Movies: Point Du Jour

  • 2024
    The Making of a Japanese

    The Making of a Japanese (2024)

    The Making of a Japanese

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    Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids learning the traits necessary to become part of Japanese society....

    The Making of a Japanese
  • 2002
    Dark Side of the Moon

    Dark Side of the Moon (2002)

    Dark Side of the Moon

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    A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the title Opération Lune. The basic premise for the film is the theory that the television footage from the ...

    Dark Side of the Moon
  • 2014
    Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World

    Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World (2014)

    Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World

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    'Afghanistan 1979: the war that changed the world', is a French documentary about the Sovjet invasion in Afghanistan in 1979. It was one of the most crucial events of the 20th century, and changed the world forever. This documentary gives a good insi...

    Afghanistan 1979: The War That Changed the World
  • 2006
    Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

    Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess (2006)

    Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess

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    In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her o...

    Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
  • 2020
    De Gaulle bâtisseur

    De Gaulle bâtisseur (2020)

    De Gaulle bâtisseur

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    De Gaulle bâtisseur
  • 2021
    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose! (2021)

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!

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    Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single digits. A painful economic transition, war in Chechnya, and the rise of criminal groups have left th...

    Moscow 1996, Vote or Lose!
  • 2016
    Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan

    Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan (2016)

    Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan

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    The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, just after the Second World War, was established in Japan as a special jurisdiction in 1946 (it was closed in 1948) to judge the war crimes of the Jap...

    Tokyo Trial: Judging Japan
  • 2007
    In the Mood for Doyle

    In the Mood for Doyle (2007)

    In the Mood for Doyle

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    Christopher Doyle is one of the best known and most acclaimed directors of photography in world cinema. Born in Australia, he sees himself as an Asian citizen rather than a Westerner. His artistic contribution to the films of Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Jimo...

    In the Mood for Doyle
  • 2014
    Revolution, Riot Grrrl Style

    Revolution, Riot Grrrl Style (2014)

    Revolution, Riot Grrrl Style

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    Today, we see a new style of feminism springing up everywhere - young, provocative and radical. To get their message across, these women have decided to rely on rock music! While the Pussy Riot shock Russia and fascinate the West, the concerts of Pea...

    Revolution, Riot Grrrl Style
  • 2023
    Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom

    Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom (2023)

    Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom

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    Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serves as a catalyst for transformation within the predominantly male-dominated realm of Egyptian political cartoonists. Challenging patriarchal norms, sh...

    Draw Me Egypt - Doaa El-Adl, A Stroke of Freedom
  • 2024
    Architecton

    Architecton (2024)

    Architecton

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    An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental question: how do we inhabit the world of tomorrow?...

    Architecton
  • 2018
    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People (2018)

    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People

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    The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutrition...

    The Scientist, The Imposter and Stalin: How to Feed the People
  • 2004
    Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!

    Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell! (2004)

    Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!

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    Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his main films, apart from the opinions about him by other filmmakers such as Takeshi Kitano or Kinji Fukas...

    Electric Yakuza, Go to Hell!
  • 2004
    Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

    Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years (2004)

    Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years

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    Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred Hitchcock's film career, beginning with his success in the production of The Lodger (1926) and following the filmm...

    Alfred Hitchcock: The Early Years
  • 2002
    Marilyn vs Marilyn

    Marilyn vs Marilyn (2002)

    Marilyn vs Marilyn

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    “Marilyn vs. Marilyn” tells the story of a little-known period of Marilyn’s life – the years she spent in New York, trying to became a ‘serious”’ actress, taking lessons with Lee Strasberg and setting up a production company with her photographer and...

    Marilyn vs Marilyn
  • 2004
    Something About Sydney Pollack

    Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)

    Something About Sydney Pollack

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    In this archival documentary, Sydney Pollack discusses his career and relationship with various actors, directors and producers. A large portion of the documentary examines Pollack and Robert Redford's friendship, as well as the various films they di...

    Something About Sydney Pollack
  • 2009
    12 balles dans la peau pour Pierre Laval

    12 balles dans la peau pour Pierre Laval (2009)

    12 balles dans la peau pour Pierre Laval

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    12 balles dans la peau pour Pierre Laval
  • 1995
    The Setif Massacres, a certain May 8, 1945

    The Setif Massacres, a certain May 8, 1945 (1995)

    The Setif Massacres, a certain May 8, 1945

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    May 8, 1945, the day of victory over Nazism, is also a day of mourning. In Algiers, thanks to demonstrations for victory, the Algerian flag appears for the first time, thus claiming independence. But in Sétif, the standard bearer is shot dead at the ...

    The Setif Massacres, a certain May 8, 1945
  • 2007
    Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise

    Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise (2007)

    Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise

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    Director Alice Diop was born in France of Senegalese parents. After their death, she felt the need to explore her roots. Armed with her camera, she went to spend a month filming the daily lives of the women of her family whom she had never met: Néné ...

    Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise
  • 2017
    Un jour en Italie

    Un jour en Italie (2017)

    Un jour en Italie

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    Un jour en Italie