Archive Fever: The Polemical Cine-Essay
by JM_Adams | created - 23 Feb 2022 | updated - 26 Feb 2022 | PublicCine-essays & Essay-films that: 1) Make a persuasive argument, but in an open-ended, essayistic, para-academic manner 2) Primarily use archival, compilation, or supercut visuals 3) Embrace wordiness and difficult language without apologies
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1. A Grin Without A Cat (1977)
240 min | Documentary
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Director: Chris Marker | Stars: Simone Signoret, Jorge Semprún, Davos Hanich, Sandra Scarnati
Votes: 1,113
2. In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni (1978)
100 min | Documentary
A Latin palindrome is the title of Guy Debord's last film, in which he, as narrator, explains that he will make neither concessions to the tastes of his viewers nor to the dominant ideas of... See full summary »
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Rasit Tahtaci, Duygu Erkan
Votes: 310
3. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,986
4. Our Nixon (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Biography, Crime
Never before seen Super 8 home movies filmed by Richard Nixon's closest aides - and convicted Watergate conspirators - offer a surprising and intimate new look into his Presidency.
Director: Penny Lane | Stars: Richard Nixon, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Dwight Chapin
Votes: 662 | Gross: $0.02M
5. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology (2012)
Not Rated | 136 min | Documentary
Philosopher Slavoj Zizek examines the hidden themes and existential questions asked by world renowned films.
Director: Sophie Fiennes | Star: Slavoj Zizek
Votes: 7,529 | Gross: $0.07M
6. Let the Fire Burn (2013)
Not Rated | 88 min | Documentary
A history of the conflict of the City of Philadelphia and the Black Liberation organization, MOVE, that led to the disastrously violent final confrontation in 1985.
Director: Jason Osder | Stars: Birdie Africa, Ramona Africa, Wilson Goode, William Brown III
Votes: 1,454 | Gross: $0.06M
7. All the Memory in the World (1956)
21 min | Documentary, Short
This documentary explores the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, its priceless treasures, and how humanity remembers itself.
Director: Alain Resnais | Star: Jacques Dumesnil
Votes: 1,582
8. Riotsville, U.S.A. (2022)
91 min | Documentary, History
Welcome to Riotsville, a fictional town built by the US military. Using all archival footage, the film explores the militarization of the police and creates a counter-narrative to the nation's reaction to the uprisings of the late '60s.
Director: Sierra Pettengill | Stars: Charlene Modeste, Lyndon B. Johnson, Otto Kerner, Edward P. Morgan
Votes: 382
9. The Reagan Show (2017)
TV-PG | 74 min | Documentary
Made up entirely of archival news and White House footage, this documentary captures the pageantry, absurdity, and mastery of the made-for-TV politics of Ronald Reagan.
Directors: Sierra Pettengill, Pacho Velez | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush
Votes: 482
10. Cinétracts (1968)
90 min | Documentary
A series of 41 documentary shorts, directed (without credit) by several famous French filmmakers and each running between two and four minutes. Each "tract" espouses a leftist political ... See full summary »
Directors: Jean-Denis Bonan, Gérard Fromanger, Philippe Garrel, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Jacques Loiseleux, Chris Marker, Jackie Raynal, Alain Resnais
Votes: 118
11. The Society of the Spectacle (1974)
91 min | Documentary
Guy Debord's cinematic analysis of consumer society based on his influential book "La société du spectacle" (1967).
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Jacques Duclos
Votes: 662
12. Remembrance of Things to Come (2001 Video)
Not Rated | 42 min | Documentary, Short
Through photos made by the French photographer Denise Bellon, a personnal history of France.
Directors: Yannick Bellon, Chris Marker | Star: Pierre Arditi
Votes: 290
13. Far from Vietnam (1967)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Drama, War
In seven different segments, Godard, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy and support for the North Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda | Stars: Anne Bellec, Karen Blanguernon, Fidel Castro, Bernard Fresson
Votes: 886
14. Reassemblage: From the Firelight to the Screen (1983)
40 min | Documentary, Short
A short film which documents the lives of women in a rural Senegal.
Director: Trinh T. Minh-ha
Votes: 465
15. The Mad Masters (1955)
36 min | Documentary, Short, Horror
A documentary short depicting a Hauka ceremony where young workers are possessed by British colonial officers.
Director: Jean Rouch | Star: Jean Rouch
Votes: 1,773
16. La dialectique peut-elle casser des briques? (1973)
90 min | Comedy
Imagine a kung fu flick in which the martial artists spout Situationist aphorisms about conquering alienation while decadent bureaucrats ply the ironies of a stalled revolution. This is ... See full summary »
Director: René Viénet | Stars: Hung-Liu Chan, Ingrid Yin-Yin Hu, Jason Piao Pai, Raoul Curet
Votes: 290
17. Mao par lui-même (1977)
26 min | Short
Taking rare archives, texts and extracts from speeches, René Viénet shows Mao Tse-tung in an unusual light, the fate of his mythology.
Director: René Viénet
Votes: 14
18. Chinois, encore un effort pour être révolutionnaires (1977)
120 min | Documentary
A Shakespearian story full of noise and fury, but that means something. In the role of the "Grand Helmsman", Mao ZeDong himself, in the role of Madame Mao, famous actress Lan Ping, aka Jian... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Deron, Jean-Paul Tchang, René Viénet
Votes: 18
19. Les filles de Kamaré (1974)
80 min
A team of female heroes, forced into a disciplinary school, who revolt against the authorities and their assistants.
Director: René Viénet
Votes: 40
20. Kino Eye (1924)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls,... See full summary »
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,197
21. Enthusiasm (1930)
Not Rated | 67 min | Documentary
How the miners of the Don coal basin (one of the industrial regions of Ukraine) were striving to fulfill in four years their part of the Five Year Plan.
Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 1,050
22. Three Songs About Lenin (1934)
Not Rated | 61 min | Documentary
Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Votes: 883
23. Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
Seventy short films about cinema and its future.
Directors: Hala Abdallah, John Akomfrah, Wang Bing, Catherine Breillat, Júlio Bressane, Rama Burshtein, Antonio Capuano, Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Isabel Coixet, Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Claire Denis, Lav Diaz, Amit Dutta, Aleksey Fedorchenko, Frédéric Fonteyne, James Franco, Lluís Galter, Haile Gerima, Aleksey German Jr., Amos Gitai, Benoît Jacquot, Zhangke Jia, Kim Ki-duk, Abbas Kiarostami, Pablo Larraín, Tobias Lindholm, Guido Lombardi, Jazmín López, Samuel Maoz, Pietro Marcello, Brillante Mendoza, Celina Murga, Amir Naderi, Shirin Neshat, Nicolás Pereda, Franco Piavoli, Giuseppe Piccioni, João Pedro Rodrigues, Walter Salles, Paul Schrader, Ulrich Seidl, Luca Severi, Jean-Marie Straub, Tusi Tamasese, Tariq Teguia, Pablo Trapero, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Teresa Villaverde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrew Wonder, Yonfan, Krzysztof Zanussi, Karim Aïnouz, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jan Cvitkovic, Atom Egoyan, Davide Ferrario, Monte Hellman, Semih Kaplanoglu, Marlen Khutsiev, Yorgos Lanthimos, Milcho Manchevski, Franco Maresco, Salvatore Mereu, Ermanno Olmi, Michele Placido, Edgar Reitz, Hong Sang-soo, Todd Solondz, Sion Sono, Kounosuke Tsukamoto, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Shekhar Kapur, Heeraz Marfatia | Stars: Jessica Alexander, Bernardo Bertolucci, Lola Créton, Haile Gerima
Votes: 396
24. Critique of Separation (2001)
20 min | Short
A theory of Situationism is proposed through shots of Paris, a young woman, newsreel clips, extracts from classic films, photographs and newspaper images
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Caroline Rittener
Votes: 211
25. Howlings in Favour of De Sade (1952)
64 min | Drama
The director renders tribute to the Marquis of Sade without images. The screen is white when the testimonies speak, and black when they don't, in this experimental film.
Director: Guy Debord | Stars: Guy Debord, Serge Berna, Isidore Isou, Barbara Rosenthal
Votes: 201
26. The Last Angel of History (1996 TV Movie)
45 min | Documentary, Sci-Fi
Framed by the fictional story of the "data thief," this hybrid documentary takes a look at the origins, impact and significance of Afrofuturism and techno music for the black diaspora.
Director: John Akomfrah | Stars: Octavia Butler, George Clinton, Kodwo Eshun, Edward George
Votes: 160
27. Digitopia (2001)
33 min | Short
Director: John Akomfrah | Stars: Brian Bovell, Siobhan Burke, Truman Penfold
28. In the Year of the Pig (1968)
Not Rated | 103 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary chronicling the background to, and history of, the Vietnam War.
Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Votes: 1,917
29. Point of Order! (1964)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary
An unfiltered, unflinching document of the notorious 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, compiled entirely from raw TV footage (with no narration, music, or added scenes).
Director: Emile de Antonio | Stars: John G. Adams, Roy M. Cohn, Ray Jenkins, Joseph McCarthy
Votes: 516
30. Hearts and Minds (1974)
R | 112 min | Documentary, History, War
A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
Director: Peter Davis | Stars: Tin Chan, Chau Diem, Ngo Dinh Diem, John Foster Dulles
Votes: 6,107 | Gross: $0.03M
31. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,631
32. L'aquarium et la nation (2015)
31 min | Short, Drama
A film in three parts: An aquarium, a man sitting at a table reading various text passages, and a sequence from Jean Renoir's film La Marseillaise.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Aimé Agnel, Christiane Veschambre
Votes: 44
33. Communists (2014)
70 min | Drama
Composed in six parts, Communists (Kommunisten) re-ignites scenes from the diverse filmography of Straub and Huillet, moving from Switzerland to Italy to Egypt, to chart a story of resistance across the 20th century.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Arnaud Dommerc, Jean-Marie Straub, Gilles Pandel, Barbara Ulrich
Votes: 196
34. Plastic Bag (2009)
18 min | Short, Drama
A plastic bag, thrown out in the trash, attempts to find his way back to his owner and along the way discovers the world.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Stars: Werner Herzog, Barbara Weetman
Votes: 1,374
35. The Social Dilemma (2020)
PG-13 | 94 min | Documentary, Drama
Explores the dangerous human impact of social networking; tech experts sound the alarm on their own creations.
Director: Jeff Orlowski-Yang | Stars: Tristan Harris, Jeff Seibert, Bailey Richardson, Joe Toscano
Votes: 89,460
36. Beyond Clueless (2014)
TV-MA | 89 min | Documentary, Horror, Romance
Beyond Clueless is a dizzying journey into the mind, body and soul of the teen movie, as seen through the eyes of over 200 modern coming-of-age classics.
Director: Charlie Shackleton | Star: Fairuza Balk
Votes: 990
37. Anger (1963)
Not Rated | 104 min | Documentary
"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, ... See full summary »
Directors: Giovanni Guareschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Gigi Artuso, Carlo Romano
Votes: 538
38. La rabbia di Pasolini (2008)
83 min | Documentary
An attempt to reconstruct the complete version of Pier Paolo Pasolini's segment of Anger (1963).
Directors: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci | Stars: Giorgio Bassani, Renato Guttuso, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Vittorio Magrelli
Votes: 209
39. 12 dicembre (1972)
104 min | Documentary
On December 12th, 1969, a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, with other... See full summary »
Directors: Giovanni Bonfanti, Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Edoardo Di Giovanni, Marcello Gentili, Augusto Ludovichetti, Rosa Malacarne
Votes: 97
40. The Walls of Sana'a (1971)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary footage of the city of Sana'a in Yemen, one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world, with a voice-over calling for UNESCO to protect the city's architectural heritage before it is destroyed by development.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Star: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 393
41. Appunti per un romanzo sull'immondezza (1970)
85 min | Documentary
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Star: Ninetto Davoli
Votes: 40
42. Location Hunting in Palestine (1965)
54 min | Documentary
While scouting locations for his classic "The Gospel According to St. Matthew", director Pier Paolo Pasolini noticed that filming in the actual site of the story, in Palestine, wouldn't be ... See full summary »
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: don Andrea Carraro, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 324
43. Appunti per un film sull'India (1968 TV Movie)
33 min | Documentary
A half hour documentary Pasolini made about his search for places, faces and ideas to be in a film about India that was never completed.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: K.A. Abbas, Rajinder Singh Bedi, Pier Paolo Pasolini
Votes: 265
44. Love Meetings (1964)
Not Rated | 92 min | Documentary
Director Pasolini traverses Italy in 1963 with camera and microphone interviewing people in public places about sex, marriage and gender roles.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Lello Bersani, Alberto Moravia, Cesare Musatti, Peppino Di Capri
Votes: 2,641
45. Un conte de Michel de Montaigne (2013)
33 min | Short
In the text "From "L'exercitation", Montaigne tells us about his fall from his horse and shows us how we transform what is painful or threatening into experience, the danger in what saves.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Star: Barbara Ulrich
Votes: 51
46. Love and Metamorphoses (2014)
88 min | Drama, Romance
AMORI E METAMORFOSI is inspired by Ovide's poem Metamorphoses, performed by transgender people talking about their own experiences.
Directors: Yanira Yariv, Natalie Dana | Stars: Andrea Vergoni, Gabriella Basso Ricci, Andrea Lorenzo Donnino Forzani, Christian Cristalli
Votes: 13
47. À propos de Venise (2014)
24 min | Short
Glory and collapse of the great Republic of Venice. The reasons are multiple, complex, human and too human. Are these the same ingredients, whose mix will decide whether or not and under what conditions does Europe survive today?
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Barbara Ulrich, Gustav Leonhardt
Votes: 68
48. Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematic Scene (1973)
17 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary based on Arnold Schoenberg's treatise that speaks out against the persecution of the Jewish people.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Günther Peter Straschek, Danièle Huillet, Peter Nestler, Jean-Marie Straub
Votes: 199
49. I Was, I Am, I Shall Be (1974 TV Movie)
80 min | Documentary
In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Chilean Junta's Chancellery, entered into two large concentration camps in the north of the... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Heynowski, Gerhard Scheumann | Stars: Wolfgang Heinz, Gerhard Scheumann, Salvador Allende, Víctor Jara
50. Charisma (1976)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Inspired by Bertolt Brecht's poem "A Worker Reads History," documentary and fictional scenes are juxtaposed to create a parable about the need for a strong man, a charismatic leader. This ... See full summary »
Director: Amos Gitai | Star: Adina Baron
51. Fortini/Cani (1976)
83 min | Documentary
The film is a sort of presentation of Franco Fortini's book 'I Cani del Sinai'. Fortini, an Italian Jew, reads excerpts from the book about his alienation from Judaism and from the social ... See full summary »
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Franco Fortini, Luciana Nissim, Adriano Aprà
Votes: 186
52. Too Early/Too Late (1981)
G | 100 min | Documentary
A sequence of shots of rural landscapes accompanied by readings of texts about the struggles of poor farmers.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gérard Samaan, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Votes: 667
53. Toute révolution est un coup de dés (1982)
11 min | Documentary, Short
A group of actors declaim excerpts from Mallarmé's 'A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance' in the cemetery where the martyrs of the Paris Commune were shot in 1871.
Directors: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | Stars: Helmut Färber, Michel Delahaye, Georges Goldfayn, Manfred Blank
Votes: 132
54. Proposta in quattro parti (1985 TV Movie)
40 min | Documentary
Greed and capitalism are presented in this political featurette.
Directors: Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Stars: Linda Arvidson, Dolando Bernardini, Kate Bruce, William J. Butler
Votes: 20
55. La France contre les robots (2020)
10 min | Documentary, Short
A man wanders near the Léman reciting the critical thoughts of Bernanos.
Director: Jean-Marie Straub | Star: Christophe Clavert
Votes: 148
56. Our Brazil (2022)
5 min | Documentary, Short
A portrait of the current state of Brazil in the context of ongoing political and social unrest.
Director: Alexandre Moratto
57. Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed (2020)
92 min | Documentary
A multi-layered documentary about escalating capitalism and the working conditions in Germany's largest slaughterhouse.
Director: Yulia Lokshina
Votes: 16
58. The Tilted X (1986)
15 min | Short
Wearing a professorial suit (without pants), poised at a podium (with large magnifying screen), Professor Al Razutis proceeds to "instruct" with a dildo pointer, reads prepared lecture text... See full summary »
Director: Al Razutis | Star: Al Razutis
59. Amerika (1983)
159 min | Documentary
Experimental film which was created one reel at a time to function as a mosaic that expresses various sensations, myths, landscapes of industrialized Western culture.
Director: Al Razutis | Stars: Lincoln Clarkes, Samantha Hamernes-Coombs, Susan Lee-Nova, Al Razutis
Votes: 14
60. Visual Essays: Origins of Film (1984)
68 min
Director: Al Razutis | Stars: Susan Berganzi, Trevor Brazil, Maria Insell, Amarjeet Ratan
Votes: 12
61. On the Problem of the Autonomy of Art in Bourgeois Society, or... Splice (1986)
24 min | Short
A reconstruction, reinterpretation, and representation of a panel presentation on "Avant-Garde Film Practice" during National Film Week in Vancouver (March 1986), featuring five of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Douglas Chomyn, Scott Haynes, Al Razutis | Stars: Patricia Gruben, Maria Insell, Ross McLaren, Al Razutis
62. Euro-Triptych (2002 Video)
19 min | Short
The video was completed after the conclusion of Al Razutis's retrospective shows at EMAF, in Osnabrück, Germany (2002). There are three short films edited within the final montage, each with a different subject matter and form.
Director: Al Razutis
63. 99 Code Red Balloons (2002 Video)
4 min | Short
Anarchist tune to the visuals of cyber virus: To the tune '99 Red Balloons' performed by Goldfinger, we view spread 'Code Red Worm' across 350K computers, in 14 hours, throughout the world wide web. The party's getting bigger.
Director: Al Razutis
64. The Far Shore (1987)
15 min | Short
Multi-media performance where a 'director' with baseball cap encourages audience to participate, reading philosophers' texts, as time-lapse film camera shoots melting block of ice; the act ... See full summary »
Director: Al Razutis | Star: Al Razutis
65. (Une ballade à travers) Les ruines de Paris (2004)
135 min | Documentary
Director: Christophe Clavert | Stars: Mehdi Benallal, Olivier Briand, Lou Castel, Arnaud Claude
Votes: 9
66. Histoires nées de la solitude (2009 Video)
35 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Sylvain Maestraggi
67. Film socialisme (2010)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
The passengers on a Mediterranean cruise enjoy their luxuries as a small family struggles with overbearing media attention.
Director: Jean-Luc Godard | Stars: Jean-Marc Stehlé, Agatha Couture, Mathias Domahidy, Quentin Grosset
Votes: 2,921 | Gross: $0.03M
68. Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin (1968)
65 min | Documentary
An intimate and intellectual lecture given by Hannah Arendt about the work and fate of her friend and colleague in the philosophical field, Walter Benjamin. Delivered in January 1968 at the... See full summary »
Directors: Christian Blackwood, Michael Blackwood | Stars: Hannah Arendt, Peter Stadelmayer
69. L'Art de s'égarer ou l'image du bonheur (2014)
46 min | Drama
Directors: David Legrand, Boris Lehman | Stars: Boris Lehman, Bruno Tackels
70. 2nd Chance (2022)
89 min | Documentary
An exploration of Richard Davis, the inventor of the modern-day bulletproof vest who shot himself at least 192 times to prove his product worked.
Director: Ramin Bahrani | Star: Richard Davis
Votes: 429
71. We the Economy: 20 Short Films You Can't Afford to Miss (2014)
Documentary
An anthology of short films that pairs directors with leading economic advisers to create stories that offer a better understanding of how the economy impacts all of our lives.
Directors: Ramin Bahrani, Bob Balaban, Joe Berlinger, Jon M. Chu, Marshall Curry, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Adrian Grenier, Catherine Hardwicke, Mary Harron, Chris Henchy, Lee Hirsch, Albert Hughes, Steve James, Barbara Kopple, Shola Lynch, Adam McKay, Jehane Noujaim, James Schamus, Morgan Spurlock, Miao Wang, Jessica Yu, Geeta Gandbhir | Stars: Chadd Smith, Robert Clotworthy, Billy Eichner, Will Janowitz
Votes: 125
72. La primavera del 2002 - L'Italia protesta, l'Italia si ferma (2002 Video)
53 min | Documentary
Directors: Alfredo Angeli, Franco Angeli, Giorgio Arlorio, Mario Balsamo, Marco Bellocchio, Giorgio Benelli, Giuliana Berlinguer, Mario Cambi, Maurizio Carrassi, Fiore De Rienzo, Carlo Di Carlo, Massimo Felisatti, Nicolò Ferrari, Gianfranco Fiore, Andrea Frezza, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Giannarelli, Franco Giraldi, Ugo Gregoretti, Sabina Guzzanti, Agenore Incrocci, Wilma Labate, Salvatore Maira, Giulio Manfredonia, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Francesco Maselli, Gianni Minà, Mario Monicelli, Cesare Noia, Lucio Pellegrini, Paolo Pietrangeli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Andrea Porporati, Marco Simon Puccioni, Nino Russo, Massimo Sani, Stefano Scialotti, Pasquale Scimeca, Ettore Scola, Gianni Serra, Paolo Sorrentino, Sergio Spina, Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Riccardo Tortora, Marco Turco, Fulvio Wetzl
Votes: 13
73. Another World Is Possible (2001)
60 min | Documentary
A collective documentary on the protest movement against the G8 meeting in Genoa, Italy in 2001.
Directors: Alfredo Angeli, Giorgio Arlorio, Mario Balsamo, Giuliana Berlinguer, Maurizio Carrassi, Guido Chiesa, Francesca Comencini, Massimo Felisatti, Nicolò Ferrari, Gianfranco Fiore, Massimiliano Franceschini, Andrea Frezza, Giuliana Gamba, Roberto Giannarelli, Franco Giraldi, Simona Izzo, Wilma Labate, Salvatore Maira, Francesco Ranieri Martinotti, Mario Monicelli, Paolo Pietrangeli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Nino Russo, Gabriele Salvatores, Massimo Sani, Stefano Scialotti, Pasquale Scimeca, Ettore Scola, Daniele Segre, Carola Spadoni, Sergio Spina, Ricky Tognazzi, Fulvio Wetzl, Francesco Maselli
Votes: 118
74. The Thoughts That Once We Had (2015)
108 min | Documentary
A personal history of cinema, partially inspired by Gilles Deleuze, 'The movement-image' and 'The time-image.' All quotations are from Deleuze, unless otherwise attributed.
Director: Thom Andersen
Votes: 139
75. Red Hollywood (1996 Video)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, History
A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically difference perspective on a key period in the history of American cinema.
Directors: Thom Andersen, Noël Burch | Stars: Paul Jarrico, Eric Johnston, Ring Lardner Jr., John Howard Lawson
Votes: 242
76. Peut-on bourrer les urnes comme on bourre le mou? (2019)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Alain Guyard, Gérard Trouilhet, Noël Godin
77. Colombia 2012 (2010)
33 min | Short
Director: Orlando Arturo Avila | Stars: Hollman Morris, Astrid Uribe, Gustavo Moncayo, Juan Andrés Avila
78. Monument à Félix Guattari (1994)
90 min | Documentary
Director: François Pain | Stars: Raymond Bellour, Jacqueline Cahen, Daniel Caux, Pascale Criton
79. O Incerto lugar do desejo (2019)
62 min | Documentary
A woman is faced with a situation in which a desire would lead her to change her whole life. This and other personal issues by Ana Thereza serve as a starting point to address the main object of this documentary, the Desire.
Director: Paula Trabulsi | Stars: Maria Fernanda Cândido, Ciça Azevedo, Marilu Beer, Alexandre Cumino
Votes: 15
80. Vincennes, l'université perdue (2016 TV Movie)
96 min | Documentary
The documentary recounts the epic of Vincennes Experimental University Center, from its creation after the events of May 68 until its demolition in the summer of 1980. To talk about ... See full summary »
Director: Virginie Linhart | Stars: Noam Chomsky, Gilles Châtelet, Hélène Cixous, Gilles Deleuze
Votes: 21
81.
Mes chers contemporains (2014– )
Episode:
Le Philosophe (BHL)
(2014)
Talk-Show
Director: Usul | Stars: Usul, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Paul Amar, Jean-Michel Aphatie
82. Starbucks Unfiltered (2018 TV Movie)
94 min | Documentary
Starbucks is now a part of our daily lives. Like McDonald's, its 22,000 coffeehouses present in 67 countries have made it a recognizable symbol of globalization. This investigative report ... See full summary »
Directors: Gilles Bovon, Luc Hermann | Stars: Melody Overton, Jaime Prater, Bryant Simon, Olivier de Mendez
Votes: 230
83. George qui? (1973)
110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
This interrogation of famed 19th century French writer, proto feminist George Sand, includes discussion with the new early 1970s feminist movement and a critique of the limitations of her progressivism (she opposed the 1871 Paris Commune).
Director: Michèle Rosier | Stars: Anne Wiazemsky, Alain Libolt, Denis Gunsbourg, Geneviève Mnich
Votes: 57
84. Heterotopias (2018)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short
Directors: Noa Kaplan, Szilvia Ruszev | Stars: Denise Batie, Brooklyn-Eden, Allie Costa
85. La Force de l'Ordre (2007)
25 min | Short, Drama
The impulse by which a single individual, a group, a minority, or an entire people says, 'I will no longer obey', and throws the risk of their life in the face of an authority they consider... See full summary »
Director: M. Foucault | Stars: Edu Alonso, Olivier Collet, Jérôme Lefaure, Danilo Piolo
86. Matkalla onneen (1987 TV Movie)
22 min | Documentary
A poetic documentary about a busy everyday life in the city. Free time and freedom are scarce in a contemporary society. Different social norms are expected to be maintained.
Director: Satu Härkönen | Star: Tom Wentzel
88. Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma soeur et mon frère... (1976)
130 min | Crime, Drama
Based on documents compiled by leading French philosopher Michel Foucault, this unique and original film charts the gruesome events which took place in a Normandy village in 1835, when a ... See full summary »
Director: René Allio | Stars: Claude Hébert, Jacqueline Millière, Joseph Leportier, Annick Géhan
Votes: 353
89. Lest We Forget (1991)
110 min | Drama
Contre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean... See full summary »
Directors: Chantal Akerman, René Allio, Denis Amar, Jean Becker, Jane Birkin, Jean-Michel Carré, Patrice Chéreau, Alain Corneau, Costa-Gavras, Dominique Dante, Claire Denis, Raymond Depardon, Jacques Deray, Michel Deville, Jacques Doillon, Martine Franck, Gérard Frot-Coutaz, Francis Girod, Jean-Luc Godard, Romain Goupil, Jean-Loup Hubert, Robert Kramer, Patrice Leconte, Anne-Marie Miéville, Sarah Moon, Philippe Muyl, Michel Piccoli, Alain Resnais, Coline Serreau, Bertrand Tavernier, Nadine Trintignant | Stars: Paul Amar, Robert Badinter, Guy Bedos, Jane Birkin
Votes: 142
90. Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (1976)
763 min | Documentary
From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. The vast amount of ... See full summary »
Directors: Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens, Jean Bigiaoui
Votes: 117
91. Film catastrophe (2018)
55 min | Documentary
Early 2010 Jean Luc Godard shots Film Socialisme incognito aboard the Concordia cruise ship. Thee years later the same ship wrecks in the Mediterranean sea.
Director: Paul Grivas | Stars: Jean-Luc Godard, Patti Smith, Alain Badiou
Votes: 36
92. Finis Terrae (2019)
90 min | Documentary
Communism is dead. Long live Capitalism! We learned the credo of our time, the era of market-compliant democracy: Live, but without ideas. Is that truly all there is? - An essay film in search of a lost utopia.
Director: Konstantin Ferstl | Stars: Alain Badiou, Doris Buchrucker, Ines Hollinger, Torben Liebrecht
93. Philosophie et vérité (1965)
50 min | Documentary
Director: Jean Flechet | Stars: Alain Badiou, Georges Canguilhem, Dina Dreyfus, Michel Foucault
Votes: 16
94. Michel Foucault par lui-même (2003 TV Movie)
Documentary
Director: Philippe Calderon | Stars: Maurice Clavel, Michel Foucault, André Glucksmann
Votes: 19
95. Foucault contre lui même (2014 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Captures the energy and fierce intellect of the man, introducing us to some of the key elements of his work, while acknowledging--even celebrating--its many contradictions.
Director: François Caillat | Stars: Leo Bersani, Georges Didi-Huberman, Didier Eribon, Arlette Farge
Votes: 51
96. La mort se mérite - Digressions avec Serge Livrozet (2017)
92 min | Documentary
Death Must Be Earned is the intimate portrait of Serge Livrozet, former safe-cracker, one of the protagonists of 1970s French counter-culture, alongside Michel Foucault founder of the ... See full summary »
Director: Nicolas Drolc | Stars: Serge Livrozet, Michel Foucault
Votes: 10
97. Edgar Morin, journal d'une vie (2021 TV Movie)
54 min | Documentary, Biography
A philosopher of complexity, Edgar Morin has renewed the figure of the intellectual. Born Edgar Nahoum in Paris in 1921, he joined the Communist Resistance in 1942, where he adopted the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean-Michel Djian | Stars: Alain Badiou, Pierre Bourdieu, Pierre Chaunu, Marguerite Duras
Votes: 7
99.
Mes chers contemporains (2014– )
Episode:
La Pensée 68 (sociologie et culture de l'excuse)
(2016)
Talk-Show
Director: Usul | Stars: Usul, Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, Malek Boutih
100. Die Gentrifizierung bin ich. Beichte eines Finsterlings (2017)
98 min | Documentary
A humorous personal and essay film addressing architecture, habitation, space, density, xenophobia, gentrification and urban development.
Director: Thomas Haemmerli | Stars: Lupe Haemmerli, Pablo Haemmerli, Ana Roldán, Marie Aubert du Petit Thouars
Votes: 46
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