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Sudden Change Documentary. The Triadic Ballet is a Bauhaus masterpiece. The magnificent Triadisches Ballet originally premiered in 1922 at the Stuttgart landestheater in Germany.

The Triadic Ballet is a Bauhaus masterpiece

This Avant-Garde ballet was developed by Oskar Schlemmer, a praised Bauhaus faculty member. Here is a stunning reconstruction of the original ballet by Margarete Hastings from 1970: Triadisches Ballett . Hastings worked with Bauhaus students Ludwig Grote and Xanti Schawansky to create the reconstruction, which is incredibly well done. I can't get over how other-wordly the awesome costumes in this ballet are. Rabbits Moon is an ethereal film by Kenneth Anger. Rabbit's Moon is a 26-minute film about a clown's longing for the moon and the rabbit that lives inside of it.

Rabbits Moon is an ethereal film by Kenneth Anger

The film was created in 1950 by the great American filmmaker, Kenneth Anger. The film took 20 years to complete and was released in 1971. I saw Rabbit's Moon for the first time a few years ago at a theater in Los Angeles, and it was an ethereal experience to see it on the big screen. Oliver Stone’s New JFK Doc Is Coming to Cannes With “Conspiracy Fact”

Left: Oliver Stone; right: Kevin Costner in Stone’s 1991 film JFK.

Oliver Stone’s New JFK Doc Is Coming to Cannes With “Conspiracy Fact”

Sylvain Lefevre/WireImage; Le Studio Canal+ Nearly 60 years after the assassination of President Kennedy, questions are still flying regarding the details of the incident. Even more thought-provoking are the conspiracy theories surrounding that fateful day in 1963. The river and children's music. If "Napoleon Dynamite" Was a Horror Movie.

Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack. There is no one Blade Runner.

Experience Blade Runner Like You Never Have Before Through a Feature-Length Remastered Soundtrack

Ridley Scott’s influential “neo-noir” has appeared in several different versions over the past 38 years, both official — the “director’s cut,” the “final cut,” and lest we forget, the now-derided first theatrical cut — and unofficial. So has Blade Runner‘s soundtrack, the first official release of which lagged the film by about a dozen years, and even then didn’t include all the music so integral to the unprecedented aesthetic richness of the futuristic setting. Then, about a dozen more years later, followed an expanded soundtrack album, which for many fans still proved unsatisfying. In the name of completeness and sonic fidelity, at least five widely distributed bootlegs have attempted to fill the gap. Now, in our 21st-century age of streaming, we have fan-made “remasters” of the Blade Runner soundtrack like the above, the 5.7-million-times-viewed work of a user called Greendragon861.

A Man Seeks Wisdom and Meaning in exurb1a's Amazing Monologue "The Rememberer" 1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns. Watch 4,000+ movies free online.

1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns

Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. Free Comedy & Dramas 125 Korean Feature Films – Free – The Korean Film Archive has put on YouTube over 100 Korean feature films, including Im Kwon-taek’s Sopyonje and Hong Sangsoo’s The Day the Pig Fell Into a Well. A bonanza for fans of Korean film.70 Movies in HD from Famed Russian Studio Mosfilm – Free – Includes films by Tarkovsky, Eisenstein and Kurosawa. Every One of Pete Holmes' Batman Parody Clips. Watch 15 Films by Designers Charles & Ray Eames. If you’re reading this, chances are good that you live in the modern world, or at least visit it from time to time.

Watch 15 Films by Designers Charles & Ray Eames

But what do I mean by “modern”? It’s a too-broad term that always requires a definition. Sometimes, for brevity’s sake, we settle for a name. When it comes to the truly modern in industrial design, we have two names in one—the husband and wife team of Charles and Ray Eames. And the Award for Best Supporting Weird Goes to... Fright Night: 9 Best Horror Movies from the Early 2010s You May Have Missed. We all love a great gory horror flick, but sometimes it’s the movies that don’t fit into the straightforward square-peg genre that wiggle their way under your skin and stick with you for days, months, even years.

Fright Night: 9 Best Horror Movies from the Early 2010s You May Have Missed

In the particular case of this list, these somewhat unnoticed horror movies have stuck with us in the last decade. These nine movies might not be your typical fright fest fare, but they’re certainly guaranteed to make you think: Did I lock the door? After you finish checking for any ghouls or unwanted visitors in your home, definitely sit down, grab a friend, and watch some of these gory gems from the early 2010s that we're still recovering from in 2019. Atlasobscura. On Tuesday, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a federally funded facility outside San Francisco that focuses on nuclear research, released 63 rare, restored and declassified nuclear-test films.

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The films, uploaded to the lab’s YouTube account, are part of a trove of some 10,000 that have been in storage since they were originally shot between 1945 and 1962, and had been held in secure vaults since then. The initial release is just a fraction of about 750 that Greg Spriggs, a physicist at the lab who has worked on the project for five years, declassified on Tuesday. And even that number is small compared to some 6,500 films that have been found of the 10,000 that were estimated to have been shot at the height of the Cold War. The goal in preserving and digitizing them, Spriggs said in a news release, was to keep the films for future study, lest they decompose and disappear forever.

Brilliant Moments of Camera Movement. Live-shooting with Woody Harrelson at 2am: 'There's something about the terror of it I love' It is almost midnight on Monday evening and Woody Harrelson is showing me around the set for his directorial debut, Lost in London.

Live-shooting with Woody Harrelson at 2am: 'There's something about the terror of it I love'

An unused building in the centre of the capital has been commandeered to house assorted locations including a club with burlesque trimmings where gold statues dangle from the ceiling and a police station complete with cells and interview rooms. There’s just one problem: Harrelson doesn’t seem to know where he is. “Hold on,” he mumbles. “I lost track of what floor we’re on. Where’s the …?” Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies On Him For Weeks To Make This Documentary. Film student Anthony van der Meer had his iPhone stolen and the thought that a stranger had access to all of his personal data really concerned him.

Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies On Him For Weeks To Make This Documentary

What kind of person would steal a phone? Where do these phones end up? These were his biggest questions. This Trailer for the French Scifi Movie Evolution Will Creep You Out So, So Much. You'll Find It Hard To Sleep Tonight After Watching This Korean Horror Film. Trial. The 14 Best Motoring Documentaries. The greatest documentaries tell intriguing stories and dive into the life or lives of the people or events it’s portraying. Whether the stories are widely known or coming to light right before you, the idea is to stir empathy and relate through passion. It’s no surprise, then, that laser-focused race car drivers and meticulous mechanics make perfect subjects for deep-diving films.

'Triple 9' (February 26) - 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2016. Team America: World Police. Team America: World Police is a 2004 American satirical action comedy film written by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady and directed by Parker, all of whom are also known for the popular animated television series South Park. The film is a satire of big-budget action films and their associated clichés and stereotypes, with particular humorous emphasis on the global implications of the politics of the United States. The film's title is derived from domestic and international political criticisms that the foreign policy of the United States frequently and unilaterally tries to "police the world.

" The film features a cast composed of supermarionettes. Team America focuses on a fictional team of political paramilitary policemen known as "Team America: World Police," who attempt to save the world from a violent terrorist plot led by Kim Jong-il. The film was released in the United States on October 15, 2004 and received generally positive reviews. 25 Years of "Wild at Heart" This year we celebrate the 25th anniversary of my favorite David Lynch film, Wild at Heart. Released in 1990, Wild tells the tale of Sailor and Lula, a red-hot couple who are reunited when Sailor is released from prison. The pair take off on a cross-country road trip that turns into a journey that resembles The Wizard of Oz on mushrooms. The film won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival before becoming mired in controversy.

Support Every Frame a Painting creating Video Essays. Every Frame a Painting is an online series of video essays about film form. Film form is the way pictures and sound work together to create meaning. If you think of film as a language, this is the vocabulary and grammar. Composition, lighting, editing, color, silence, movement, and music are all aspects of form. There's a weird perception that this stuff is technical or stuffy, but it's honestly pretty fun. Whether you know it or not, you are actually fluent in the language of film.

The Texas Theatre in Dallas, Texas. The Texas Theatre was opened at 231 West Jefferson Boulevard with fanfare on San Jacinto Day, April 21, 1931. The Texas Theatre was the novelty of longtime Oak Cliff resident and entrepreneur, C. R. McHenry, better known in the community as “Uncle Mack.” Of War and Metaphor: Documentaries and Interviews from the 2015 Full Frame Film Festival. Four B-Grade Science Fiction Films in the Public Domain. The 5 Best Noir Films in the Public Domain: From Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street to Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker. Watch The Visit Online. ARISE, the SubGenius.