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Victor Kossakovsky shows us the experience of farm animals without the mediation of human words and concepts, in a film that extends compassion to ...

  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:23
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French director Mia Hansen-Løve is a real cinephile. She loves to think and talk about film history and the works of famous filmmakers. Although sh...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:01
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Paul Thomas Anderson pays humorous tribute to the 1970s in southern California in this story of a teenage entrepreneur who falls for a clever young...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
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Todd Haynes tells the story of this influential New York rock band in the cinematic style of the man who discovered them: Andy Warhol.

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:29
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An evil eye changes the appearance of two young people in love so that they can’t recognize one another, in a film from the country of Georgia that...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
From: KXCI
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Bernard Shaw’s popular comedy, about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can turn a street person into a lady, was given near-perfect for...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:02
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A married woman visits three friends in the city, and we are inspired to consider what is the nature of happiness for women in a “man’s world.”

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:19
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The Harlem Cultural Festival was a music festival taking place in the same summer of 1969 as Woodstock, and its amazing line-up, and insight into h...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Wes Anderson’s playful new film is presented as an issue of a Paris-based American magazine, with three stories about the eternal appeal of non-con...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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A film from Norway about a young woman seeking fulfillment in relationships takes the conventions of romantic comedy and turns them over to reveal ...

  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 03:27
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Gus Van Sant’s 1991 film portrays the difficult yet tender world of runaways.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:25
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One of the most unusual examples of propaganda ever filmed, made in the midst of the Second World War, imagines what it would be like if Germans ca...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:49
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A veteran of Soviet cinema presents a powerful drama about an incident in 1962, when factory workers in a Don Region city go on strike, and a true ...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:38
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Mikio Naruse’s great 1960 film presents a compassionate view of the life of bar hostesses in a disreputable section of Tokyo.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 03:20
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The true story of the 2018 effort to rescue thirteen boys trapped in a huge flooded cave in Thailand is more exciting than most fiction.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2022
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: Avant 03 | Pamela Schwartz
Avant interviews Pamela Schwartz, executive director at the Orange County Regional History Center. She shares her approach to collecting and curati...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 27:08
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A postcard from the singing sand dunes of Colorado.

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Thomas Vinterburg’s Oscar-winning comedy tells of four men who decide to use a small amount of alcohol to reinvigorate their jobs and personal live...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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The traditional way of beekeeping preserved by a Macedonian woman runs up against the modern motive for profit at all costs, in this gorgeous docum...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
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Werner Herzog presents a portrait of his friend, the journalist and travel writer Bruce Chatwin; while Patricio Guzmán examines the mountain range ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:23
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Getting old is the source of fear in a new horror movie by Natalie Erika James, about a woman on the edge of dementia whose daughter and granddaugh...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:21
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A dying man experiences the tragic dualism of past and present, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s autobiographical masterpiece The Mirror.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 03:36
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In an industrial town in China, the lives of four people (three young, one old) intertwine on a day darkened by hostility, powerlessness, and reven...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:30
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In his first western, Tom Hanks plays an itinerant news reader from Texas who tries to transport a young girl who was an Indian captive to her rela...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:33
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Transposing Jack London’s autobiographical novel to Italy, Pietro Marcello highlights the conflict of socialist idealism with the individualistic d...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:05