1995/2021]

Él [Him] [Luis Buñuel, 1953]

The Elephant Man [David Lynch, 1980]

Elsa la Rose [Elsa the Rose] [Agnès Varda, 1966]

Eer [Kristoffer Borgli, 2021]

Erin [Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark, 2005]

Er shi si cheng ji [Story of Twenty-Four City] / 24 City [Jia Zhang-ke, 2008]

Exorcist II: The Heretic [John Boorman, 1977]

Le fantôme de la liberté [The Phantom of Liberty] [Luis Buñuel, 1974]

Fast Company [David Cronenberg, 1979]

Fast Times at Ridgemont High [Amy Heckerling, 1982]

Fa yeung nin wa [The Age of Blossoms / Those Wonderful Varied Years] [Wong Kar-wai, 2000]

Federico Fellini, un autoritratto ritrovato [Federico Fellini: A Self-Portrait Rediscovered] [Paquito Del Bosco, 2000]

Federico Fellini: Sono un gran bugiardo [Federico Fellini: I’m a Born Liar] [Damian Pettigrew, 2002]

Fête de la Musique [Agnès Varda, 2005]

La fête prisonnière [Captive Feast] [Mario Ruspoli, 1961]

La fille de l’eau [The Girl of the Water / The Current (“Le fil de l’eau”)] [Jean Renoir, 1925]

Five Graves to Cairo [Billy Wilder, 1943]

Fool for Love [Robert Altman, 1985]

Ford: “Built for America” [Terrence Malick, 2021]

A Foreign Affair [Billy Wilder, 1948]

The Fortune Cookie [Billy Wilder, 1966]

Francisca [Manoel de Oliveira, 1981]

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun [Wes Anderson, 2021]

The Front Page [Billy Wilder, 1974]

A Fuller Life [Samantha Fuller, 2013]

The Furies [Anthony Mann, 1950]

The Georgetown Loop [Ken Jacobs, 1996]

Girlfriends [Claudia Weill, 1978]

Girls at 12 [Joyce Chopra, 1975]

Go Fish [Rose Troche, 1994]

Go West [Buster Keaton, 1925]

The Green Fog [Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson, 2017]

La Habanera [Douglas Sirk, 1937]

Happy Hour [Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2015]

The Haunted House [Buster Keaton with Edward Cline, 1921]

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse [Eleanor Coppola, 1991]

Hellaware [Michael M. Bilandic, 2013]

Hell Bent [John Ford, 1918]

He shang de ai qing [Love on the River] / Cry Me a River [Jia Zhang-ke, 2008]

A Hidden Life [Terrence Malick, 2019]

Hiding Out [Bob Giraldi, 1987]

High Score [William Acks, France Costrel, and Sam Lacroix, 2020]

High Sierra [Raoul Walsh, 1941]

His New Job. [Charles Chaplin, 1915]

History Is Made at Night [Frank Borzage, 1937]

The Hole {2D Version} [Joe Dante, 2009]

Les hommes de la baleine [The Men of the Whale] [Mario Ruspoli, 1958]

Horizons West [Budd Boetticher, 1952]

A Horse or a Mary?: Jack Ford: ‘Hell Bent’ [Tag Gallagher, 2020]

House of Wax {2D Version} [Andre de Toth, 1953]

Hua yang de nian hua [The Age of Blossoms] [Wong Kar-wai, 2000]

I Confess [Alfred Hitchcock, 1953]

Il était une fois… ‘Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie’ [One Upon a Time… ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’] [Anne Andreu, Marie Genin, and Serge July, 2011]

Ikwé: Woman [Caroline Monnet, 2009]

Les inconnus de la terre [The Unknown of the Earth] [Mario Ruspoli, 1961]

The Incredible Shrinking Man [Jack Arnold, 1957]

Indian Epic: 1: Der Tiger von Eschnapur [The Tiger of Eschnapur] [Fritz Lang, 1959]

Indian Epic: 2: Das indische Grabmal [The Indian Tomb] [Fritz Lang, 1959]

Ingmar Bergman, om liv och arbete, ett samtal [Ingmar Bergman: On Life and Work: A Conversation] [Jörn Donner, 1998]

The Irishman / I Heard You Paint Houses [Martin Scorsese, 2019]

Irma Vep [Olivier Assayas, 1996]

La Jetée {English-Language Version} [Chris Marker, 1962]

Jiaoyou [Excursion] / Stray Dogs [Tsai Ming-liang, 2013]

Joyce at 34 [Joyce Chopra and Claudia Weill, 1972]

Jungfrukällan [The Virgin Spring] [Ingmar Bergman, 1960]

Kansas City [Robert Altman, 1996]

Kárhozat [Damnation] [Béla Tarr, 1987]

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 [Quentin Tarantino. 2003]

Kill Bill: Vol. 2 [Quentin Tarantino, 2004]

The Kiss Before the Mirror [James Whale, 1933]

Klondike Annie [Raoul Walsh, 1936]

Knights of the City [Dominic Orlando, 1986]

Knives Out [Rian Johnson, 2019]

Lady Dynamite: Season 1 [Pam Brady and Mitch Hurwitz, et al, 2016]

The Last Warning [Paul Leni, 1928]

Lewat djam malam [After the Curfew] [Usmar Ismail, 1954]

Licorice Pizza [Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021]

The Lion Has WIngs [Michael Powell, Brian Desmond Hurst, Adrian Brunel, and Alexander Korda, 1939]

Lions Love… and Lies / Lions Love [Agnès Varda, 1969]

Little Stabs at Happiness… [Ken Jacobs, 1963]

Le livre d’image (Images et Paroles) [The Image Book (Images and Words)] [Jean-Luc Godard, 2018]

Lucía [Humberto Solás, 1968]

Luci del varietà [Variety Lights] [Alberto Lattuada and Federico Fellini, 1950]

Madam Butterfly [Tsai Ming-liang, 2008]

Mandabi [The Money Order] [Ousmane Sembène, 1968]

Man Seeking Woman: Season 1 [Simon Rich, Jonathan Krisel, et al, 2015]

Man Seeking Woman: Season 2 [Simon Rich, Jonathan Krisel, et al, 2016]

The Many Saints of Newark [David Chase and Alan Taylor, 2021]

Mario Ruspoli, Prince des baleines et autres raretés [Mario Ruspoli: Prince of the Whales, and Other Rarities] [Florence Dauman, 2011]

Masculin Féminin, 15 faits précis [Masculine Feminine: 15 Precise Events] [Jean-Luc Godard, 1966]

Materna [David Gutnik, 2020]

Meet the Fleet [B. Reeves Eason, 1940]

Memorias del subdesarrollo [Memories of Underdevelopment] [Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, 1968]

Merrily We Go to Hell [Dorothy Arzner, 1932]

Il momento della verità [The Moment of Truth] [Francesco Rosi, 1965]

Mong Kok Carmen / As Tears Go By [Wong Kar-wai, 1988]

Monterey Pop [D. A. Pennebaker, 1968]

The Mortal Storm [Frank Borzage, 1940]

Mouchette [Robert Bresson, 1967]

Movie That Invites Pausing [Ken Jacobs, 2020]

Mudar de vida [Change of Life] [Paulo Rocha, 1966]

Mystery of the Wax Museum [Michael Curtiz, 1933]

Nära livet [On the Brink of Life] [Ingmar Bergman, 1958]

El naúfrago de la calle de Providencia [The Castaway of calle de Providencia] [Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo, 1971/2000]

The Navigator [Buster Keaton with Donald Crisp, 1924]

Netemo sametemo [Whether Alseep or Awake] [Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2018]

Nightmare Alley [Edmund Goulding, 1947]

Nobody [Ilya Naishuller, 2021]

No Maps on My Taps  [George T. Nierenberg, 1979]

Le notti di Cabiria [The Nights of Cabiria] [Federico Fellini, 1957]

Objective, Burma! [Raoul Walsh, 1945]

Onde jaz o teu sorriso? [Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?] [Pedro Costa, 2001]

Our Hospitality [Buster Keaton, 1923]

Pain peinture et accordéon [Bread Painting and Accordion] [Agnès Varda, 2005]

The Painted Bird [Václav Mahoul, 2019]

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman [Albert Lewin, 1951]

Parting Glances [Bill Sherwood, 1986]

Peace on Earth [Hugh Harman, 1939]

Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón [Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Average Girls] [Pedro Almodóvar, 1980]

Persona [Ingmar Bergman, 1966]

The Perfect Wife [William Kyle Gerardi, 2021]

The Phantom of the Opera [Rupert Julian, 1925]

Piazza Vittorio [Abel Ferrara, 2017]

Pickup on South Street [Samuel Fuller, 1953]

Pixote, a lei do mais fraco [Pixote: The Law of the Weakest] [Héctor Babenco, 1980]

The Plainsman [Cecil B. DeMille, 1936]

The Play House [Buster Keaton with Edward Cline, 1921]

Popeye [Robert Altman, 1980]

Pretend It’s a City [Martin Scorsese, 2021]

Les producteurs: Serge Silberman [The Producers: Serge Silberman] [Jacques Meny, 1985]

The Projectionist [Abel Ferrara, 2019]

Project Space 13 [Michael M. Bilandic, 2013]

Psycho [Alfred Hitchcock, 1960]

Rabid [David Cronenberg, 1977]

Ragbar [Downpour] [Bahram Beyzaie, 1972]

Reazione a catena (Ecologia del delitto) [Chain Reaction (Ecology of Crime)] / A Bay of Blood [Mario Bava, 1971]

Rebus-Film No. 1 [Paul Leni, 1925]

Red Ball Express [Budd Boetticher, 1952]

Regard sur la folie [A Look at Madness] [Mario Ruspoli, 1961]

Remember My Name [Alan Rudolph, 1978]

Réponse de femmes à une question produite par Antenne 2  pour le magazine ‘F. comme Femme’ [Women’s Response to a Question Put Forth by Antenne 2 for the Magazine-Show ‘F. comme Femme’] [Agnès Varda, 1975]

Ride or Die [Lily Citrin, 2021]

Rio Bravo [Howard Hawks, 1959]

Riot in Cell Block 11 [Don Siegel, 1954]

Roudau long hu bang [Judo Dragon and the Tiger List] / Throwdown [Johnnie To, 2004]

Rue Daguerre [Agnès Varda, 2005]

Sacrilege [Michel J. Rogers, 1971]

Salut les Cubains [Salut, Cubans / Here’s to the Cubans] [Agnès Varda, 1964]

Sál ztracenych kroku [The Hall of Lost Footsteps] [Jaromil Jireš, 1960]

San xia hao ren [Good People of the Three Gorges] / Still Life [Jia Zhang-ke, 2006]

Satans Lust [director unknown, 1971]

The Scary of Sixty-First [Dasha Nekrasova, 2021]

Lo sceicco bianco [The White Sheik] [Federico Fellini, 1952]

Second Look: Fellini [André Delvaux, 1960]

Sehnsucht nach Frauen: Dorothy Arzner [Longing for Women: Dorothy Arzner] [Katja Raganelli and Konrad Wickler, 1983]

Seven Chances [Buster Keaton, 1925]

Shake: Otis Redding at Monterey [D. A. Pennebaker, 1986]

Shan he gu ren [Old Friends Amid the Mountains and Rivers] / Mountains May Depart [Jia Zhang-ke, 2015]

She Freak [Byron Mabe, 1967]

Shou [The Hand] [Wong Kar-wai, 2004/2019]

Shanghai hua [Flowers of Shanghai] [Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998]

Shiva Baby [Emma Seligman, 2020]

Shivers [David Cronenberg, 1975]

Siberia [Abel Ferrara, 2020]

Sicilia! [Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, 1999]

The Sign of the Cross [Cecil B. DeMille, 1932]

Simón del desierto [Simon of the Desert] [Luis Buñuel, 1965]

Det sjunde inseglet [The Seventh Seal] [Ingmar Bergman, 1957]

The Sky Socialist [Ken Jacobs, 1966/2019]

The Sky Socialist: Environs and Outtakes [Ken Jacobs, 1966/2019]

Smooth Talk [Joyce Chopra, 1985]

Smultronstället [The Wild Strawberry Patch] [Ingmar Bergman, 1957]

Soleil Ô [Sun, Oh] [Med Hondo, 1970]

Sommarnattens leende [Smile of the Summer Night] [Ingmar Bergman, 1955]

The Song of Songs [Rouben Mamoulian, 1933]

The Sparks Brothers [Edgar Wright, 2021]

Stan the Flasher [Serge Gainsbourg, 1990]

Stillwater [Tom McCarthy, 2021]

The Story of a Three Day Pass [Melvin Van Peebles, 1967]

La strada [The Road] [Federico Fellini, 1954]

Stopy [Footprints] [Jaromil Jireš, 1960]

Streetwise [Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark, and Cheryl McCall, 1984]

‘Streetwise’ Revisited: Rat [Martin Bell, 2021]

Strejda [Uncle] [Jaromil Jireš, 1959]

Sunlight [Melvin Van Peebles, 1957]

Suspicion [Alfred Hitchcock, 1941]

Sweet Sweetback’s Baad Asssss Song [Melvin Van Peebles, 1971]

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One [William Greaves, 1968]

Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2-1/2 [William Greaves, 2005]

The Tall T [Budd Boetticher, 1957]

Tauw [Ousmane Sembène, 1970]

There’s Always Tomorrow [Douglas Sirk, 1956]

The Thing [John Carpenter, 1982]

Three Pick-Up Men for Herrick [Melvin Van Peebles, 1957]

Thunderbolt [Josef von Sternberg, 1929]

Tian zhu ding [Day of Destiny] / A Touch of Sin [Jia Zhang-ke, 2013]

Tiny at 20 [Mary Ellen Mark, 1993]

Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell [Martin Bell and Mary Ellen Mark, 2016]

Titón, de la Habana a Guantanamera, 1928-1996 [Titón: From Havana to Guantanamera, 1928-1996] [Mirtha Ibarra, 2008]

Tommaso [Abel Ferrara, 2019]

A Tom Tom Chaser [Ken Jacobs, 2002]

Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son [Ken Jacobs, 1969]

Total Recall [Paul Verhoeven, 1990]

I tre volti della paura [The Three Faces of Fear] [Mario Bava, 1963]

The True Adventures of Raoul Walsh: Hollywood’s Legendary Director [Marilyn Ann Moss, 2019]

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [David Lynch, 1993]

Uchū daisensō [Great Battle in Outer Space] [Ishirō Honda, 1959]

Uncle Yanco {Bilingual Version} [Agnès Varda, 1967]

Unconquered [Cecil B. DeMille, 1947]

Union Pacific [Cecil B. DeMille, 1939]

Valerie a tyden divu [Valerie and Her Week of Wonders] [Jaromil Jireš, 1970]

Ein verdammt gutes Leben: Howard Hawks, 19 Kapital aus den Erinnerungen eines Geschichtenerzählers [A Damn Good Life: Howard Hawks: 19 Chapters from the Memories of a Storyteller] [Hans C. Blumenberg, 1978]

Os verdes anos [The Green Years] [Paulo Rocha, 1963]

Visconti [John Abbott, 1969]

Vitalina Varela [Pedro Costa, 2019]

I vitelloni [The Loafers / The Fellas] [Federico Fellini, 1953]

Vive la baleine [Three Cheers for the Whale] {2007 Updated English-Narration Version} [Mario Ruspoli and Chris Marker, 1972/2007]

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett [The Waxworks Cabinet] [Paul Leni, 1924]

Watermelon Man [Melvin Van Peebles, 1970]

The Whirled [Ken Jacobs, 1961/1963]

Window [Ken Jacobs, 1964]

Wings of the Hawk {2D Version} [Budd Boetticher, 1953]

Wonderland [Michael Winterbottom, 1999]

Working Girls [Lizzie Borden, 1986]

The Wrong Man [Alfred Hitchcock, 1956]

Yi dai song shi [Ancestral Teacher of a Generation] {Long Chinese Cut} [Wong Kar-wai, 2013]

Ying sheng [Earning a Living] / The Hedonists [Jia Zhang-ke, 2016]

Yours, Mine and Ours [Melville Shavelson, 1968]

Zerkalo [Mirror] [Andrei Tarkovsky, 1975]

Zum Beispiel Bresson [For Example, Bresson / Au hasard Bresson] [Theodor Kotulla, 1966]

Zu neuen Ufern [To New Shores] [Douglas Sirk, 1937]


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