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1. Ici et Ailleurs (1976)
directed by Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin
featuring Jean-Luc Godard
Initially begun as a documentary about Palestinian revolutionaries, Ici et Ailleurs (in English, Here and Elsewhere) was ultimately transformed into ... More
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2. Le Fond de l'Air Est Rouge (1977)
directed by Chris Marker
featuring Jim Broadbent, Cyril Cusack, Robert Kramer, Francois Maspero, Yves Montand
Chris Marker's remarkable documentary about the rise and fall of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s was originally released in 1977, but was ... More
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3. La Rabbia (1963)
directed by Giovanni Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
featuring Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Carlo Romano, Gigi Artuso
Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi's 1963 La Rabbia (Rage) began life as an essay film sans Guareschi's involvement. Pasolini's 50 minutes ... More
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4. The Cry of Jazz (1958)
directed by Ed Bland
Shot by Edward O. Bland in downtown Chicago and originally released in 1959, the half-hour documentary short The Cry of Jazz functions as Bland's ... More
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5. For Ever Mozart (1996)
directed by Jean-Luc Godard
featuring Madeleine Assas, Bérangère Allaux, Ghalia Lacroix, Vicky Messica
For Ever Mozart is an episodic film that follows a theater troupe from France attempting to put on a play in Sarajevo. Along their journey they are ... More
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6. Patti Smith: Dream of Life (2008)
directed by Steven Sebring
featuring Patti Smith, Lenny Kaye, Oliver Ray, Tony Shanahan, Jay Dee Daugherty
Filmmaker Steven Sebring directs this documentary about legendary musician Patti Smith, surveying her life, her career, and the philosophical and ... More
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7. The Gleaners and I (2001)
directed by Agnès Varda
Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda takes digital camcorder in hand and roams about the French countryside in search of "gleaners." An age-old practice, ... More
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8. The Beaches of Agnès (2008)
directed by Agnès Varda
featuring Agnès Varda
Produced and directed by French Left Bank giant Agnès Varda as a summation of her long and enduring career, Agnès' Beaches constitutes a free ... More
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9. F for Fake (1973)
directed by Orson Welles
featuring Orson Welles, Oja Kodar, Joseph Cotten, François Reichenbach
The final directorial project the legendary Orson Welles completed during his lifetime, F for Fake is less a documentary than an example of cinematic ... More
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10. Payback (2012)
directed by Jennifer Baichwal
featuring Margaret Atwood, Raj Patel, Louise Arbour, Conrad Black, Karen Armstrong, William Rees, Lucas Benitez, Gerardo Reyes Chávez, Casi Callaway, Gjon Biba
Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal draws inspiration from Margaret Atwood's famous essay "Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth" for this documentary ... More
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11. Maillart's Bridges (2001)
directed by Heinz Emigholz
This feature-length experimental documentary from avant-garde director Heinz Emigholz provides a free-form visual meditation on the subject of ... More
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12. The Windmill Movie (2008)
directed by Alexander Olch
featuring Wallace Shawn, Bob Balaban, Susan Meiselas
As conceived and edited together by Alexander Olch, this documentary pays homage to the life of the late filmmaker and professor Richard P. "Dick" ... More
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13. Le Souvenir d'un Avenir (2003)
directed by Chris Marker, Yannick Bellon
Visual artist Chris Marker puts together the essay film Le Souvenir d'un Avenir (Remembrance of Things to Come). Through montage and narration, the ... More
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14. The Last Happy Day (2009)
directed by Lynne Sachs
This short essay film profiles the unusual life of Sandor Lenard, a remote cousin of director Lynne Sachs. Both a writer and a Hungarian medical ... More
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15. Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
An adventurous experiment in cinematic storytelling, this low-budget independent Thai feature is structured like the Surrealist idea of the ... More
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16. The Arbor (2011)
directed by Clio Barnard
Andrea Dunbar was a British playwright whose work reflected the gritty realities of life in working-class Bradford, West Yorkshire. Dunbar knew of ... More
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17. Helvetica (2007)
directed by Gary Hustwit
featuring Erik Spiekermann, Matthew Carter, Massimo Vignelli, Wim Crouwel, Hermann Zapf
In 2005 a number of provocative, award-winning ads appeared that touted the Helvetica font; Gary Hustwit explores the subject protractedly with his ... More
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18. The Mirror (1974)
directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
featuring Margarita Terekhova, Anatoli Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Ignat Daniltsev, Filipp Yankovsky
The award-winning director Andrei Tarkovsky, (one of his better known films is Andrei Rublev), the son of a famous Russian poet, was born in 1935 and ... More
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19. Baraka (1993)
directed by Ron Fricke
Named after a Sufi word that translates roughly as "breath of life" or "blessing," Baraka is Ron Fricke's impressive follow-up to Godfrey Reggio's ... More
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20. Naqoyqatsi (2002)
directed by Godfrey Reggio
Filmmaker, philosopher and activist Godfrey Reggio completes the film trilogy he began with Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi in this visually striking ... More
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21. Powaqqatsi (1988)
directed by Godfrey Reggio
Powaqqatsi was the second of the feature-length "non narrative" films produced, directed and co-scripted by Godfrey Reggio. As in his earlier ... More
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22. September 11 (2003)
directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, Amos Gitai, Claude Lelouch, Danis Tanovic, Idrissa Ouedraogo, Ken Loach, Mira Nair, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sean Penn, Shohei Imamura, Youssef Chahine
In the aftermath of the tragedies on September 11, 2001, the French film company Studio Canal called upon a group of filmmakers, representing various ... More
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23. Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966)
directed by Jean-Luc Godard
featuring Marina Vlady, Anny Duperey, Roger Montsoret, Raoul J. Lévy
The feminine pronoun in the title of this film from Jean-Luc Godard refers to both a French housewife and the city of Paris, as each are changed in ... More
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24. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
directed by Godfrey Reggio
An art-house circuit sensation, this feature-length documentary is visually arresting and possesses a clear, pro-environmental political agenda. ... More
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25. Numéro Deux (1975)
directed by Jean-Luc Godard
featuring Sandrine Battistella, Pierre Oudrey, Alexandre Rignault, Rachel Stefanopoli
Numéro Deux marks the high point of co-directors Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's experimentation with video. They present a set of scenes ... More
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