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The Velvet Underground
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The Velvet Underground

Oct 15, 2021

The Velvet Underground
2021 121 min 105 vues
Le groupe The Velvet Underground a créé un nouveau son qui a révolutionné le monde de la musique, devenant ainsi un des groupes de rock les plus vénérés au monde. Réalisé par l’éminent cinéaste Todd Haynes, « The Velvet Underground » montre comment le groupe du même nom est devenu une référence culturelle symbolisant un ensemble de contradictions : une musique à la fois intemporelle et représentative de son époque, à la fois littéraire et réaliste, et enracinée dans le grand art et la culture de la rue.
Documentary
Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle
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Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle

Sep 25, 1967

Her Name Was Ellie, His Name Was Lyle
1967 29 min 2 vues
In New York City, a relationship is threatened when a young man discovers he's caught syphilis from a tryst with a waitress named Ellie. This threatens his relationship with a new girl. Film critic Amy Taubin co-stars as the new girl who gets the bad news. The director is apparently the same man who edited Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse.
Drama
Cinéma Laika
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Cinéma Laika

Jun 24, 2023

Cinéma Laika
2023 81 min 2 vues
In the heart of the Finnish forest, the long-closed foundry of the little town of Karkkila has come back to life thanks to director Aki Kaurismäki and his creation of the town's first cinema. The peace and calm of the little town of Karkkila, nestled deep in the Finnish forest, is interrupted by unexpected sounds. In the abandoned foundry, noisy building work is taking place. Inside the building, Aki Kaurismäki is both builder and site manager of what is soon to become the Kino Laika cinema. The creation of the cinema is the talk of the town. In the factory still in activity, in a 1960s Cadillac, in a bikers' club, in the local pub, in the woods or in Aki Kaurismäki's former editing room, people start talking about cinema again.
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Galaxie
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Galaxie

Sep 03, 1966

Galaxie
1966 82 min 1 vues
In March and April of 1966, Markopoulos created this filmic portrait of writers and artists from his New York circle, including Parker Tyler, W. H. Auden, Jasper Johns, Susan Sontag, Storm De Hirsch, Jonas Mekas, Allen Ginsberg, and George and Mike Kuchar, most observed in their homes or studios. Filmed in vibrant color, Galaxie pulses with life. It is a masterpiece of in-camera composition and editing, and stands as a vibrant response to Andy Warhol's contemporary Screen Tests. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2001.
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Wavelength
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Wavelength

Dec 29, 1967

Wavelength
1967 45 min 87 vues
Wavelength consists of almost no action, and what action does occur is largely elided. If the film could be said to have a conventional plot, this would presumably refer to the three “character” scenes. In the first scene two people enter a room, chat briefly, and listen to “Strawberry Fields Forever” on the radio. Later, a man (played by filmmaker Hollis Frampton) enters inexplicably and dies on the floor. And last, the female owner of the apartment is heard and seen on the phone, speaking, with strange calm, about the dead man in her apartment whom she has never seen before.
Drama
Fragments of Paradise
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Fragments of Paradise

Aug 31, 2022

Fragments of Paradise
2022 98 min 3 vues
For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his diary films. From his arrival in New York City as a displaced person in 1949 to his death in 2019, he chronicled the trauma and loss of exile while pioneering institutions to support the growth of independent film in the United States. Fragments of Paradise is an intimate look at his life and work constructed from thousands of hours of his own video and film diaries-including never-before-seen tapes and unpublished audio recordings. It is a story about finding beauty amidst profound loss, and a man who tried to make sense of it all... with a camera.
Documentary
Barbara Rubin et l'underground new-yorkais
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Barbara Rubin et l'underground new-yorkais

May 02, 2018

Barbara Rubin et l'underground new-yorkais
2018 78 min 1 vues
Dans la lignée des cinéastes dont l’unique film est devenu culte, Barbara Rubin incarne un des plus flamboyant prototypes. En 1963, la New-Yorkaise n’a que 18 ans lorsqu’elle tourne le transgressif Christmas on Earth, inspiré d’Une saison en enfer de Rimbaud et du sulfureux moyen métrage Flaming Creatures de Jack Smith. Pourquoi ce coup d’essai magistral est-il resté sans suites ?
Documentary
Couch
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Couch

Jul 01, 1964

Couch
1964 58 min 6 vues
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Nov 28, 1965

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965 1108 min 3 vues
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
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In the Bag
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In the Bag

Jan 01, 1981

In the Bag
1981 20 min 1 vues
“What is stowed in a purse is often adduced as a reflection of, or synecdoche for, the personality of its owner; here Taubin manages to bare the trappings of personal intimacy while withholding any scopophilic pleasure derived from exposing herself as visual image.” –Paul Arthur