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Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made documentaries about Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg, Nagisa Oshima, and Dennis Hopper, and he knows the conventional format well enough to get the most out of it. There are good clips and interesting commentaries from the interviewed subjects, who include Wenders himself, cinematographer Robby Muller, filmmaker Sam Fuller, novelist Patricia Highsmith, musician Ry Cooder, actors Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, and Hanns Zischler, and critic Kraft Wetzel, who is especially provocative. A must-see for Wenders fans, highly recommended for everyone else. –Jonathan Rosenbaum, 1989

Proposed in 1998 as a conceptual movie that only appeared in the program book, Unseen Film Substitution has been adapted as a notification to show on-screen during the Experiments in Cinema program itself for its 25th anniversary.

A medium feature from Rohmer, in 35mm now lost.

This film is a stop motion loop composed of 120 film prints and stamps from film spools. The film is a slow, meditative deconstruction of photography, sidestepping the typical treatment of film as a precious object, overcoming the fear of ruining the original copy.

Over a period of more than 50 years, tax advisor Wolfgang Schneider acquired over 2,000 35-mm film prints. His collection features classic films by Eisenstein and Godard as well as long-forgotten light entertainment, and shorts. He screened the films in the basement of his bungalow, which he had converted into a private cinema. The prints were housed in his garage, his shed and in a derelict building on a neighbouring plot of land. In 2009 Wolfgang Schneider moved into a care home and the house was sold. Due to its vast size, lack of proper classification and precarious condition, the film collection has yet to find a buyer. It has been moved on several occasions from one ill-equipped storage space to another.

Lyane is a singer and daughter of the producer of the operetta: "C'est une fille de Paris". She convinces the composer of the music, Jacques Kellermann, whom she loves, to sign her piece. The famous composer Jean Paget, who cannot put the work to his advantage, declares to Jacques that Lyane had a child by him. Shocked, Jacques breaks with the singer who soon knows the celebrity. Finally, he realizes that happiness is ready to be seized, because the beauty still loves him...

A documentary composed by home movies shot between 1959 and 1974 by the avant-garde composer Luigi Nono and his wife Nuria Schönberg

For Abyss Film, Richards and Thornton intermix new videos with raw material from their own extensive archives. By doing so, they break with familiar forms of exhibition to share a kind of beginning in an open-ended encounter with the hidden and concrete aspects that characterize their respective works. Almost imperceptible attractions circumnavigate the breadth of their materials. Abyss Film speaks to possibilities made visible by the moving image, allowing a fall into the vertiginous pleasures of looking beyond and beyond again.

relive the 2020 24 Hours of Le Mans! As we wait for August and this year’s race, let’s look back at a very special vintage where Toyota claimed its third straight win!

Using his original 8mm films, but blowing them up to 16mm, he created a collage of images that became his four-part film DÄMONISCHE LEINWAND (The Haunted Screen, 1969), quoting Lotte Eisner’s famous study of Weimar cinema in its title.

It does! This film is from Panacea, a cycle of "useful films".

Florencia, the matriarch of the Filipinas family, is in poor health, and Yolanda, the eldest of the Filipinas children, finds herself in the unenviable position of keeping her bickering family from disintegration. As the tension rises, Yolanda seeks refuge in a local church. She is critically injured trying to break up a nasty fight between brothers Emman and Samuel, forcing her family to make a life-changing decision.

Pran struggles to make a film with newcomers but nobody is willing to finance his flick.Many big stars of 70/80's have special appearances.

The house call doesn't go quite as planned. A simple cleaning job becomes a nightmare in this pixilated tale that combines both the action in the film and the action on the film.

The writing of a short story, from three different levels of reading: a real present - the writer writes; a real past - the writer recalls; a gift of fiction - the writer creates.

Looking at the fittingly-named Advanced Garbage Film, we see a slop of drawing, scratching, and any number of direct cinema interventions on what looks like camera footage of a projection of different handmade films. The camera zooms in and out of these images while the extra-photographic layers on top remain. It’s psychedelic but not too heavy. The film has a sketchy, literally “experimental” feel to it. A search connects the film to the legacy of abstract graphic works made at CalArts, as it was shown in a fifteen-program retrospective of CalArts films at the Centre Pompidou in 2007. After CalArts, Luttrell started the company Cynosure Films which did optical effects for films like Stranger Than Paradise and Down by Law. -Herb Shellenberger