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SPRING 2000

11.1. FAMILY ARCHIVES (92 min)

Director: Vitali Manski, TOO Kinevideostudia MV Studia, Russia, 1999

18.1. OFF THE MENU: THE LAST DAYS OF CHASEN'S (90 min)

Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, Lobo Grande Pictures, USA, 1997
In 1936 the Chasen family started a restaurant on Beverly Boulevard in Hollywood which during the heyday of American cinematography developed into a reputable dining room for film stars and politicians. In this documentry the clock counts the days,and on 1 April 1995, the very last bowl of chili has been served.

25.1. BILLY WILDER - THE HUMAN COMEDY (56 min)

Director Mel Stuart, PBS, USA, 1998
Billy Wilder was one of the great Hollywood directors. Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot, Double Indemity and The Apartment are just few titles of his great films. The narrator of this portrait is Walter Matthau.

1.2. EISENSTEIN: THE MASTER’S HOUSE (105 min)

Directors Marianna Kirejewa and Alexander Iskin , Profit, Russia, 1998
A feature documentary to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth and 50th anniversary of the death of Sergey Mikhailovich Eisenstein, one of the greatest film directors ever.

8.2. CINEMA VERITE (102 min)

Director Peter Wintonick, PBS, USA, 1999
A feature documentary about the living history and contemporary legacy of the Cinéma Vérité revolution, the most important and defining moment in non-fiction filmmaking.

15.2. HITCHCOCK, SELZNICK & THE END OF HOLLYWOOD (85 min)

Director: Michael Epstein , PBS, USA, 1999
This epic documentary covers the lives of two Hollywood masters. Told through reminiscence of friends, family, and the actors who worked together with them, as well as home movies, stock footage, and the pictures they made together the documentary will offer a window into the characters of David O. Selznick and Alfred Hitchcock.

29.2. DANCEMAKER (98 min)

Director: Matthew Diamond, Four Oaks Foundation, USA, 1998
Paul Taylor has been hailed as the world's greatest living choreographer, having created a stunning body of dance work over the last forty years. When the curtain opens on the Paul Taylor Dance Company, audiences see a troupe of dancers soaring through the works of this formidable genius. But behind the scenes lies a complex world of ambition, emotion, creation, and hard-nosed decisions.

7.3. BLIND LIGHT (58 min)

Director and producer: Pola Rapaport, USA, 1998,
In the Villa San Michele on the Italian island of Capri, three characters are overwhelmed by a moment of blinding awareness, when the exterior layers of their own identities suddenly fall away. In a unique blending of genres which unmasks the filmmaking process the three of find their emotional lives re-awakened by the mysterious power of the blinding Mediterranean light.

14.3. MOB LAW (67 min)

Director: Paul Wilmshurst, The Big Table Film Company, USA, 1997
Oscar Goodman has made a huge living in the public eye working for the mafia. He is a lawyer who represents organized crime figures. He has done so for decades. He lives and works in Las Vegas.

21.3. FOUR LITTLE GIRLS (102 min)

Director Spike Lee, Spike Lee, USA, 1997
In 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb tore though the basement of a black Baptist church, killing four innocent girls. It was a horrific moment in the life of the community - and a defining moment in the history of America's civil-rights movement.

28.3. PAIN IS... (80 min)

Director: Stephen Dwoskin, ZDF/ARTE, France, 1997
Going beyond the external display Stephen Dwoskin distills the essence of pain. How can we pin it down, circumscribe it? Pain is fascinating, so mysterious and so puzzling. It seems to escape all definitions Where and what is the true nature of pain?

4.4. DIRECTED BY WILLIAM WYLER (60 min)

Director: Aviva Slesin, PBS, USA, 1999
William Wyler was one of the most commercially successful film directors of the Golden Age of Hollywood. In addition to clips from his most famous films, and interviews with his most famous stars, this unique documentary is based on a long and very entertaining interview that Wyler gave in 1981. Three days after the interview William Wyler died.

11.4. MILLHOUSE: A WHITE COMEDY (93 min)

Director Emile de Antonio, 1971

18.4. UNDERGROUND (88 min)

Director Emile de Antonio, 1974

25.4. MR. HOOVER AND I (90 min)

Director Emile de Antonio, 1989

2.5. REGRET TO INFORM

Director Barbara Sonneborn, Sun Foundation Productions, USA, 1998
On her 24th birthday, Barbara Sonneborn is informed that her husband has died in Vietnam. Twenty years later she decides to make a film about the Vietnam War. She meets many Vietnamese widows and listens to their stories. The stories reveal that the war has left its marks on the lives of those who stayed behind.

9.5. JOHN HUSTON - WAR STORIES (90 min)

Director Midge McKenzie, Barnsbury Productions, Great Britain, 1998
A personal film memoir. The focus is on the outstanding documentary films directed by John Huston during World War II. He made four documentary films, and they were "lost" or "banned".

16.5. HOME PAGE (90 min)

Director Doug Block, J.P. Weiner Productions, USA 1997
Home Page is, at once, a wryly entertaining journey, and insider's look at the World Wide Web at a turbulent transitional moment, and a fascinating and disquieting portrait of an Internet youth culture that hungers for connections and community, and is increasingly turning to computers to find it.

23.5. FAUST

Director Jan Svankmajer, Heart of Europe, Czech & Lumen Films, France