For a small nation Latvia seems to have produced a disproportionate number of exceptionally talented documentary filmmakers. Perhaps owing to the development of the school of poetic documentary film-making in Riga in the 1960's the likes of Herz Frank, Juris Podnieks, the Selecki clan, Una Celma and Laila Pakalnina enjoy a global reputation. Out of them all it is quite possibly Frank who is the best known and well respected. The man behind such classics as "10 - Minutes Older," "The Seven Simeons," and "The Last Judgment," he has served as a teacher, mentor and an inspiration to several generations of Latvian filmmakers. In Flashback the man who devoted his entire career to examining and recording the lives of others turns inwards and focuses the lens on his own life and career. What emerges is a portrait of a man who has been driven by the need to understand the human condition and who at the age of 75 - facing open heart surgery, is not sure whether he has seen enough to understand and yet weary from having seen too much. Part travelogue, part biography and part mediation on the nature of documentary film-making and life, Frank mixes footage from his previous works with more recent work to accentuate and attempt to illuminate his present. Opening with footage of the OMON attack in Riga in 1991 - which took the lives of cameramen Andris Slapins and Gvido Zvaigzne, Frank freezes on an image of Juris Podnieks (a frequent collaborator and former student and cameraman of Frank's), as his face registers the shock and realization that his own cameramen have just paid with their lives for his and their desire to pursue and document reality. (Podnieks himself would die in a tragic scuba diving accident only a year later.) As Podnieks' facial expressions play out in slow motion, Frank cuts to an excerpt from his and Podnieks perhaps best known work Ten Minutes Older. Ten Minutes Older was a single take shot with minimal lighting recording the reactions of children as they are watching a puppet show. Their faces covering the spectrum of human expression and emotion from joy to sorrow. From there he cuts to the face of one of the children in Ten Minutes Older in the present day. The setting is now completely different. Rather than a play in which we expect emotion, we now find the child as a man in the middle of an international bridge tournament where the expression of emotion needs to be suppressed at all costs. The face is older, but unmistakable in its identity. What may be hidden from his opponents sitting only inches away across the table is evident in the naked eye of the camera. It is this nakedness and what it ultimately shows us, and our desire and need to see it that is at the core of Flashback. The film covers In this day of an endless glut of reality TV shows which play to our most prurient desires Flashback reminds of us our higher need for the nakedness of "reality" that the camera can provide, our fascination with it and what it can ultimately tell us about ourselves. The major weakness of the film is that it is at times disjointed and discordant. The film attempts to do too much all at once. Any of the topics he touches on, from his open heart surgery to his wife's long illness and death, from his relationship with Podnieks to the follow up to the characters in Ten Minutes Older, his father's life and legacy, his own journey from Riga to Jerusalem, among many others, deserved and would have been better served by their own films. We are often left wishing that he had stayed with a particular story line while Frank and his camera have already moved on. Even the footage from his past works, while poignantly accentuating the present, often leaves us desiring a second and longer look at the past rather than returning to the present or jumping to the next subject. Despite this flaw the film is a fascinating look at a man fascinated with looking at people and the lives they lead. A collage sometimes leaving us wanting for more, but also leaving us with no doubts as to the skills of its maker.
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本片荣获2011年塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节最佳纪录片提名。影片从两位拳击传奇巨星兄弟在乌克兰社会主义时代的童年艰难生活开始,直到他们成为国际拳坛巨星,展现了他们的努力及相互的冲突,着重刻划了兄弟情,以及他们的故事激励了一代体育迷。
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2023年,《无穷之路》原班制作团队再接再厉,以民族融和为主题,聚焦神秘又美丽的“西域”新疆,及“世界屋脊”西藏。近年新疆的情况受到不少外国传媒关注,制作团队希望藉今次的旅程解开种种谜团。西藏被誉为“世界屋脊”,当地脱贫后的面貌,人民生活又如何?
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BarefootroadtriparoundGuineainsearchofthefirstfilmmadebyalocalfilmmaker.Acharmingandcinematicadventure,wherethejourneyandthedestinationareequallyimportant,andafilmaboutcollectivememoryandporousfilmreels.Doesafilmexistifnoonehasseenit?GuineanfilmdirectorThiernoSouleymaneDiallogoesonabarefootroadtriparoundhiscountrytofindthemythical1953film‘Mouramani’–thefirstGuineanfilmmadebyalocalfilmmaker.Butitisnoteasytofindthefilmoranyonewhohasseenitforthatmatter.SomebelieveitisabouttheIslamisationoftheMandinkapeople.Othersthatitisabouttherelationshipbetweenadoganditsowner.Alongtheway,Diallopassesold,abandonedcinemasanddustypilesofmoisture-damagedfilmreels.‘TheCemeteryofCinema’isacharming,cinematicadventureinwhichthejourneyisalmostasimportantasthedestination,andwheretheencountersalongthewayremindusoftheimportanceofpreservingasharedmemoryandculturelheritage.源自:https://cphdox.dk/film/the-cemetery-of-cinema/
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「新宝岛曼波」拍摄以抒情诗人著称的杨泽,邀请小说家骆以军、杨隶亚、黄崇凯共同参与编剧,表现诗人致力探索的70年代迄今的台湾文化论述。全片尝试创造纪录片全新的叙事方法,聚焦杨泽的百年情怀与文化史观,并企图让电影开展「南部是歌,北部是诗」的诗意视野。
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迈克尔·J·福克斯,一个来自加拿大的小子,成为了1980年代国际流行文化的宠儿。他的人生轨迹因惊人的诊断而改变。当无法治愈的乐观主义者面对无法治愈的疾病(帕金森氏症)时会发生什么事?
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Sincethecreationofcurrency,moneyhasmadetheworldgoroundandpeoplehavedoneanythingandeverythingintheirpowertogettheirhandsonalotofit,includingformulatingsomeofthemostdeviousandhigh-stakesheistattemptsofalltime.Usingdramaticrecreations,dynamicstorytellingandcutting-edgevisualeffects,alongsidefirst-personwitnessaccountsfromthepeoplewhowerethere,“History’sGreatestHeistswithPierceBrosnan”delvesintotheintricateschemesandaudacityofthecriminalmastermindswhoriskedtheirfreedomforashotatalifetimeofwealthandriches.Brosnan,whoisembeddedintoeachheistthroughstate-of-the-arttechnology,bringseachglobalnewsheadlinetolifebyputtingviewersattheheartoftheactionandbreakingdowneveryaspectoftheplanincludingtheconnivingteam,themark,theexecutionandfinallytheaftermath.1.TheAntwerpDiamondHeist2.ThePierreHotelRobbery3.TheBakerStreetBankBurglary...
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Netflix的《队长视角:问鼎冠军之路》报道了2022年FIFA世界杯,对克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多、莱昂内尔·梅西、哈里·凯恩等众多明星进行了独家采访,捕捉了球场内外的精彩瞬间。这部六集纪录片将于12月30日上映。
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MasterChefJuniorisanAmericancookingcompetitiontelevisionseriesthatisairingonFox.ItpremieredonFriday,September27,2013.ItisbasedontheformatoftheU.K.seriesJuniorMasterChef.OnMarch5,2014,MasterChefJuniorwasrenewedforathirdseasonbeforeproductiononseasontwobegan.ThesecondseasonpremieredonNovember4,2014.Thethirdseasonpremiered...
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作为丹尼尔·雷德克里夫在《哈利·波特》系列电影中的替身演员,大卫·赫尔姆斯的表演已被全世界数百万人观看。但不幸的是,一场现场事故使他瘫痪并只能坐在轮椅上。
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《全球绝美国家公园》由《蓝色星球2》的监制创作,这部令人惊叹的五集剧集由美国前总统贝拉克·奥巴马担任监制和旁白,他比美国历史上任何一位总统都更加种注重对公共土地和水域的保护,这部剧邀请观众一起走进地球上最标志性的国家公园,以感受自然之美。这部充满奇观和幽默乐观精神的剧集横跨五大洲,每集聚焦一座国家公园,讲述其中大大小小的野生居民的生活,探索我们与野地之间不断变化的关系。从加利福尼亚州蒙特雷湾的水域,到肯尼亚察沃国家公园鲜红的土壤、印尼勒塞尔火山国家公园郁郁葱葱的热带雨林、智利巴塔哥尼亚的壮丽地形等,绝美的国家公园在召唤我们踏上探索之旅,寻找保证野地长存的新方法,并竭力保护它们以造福后代。该剧集由WildSpaceproduction与HigherGroundProductions和FreeborneMedia联合制作。
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日本6个星期野蛮屠城,8万余名妇女被强暴,30余万中国同胞惨遭杀害,14年抗战中中国军民死伤3500万人。72年前的12月12日,日本侵略军贡献南京,制造了惨绝人寰的南京大屠杀,当每年凄厉的警报声不绝于耳,当30万同胞的累累白骨时时在眼前浮现,我们不能忘记,但就是在这此时此刻,就是这一惨案的始作俑者,他们仍然被供奉在靖国神社。
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警务纪实节目。第四季王牌回归,延续生猛鲜活的节目调性,集合前三季人气民警组成城市守护联盟,老警回归新岗,新警故事升级,展示大都市核心商圈基层民警的日常工作。邀约站内社科普法等领域UP主进行案件深度解读,再造IP巅峰。
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纪录片《FPS:第一人称射击》预告片公布。这是一部针对FPS这一游戏类型历史的纪录片,独家采访了诸多这一领域的知名人物,包括idSoftware的约翰·罗梅洛、约翰·卡马克,《网络奇兵》程序员西姆斯·布莱克利,《杀出重围》总监沃伦·斯佩特等等,并探讨了FPS游戏的诞生与未来。纪录片预计今年8月以线上形式公开,并在9月发售实体版本。
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这部具有里程碑意义的纪录片《jeen-yuhs:AKanyeTrilogy》由克拉伦斯·西蒙斯(“库迪”)和奇克·奥扎以三部曲的形式呈现,对坎耶·维斯特的经历进行了深入而富有启发性的刻画,展示了他努力突破的性格形成时期,和他今天作为全球品牌和艺术家的生活。
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这部体育剧集将让观众全方位密切关注美国国家女子足球队的球员和教练,并揭示这支足球史上获奖最多的球队的内幕。观众将亲眼目睹这些世界级运动员在为三连冠而奋斗的过程中所经历的压力、兴奋、喜悦和艰辛。随着故事的展开,伤害、批评和质疑、同工同酬和维护遗产等问题都浮出水面。该剧集将捕捉所有个人和团队在通往2023年国际足联世界杯的道路上的准备工作。在整个比赛过程中,观众将了解到这支球队如何站在前辈的肩膀上,以及她们如何继续打破阻碍未来女性体育平等的无形障碍
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WorldWarII:FromtheFrontlinesisamovingandinnovativesix-partdocumentaryseriesthatusesrestoredspectacularandrareWW2footage,muchofitshotbythesoldiersthemselves,tocreateanimmersivecinematicexperience.
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