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Peter Greenaway: Goltzius - $495

8 May, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius is the second installment in his Dutch Masters series. Its story runs thus: sometime during the winter of 1590, the Dutch printmaker Hendrik Goltzius holds an interview with Margrave of Alsace, in the grand library at his castle on the Rhine. Goltzius needs money in order to build a printing press to print erotic illustrated books, and he entices Margrave of Alsace into paying for an extraordinary book of pictures of Old Testament Biblical stories, by dramatizing the erotic stories […]

Categories: Arte, Cine • Tags: Art, Artists, Bio, Cine, dis voir, engraving, Film, Foto, fotografia, Goltzius, Greenaway, Movies, películas

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire - $995

12 April, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Beginning with Lost Highway, director David Lynch “swerved” in a new direction, one in which very disorienting images of the physical world take center stage in his films. Seeking to understand this unusual emphasis in his work, noted Lynch scholar Martha Nochimson engaged Lynch in a long conversation of unprecedented openness, during which he shared his vision of the physical world as an uncertain place that masks important universal realities. He described how he derives this vision from the Holy […]

Categories: Cine, Entrevistas • Tags: 2013, Art, Biography, Cinema, Criticism, David Linch, Directors, Film, Lost Highway, Movies, swerve, University of Texas Press

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Chronicle of a Summer – $530 / Blue Ray – $685

11 March, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Chronicle of a Summer Few films can claim to be as influential to the course of cinema history as this one. The fascinating result of a collaboration between filmmaker-anthropologist Jean Rouch (Moi, un noir) and sociologist Edgar Morin, this vanguard work of what Morin would term cinéma verité is a brilliantly conceived and realized sociopolitical diagnosis of the early sixties in France. By simply interviewing a group of Paris residents in the summer of 1960—beginning with the provocative and […]

Categories: Cine, DVD • Tags: 60's, Blue ray, Chronicle of a Summer, Cine, Cinema Verite, Criterion collection, dvd, Edgar Morin, Film, France, Francia, Jean Rouch, Movies, Social, sociopolitical

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Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog – $590

12 February, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Over the course of his career Werner Herzog, known for such visionary masterpieces as Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974), has directed almost sixty films, roughly half of which are documentaries. And yet, in a statement delivered during a public appearance in 1999, the filmmaker declared: “There are deeper strata of truth in cinema, and there is such a thing as poetic, ecstatic truth. It is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication […]

Categories: Cine, Teoría • Tags: 2012, Cinema, cinematography, documentales, documentary, Film, Herzog, Theory, University of Minnesota

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Kuroneko (Criterion Collection) – $460

22 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

In this poetic and atmospheric horror fable, set in a village in war-torn medieval Japan, a malevolent spirit has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. When a military hero is sent to dispatch the unseen force, he finds that he must struggle with his own personal demons as well. From Kaneto Shindo, director of the terror classic Onibaba, Kuroneko (Black Cat) is a spectacularly eerie twilight tale with a shocking feminist angle, evoked through ghostly special effects and exquisite […]

Categories: Cine, DVD • Tags: 1968, Cine, Cinema, Criterion collection, dvd, Fable, Feminism, Film, Horror, Japan, Medieval, Samurai, Shindo

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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch – $395

17 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Through film clips, journal entries, and personal musings, ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDREI ARSENEVICH is renowned French filmmaker Chris Marker‘s homage to his friend and colleague, Andrei Tarkovsky, who died in 1986. Through close readings of Tarksovsky’s films – including rare scenes from his student film (an adaptation of Hemingway’s The Killers) and a practically unknown production of Boris Goudonov – Marker attempts to locate Tarkovsky in his work. Parallels drawn by Marker between Tarkovksy’s life and films […]

Categories: Cine, DVD • Tags: Andrei Arsenevich, Chris Marker, Cinema, dvd, Film, Icarus films, Russian, Tarkovski

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The Turin Horse – $420

16 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse s neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on […]

Categories: Cine, DVD • Tags: 2012, Bela Tarr, Cinema, Film, Movies, Nietzche, películas, Turin horse

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Sword of Desperation – $325

15 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Expert swordsman Kanemi Sanzaemon is, first and foremost, a man of principle. In order to save his clan from the corrupting influence of his lord’s favorite concubine, he publicly assassinates her, fully expecting it will result in his own death by seppuku. Instead, he is sentenced to solitary confinement for an entire year, and then released under one inexplicable condition: he must now serve as the lord’s bodyguard. This thrilling, masterfully stylized tale of honor, intrigue and betrayal culminates in […]

Categories: Cine, DVD • Tags: Cinema, Film, Hirayama, japanese, Movies, Samurai, Sword

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Two-Lane Blacktop (The Criterion Collection) – $475

14 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Drag racing east from L.A. in a souped-up f55 Chevy are the wayward Driver and Mechanic (singer/songwriter James Taylor and the Beach Boys Dennis Wilson, in their only acting roles), accompanied by a tagalong Girl (Laurie Bird). Along the way, they meet Warren Oates Pontiac GTO-driving wanderer and challenge him to a cross-country race. The prize: their cars pink slips. Yet no summary can do justice to the existential punch of Two-Lane Blacktop. Maverick director Monte Hellmans stripped-down narrative, […]

Categories: Cine, DVD • Tags: 70s, cars, Criterion collection, dvd, Film, Monte Hellman, movie, racing, road trip, two lane blacktop

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey – $999

14 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

The Story of Film: An Odyssey is an unprecedented cinematic event, an epic journey through the history of world cinema that is a treat for movie lovers around the globe. Guided by film historian Mark Cousins, this bold 15-part love letter to the movies begins with the invention of motion pictures at the end of the 19th century and concludes with the multi-billion dollar globalized digital industry of the 21st. The Story of Film: An Odyssey heralds a unique approach […]

Categories: Boxed Set, Cine, DVD, Historia • Tags: 2012, Boxed set, Cinema, dvd, Film, History, Mark Cousins, Movies, Story of film

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Detropia – $575

14 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

Detroit‘s story has encapsulated the iconic narrative of America over the last century: the Great Migration of African Americans escaping Jim Crow; the rise of manufacturing and the middle class; the love affair with automobiles; the flowering of the American dream; and now… the collapse of the economy and the fading American mythos. With its vivid, painterly palette and haunting score, DETROPIA sculpts a dreamlike collage of a grand city teetering on the brink of dissolution. These soulful pragmatists and […]

Categories: Cine, DVD, Economía y Política • Tags: 2012, Cine, Crisis, Detroit, detropia, docudrama, documental, economy, Film, Heidi Ewing, housing

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World on a Wire (Criterion Collection) – $540 / Blue ray – $695

14 January, 2013 by rgonzalezr

World on a Wire is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder (The Marriage of Maria Braun). With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, as well as a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of a reluctant action hero, Fred Stiller (The Odessa File’sKlaus Lowitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it. Originally made for German […]

Categories: Ciencia Ficción, Cine, DVD • Tags: bizarre, Blue ray, conspiracy, Criterion collection, dvd, Fassbinder, Film, Future, German, Movies, Paranoia, películas, weird, World on a wire

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Sleepwalkers: A Future Time Capsule – $2,745

11 December, 2012 by rgonzalezr

During the past decade, Los Angeles-based artist Doug Aitken has created innovative video art by fracturing the narrative structures of his films across multi-screen environments. In the spring of 2007, Doug Aitken: Sleepwalkers premiered as a monumental outdoor video projection onto seven facades of the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan. The silent story, told with exquisite imagery, chronicles the lives of five charactersas they move through New York City. Sleepwalkers features a diverse cast of actors, including Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton […]

Categories: Arte, Cine, DVD • Tags: Art, Arte, cd, cinematography, Doug Aitken, dvd, Film, movie, Princeton Architectural press, seu jorge

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Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice – $485

23 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice purges the obstructive line between the making of and the theorising on film, uniting theory and practice in order to move beyond the commercial confines of Hollywood. Opening with an introduction by Bill Nichols, one of the world’s leading writers on nonfiction film, this volume features contributions by such prominent authors as Noel Burch, Laura Mulvey, Peter Wollen, Brian Winston and Patrick Fuery. Seminal filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway and Mike Figgis also […]

Categories: Cine, Teoría • Tags: Cinema, critical theory, Film, Movies, wallflower press

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French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present – $525

1 November, 2012 by rgonzalezr

To a large extent, the story of French filmmaking is the story of moviemaking. From the earliest flickering images of the late nineteenth century through the silent era, Surrealist influence, the Nazi Occupation, the glories of the New Wave, and the present, Rémi Lanzoni examines a considerable number of the world’s most beloved films. In French Cinema, he focuses his lens on outstanding examples from each era to give the cineaste in each of us new insight into our own […]

Categories: Cine • Tags: 2004, Cinema, continuum, Film, French, french cinema, Movies

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Category Archives: Cine

Peter Greenaway: Goltzius - $495

David Lynch Swerves: Uncertainty from Lost Highway to Inland Empire - $995

Ferocious Reality: Documentary according to Werner Herzog – $590

Kuroneko (Criterion Collection) – $460

One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevitch – $395

The Turin Horse – $420

Sword of Desperation – $325

Two-Lane Blacktop (The Criterion Collection) – $475

The Story of Film: An Odyssey – $999

Detropia – $575

World on a Wire (Criterion Collection) – $540 / Blue ray – $695

Sleepwalkers: A Future Time Capsule – $2,745

Critical Cinema: Beyond the Theory of Practice – $485

French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present – $525

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