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Czech Film Avant-Garde

Director

Libor Nemeskal

Subject

Film studies

This history of the Czech avant garde and independent film movement in the 1920s and 1930s is an in depth look at the work of Vít zslav Nezval, Jaroslav Seifert, Alexander Hackenschmied, Jan Ku era and...

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Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

Director

James Sibley, Jr. Watson

Subject

Film studies; Literature

This 1928 adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s story is the most well-known and technically accomplished example of the avant-garde school of American film-making which flourished in the 1920s.

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Our Hitler: A Film from Germany (2007)

aka: Hitler: Ein Film aus Deutschland and Hitler: A Film from Germany

Director

Hans Jürgen Syberberg

Subject

Drama; History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 450 minutes), $79.95

"The most extraordinary film I have ever seen," says Susan Sontag of director Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s epic nightmare rumination on Adolf Hitler, the cultural mechanisms underlying his mythic rise, and the...

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Max Herman Maxy and the Romanian Avant-Garde

Subject

Art

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC, 33 minutes), £137.00

The film explores the life of Romanian artist M.H. Maxy (1895-1971, who played a major role in the history of modern painting in Romania. While many of his contemporaries emigrated to the West from Romania...

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Jean Rouch

Director

Jean Rouch

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 660 minutes), 55 euros

A 4-DVD collection of the films of anthropologist Jean Rouch, with short introductions by Bernard Surugue to put each film in historical context. NB French language only. DVD 1 - Ciné-Transe Includes: Les...

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