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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2020 • China
From master director Jia Zhangke comes a vital document of Chinese society and its transformation since 1949. Jia interviews three prominent authors—Jia Pingwa, Yu Hua, and Liang Hong—born in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, respectively. In their stories, we h...
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The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived
Directed by Heiny Srour • 1974 • France, Lebanon, United Kingdom
In the late 1960s, the region of Dhofar in Oman rose up against the British-backed Sultanate in a democratic, Leninist guerrilla revolution. Director Heiny Srour and her team crossed five hundred miles of desert and mountains by fo...
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Revive
Directed by Jia Zhangke • 2017 • China
Starring Zhao Tao, Liang JingdongJia Zhangke’s contribution to the omnibus feature WHERE HAS THE TIME GONE? follows a couple contemplating whether to have another child in the wake of the Chinese government’s newly established second-child policy.
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Opened Ending
Directed by Jem Cohen • 2020 • United States
Jem Cohen directs this video for the post-rock song “Opened Ending” by Jessica Moss.
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Blue Steel
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow • 1990 • United States
Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy BrownAction auteur Kathryn Bigelow renders this sleek and stylish police thriller with almost painterly abstraction. Day one on the force, and rookie cop Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) faces suspe...