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Starring: Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Claudia Cardinale, Justo González
Directed By: Werner Herzog
August 15, 2000
In this very watchable documentary Werner Herzog pays tribute to the late Klaus Kinski, who played the lead in five of Herzog's films. This is Herzog's side of the story, of course, as Kinski is no longer around give his version.
A Peruvian actor from 'Aguirre' describes Kinski as "a diabolical character." In one memorable scene, Herzog tells a very uptight, bourgeois couple about what... more
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| 2. Triumph of the Will (Special Edition) |
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Starring: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann, Walter Buch
Directed By: Leni Riefenstahl
April 17, 2001
I failed miserably to appreciate Riefenstahl's great art of filmmaking. Should I have given one star to myself then? I don't think so, because I didn't fail to appreciate, for instance, "M", 1931 film by Fritz Lang, his Metropolis (1927), or, say, Russian films Okraina (1933) and Bespridannitsa (1937), or Japanese A Story of Floating Weeds by Ozu, as well as many other films produced before 1940.more
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| 3. Not Angels But Angels |
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Starring: Wiktor Grodecki
Directed By: Wiktor Grodecki
October 17, 2000
"Not Angels But Angels"
Working Boys in Prague
Amos Lassen
"Not Angels But Angels" is a documentary about hustlers in Prague and contains interviews with a procurer as well as with nineteen boys and young men between 14 to 19 who are prostitutes in Prague. Their turf is both the central train station and the clubs and their clients are mostly tourists. They tell... more
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| 4. Kino-Eye/ Three Songs Of Lenin | 
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Starring: Dolores Ibárruri, Nadezhda Krupskaya, V.I. Lenin, Joseph Stalin
Directed By: Dziga Vertov
April 25, 2000
Though often slow-going, these Soviet propaganda films are of extreme historical interest. They should be seen by anyone intrigued by Lenin, the history of the USSR, or the Communist movement in general.
Kino-Eye is probably one of the earliest Soviet documentaries still available. Made in 1924, this silent (obviously) film tracks the adventures of a troop of Young Pioneers as they... more
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| 5. Body Without Soul | 
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Starring: Wiktor Grodecki
Directed By: Wiktor Grodecki
October 17, 2000
I can understand fully why people gave any less than a 5 star for this movie. I am a filmmaker and this documentary is one that'll forever echo throughout history.
Every moment of it is meaningful, tight, not a fraction of a second not worth that same fraction of a second of our short lives.
This is the definitive documentary on the subject - LOOK NO FURTHER. If you are blinded... more
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| 6. Attila '74 - The Rape of Cyprus | 
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Starring: Rauf Denktas, Mihalis Kakogiannis, Glafkos Klerides, Archbishop Makarios, Nikos Sampson
Directed By: Mihalis Kakogiannis
July 05, 2000
As a person who have been living in Cyprus since 1967, I can easily say that, the content of this DVD doesn't reflect the realities of what was lived in Cyprus in 1974. It is a one-sided, nationalist reflection of most probably an ill personality. I am rating this DVD as 1-star. That single star is for the fact that, it is a very good example of how one can twist the realities of history according... more
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| 7. Buddha Wild - Monk in a Hut |
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Starring: Anna Wilding, Abbot Sathuwanda, Phra Chalerm Chanapha, Manit Visechat, Vanta Kaur
Directed By: Anna Wilding
December 10, 2006
This was a very open honest and humble look at life for Buddist Monks living in huts/garden sheds.
I learnt alot about budda statues and their meaning, very interesting. ... more
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| 8. Five Wives, Three Secretaries And Me |
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Starring: Thomas Walter Blake Jr., Betty 'Boop' Blake, Muffet Criner Adickes Blake, Sandra Tessman Blake, Virginia Keasling
April 29, 2003
Of Cource I found this book very intersting since I know 95% of the people in the book. But seriously Tess did a fine job of putting it all down on paper. Wish she had talked to me before she wrote this book I could have given her lots of interesting notes.
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| 9. DRAGONS OF THE ORIENT DVD/DUBBED/7 TRAILERS FOR JET LI FILMS |
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From: Tai Seng
Bought the documentary Saturday. Have watched it at least 10 times, and it's only Monday. Devoured the Jet Li footage. Couldn't get enough of the drunken sword at the end. Very impressed with Terry Fan, too. Would have liked to have seen more of him in the film. The rest of the footage was cheesy propoganda, but the clips of JL made it worthwhile. I loved it... more
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| 10. Modern Russian Culture. Disk Four: Russia In Art | |
Starring: Lauren G. Leighton
Directed By: Lauren G. Leighton;Slava Paperno
February 10, 2004
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