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Joan of Arc (2019)Jeanne
In 1429, the Hundred Years' War between France and England had already been going 90 odd years. Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan (Lise Leplat Prudhomme) is a leader of the army of the King of France (Fabrice Luchini) and lifts the siege of Orleans, enabling the dauphin to be formally crowned as Charles VII. After she is captured, she is sent for trial on charges of heresy, to be judged by pro-Burgundian and pro-English clerics. Refusing to accept the accusations, Joan stays obdurate. - Director:
- Bruno Dumont
- Cast:
- Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Annick Lavieville, Justine Herbez
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Lewis Carroll's classic children's story has long proved fertile ground for Freudian analysts, Surrealists, Social Historians, literary critics and filmmakers. The numerous film adaptations range from a Disney production to a brilliantly quirky and disturbing version from Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. Jonathan Miller's version, made for BBC 1 in 1966, is truly original, slyly subversive, and perfectly captures the haunting, dreamlike, subtly menacing atmosphere of Carroll's fantasy. - Director:
- Jonathan Miller
- Cast:
- Peter Sellers, Eric Idle, Michael Gough
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Scream of Stone (1991)Cerro Torre: Schrei aus Stein
Cerro Torre, in Pantagonia, Argentina, is the most difficult mountain on Earth and the greatest alpine challenge. Roccia (Vittorio Mezzogiorno) is the greatest, most experienced mountain climber in the world, conqueror of all the world's highest mountains. Martin (Stephan Glowacz), on the other hand, is the world's top rated sports climber and the most outstanding representative of a new generation of mountain climbers. When the death of a mutual friend and a love rivalry (Mathilda May) divides them, it results in a bitter climbing duel. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Stefan Glowacz
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Director Werner Herzog and conductor Riccardo Muti combine with the finest of casts to lavish Rossini's rarely performed Neapolitan masterpiece, set in feudal sixteenth-century Scotland, with the genius it deserves. June Anderson is an outstanding Elena (the Lady of the Lake) in the 1992 production of the melodrama based on Sir Walter Scott's poem. Unlocked from the archives of RAI television, this is a classic recording from one of the world's great opera houses. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Chris Merritt, Giorgio Surjan, June Anderson
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Wheel Of Time is a documentary about a Buddhist ritual promoting peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. This film includes exclusive interviews with the Dalai Lama, access to secret rituals for the first time on film as well as footage of a pilgrimage to the Holy Mount Kailash in Tibet. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Werner Herzog, The Dalai Lama, Lama Lhundup Woeser
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Gertrude Bell (Nicole Kidman), a daughter of wealthy British parents, has no interest in the social life of the London elite. Balls, receptions, and the British aristocracy bring her only boredom. Aspiring to have at least some kind of activity in her life, Gertrude decides to find freedom and move to be with her uncle, who occupies a high diplomatic position in Tehran. So begins her lifelong adventure across the Arab world, a journey marked by danger, a passionate affair with a British officer, Henry Cadogan (James Franco), and an encounter with the legendary T.E. Lawrence (Robert Pattinson). 'Queen of the Desert' is the uplifting, inspiring and extraordinary true story of one woman who, against all odds, changed the course of history. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Nicole Kidman, Renee Faia, James Franco
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In this four-part companion to the acclaimed film 'Into the Abyss', Academy-Award nominated filmmaker Werner Herzog delves deeper into the abyss of the human soul. Each episode features an intense interview with a death row inmate in which we hear their own account of life in captivity and the crime that condemned them. Herzog explores the emotions that these men and women go through as they possess the haunting knowledge of exactly when - and how - they are going to die.
Portrait:James Barnes
Barnes was convicted of the murder of his wife in 1998. Whilst in prison, he converted to Islam and confessed to a previous murder - the gruesome homicide of Patricia Miller in 1988, for which he was subsequently sentenced to death.
Portrait: Joseph Garcia and George Rivas
Following a prison escape, Garcia and Rivas were part of a group responsible for the killing of a police officer. All escapees in the group, including Garcia and Rivas, were given the death penalty.
Portrait: Hank Skinner
Skinner was given the death penalty following the brutal murder of Twila Busby and her two sons. Questions were raised around the DNA tests on crucial pieces of evidence and as a result his sentence was stayed whilst further tests took place.
Portrait: Linda Anita Carty
Convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Joana Rodrigu ty stands to become the first black British woman to be in more than a century, barring the granting of clemency.- Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Werner Herzog, James Barnes, Linda Carty
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"An Angel at My Table" is the internationally acclaimed second film by Oscar-winning director Jane Campion. It is an extraordinarily moving celebration of the life of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author, based on her autobiographical trilogy. The film follows Janet through her poor childhood in the depression and her growing fascination with literature; her painfully shy student days and subsequent treatment for misdiagnosed schizophrenia; and finally on her travels to Europe where she samples Bohemian life and achieves international success as a writer. - Director:
- Jane Campion
- Cast:
- Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson
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A ravishing romance about three wealthy New Yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle, The Age Of Innocence chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 1880's. Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an upstanding lawyer who secretly longs for a more passionate life. Engaged to the lovely but ordinary socialite May Welland (Winona Ryder), Newland resigns himself to a life of quiet complacency. But when May's unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer) returns to New York amid social and sexual scandal, Newland becomes captivated by her mysterious authority and outstanding beauty. Now he must choose between May and the world he knows, and Ellen and the world he dreams of having. - Director:
- Martin Scorsese
- Cast:
- Daniel Day-Lewis, Joanne Woodward, Michelle Pfeiffer
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When a renowned scientist is sent to Bolivia on an urgent mission to analyse a looming environmental catastrophe she along with her colleagues are deceived by a man claiming to be a member of the Ministry of Security and are kidnapped by a mysterious group of masked men. The prisoners are subsequently led down a path of discovery revealing the dark machinations of a global corporation responsible for an ever threatening ecological disaster; their only hope is to unravel the truth. - Director:
- Werner Herzog
- Cast:
- Michael Shannon, Gael García Bernal, Werner Herzog
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Western (2017)Vestern
A group of German construction workers start a tough job at a remote site in the Bulgarian countryside. The foreign land awakens the men's sense of adventure, but they are also confronted with their own prejudices and mistrust due to the language barrier and cultural differences with the native villagers. The foreman Vincent (Reinhardt Wetrek) and the mysterious Meinhard (Meinhard Neumann) also start to fall out. The stage is quickly set for a showdown when the German workers begin to compete for recognition and favour from the local villagers. - Director:
- Valeska Grisebach
- Cast:
- Meinhard Neumann, Reinhardt Wetrek, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov
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Loveless (2017)Nelyubov
Zhenya (Maryana Spivak) and Boris (Aleksey Rozin) are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha (Matvey Novikov). Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears. - Director:
- Andrey Zvyagintsev
- Cast:
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin
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Mektoub, My Love (2019)Destiny, My Love: Second Song / Mektoub, My Love: Canto / Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo
Amin (Sham Boumedine), an aspiring screenwriter living in Paris, returns home for the summer to a fishing village in the South of France to reconnect with his family and his childhood friends. Together with his cousin Tony (Salim Kechiouche) and his best friend Ophelie (Ophelie Bau), he spends his time between the Tunisian restaurant run by his parents, the local bars and the beaches frequented by girls on holiday. Armed with his camera and guided by the bright summer light of the Mediterranean coast, Amin pursues his philosophical quest while gathering inspiration for his screenplays. When it comes to love, only Mektoub ('destiny'in Arabic)... - Director:
- Abdellatif Kechiche
- Cast:
- Shaïn Boumedine, Ophélie Bau, Salim Kechiouche
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Willem Dafoe stars in a career defining performance as a reluctant father figure to the residents of a motel set against the backdrop of a Disneyland resort. From critically acclaimed director Sean Baker (Tangerine) 'The Florida Project' is a wonderful film about the innocence of childhood and the social divide that often touches all sides of humanity. - Director:
- Sean Baker
- Cast:
- Brooklynn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Willem Dafoe
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"The Dust Bowl" chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the southern Plains, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930's, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation. Menacing black blizzards killed farmers'crops and livestock, threatened the lives of their children, and forced thousands of desperate families to pick up and move somewhere else. Vivid interviews with more than two dozen survivors of those hard times, combined with dramatic photographs and seldom seen movie footage, bring to life stories of incredible human suffering and equally incredible human perseverance. 'The Dust Bowl', a four-hour, two-episode documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, is also a morality tale about our relationship to the land that sustains us - a lesson we ignore at our peril. - Director:
- Ken Burns
- Cast:
- Dorothy Williamson, Donald Worster, Timothy Egan
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