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John Berger ou la mémoire du regard
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John Berger ou la mémoire du regard

Jun 11, 2016

John Berger ou la mémoire du regard
2016 55 min 5 vues
Critique littéraire, auteur de fiction, essayiste politique engagé à gauche, poète et peintre londonien d’origine et savoyard d’adoption, John Berger n’a cessé de revenir, au cours de sa carrière, sur les multiples facettes de son sujet de prédilection : le regard.
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The Country and the City
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The Country and the City

Jan 01, 1979

The Country and the City
1979 61 min 1 vues
A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’ through 200 years of English literature.
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The Country and the City
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The Country and the City

Jan 01, 1979

The Country and the City
1979 61 min 1 vues
A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’ through 200 years of English literature.
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Edward Said: The Last Interview
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Edward Said: The Last Interview

Jun 11, 2004

Edward Said: The Last Interview
2004 120 min 3 vues
Prominent Columbia University English and Comparative Literature professor Edward Said was well known in the United States for his tireless efforts to convey the plight of the Palestinian people, and in this film shot less than a year before his death resulting from incurable leukemia, the author of such books as {-Orientalism}, {-Culture and Imperialism}, and {-Power, Politics, and Culture} discusses with filmmakers his illness, his life, his education, and the continuing turmoil in Palestine. Diagnosed with the disease in 1991, Said struggled with his leukemia throughout the 1990s before refraining from interviews due to his increasingly fragile physical state. This interview was the one sole exception to his staunch "no interview" policy, and provides fascinating insight into the mind of the man who became Western society's most prominent spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
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Edward Said: The Last Interview
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Edward Said: The Last Interview

Jun 11, 2004

Edward Said: The Last Interview
2004 120 min 3 vues
Prominent Columbia University English and Comparative Literature professor Edward Said was well known in the United States for his tireless efforts to convey the plight of the Palestinian people, and in this film shot less than a year before his death resulting from incurable leukemia, the author of such books as {-Orientalism}, {-Culture and Imperialism}, and {-Power, Politics, and Culture} discusses with filmmakers his illness, his life, his education, and the continuing turmoil in Palestine. Diagnosed with the disease in 1991, Said struggled with his leukemia throughout the 1990s before refraining from interviews due to his increasingly fragile physical state. This interview was the one sole exception to his staunch "no interview" policy, and provides fascinating insight into the mind of the man who became Western society's most prominent spokesman for the Palestinian cause.
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Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
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Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall

Jan 01, 2009

Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
2009 258 min 1 vues
In this stimulating and eloquent four-hour interview, conducted by the literary journalist Maya Jaggi and directed by Mike Dibb, Hall reflects on his life and career, talking personally and in depth about the trajectory of his work and how it has intersected with broader political movements. In a conversation both intimate and sweeping in scope, Hall describes his migration from Jamaica to England, his immersion in left-wing politics in London, the influence of Raymond Williams and E.P. Thompson on the evolution of his thought, and the context within which the early classic texts of cultural studies were written. Hall also shares his pessimism about the economic recession and his optimism about Barack Obama's victory. Future analysis of Hall's work, and of cultural studies in general, will need to take account of this fascinating and indispensable first-person account of his life and ideas.
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The Spirit of Lorca
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The Spirit of Lorca

Nov 16, 1986

The Spirit of Lorca
1986 76 min 1 vues
In a brief life filled with prodigious artistic achievements, Federico García Lorca’s greatest legacy may well be his complex and compelling personality. Filmed on location in Spain, this BBC Arena documentary profiles the immortalized poet/dramatist, capturing the potent essence of Spanish culture in the process. Extracts from his poems, plays, and letters demonstrate his duende—burning passion—for the arts, while the details of his life and violent death, as told by his biographer Ian Gibson, contemporaries Rafael Alberti and Luis Rosales, and others, present a thoughtful perspective on Spain’s revered literary icon.
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The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
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The Further Adventures of Don Quixote

Mar 25, 1995

The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
1995 58 min 1 vues
The first novel ever written, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, lives on in a thousand adaptations, in film, opera, art and even computer games. This film examines how the chivalrous knight and his sidekick have become enduring cultural icons around the world.
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One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
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One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks

Nov 30, 1968

One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
1968 17 min 1 vues
Short film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an interview with Godard sitting beside a tree. Many crew members from this shoot were then borrowed by him, playing the press in the film's Eve Democracy sequence. Originally broadcast on the BBC programme 'Release' (30th Nov. '68).
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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Feb 19, 2012

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
2012 73 min 1 vues
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This is the story of Barbara's inspiring and creative struggle with this disease, whose physical effects are particularly cruel, and visible, in the life of an improvising jazz musician.
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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
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Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time

Feb 19, 2012

Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
2012 73 min 1 vues
For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in 1997, the same year that she received an MBE for her services to music, disaster struck. Barbara was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This is the story of Barbara's inspiring and creative struggle with this disease, whose physical effects are particularly cruel, and visible, in the life of an improvising jazz musician.
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Studs Terkel's Chicago
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Studs Terkel's Chicago

Jun 07, 1985

Studs Terkel's Chicago
1985 61 min 1 vues
This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice of ordinary working Americans.
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Studs Terkel's Chicago
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Studs Terkel's Chicago

Jun 07, 1985

Studs Terkel's Chicago
1985 61 min 1 vues
This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the voice of ordinary working Americans.
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CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
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CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall

Jan 01, 1984

CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
1984 51 min 1 vues
Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) was a historian, journalist and contributor to Marxist thought. Stuart Hall was able to interview him for Channel 4 in the UK . The interview discusses his thoughts on revolution, socialism, and politics. His involvement in activism lasted decades. Born in Trinidad, much of his life was spent in the UK. C.R.L James became a teacher and notably taught Eric Williams. Williams went on to lead Trinidad and Tabago to independence. C.L.R. James also wrote fiction and about cricket. During his youth he did play the sport and wrote Beyond a Boundary (1963) describing cricket’s cultural significance. One of his favorite novels was Vanity Fair. This novel followed the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley during the Napoleonic Wars. James was a figure in the Pan-African movement and the anti-colonial freedom struggle. What tends to be ignored is his concern about class exploitation.
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Pig Earth
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Pig Earth

Jun 21, 1979

Pig Earth
1979 49 min 1 vues
“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John ‘the story teller’, as if in the peasant’s own voices. All of which was given brilliant visual expression in the film through a series of beautifully edited sequences, each constructed from vivid and moving photographs of peasants and their lives, in black and white and colour, by John’s friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.
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Pig Earth
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Pig Earth

Jun 21, 1979

Pig Earth
1979 49 min 1 vues
“Pig Earth” marked John Berger’s first return to television after “Ways of Seeing”. The film, boldly using mostly still photographs, is based on John’s book of the same name, which was both a work of fiction as well as a history of French Peasant experience, as told by John ‘the story teller’, as if in the peasant’s own voices. All of which was given brilliant visual expression in the film through a series of beautifully edited sequences, each constructed from vivid and moving photographs of peasants and their lives, in black and white and colour, by John’s friend and long-time collaborator, the Swiss photographer Jean Mohr.
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Parting Shots from Animals
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Parting Shots from Animals

Jan 01, 1980

Parting Shots from Animals
1980 52 min 1 vues
“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in the UK, it consists of a diverse series of arresting ‘films within a film’, each presented as if made about us from the perspective of the animals whose lives we may appear to celebrate, but continue to exploit and to destroy. While John Berger doesn’t appear in the film and wasn’t directly involved in it’s making, he narrates to great effect the text he co-wrote to accompany the film’s provocative opening sequence.
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Appalachian Journey
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Appalachian Journey

Jul 19, 1991

Appalachian Journey
1991 58 min 2 vues
Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont. Narrated by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity’s Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube additionally streams outtakes from this film: other strong performances by Sheila Kay Adams, Dellie Norton, and Cas Wallin, Lawrence Eller, the Hickses, Algia Mae Hinton and John Dee Holeman, Tommy Jarrell, John “Doodle” Thrower, and Nimrod Workman.
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About Time
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About Time

Feb 01, 1985

About Time
1985 57 min 1 vues
Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger.
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The Nomad
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The Nomad

Feb 27, 1967

The Nomad
1967 27 min 1 vues
An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.
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Bette Davis
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Bette Davis

Dec 17, 1972

Bette Davis
1972 41 min 1 vues
Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London.
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The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
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The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'

Jan 01, 1970

The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
1970 16 min 1 vues
A short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting a sequence with the Rolling Stones for ONE PLUS ONE. It was broadcast on BBC2 within the framework of the arts magazine RELEASE on the 30 November 1968 to coincide with the screening (which has become famous…) of ONE PLUS ONE at the London Film Festival.
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Jan 29, 1972
1972 min 11 vues
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.
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Jan 29, 1972
1972 min 11 vues
John Berger's Ways of Seeing changed the way people think about painting and art criticism. This watershed work shows, through word and image, how what we see is always influenced by a whole host of assumptions concerning the nature of beauty, truth, civilization, form, taste, class and gender. Exploring the layers of meaning within oil paintings, photographs and graphic art, Berger argues that when we see, we are not just looking - we are reading the language of images.
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Aug 03, 1990
1990 min 1 vues
From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
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Aug 03, 1990
1990 min 1 vues
From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
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