d. Jonas Mekas
c. UK & West Germany
y. 1972
description:
"This film, and its companion piece Going Home are documentaries in the form of home movies. It records the return visit of brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas to their homeland of Lithuania. They apparently left the country near the end of World War II, and suffered various hardships on their way to America. Until the time of this film (1972), they had never been back to Lithuania." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.9 (64)
_AMG... 4.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: VHS
subs: yes
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Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
This Is Poland
d. Eugeniusz Cekalski
c. UK
y. 1941
description:
n/a
IMDB... 0.0 (0)
_AMG... n/a
size: 200MB
qlty: TV
subs: n/a
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Industrial Britain
d. Arthur Elton, Robert Flaherty, John Grierson & Basil Wright
c. UK
y. 1933
description:
n/a
IMDB... 6.7 (32)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 590MB
qlty: ?
subs: n/a
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Granton Trawler
d. John Grierson
c. UK
y. 1934
description:
"Documentary showing trawler fishing on Viking bank." (IMDB)
IMDB... 6.7 (10)
_AMG... n/a
size: 150MB
qlty: ?
subs: n/a
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37 Uses for a Dead Sheep
d. Ben Hopkins
c. UK
y. 2006
description:
"Ben Hopkins' documentary 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep provides a warm, benevolent, and occasionally humorous glimpse at the lifestyles, mores, and background of the Pamir Kirghiz, a nomadic tribe from the central Asia. Because of their unswerving opposition to Communist ideologies, the Kirghiz were rejected by virtually every country on the Asian continent until they received international support and two alternate offers for permanent homes c. 1979, one in the eastern regions of Turkey and one, backed by the U.S., in Alaska. (The tribe chose the former.) Here, documentarist Hopkins teams up with Ekber Kutlu, a Kirghiz scholar and artist, and travels inside of the Kirghiz, for one of the first cinematic glimpses of this cultural unit. Within the film, Hopkins intercuts newly shot on-location documentary footage with dramatic reconstructions of events from the tribe's past (filmed in disparate styles), to provide a window into the Kirghiz experience over the course of time -- revealing the persistence and tenacity that older generations have projected in the face of massive obstacles, and the unbridled optimism of the younger as they anticipate future years." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.1 (75)
_AMG... n/a
size: 700MB
qlty: DVD
subs: n/a
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British Sounds
d. Jean-Luc Godard
c. UK
y. 1970
description:
"Jean-Luc Godard made the hour-long 1969 experimental documentary British Sounds also known as See You at Mao for London Weekend TV in 1969. In the opening scene, a ten minute long tracking shot along a Ford factory floor, a narrator reads from The Communist Manifesto. This is followed by a woman wandering around her house naked while a narrator reads a feminist-tinged text, a news commentator reading a pro-capitalist rant that is repeatedly and abruptly cut off to show workers that contradict his statements, and a group of young activists preparing protest banners while transposing communist propaganda to Beatles songs ("You say Nixon/I say Mao" to "Hello Goodbye"). It closes with a fist repeatedly punching through a British flag. It's a bold and assaultive socialist screed made during the director's most divisive political period and was banned from television. Of note are the director's experiments juxtaposing image, text, and sound." (AMG)
IMDB... 6.2 (50)
_AMG... 1.5 / 5.0
size: 700MB
qlty: TV
subs: n/a
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The Shadow Line
d. Andrzej Wajda
c. Poland / UK
y. 1976
description:
"Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1976 Polish Film Festival, this drama from director Andrzej Wajda was based on the short story The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad. The film tells the story of a young man who tries his best to helm a foundering boat bound for Singapore. Not only is the boat itself in rough shape, but many of the passengers are suffering from a highly contagious disease. A 28-year-old Tom Wilkinson of The Full Monty and In the Bedroom appears in his first onscreen role." (AMG)
IMDB... 4.9 (32)
_AMG... 2.5 / 5.0
size: 660MB
qlty: TV
subs: ?
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The Bespoke Overcoat
d. Jack Clayton
c. UK
y. 1956
description:
"Nikolai Gogol's classic short story The Overcoat was adapted for British consumption into The Bespoke Overcoat. Comic actor Alfie Bass plays a clothing-store clerk who'd like to own one of the sales items in his store. He is denied this pleasure by his hardhearted boss, so the clerk persuades a tailor friend (David Kossoff) to whip up a duplicate overcoat. When the clerk dies of pneumonia, his ghost materializes before the tailor, persuading him to steal the overcoat the clerk had wanted in the first place. Written by Wolf Mankowicz and directed by Jack Clayton, the 33-minute The Bespoke Overcoat won a 1953 Academy Award for "best short subject". Another, equally enjoyable version of the Gogol story appeared on the TV anthology Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Presents in 1951, with Buster Keaton as the persistent clerk." (AMG)
IMDB... 7.7 (41)
_AMG... 3.0 / 5.0
size: 350MB
qlty: DVD
subs: n/a
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